Asia

• 5 January 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Ranchi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 30, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Ranchi, India, presented by Archbishop Felix Toppo, S.J. The Holy Father has app ...
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  4 January 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Manifesto" in view of the elections: Christians and Muslims for a society without discrimination Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - To promote and build a society in which cultural, ethnic and religious discrimination is eliminated both in the general mentality and - as is still the case - in the legislation and practice of s ...
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  4 January 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite bishops sound the alarm: escalation of war has already affected Lebanon Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The escalation of the war in the Middle East has hit Lebanon, exacerbating the risks of worsening a situation that has already become a kind of "time bomb" due to the presence of more than a mill ...
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  3 January 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Peace and reconciliation invoked for the 1,400th time Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - It was March 7, 1995, when Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan (1922 - 2009), then Archbishop of Seoul and Apostolic Administrator of Pyongyang, launched the initiative to celebrate a special "Mass for ...
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  3 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Marriage “without dowry” and birth support: Chinese Catholic communities face new challenges for families Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - In the People's Republic of China, complex social processes linked to modernity call into question the reality of everyday family life and leading to worrying consequences such as low birth ...
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  2 January 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Mission in the villages of the Mentawai Islands: traveling by canoe and on foot along dangerous paths Padang (Agenzia Fides) - "Love your neighbor as yourself, together we will enjoy what he has given us" sing the young people of the indigenous communities in the remote areas of the Mentawai Islands, west of Sumatra, one ...
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  2 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The first Apostolic Prefecture entrusted to the Chinese clergy celebrates its 100th anniversary Puqi (Agenzia Fides) - A hundred years ago, thanks to the persistent efforts of Archbishop Celso Costantini, the first Apostolic Delegate to China, the Apostolic Prefecture of Puqi in Hubei Province was founded with the ...
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  28 December 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - From Beijing to Inner Mongolia, a Christmas of faith and charity for Chinese Catholics Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - A Christmas of faith and charity was experienced by Catholic communities in all the provinces of the People's Republic of China. During vigils and solemn masses, prayers were said for peace and ...
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  28 December 2023
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Over twenty thousand participants from different ethnic groups, languages and rites at the Christmas Eve Mass Awali (Agenzia Fides) - "We come to Bethlehem grotto to present our needs and praises. We look for blessing and grace. The new born child will carry us to a radiant life and a new participation in the divine life." This ...
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  28 December 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - The legacy of mother Eliswa, a woman who worked for the emancipation and education of women in India by Sister Roobini Chinnappan Varapuzha (Agenzia Fides) - She was a woman who worked for other women in India, for social emancipation and for the elevation of their status and culture. At the head of a religious cong ...
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  23 December 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Camillian Missionaries await Christmas between pastoral service and visits to the elderly Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "Here in Flores everything happens in a fairly calm climate, there is a Christmas atmosphere with decorations and colorful lights that our Muslim friends also admire and are impressed", writes F ...
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  23 December 2023
  VATICAN - Pius XII, the Korean War, the West and that Christmas of 1951 by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas 1951, like now, the world was at war. At the time it was the Korean War. It began with the invasion of South Korea by the North Korean army (June 25, 1950). An immense ...
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  23 December 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - The readiness of Charity: at Christmas Time, Chinese Catholic communities help earthquake-affected people by Marta Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - In the days leading up to the celebration of Holy Christmas, marked in China by the effects of a devastating earthquake, Chinese Catholics promptly put into practice the commandm ...
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  22 December 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christmas Message of the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem: may the light of Jesus overcome the darkness of death that envelops the Holy Land Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the birth of Jesus arrives this year during a new time of calamity "in the land of our Lord’s birth". A time in which the horrors of war sow "inconsolable misery and sorro ...
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  22 December 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christmas for Christians freed from "slave labor" in Punjab Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - It is a Christmas full of praise and thanksgiving to God experienced by Catholic families who, in Pakistani Punjab, were freed from the condition of slavery to which they were forced, working ...