Asia

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  10 July 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - In the spirit of “Laudato Si”: Day to Promote Sustainable Agriculture Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In an increasingly technological and digital world, it is particularly important to value agriculture as a direct relationship with the land and its fruits, respecting and embodying the spirit of ...
• 10 July 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation and appointment of the Bishop of Banjarmasin Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 8, 2023, the Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Banjarmasin, Indonesia, presented by Bishop Petrus Boddeng Timang. The Holy Fath ...
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  8 July 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Journalism "from below". The network of Catholic media and communicators at the service of the mission is growing Tangshan (Agenzia Fides) - Encourage the growth of a widespread network of local operators and "reporters" willing to tell and share with others stories of Christian witness, information on the life of local Catholic com ...
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  8 July 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A new church in West Papua, a place where to radiate peace and reconciliation Manokwari (Agenzia Fides) - May the new church dedicated to Saint Joseph "be the temple of a community from which peace and reconciliation radiate in Papua": this is the message addressed to the local population by the A ...
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  7 July 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Cardinal Marengo: we will treasure the visit of Pope Francis Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - "A few months ago it was unthinkable that one day we would find ourselves here saying: 'The Holy Father will visit us soon'. It is with these words that Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, Apostolic P ...
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  7 July 2023
  NORTH KOREA - The Benedictine Missionary Sisters of Tutzing: Experience divine consolation in worldly persecution by Paolo Affatato Pyongyang (Agenzia Fides) - The hearts of the Benedictine sisters of Tutzing beat for North Korea. And it is a heart that continues to pour out today, with prayer and charity, to what was its origin ...
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  6 July 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Hate speech fuels violence in Manipur New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - As part of an awareness campaign, Catholic communities in India want to raise awareness of the situation in Manipur: the state in north-eastern India is the scene of violent inter-ethnic clash ...
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  5 July 2023
  ASIA/IRAQ - Heads of Churches and Christian communities in Iraq: the burning of the Koran in Stockholm is an "atrocious and despicable" act Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The burning of the Koran by a "young extremist" in front of the mosque in Stockholm is an "atrocious and despicable" act, which cannot in any way be explained by bringing into play slogans on fr ...
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  5 July 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian accused of blasphemy for posting a Bible passage on Facebook Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - Haroon Shehzad, a 49-year-old Christian from the village of Chack 49, near Sargodha, in the Punjab province of Pakistan, has been accused of blasphemy and arrested for publishing a post on Fa ...
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  4 July 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Latin Patriarchate after attack on Jenin: Barbaric acts, our church also affected Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The attack by the Israeli army on the Palestinian city of Jenin represents an "unprecedented" aggression, with "barbaric acts" that also destroy sacred sites and take the lives of people who d ...
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  4 July 2023
  ASIA/JAPAN - Discharge of radioactive water in the ocean: a call to "seek alternative ways" Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - Opposition to the discharge of radioactive contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean is growing. Twelve years after the accident at the Fukushima nuclear pow ...
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  4 July 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Joseph Shen Bin administers the sacraments of Christian initiation to 34 catechumens: “Be a blessing to all” Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - Last Sunday, July 2, Bishop Joseph Shen Bin presided over the solemn liturgical celebration in the Cathedral of St. Ignatius in Shanghai, where 34 catechumens celebrated the sacraments of Chris ...
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  3 July 2023
  ASIA/SYRIA - Franciscan Hanna Jallouf new Apostolic Vicar in Aleppo. Safeguarding the hope of the poor even in the lands dominated by jihadists Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Father Hanna Jallouf, a Syrian, Friar Minor of the Custody of the Holy Land, is the new Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo for Catholics of the Latin rite. He succeeds his Lebanese confrere Georges Abou K ...
• 3 July 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Bishop of Asansol Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 3, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Elias Frank, of the clergy of the diocese of Asansol, India, until now professor of canon law at the Pontifical Urbania University of Rome ...
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  3 July 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The arrests of missionaries, nuns, priests, lay people accused of supporting communist armed groups continue Isulan (Agenzia Fides) - The practice of "red tagging", or labeling a person as 'communist' or 'supporter of communist groups or armed terrorists', continues to affect religious and missionaries and their collaborators ...