Asia

• 29 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Consecration of first Bishop of Weifang Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Monday 29 January 2024, the episcopal ordination of the Reverend Antonio Sun Wenjun took place. The Reverend Sun Wenjun was appointed by the Holy Father on 20 April 2023 as bishop of ...
• 29 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Suppression of the apostolic prefecture of Yiduxian and erection of the diocese of Weifang Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With the desire to promote the pastoral care of Lord’s flock, and to attend better to its spiritual welfare, on 20 April 2023, the Supreme Pontiff Francis decided to suppress in Continent ...
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  29 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Pope Francis erects the diocese of Weifang. New Bishop consecrated today Weifang (Agenzia Fides) - "Thank the Lord, everything went very well"! That was the first reaction of many Catholic faithful in the diocese of Weifang, the new diocese erected by Pope Francis. Today, Monday, January 29, ...
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  29 January 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Balochistan: Foreign Ministers meeting to ease tensions between Iran and Pakistan Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, is visiting Pakistan to ease tensions following the air strikes that took place in January between Iran and Pakistan in the Balochistan borde ...
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  27 January 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A biography in Korean of the Servant of God Barthelemy Bruguière Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The biography of the "servant of God" Barthelemy Bruguière, published in France in 1938, is being translated into Korean for the benefit of the entire Catholic community, which shares the deep ex ...
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  26 January 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Preparing for WYD 2027 in “synodal” style Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - A laboratory of ideas, a place of listening and exchange, an organizational "hub" to coordinate the different charisms and make World Youth Day (WYD) 2027 an authentic initiative of evangelization ...
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  25 January 2024
  ASIA/THAILAND - The formation Center for priests in Saeng Tham confirms and renews its educational mission Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Many Thai priests and consecrated persons have spent years of formation and personal growth at the "Lux Mundi" College and Major Seminary in Saeng Tham, an institute that has played a very valua ...
• 25 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Consecration of bishop of Zhengzhou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Thursday 25 January 2024, the Reverend Taddeo Wang Yuesheng received episcopal consecration, following his appointment by the Holy Father on 16 December 2023 as bishop of Zhengzhou, ...
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  25 January 2024
  ASIA/CINA - The Reverend Thaddeus Wang ordained Bishop of the Diocese of Zhengzhou by Gianni Valente and Marta Zhao Zhengzhou (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Zhengzhou has a new Bishop, after being without a resident Bishop for over seventy years. Today, Thursday January 25, the episcopal ordinat ...
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  24 January 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Camillian missionaries help mentally ill people: “We feel honored” Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "Here we have no time to grow old because the various activities keep us young," writes Father Luigi Galvani from the island of Flores in Indonesia. The Camillian missionary, who is a pioneer in ...
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  23 January 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - 'Reaching for Hope, Branching together': Family Day 2024 in the Sacred Heart Parish in Manama Manama (Agenzia Fides) - "We are the people of one God, we are one family, we come from different countries, with different languages, cultures and traditions, but we are all brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ", emphas ...
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  23 January 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic studies no longer compulsory for non-Muslim students Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - It is a turning point for religious minorities in Pakistan: the study of Islam is no longer compulsory for non-Muslim students in schools at all levels. The Federal Ministry of Education and V ...
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  22 January 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Election campaign: “Avoid instrumentalizing the election” Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Call for "observation of the democratic process", for a "peaceful, honest, fair and dignified election" and for the avoidance of religious content and topics in the political election campaign s ...
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  22 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - State University honors Thomas Aquinas on his 800th birthday Wuhan (Agenzia Fides) - The School of Philosophy of the Chinese State University "Huazhong University of Science and Technology" (HUST) in the city of Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, will hold an academic ceremony in J ...
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  20 January 2024
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The diocesan phase of the cause of beatification opens for two missionary bishops Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The testimony of the two bishops François Pallu (MEP) (1626-1684) and Pierre Lambert de La Motte (MEP) (1624 - 1679), the first missionaries sent to the Far East, is precious for Vietnamese Catho ...