Asia

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  2 October 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Patron Saint of the Missions: Catholic communities celebrate Saint Thérèse of Lisieux Ningbo (Agenzia Fides) – With rosary prayers, processions, testimonies of faith, liturgies, and theatrical performances, Chinese Catholics celebrated the feast of the Patron Saint of the Missions, Saint Thérèse of th ...
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  2 October 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - New archbishop of Cebu visits earthquake victims Cebu (Agenzia Fides) – The new Archbishop of Cebu, Msgr. Alberto Uy, celebrated his inauguration on the morning of September 30th in the Cathedral of Cebu City, a city in the center of the Philippine archipelago, thus ...
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  1 October 2025
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Catholics' aid to families affected by Typhoon Bualoi: material goods and a heart full of love by Andrew Doan Thanh Phong Thanh Hoa (Agenzia Fides) – Despite the danger posed by the severe floods that submerged entire communities in Thanh Hoa province, on the morning of September 30, 2025, a group of Catholi ...
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  1 October 2025
  ASIA/JAPAN - Missionary witness in the “Land of the Rising Sun” by Pascale Rizk Nagasaki (Agenzia Fides) - It was the year 1549 when Francis Xavier landed in Kagoshima. Although he was not the first European to set foot on Japanese soil, which had already been reached by traders, ...
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  30 September 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - A missionary story: The Diocese of Sanyuan celebrates 400 years of apostolic work in Shaanxi Province Sanyuan (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Sanyuan, in the northwestern Chinese province of Shaanxi, is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the new beginning of the proclamation of the Gospel in Shaanxi Province, as part ...
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  30 September 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Auxiliary Bishop of Yangon: "national dialogue is the only path to peace" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – "Our goal is to promote a national dialogue everywhere to find a way out of the conflict that has been going on for four years and is causing great suffering for the entire nation, for people's ...
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  30 September 2025
  Dis-Order of the World - Global Order and the "twilight" in which "monsters emerge" by Cardinal Dominique Joseph Mathieu, OFM Conv.* Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - In his "Prison Notebooks," the Italian politician and writer Antonio Gramsci said in the 1930s: "The old world is dying, the new world struggl ...
• 29 September 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Mourning in the Episcopate: Placidus Pei Ronggui (1933-2025) Luoyang (Agenzia Fides) - On the morning of September 6, 2025, His Exc. Msgr. Placidus Pei Ronggui, Coadjutor Emeritus of the Diocese of Luoyang, Henan Province, Mainland China, passed away at the age of 92. The Prelate ...
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  29 September 2025
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Ecumenical group refutes Netanyahu's speech at the UN: occupation, not the Palestinian Authority, is harming Christians in Palestine Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "cannot be allowed to twist the truth" regarding the situation of Christians in the Holy Land and the problems and suffering that have caused their ...
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  29 September 2025
  ASIA/KOREA - "40 days of prayer for life" in response to the intention to legalize abortion and the abortion pill Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Changing the term “abortion” to “termination of pregnancy”; “legalizing the termination of pregnancy”; “introducing the abortion pill”: these are some of the guidelines included ...
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  27 September 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian arrested for blasphemy on social media; the Committee for Peace: "No one would do it intentionally" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – “No Christian in Pakistan, fully aware of the devastating consequences, would intentionally publish or write anything that could be perceived as blasphemous against Islam,” says Father Laza ...
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  26 September 2025
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako: Fewer than seventy Christian families remain in Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – In Mosul, once a multi-ethnic city, where at least 50,000 baptized people lived, there are now fewer than 70 Christian families. And across the country, Christians, who once exceeded one million ...
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  26 September 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Nihil obstat” for the Beatification of Father Leo Bang Yu-ryong, founder of Korean monastic life Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic community of Seoul has announced that it has received the “Nihil obstat” (no objections) from the Holy See for the beatification process of Father Leo Bang Yu-ryong (1900–1986 ...
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  25 September 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - The three Bishops of Zhangjiakou celebrate the Eucharistic liturgy together in Qujiazhuang: communion in the diocese is "a grace and a gift from God" Zhangjiakou (Agenzia Fides) – The consecration of the Bishop of Zhangjiakou is “a grace and a gift from God,” and together with the newly consecrated bishop, the auxiliary bishop and the bishop emeritus of the dioc ...
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  25 September 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Churches open to displaced persons: parishes and active structures for preventive intervention Legazpi City (Agenzia Fides) – While controversy erupts nationwide over "ghost projects" intended to prevent climate disasters, funded but never implemented due to corruption, the Catholic Church in the Philippines has ...