Asia

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  6 February 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Possible amnesty for political prisoners in Papua: Franciscans call for "initiative for a in-depth dialogue" Jayapura (Agenzia Fides) – In order to manage the armed conflict that has plagued the Indonesian region of West Papua for decades, the Indonesian government, led by the new President Prabowo Subianto, is considering an ...
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  5 February 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Food and “certain hope” for the poor, in the spirit of the Jubilee: the Capuchin mission in Tamil Nadu Dindigul (Agenzia Fides) – The “Assisi Free Food Support” initiative aims to offer food to the neediest students in rural areas, those who cannot afford even one meal a day, as well as to those who share this situa ...
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  ASIA/TAIWAN - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Taipei Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) -The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Peter Chao Yung-Chi, of the clergy of the diocese of Chiayi, until now episcopal chancellor and parish priest of the Cathedral of Saint John in Chi ...
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  4 February 2025
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Cardinal Tagle: Dialogue as an antidote to distrust and hostility towards the religious dimension Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - In a world where secularization is advancing more and more, "the only antidote to this is encounter and dialogue marked by friendship and respect between persons of different religious traditi ...
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  4 February 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops' Letter for the Jubilee period: "There is hope for the nation" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Hope gives us courage and freedom," says the Pastoral Letter of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, distributed and read in churches on February 2 at the conclusion of the Ple ...
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  3 February 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Jubilee in exile: Catholics in Loikaw do not want to lose hope Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - Displacement, hunger, cold, the fatigue of a daily life in refugee camps or in makeshift settlements in the forests cannot stop the Catholic faithful of Loikaw, a diocese in the Burmese state of ...
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  3 February 2025
  RUSSIA - Jesuit Stephan Lipke consecrated bishop in Novosibirsk: "To do the good that is possible here and now" by Chiara Dommarco Novosibirsk (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 2 February, the German Jesuit Father Stephan Lipke was ordained bishop in the Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Novosibirsk. Pope Francis appointed the Jes ...
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  1 February 2025
  ASIA/LAOS - Farewell to Father Titus Banchong: "It was Jesus who was interested in me, not me in him" by Paolo Affatato Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - "I am ready for Jesus and will be his martyr if I am worthy and if he wants me. I now believe that the time is very close," wrote the Laotian priest Titus Banchong Thopan ...
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  1 February 2025
  AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - Sister Anna on her work in the mission in Djibouti Ali Sabieh (Agenzia Fides) - "I like to see how the Lord works in people; it is He who called me to be a missionary, in the mission among non-Christians, and I am here to give hope," says Consolata Missionary Sister Anna ...
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  31 January 2025
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Homs: The new era is full of mysteries by Gianni Valente Homs (Agenzia Fides) - "A new era has begun for Syria. And it is a difficult time again," said Archbishop Jacques Mourad. The monk of the Deir Mar Musa community, spiritual son of Father Paolo Dall' ...
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  31 January 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Four years after the coup: prayer and charity in the face of violence, hunger and displacement Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "Catholics hope that the state of emergency will not be extended and pray for justice and peace," Joseph Kung, a Catholic from Yangon who works in the National Human Rights Commission, told Fides ...
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  30 January 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy law becomes a trap and a business: accusations organized for the purpose of blackmail and extortion Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - There is a criminal group that makes a business out of framing innocent people with false accusations of blasphemy. The organization uses the blasphemy law as a trap and as a business for blac ...
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  29 January 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop of Manipur: "The situation is polarized: we need peacemakers" Imphal (Agenzia Fides) - "There is less violence in Manipur today than a year ago, thanks to the massive presence of the Indian armed forces: more than 70,000 soldiers are deployed in all the buffer zones that separate t ...
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  28 January 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A missionary community in times of war: the Church of Yangon in synod, with its eyes turned towards suffering humanity Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Building an authentically synodal community, which walks with Christ towards wounded humanity, and authentically missionary, capable of proclaiming the Gospel and bringing consolation in the diff ...
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  27 January 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A cap on the price of rice: the government's measure to prevent speculation Manila (Agenzia Fides) - In an effort to curb the rise in rice prices, the Manila government has set a limit of 58 pesos per kilogram for imported rice, after carrying out "extensive consultations" with importers, retail ...