Asia

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  19 January 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Presidential election: Ash Wednesday rite postponed to Thursday Ruteng (Agenzia Fides) - So that the faithful can experience the important moment of the elections with full attention and with a conscience enlightened by faith and the search for the common good and charity, and on the ...
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  19 January 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - "The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia is a symbol of freedom and religious coexistence" Awali (Agenzia Fides) - The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia, in Awali, also known as the Cathedral in the Desert, in addition to its predominantly religious nature, is a place of welcome and sharing for thousands of peop ...
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  18 January 2024
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako calls for withdrawal of sectarian militias from the Nineveh Plain Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Church, calls on the government in Baghdad "to assume its national and legal responsibilities by adopting practical and clear measures ...
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  17 January 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The service of the missionaries of Saint Columban in Pakistan for more than forty years Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - More than forty years, the missionaries of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban - priests, nuns and lay missionaries - have been at the service of the people of Pakistan. Father John Boles, ...
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  17 January 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - Nuclear Disarmament: A Natural Buddhist-Catholic Alliance, Explains Japanese Leader by Victor Gaetan * “Jesus and Buddha were peacemakers and promoters of non-violence,” Pope Francis, May 28, 2022 Nagasaki (Agenzia Fides) - At the United Nations headquarters in New York City, on the third f ...
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  16 January 2024
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - A missionary: "After the looting, the people return what they had stolen: a collective repentance" Mount Hagen (Agenzia Fides) - "These days a curious phenomenon is taking place: the people who participated in the looting of recent days in Port Moresby are returning the looted goods. The appeals from the police and al ...
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  15 January 2024
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Release of bishops, priests and seminarians detained by the Nicaraguan government Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Nicaraguan government has released 19 bishops, priests and Catholic seminarians detained, in some cases for more than a year. Among them are bishops Rolando Álvarez and Isidoro del Carmen M ...
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  15 January 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Christians and Muslims greet the "bishop of dialogue" Davao (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, January 15, in Davao, city on the Philippine island of Mindanao, the Filipino Catholic community - with a large assembly of bishops, priests, consecrated people and lay people - paid ...
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  15 January 2024
  ASIA/QATAR - Ecumenical prayer for peace in the Holy Land: The only antidote for hatred is love Doha (Agenzia Fides) - "Revenge is not an answer and there is no real satisfaction in believing that one is implementing the expression 'an eye for an eye'", said Bishop Aldo Berardi, Vicar Apostolic of Northern Arabia, ...
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  15 January 2024
  EUROPE/CYPRUS - The betrayed hopes of the "open-air prisoners" of Pournara by Roberto Morozzo della Rocca* Nicosia (Agenzia Fides) - Of the 27 countries of the European Union, the Republic of Cyprus is the most eccentric and marginal. Both in geographical terms (it exists on the Asian contine ...
• 13 January 2024
  AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Djibouti Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Djibouti, Republic of Djibouti, presented by Bishop Giorgio Bertin, O.F.M. The Holy Father has appointe ...
• 13 January 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of bishop of Mysore Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Mysore, India, presented by Bishop Kannikadass Antony William. (Agenzia Fides, 13/1/2024) ...
• 13 January 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Vijayapuram Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Justin Alexander Madathiparambil, until now vicar general of the diocese of Vijayapuram, India, as auxiliary bishop of the same diocese, assigning ...
• 13 January 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Karwar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Duming Dias, of the clergy of the diocese of Shimoga, until now director of the Sannidhi Pastoral Renewal Centre of Shimoga, as bishop of Karwar, ...
• 13 January 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Meerut Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Bhaskar Jesuraj, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Agra, until now deputy secretary of the Agra Regional Bishops’ Council and head of Saint Cla ...