Asia

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  1 July 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Farewell to Ren Yanli, appreciated and passionate scholar of Chinese Catholicism and China-Holy See relations Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "Chinese Catholics are Catholics like everyone else. They have the same faith, they read the same Bible, they go freely to church for Mass, to pray and receive the sacraments. Like the others Ca ...
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  1 July 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Inner Mongolia, the new church of the Mercy of Jesus inaugurated thanks to the support and donations of the local Catholic community Bameng (Agenzia Fides) - The new church in the Diocese of Bameng (Inner Mongolia) dedicated to the Mercy of Jesus, was built with the generous support of volunteer work and donations from the local Catholic community. Th ...
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  1 July 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Shaw on the growth of parishes and mission stations in Punjab by Paolo Affatato Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to live our Christianity in Pakistan here and now, without fear and without concern. With the Gospel as our guide, the Church as our mother, the poor and the needy as ...
• 30 June 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Calapan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 26, the Holy Father appointed Bishop Moises Magpantay Cuevas, until now titular bishop of Maraguia and auxiliary of the archdiocese of Zamboanga, as vicar apostolic of Calapan, Phil ...
• 30 June 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Itanagar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 29, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Itanagar, India, presented by Bishop John Thomas Kattrukudiyil. The Holy Father has appointed ...
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  30 June 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A new Bishop in the Kayah state, a war zone: a Pastor who accompanies the people's Way of the Cross Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Loikaw, capital of Kayah state, in the eastern part of Myanmar, welcomed its new Bishop, ordained yesterday on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, with a celebration imbued with fa ...
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  28 June 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Islamic 'Feast of Sacrifice' celebrated in brotherhood between Muslims and Christians Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Dear Muslim brothers and sisters, every year you celebrate Eid-ul-Azha, the 'Feast of Sacrifice', to obtain God's blessings. In the Old Testament of the Holy Bible, we see that men of faith sacri ...
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  27 June 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Farewell to missionary Jean Charbonnier, friend and "benefactor" of the Church in China Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - There is not a Chinese Catholic or Chinese academic interested in the life of the Church who does not have or has never consulted the volume "Guide to the Catholic Church in China" by Father Jea ...
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  27 June 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Walking the path of forgiveness: a month of prayer for North-South relations Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Walking the path of forgiveness": with this expression and with this spiritual attitude the Church in South Korea celebrated, on June 25, the special "Day of prayer for national reconciliation", ...
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  26 June 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Diocese of Wenzhou, consecration and inauguration of the new Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart Shi Jiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - "Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain". These words from Psalm 127 accompanied and the inauguration of the new Catholic parish church dedicated to the Sacred ...
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  26 June 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - An action plan to put the encyclical Laudato Sì into practice: personal and community commitment Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Identify concrete measures to respond to climate change and redefine the active role of the Catholic community in implementing the proposals, indications and suggestions contained in the encyclica ...
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  26 June 2023
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Melkite Greek-Catholic Church prepares the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of the re-establishment of full union with the Church of Rome Rabouè (Agenzia Fides) - The celebrations for the three hundredth anniversary of the re-establishment of full communion of the Melkite Church with the Church of Rome will begin in Damascus on November 11, with a solemn ...
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  24 June 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - May it be real peace, and not a fragile "armistice". 73 years after the start of the war, Korean Catholics pray for reconciliation and national unity by Paolo Affatato Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In the mid-1990s, the Swiss Kathi Zellweger, then director of international cooperation programs at Caritas Hong Kong, began to take an interest in North Korea, where a severe ...
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  22 June 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - New Chinese studies on the valuable role of missionary congregations and institutes in the apostolic work of the Church in China in the first half of the 20th century Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The first half of the 20th century represented a crucial historical phase for contemporary China, and also for the apostolic work of the Catholic Church in "Middle-earth". Those decades were mar ...
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  22 June 2023
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The Catholic community remembers and honors those who gave their lives for faith in Christ Taing Kok (Agenzia Fides) - At least once a year, Cambodian Catholics stop to commemorate those who gave their lives for faith in Christ and are "seeds and fathers" of today's Cambodian faith community: more than 3,000 C ...