Asia

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  26 May 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Premature death of a Korean fidei donum priest, an example of missionary passion, humility and poverty Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - There are missionaries who leave an indelible mark both in the community where they carried out their apostolic service and in the community of origin, which "brought them to faith" and acco ...
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  25 May 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Prayer and symposium for reconciliation and unity on the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in South Korea is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the war that devastated the peninsula from 1950 to 1953. To mark the occasion, the Korean Church has annou ...
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  24 May 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Girls forced into early marriage: education is the key to the fight against this phenomenon Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - A dramatic figure has been published by UNICEF in recent weeks, indicating that approximately 51% of girls under 18 in Bangladesh are forced into early marriage. Due to a cultural practice, which ...
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  24 May 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Marian processions, Confirmations, Masses and Prayers: how Chinese Catholics experienced the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - 300 Catholics from the parish of Bailing, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Help of Christians, in the diocese of Shantou (Chinese province of Guangdong), received today, Wednesday, May 24, ...
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  24 May 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "A long journey in God's hands". The missionary adventure of Sister Adriana, 62 years at the service of the Korean people Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I arrived in Seoul and everything was destroyed. There were only the cathedral and the central station." Thus begins the story of Sister Adriana Bricchi, a missionary of the Daughters of Saint Mar ...
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  23 May 2023
  ASIAVIETNAM - Pilgrims return to La Vang shrine to 'cry out' to Mary Hue (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not miss the opportunity to make a pilgrimage with your family or your community. This is the time to pray as a family. Come and visit and pray to Our Lady of La Vang": the agencies that organiz ...
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  23 May 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Launch of an "online" identity verification system for Muslim, Catholic and Protestant religious Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - From today, May 23, 2023, the "online" verification system for the identity of Muslim, Catholic and Protestant religious has also been launched. The same system, as Agenzia Fides reports (see Fi ...
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  22 May 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Jubilee Year in Karachi to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the Archdiocese Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Spirit has accompanied the life of Christians in the territory of Karachi, a city in southern Pakistan, for 75 years. It has been 75 years in which the seed of the Gospel has been plant ...
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  20 May 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two Christian teenagers in prison for alleged blasphemy, a Muslim religious killed Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Two Christian teenagers from Lahore, Adil Baber, 18, and Simon Nadeem, 12, were arrested and charged with "blasphemy" under article 295-C of the Penal Code yesterday, May 19 , by order of the cou ...
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  19 May 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Joseph Shen Bin leads the pilgrimage to Our Lady of Sheshan, reciting the prayer written by Benedict XVI Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Catholics from the diocese of Shanghai took part in the pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady Help of Christians in Sheshan, led by Bishop Joseph Shen Bin. Under a torrential rain, ...
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  19 May 2023
  ASIA/TURKEY - Iskederun and Antioch, faith amid the rubble. The construction of a pastoral center to celebrate the Eucharist is being studied Izmir (Agenzia Fides) - Rubble, interior and exterior wounds, closed roads, sleeping tents instead of houses. This is the reality told by Father Adrian E. Loza, OFM, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies ...
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  19 May 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Traveling and promoting the spirituality of dialogue and "dialogue of life": the path of the Focolare Movement Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - With the visit to the Catholic parish of St. Odilia in Tangerang, in the archdiocese of Jakarta, the visit to Indonesia of Margaret Karram and Jesús Morán, President and Co-President of the Fo ...
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  17 May 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Franciscan Sisters of Sukabumi were born from the mission of a Dutch religious congregation Sukabumi (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary history of the Franciscan Sisters in the city of Bergen op Zoom (Boz), in the Netherlands, fully expresses the authentic spirit and apostolic dedication of many people and congre ...
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  16 May 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - War and cyclone, a nation on its knees Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - In Sittwe, capital of the Biman State of Rakhine, in western Myanmar, cyclone Mocha, which hit the area on May 14 and 15, killed at least 40 people, devastating houses, fields, also destroying ...
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  15 May 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Karnataka chooses the Congress Party: a change for democracy and freedom Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "The election result in Karnataka could be a decisive moment in India's recent political history. The defeat of the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), the ruling party until now in the state and al ...