Asia

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  4 May 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A new ecclesial service to support social cooperatives, a tool for development and the fight against poverty Manila (Agenzia Fides) - With the aim of encouraging and supporting the creation and management of social cooperatives to accompany groups and communities living in extreme poverty on the path of food security and develo ...
• 4 May 2023
  ASIA/JAPAN - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 8, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed the Rev. Joseph Naoki Momma, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Tokyo (for biog ...
• 3 May 2023
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Appointment of Bishop of Tainan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today the Holy Father Francis has appointed the Reverend Fr. John Baptist Huang Min-Cheng, O.F.M., until now director of the Centre for Franciscan Spirituality in Hsinchu, provincial counse ...
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  3 May 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Church Statistics: Around 11.3% of Koreans are Catholics Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The number of Korean Catholics in the country's 16 dioceses is 5,949,862 in 2022, an increase of 0.2% (11,817) compared to the previous year. According to data collected at the end of 2022, the ...
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  3 May 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Pilgrimages, processions, ordinations, rosaries in the neighborhood: the Marian month of Chinese Catholic communities has begun Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - New priestly ordinations, solemn Eucharistic celebrations, neighborhood processions, pilgrimages to shrines, rosaries prayed in small groups among neighbors, following the "method of the Visitat ...
• 3 May 2023
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of Bishop of Nha Trang Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 1, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Joseph Huynh Van Sy, of the clergy of Quy Nhon, until now judicial vicar and rector of the Saint Joseph Seminary of Quy Nhon, ...
• 3 May 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of Bishop of Kottapuram Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 1, 2023, the Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Kottapuram, India, presented by Bishop Joseph Karikkassery. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 3/ ...
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  2 May 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian woman and a Muslim man arrested for alleged blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Musarat Bibi, an illiterate Christian woman, employed at the "Girls Higher Secondary School" in the city of Arif-Wala, in the Pakistani province of Punjab, was arrested together with a Muslim man ...
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  2 May 2023
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Iraqi government launches data collection to create a digital "database" on Christian communities Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – in order to create a digital "database" on Iraqi Christians, which photographs their distribution in areas of the country, their level of education, professional skills, marital status, the nu ...
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  29 April 2023
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop Stephen Chow: love for our country is part of the Catholic Church’s teachings Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Love for our country "is part of the Catholic Church’s teachings", and in the current situation experienced by Catholics in mainland China and Hong Kong it is proper and convenient to pray ...
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  28 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - On the 10th anniversary of his death: Diocese of Shanghai commemorates Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - More than a thousand people filled the cathedral of the diocese of Shanghai yesterday to commemorate Jesuit bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian, who died ten years ago, on April 27, 2013. During the s ...
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  27 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - New priestly ordinations for Chinese dioceses on the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - From the diocese of Beijing to the dioceses of Wanxian (now Wanzhou), Sanyuan (in Shaanxi Province) and Jilin, Chinese Catholic communities welcomed six new priests ordained, as is customary, on ...
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  27 April 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Vietnamese Catholics, engaged in the mission in Korea for twenty years Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Vietnamese Catholic faithful present in the Archdiocese of Seoul are migrants who have settled in Korea and are fully integrated into the local Church. In recent days they participated in a Eu ...
• 26 April 2023
  ASIA/TIMOR - Appointment of Bishop of Baucau Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Leandro Maria Alves, of the clergy of Díli, until now parish priest of the Cathedral and executive secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Timor ...
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  26 April 2023
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Election campaign: A country in search of peace, stability and development Dili (Agenzia Fides) - With a view to the general elections scheduled for May 21 in East Timor, the electoral campaign has begun in the youngest nation in Asia. The President of the Bishops' Conference of East Timor, Bis ...