Asia

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  10 February 2025
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Israeli Jesuit David Neuhaus: the plan to remove Palestinians from Gaza feels like a kick in the stomach Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – “We are in no hurry”. This is how US President Donald Trump yesterday offered an important detail regarding the plan for the reconstruction and development of the Gaza Strip under the d ...
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  10 February 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A Catholic church hit by bombing in Chin State Mindat (Agenzia Fides) - The Myanmar army has carried out air strikes that have seriously damaged the Catholic church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Mindat, in the state of Chin, in the northwest of the country. This ch ...
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  8 February 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - World Interfaith Harmony Week: on the island of Mindanao, students, citizens and institutions participate in numerous initiatives Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - Christians and Muslims in the south of the Philippines joined the World Interfaith Harmony Week (February 1-7) organized by the United Nations, which was celebrated in Catholic parishes, ...
• 8 February 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Shillong Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Bernard Laloo, of the clergy of Shillong, India, until now chancellor and parish priest of the Cathedral of Mary Help of Christians in Laitumkhrah ...
• 8 February 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of coadjutor bishop of Neyyattinkara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Selvarajan Dasan, of the clergy of Neyyattinkara, India, until now judicial vicar and parish priest of Saint Francis Xavier in Thirupuram, as coad ...
• 8 February 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Visakhapatnam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Udumala Bala Showreddy of Warangal as archbishop of the metropolitan archdiocese of Visakhapatnam, India. Archbishop-elect Udumala Bala Showreddy was b ...
• 8 February 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Jalpaiguri Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Jalpaiguri, India, presented by Bishop Clement Tirkey. The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fabi ...
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  7 February 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "State of food emergency" while the country is in electoral campaign Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The state of “food emergency” declared by the Philippine government to counter the “rice crisis” - due to an “extraordinary” increase in the price of the country's staple food - “is ...
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  7 February 2025
  ASIA/ARAB EMIRATES - Jubilee in the Vicariate of Southern Arabia, Bishop Martinelli: our being a "Church of migrants" helps us to place all our hope in Christ Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in the Vicariate of Southern Arabia is a "Church of migrants", where the common experience of being migrant is to feel that there is always "something missing or lacking", starting ...
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  6 February 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Possible amnesty for political prisoners in Papua: Franciscans call for "initiative for a in-depth dialogue" Jayapura (Agenzia Fides) – In order to manage the armed conflict that has plagued the Indonesian region of West Papua for decades, the Indonesian government, led by the new President Prabowo Subianto, is considering an ...
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  5 February 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Food and “certain hope” for the poor, in the spirit of the Jubilee: the Capuchin mission in Tamil Nadu Dindigul (Agenzia Fides) – The “Assisi Free Food Support” initiative aims to offer food to the neediest students in rural areas, those who cannot afford even one meal a day, as well as to those who share this situa ...
• 5 February 2025
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Taipei Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Peter Chao Yung-Chi, of the clergy of the diocese of Chiayi, until now episcopal chancellor and parish priest of the Cathedral of Saint John in Chi ...
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  4 February 2025
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Cardinal Tagle: Dialogue as an antidote to distrust and hostility towards the religious dimension Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - In a world where secularization is advancing more and more, "the only antidote to this is encounter and dialogue marked by friendship and respect between persons of different religious traditi ...
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  4 February 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops' Letter for the Jubilee period: "There is hope for the nation" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Hope gives us courage and freedom," says the Pastoral Letter of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, distributed and read in churches on February 2 at the conclusion of the Ple ...
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  3 February 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Jubilee in exile: Catholics in Loikaw do not want to lose hope Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - Displacement, hunger, cold, the fatigue of a daily life in refugee camps or in makeshift settlements in the forests cannot stop the Catholic faithful of Loikaw, a diocese in the Burmese state of ...