Asia

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  28 April 2022
  ASIA - Asia, the continent of natural disasters and poverty Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - By 2030 the world will face around 560 natural disasters a year and most of these events will affect Asia. This emerges from the Global Assessment Report 2022 published by the UN Office for Disa ...
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  28 April 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Sentences, violence and murders for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A so-called Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Lahore has ruled in the murder of Sri Lankan citizen Priyantha Kumara, who was killed by a mob in Sialkot in December 2021 on charges of blasphemy (see F ...
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  27 April 2022
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Waiting for truth and justice: the Church commemorates the Easter massacres and visits the Pope Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - For three years we have been asking the government for truth and justice after the Easter 2019 massacres. For three years we have stood by the victims and their families. Since our cry and that ...
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  27 April 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Celebration of the 500th anniversary: a new impetus for evangelization Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - From the conclusion of the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines on April 24th in Cebu, the Philippine Church receives new impetus for the mission ...
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  26 April 2022
  ASIA/JORDAN - King Abdallah II reaffirms royal responsibility for protecting Christian and Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The Hashemite dynasty of Jordan will continue to exercise its historical responsibility for the protection and protection of the Christian and Islamic Holy Places of Jerusalem with even more vigor ...
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  26 April 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Dialogue, cooperation and positive developments in relations between the Holy See and Vietnam Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Relations between Vietnam and the Holy See are on the right track. On April 22, at the Central Government Office, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh received Undersecretary for Relations with th ...
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  26 April 2022
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Minister for Religious Affairs wants to invite Pope Francis Amboina (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesia invites Pope Francis to visit the country: Minister of Religious Affairs Menag RI Yaqut Cholil Qoumas informed the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Pietro Pioppo and the Indonesian Catholic ...
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  25 April 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The Bishop of Almaty: "The Pope's visit to this land will bear many fruits" Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "The Easter season brings with it many reasons for joy: the first is the fact that, after two years of pandemic, we were finally able to celebrate Holy Week and Divine Mercy Sunday under normal ...
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  22 April 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - National Catholic Collection Day: "God always gives more than we think" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "God always gives more than we think, we just have to put his teaching into practice with love", said the head of the economic affairs of the small parish of Huangshi, located in the province of Hu ...
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  22 April 2022
  ASIA/TIMOR LESTE - The Archbishop of Dili to the president: the Constitution must be respected, for a prosperous and peaceful nation Dili (Agenzia Fides) - "I hope that whoever is elected president returns to the state Constitution since it serves as a check on the country's capacity to operate properly", said Msgr. Dom Virgilio do Carmo da Silva SDB, ...
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  22 April 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - A path of unity and brotherhood: first meeting of the newly formed Bishops' Conference Nursultan (Agenzia Fides) - The newly formed Bishops' Conference of Central Asia will meet for the first time from April 26 to 30 in Nursultan, Kazakhstan. The new body was officially created in September, following a de ...
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  21 April 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - In the first months of 2022, 127 episodes of violence against Christians in India New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - At least 127 episodes of violence against Christians in India were recorded in the first 103 days of 2022: this is stated in a report released by the United Christian Forum (UCF), an ecumenica ...
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  21 April 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - National missionary congress to conclude the Jubilee: sharing the gift of faith Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - On Easter Sunday, April 17, Archbishop Jose S. Palma of Cebu inaugurated in the Basilica “Sto. Nino de Cebu”, on the small island south of Manila, the Second Philippine Missionary Congress (NMC ...
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  20 April 2022
  ASIA/RUSSIA - Easter in Siberia: a community experiences the Eucharist and prays for peace Novosibirsk (Agenzia Fides) - An Easter lived in the intensity of prayer and with the "certain hope" of the Resurrection: this is how the community of the faithful of the diocese of the Transfiguration in Novosibirsk, in ...
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  20 April 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The Pope in Kazakhstan to give "senim" and say that peace is possible Milan (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pope's trip to Kazakhstan is very important news and has many links with the current crisis". This is what Father Edoardo Canetta, former Apostolic Vicar of Central Asia, told Fides, a missio ...