Asia

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  4 January 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A special "Year of the Family", with young people in mind Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The year 2023, in the diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi will be a "Year of the Family": this was announced by Archbishop Joseh Arshad, inviting all the parishes, associations, movements and eccl ...
• 4 January 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Bishop of Baroda Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 31, 2022, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Fr. Sebastião Mascarenhas, S.F.X., former superior general of the Society of the Missionaries of Saint Francis Xavier ...
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  4 January 2023
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - Benedict XVI, "a Good Shepherd who takes care of a small distant flock" Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - "We carry in our hearts a grateful memory of the interest and care of a Good Shepherd towards his small distant flock". This is the image of Benedict XVI that the Apostolic Administrator of Uzb ...
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  3 January 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Vandalism in a Catholic church in Chhattisgarh Narayanpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh (central India) was vandalized by a tribal mob. The incident, which happened yesterday afternoon, January 2, in the ...
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  2 January 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese bishops and the People of God pray for Pope Ratzinger: may he continue to intercede for the good of our Church from heaven Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Gratitude and joy, intertwined with an emotion full of consolation, prayers and grateful memory for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who left this earth on the last day of 2022. These are the sentim ...
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  2 January 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The faithful pray and remember Benedict XVI, "Pope of charity" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - As in many other Asian countries, the Catholics in the Philippines are praying for Benedict XVI, who died on the morning of December 31 at the age of 95. "I wish to thank all of you who accompani ...
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  29 December 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - When the "Union of Chinese students" of the Pontifical Urbaniana University" paid tribute to Celso Costantini, the first Apostolic Delegate in China by Martha Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "This publication aims not only to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the arrival of Archbishop Celso Costantini as the first Apostolic Delegate in Beijing, but above all to rec ...
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  29 December 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - On January 1, 2023, all churches and places of worship in Beijing will be open Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Fides was recently informed that all churches and places of prayer in Beijing will be open on January 1, 2023. The faithful in Beijing are immensely grateful to the Lord for this decision. The ...
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  23 December 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Scholars rediscover the relevance of Celso Costantini, First Apostolic Delegate in China by Martha Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Exactly one hundred years after his arrival in Beijing, the figure of Cardinal Celso Costantini, the first Apostolic Delegate in China, is being rediscovered and his topicality i ...
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  23 December 2022
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - After the severe floods, more than 70,000 people will experience Christmas as displaced persons Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - "We are shocked by the catastrophic event of the floods that have hit many communities in eight states of the Federation. Many Christian communities that were celebrating the Advent season ...
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  22 December 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - For Shagufta Kiran the second Christmas away from her children Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Almost a year and a half has passed since the arrest of Pakistani Christian woman, Shagufta Kiran (see Fides, 31/8/2021) and the imminent one is, for her, the second Christmas spent in prison, ...
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  21 December 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - “Our Lady of the Hour”: Church bells will be heard again in Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Next March, three bells bearing the names of the Archangels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael will leave Normandy and find their destination in Mosul in the bell tower of the Church of Our Lady of the ...
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  21 December 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Interreligious meetings and closeness to the poor: the spirit of Christmas Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian communities of Pakistan live a Christmas characterized by traditional rites, inter-religious meetings and closeness and solidarity with the poor and oppressed. Since the 19th ce ...
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  20 December 2022
  ASIA/JORDAN - A Christmas without celebrations or convivial events, after the bereaved events that affected the police Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The Christians of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan will live the upcoming Christmas holidays in a sober way, refraining from showing their joy for Christmas and the beginning of the new year in con ...
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  20 December 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The documents of Pope Francis in the Tagalog language to bring "the joy of the Gospel" to all Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "A message expressed in one's own language is deeper. It is more alive, has a stronger grip and is more attractive to the reader or listener. So we hope that Pope Francis' words can reach many Fi ...