Asia

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  18 May 2022
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The lay faithful participate in the synodal journey and in the evangelizing mission of the Church Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Lay Catholics in the city of Dhaka enthusiastically participate in the different groups organized by the Church for the synodal journey. Recently, more than 40 Christian lawyers participated in a ...
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  18 May 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - Everyone has the right to a better life: the commitment of the "Nanjing Ark Charity Foundation" for the disabled Nanjing (Agenzia Fides) - "For a pair of chopsticks" is the theme of the charity campaign launched in 2021 by the "Nanjing Ark Charity Foundation", the charitable foundation of the Catholic community of Nanjing, capital ...
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  17 May 2022
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Church officials after Israeli police intervention against funeral procession: "Violation of international norms" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The attack by the Israeli police on the funeral procession of the Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, who was killed on Wednesday 11th May during a raid by the Israeli army on a refugee ...
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  17 May 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Vesak Festival: Buddhists and Christians together for a better world Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The festival of Vesak, celebrated by Buddhists all over the world to commemorate the birth of Buddha, touches most Vietnamese people deeply. It is an opportunity for many of the country's citizens ...
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  17 May 2022
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Camillians of the island of Flores, in view of new ordinations, express joy for the newly elected Superiors Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment our life here seems to be going at a normal rhythm and our many seminarians are preparing intensively for their exams at the end of the year. In the coming months there will be va ...
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  16 May 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Murder of two Sikhs in Peshawar: alarm of religious minorities Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - "Religious minorities in Pakistan are continuously persecuted, we are worried for our protection and our future in Pakistan. Members of minority religious communities are attacked and killed. T ...
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  9 May 2022
  ASIA/TURKEY - St. Giragos Cathedral in Diyarbakir: Largest Armenian church in the Middle East reopens Diyarbakir (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian Apostolic Cathedral of St Giragos in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir reopens for religious services. This also provides an opportunity to review the status of relations between th ...
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  9 May 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Prayer, awareness and concrete help for young women to fight against abortion Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - "Abortion is murder, it is a grave sin and an offense to God. Every day, many children are deprived of the right to life, of the right to grow as human beings", said Fr. Francis Nguyen Kim Phung d ...
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  9 May 2022
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Consecrated life, a gift for the Church and society Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The vocation to consecrated life is an invaluable gift for the Church and for all Indonesian society: this was witnessed by priests, religious and nuns of the parishes of the archipelago in the ...
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  7 May 2022
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The survivors of the Easter attacks: "United in faith, awaiting truth and justice" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We will not stop demanding truth and justice for the attacks of 2019. The authorities must commit themselves to finding the perpetrators and instigators of the massacres. It is necessary to establ ...
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  7 May 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Care of leprosy patients: work of the Church on a mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In her missionary work, the Church has a long tradition of assisting lepers, often abandoned even by their own families. She has always offered them concrete possibilities of healing and reintegrat ...
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  7 May 2022
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - A path of fraternity for the Bishops of Central Asia Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - The first meeting of the newly formed Bishops' Conference of Central Asia, held from April 26 to 30 in Nursultan, Kazakhstan, was an opportunity to plan the future, but also to experience a mom ...
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  6 May 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Young Catholics as Messengers of the Gospel in Society Nadiad (Agenzia Fides) - Young Indian Catholics are messengers of the Gospel in society and are actively involved in bringing Christ's gaze to issues such as human dignity, poverty, addictions, youth problems, hostilitie ...
• 6 May 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Khrist Premalaya" Regional Theologate Seminary" in the Archdiocese of Bhopal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 1, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Francis Scaria, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Bhopal as ...
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  5 May 2022
  ASIA/LEBANON - General election: Maronite bishops demand conditions for peaceful process Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of the Lebanese institutions and political parties are called to ensure that the parliamentary elections on May 15th take place peacefully, so that voters can exercise their constitu ...