Asia

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  25 October 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Rice production increases: "The problem of pesticides persists" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – Global rice prices have fallen by 35% in one year and are at their lowest level since 2017 (around $360 per ton). This phenomenon was primarily triggered by the fact that India, the world's ...
• 25 October 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of auxiliary of Bombay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Stephen Eustace Victor Fernandes, until now local collaborator with the apostolic nunciature in India, New Delhi, as auxiliary bishop of the metro ...
• 25 October 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Cochin Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Antony Kattiparambil of the diocese of Cochin, India, until now judicial vicar, episcopal vicar for religious and parish priest of Saint Joseph Ch ...
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  24 October 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Mindanao-Sulu Pastoral Conference: Peace, an essential good for the life and mission of the Church Iligan City (Agenzia Fides) – "The mission of the Church in the southern Philippines, on the large island of Mindanao and the neighboring Sulu Islands, is confronted with a fundamental question that forms the basis and ...
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  24 October 2025
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - "Mother church" in Manama becomes a Shrine of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia Manama (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Aldo Berardi, O.SS.T., Apostolic Vicar of Northern Arabia, will celebrate the Pontifical Mass on November 8th, and will declare the Church of the Sacred Heart in Manama as "Vicarial Shri ...
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  23 October 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Duan Yijun appointed new Director of the Chinese Department of Religious Affairs Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Today, October 23, Duan Yijun, born in 1967, was appointed the new Director of the National Religious Affairs Administration of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the ...
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  23 October 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Celebrations continue for the 420th anniversary of the church founded by Jesuit Matteo Ricci in Beijing Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Celebrations continue for the 420th anniversary of the Beijing church dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, known as the "Nantang" (Southern Church). The church was founded by the great Jesu ...
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  23 October 2025
  ASIA - Superior General of the Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP): “Today, as yesterday, our mission in Asia is to be present to respond to the needs of the young Churches” by Paolo Affatato Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “Today as yesterday, our mission in Asia consists of being present to respond to the needs of the young Churches,” said Father Vincent Sénéchal, Superior Gener ...
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  22 October 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - The Salesians against child marriage: Every boy and girl has the right to grow, learn, and dream Gandhinagar (Agenzia Fides) – With an awareness-raising campaign scheduled to run from November 1, 2025, to January 26, 2026, the Salesians in the Indian state of Gujarat aim to raise awareness among the population abo ...
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  22 October 2025
  ASIA/IRAN - ‘Maryam-e Moghadass’. What the Tehran underground station dedicated to Mary tells us by Cardinal Dominique Joseph Mathieu OfmConv* Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - One of the city's public transport systems is the underground. Tehran's underground has seven lines, with 160 stations covering a total length of ...
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  21 October 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - World Mission Day for Chinese Catholic communities: "Help the mission with generosity" Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Prayers, liturgies, exhortations to embrace the missionary vocation of every baptized person. And also concerts, cultural events, and many other initiatives to gather resources and energy for ...
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  20 October 2025
  ASIA/AZERBAIJAN - Cardinal Tagle in Baku: "The Church in Azerbaijan is alive" Baku (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank the Lord once again for this day, for the missionaries, for Bishop Vladimir Fekete, and for the first local priest, Father Beibud Mustafaev. All this means that the Church is alive in Aze ...
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  20 October 2025
  KOREAN MISSIONARIES IN THE WORLD/2 - Father Peter Hong Jeongsu and the path of the "nascent Church"
  by Pascale Rizk Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) – "If we lose love, we can do almost nothing as missionaries. If we work with love, we can reap many rewards even in an environmen ...
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  20 October 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Sharing the Gospel following the example of Carlo Acutis: Children and young people celebrate World Mission Sunday Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – They want to be "missionaries of hope" in a country torn by civil war, drawing inspiration from Saint Carlo Acutis. Burmese children and young people celebrated World Mission Sunday with a gath ...
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  20 October 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Camillian delegation in Indonesia celebrates the second priestly ordination of the year in Flores Maumere (Agenzia Fides) – A significant milestone in the 16-year history of the Camillian mission in Indonesia was the recent ordination of four new priests at the St. Camillus Seminary in Maumere. The ceremony took pl ...