Asia

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  20 September 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Lay people from the parishes of Xiaomu and Lujia visit seminarians and religious sisters: "All vocations are valuable" Xi'an (Agenzia Fides) - "In this time of serious lack of vocations to the priesthood and religious life, seminarians are the future of the Church and the hope of every diocese. Whoever cares for them cares for our future ...
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  20 September 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The last "seven words" of Christ, inspiration for Kachin Christians, in the midst of violence Myitkyina (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian faithful of the Kachin ethnic group, in the diocese of Myitkyina, in northern Myanmar, have only one source of inspiration in a time of suffering and trial marked by civil war: C ...
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  19 September 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - "New wine in new wineskins". The first congregation of Chinese sisters in Shaanxi province celebrates its 100th anniversary Xi'an (Agenzia Fides) - A celebration lived under the sign of gratitude, asking Christ himself to renew the missionary impulse of the beginnings, to announce the Gospel in the vast horizon of China today : it is in this ...
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  19 September 2023
  ASIAVIETNAM - From Evangelii Gaudium to the experience of “mission stations” in Ho Chi Minh Ville Ho Chi Minh Ville (Agenzia Fides) - "Evangelii Gaudium is a fundamental document for the universal Church and it is also a fundamental document for the Church in Vietnam. It was soon translated into Vietnamese, then shar ...
• 18 September 2023
  ASIA/JAPAN - Appointment of Father Andrea Lembo as auxiliary bishop of Tokyo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Rev. Father Andrea Lembo, P.I.M.E., currently Regional Superior of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions for East Asia, as Auxiliary Bishop of the ...
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  18 September 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - A Directory on the identity, formation and role of lay catechists, who bring the first proclamation of the faith New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Their favorite means of transport is often the bicycle. Sometimes, when it is possible, and when the distances are too large, they travel by motorcycle, if the parish has one available. These ...
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  18 September 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Four Chinese Bishops in Europe to reactivate after the covid fraternal cooperation between the Churches Leuven (Agenzia Fides) - In Europe (Belgium, Holland and France) to reactivate the path of fraternal cooperation between the Churches after the difficult parenthesis marked by the pandemic. This is the reason for the one ...
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  15 September 2023
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Season of Creation 2023: Looking at God in nature Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the "Season of Creation" 2023 (September 1st to October 4th), the Catholic community in Singapore wants to accompany Catholics and non-Christians and especially young people when it ...
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  14 September 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Prayer and solidarity of the Korean faithful for the victims of the earthquake in Morocco Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - We entrust the survivors, rescuers and volunteers working in earthquake-stricken Morocco "to the special protection of the Virgin Mary, to her maternal intercession", said Archbishop Peter Soon-Ta ...
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  14 September 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - A new academic year begins in Catholic seminaries. Walk and grow in the faith of the Apostles Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The formation of new and "passionate workers" for the proclamation of the Gospel, at the service of the future of the Church, which in China continues to walk in the faith of the Apostles, is th ...
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  13 September 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A "personal Prelature" for the "migrants of the Gospel" is being studied Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The idea of establishing a "personal Prelature" for Filipino migrants would allow the Church to carry out its pastoral care and missionary work effectively, says Bishop Narciso Abellana, chairman ...
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  13 September 2023
  ASIA CHINA - Cardinal Zuppi in Beijing: Previous visits by cardinals to the People's Republic of China by Marta Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The visit of Cardinal Matteo Zuppi to Beijing, sent on a mission on the official mandate of Pope Francis to try and help find ways of peace in the face of the ongoing war in Uk ...
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  12 September 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Catholic parishes welcome and provide education to displaced children: "Help with prudence, charity and patience, in silence", says the Bishop of Mawlamyine Mawlamyine (Agenzia Fides) - In the parish of Saint Mary of the Assumption in Mawlamyine, southern Myanmar, more than 700 children receive humanitarian assistance and education daily. In other of the 14 parishes of the d ...
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  11 September 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - New episodes of violence in the Indian state of Manipur: Christians study the Encyclical "Fratelli Tutti" as a "manual for reconciliation" Imphal (Agenzia Fides) - New violence is recorded in the Indian state of Manipur, the scene of an ethnic conflict which, in recent months, has inflamed the region of North-East India (see Fides, 9/5/2023 and 9/6/2023). A ...
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  9 September 2023
  SOUTH KOREA/VATICAN - Official blessing on September 16th: Statue of St. Andrew Kim Taegon placed in a niche on the outside of St. Peter's Basilica Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A marble statue of Saint Andrew Kim Taegon (1821-1846), the first priest and martyr of Korea, will be placed in an external niche of Saint Peter's Basilica and blessed on September 16th, th ...