Asia

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  14 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Farewell to Peter Lin Jiashan, Archbishop of Fuzhou Fuzhou (Agenzia Fides) - Peter Lin Jiashan, Archbishop of Fuzhou (mainland China) died today, April 14, 2023, at the age of 88 after a long illness. According to the statement of the Funeral Committee, reported by xinde. ...
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  13 April 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Jerusalem churches: the “unreasonable restrictions” by Israeli police for the Holy Fire ceremony Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The "Holy Fire ceremony", a key moment of the Easter liturgies celebrated at the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by the Orthodox Church, this year risks being disrupted by "unreasonable restrictiv ...
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  13 April 2023
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Faith and charity of Vietnamese Catholics at Easter time Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Easter liturgies were solemnly celebrated with great participation of people in all dioceses of the Vietnamese Church. Easter time in Vietnamese communities is accompanied by fervent works of cha ...
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  12 April 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Easter amidst fear, violence and hope in Mandalay, where innocent civilians die Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - "Christ is risen and we are working to remove the sepulchral stones that threaten to bury our hopes. We strive for justice, peace and the healing of our war-wounded land. We trust in God that, ...
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  7 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - The Easter Triduum celebrated again in the Chinese dioceses, in the sign of communion Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - After three years of pandemic, the Chinese Catholic communities have finally resumed the solemn celebrations of the Easter Triduum and live intensely the "highlight" which represents the culmina ...
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  7 April 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Gaza, Holy Week under the bombs. Father Romanelli: even from here we continue to announce the victory of the Risen One Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - The Christians of Gaza are living Holy Week while the sky above them is once again torn by the lightning of war. In the night between Thursday and Good Friday, air raids by the Israeli armed forces ...
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  5 April 2023
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Easter for young people: communion and proclamation of hope Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of Easter is a special moment for young Catholics in Vietnam: in the various dioceses, starting from Palm Sunday, gatherings and meetings of young people will take place in the dif ...
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  4 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Installation of Bishop Shen Bin in Shanghai by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On the morning of Tuesday, April 4, Chinese Bishop Joseph Shen Bin, head of the Diocese of Haimen (Jiansu province), was installed in the Diocese of Shanghai. The ceremony - r ...
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  4 April 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The "Missionaries of Mercy" and the queue of people for confessions. Easter in the midst of violence Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - There are five priests, who already during the Jubilee of Mercy, in 2015, had received from the Pope the mandate to dispense God's forgiveness in the sacrament of Confession. Today, the team of f ...
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  3 April 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - "The widow's offering": the Lenten offerings of poor Bangladeshis for works of charity Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - These are offerings that come from very poor families, from faithful who often struggle for survival but who - like the evangelical "widow's offering" - do not want to miss a donation for communit ...
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  3 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Deaths due to pandemic, premature deaths, decrease in vocations: the aging of Chinese clergy is accentuating Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The "Qingming Feast", a day in which, according to Chinese tradition, ancestors and the dead are commemorated, falls every year on April 4 or 5. On this anniversary, the Catholic Church in China ...
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  1 April 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Three historical figures of the Catholic community of Seoul towards the altars Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Seoul has officially declared the opening of the beatification process for three historical figures of priests who provided pastoral service in the Archdiocese: Bishop Barthelem ...
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  1 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Palm Sunday: Catholic communities promote the seventh National Collection Day Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - On Palm Sunday, for the seventh consecutive year, the Chinese Catholic community celebrates National Collection Day tomorrow, April 2. The initiative is promoted by Jinde Charites, the orga ...
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  31 March 2023
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Three online meetings in Russian on Pope Francis' Message for World Mission Day 2023 Astana (Agenzia Fides) - The series of three online training meetings in Russian organized by the Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Kazakhstan and the International Secretariat of the Pontifical Miss ...
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  31 March 2023
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The mission of the Church "on a synodal journey": towards the pastoral assembly in peninsular Malaysia Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan pastoral assembly of ecclesial realities in Peninsular Malaysia - which is being prepared and will be held between summer and autumn 2023 - will talk about formation, the need ...