Asia

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  22 September 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Pope's visit and his meeting with Ayatollah al Sistani celebrated by a series of postage stamps from the Iraqi Postal Service Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The General Company for Post and Savings in Iraq, directed by Idris Khaled Abdel Rahman, has issued a special series of stamps dedicated to Pope Francis' visit to Iraq, which took place from Mar ...
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  21 September 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Raped Christian minor escapes the torturer: the culprit arrested Sahiwal (Agenzia Fides) - After an investigation conducted with raids in several villages in the area of Sahiwal (a city in the Pakistani province of Punjab), the Pakistani police arrested a Muslim man for kidnapping and ...
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  20 September 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - 11 Christians, 10 Muslims and 2 Druze (but only one woman) in the new government of Mikati Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The new government of Lebanon, led by the Sunni Muslim Najib Mikati, is preparing to obtain the vote of trust from the Lebanese Parliament today, Monday, September 20. All the main political forc ...
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  18 September 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The commitment of Salesian missionaries to help families impoverished by the pandemic Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "How will families without work, without economic activity survive? This was the general concern of people when the Coronavirus pandemic began. This is what motivated us to act: to experien ...
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  17 September 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Floods in central Vietnam: God's people take refuge under the mantle of Mary Da Nang (Agenzia Fides) - The tropical storm Con Son has hit the central coastal provinces of Vietnam, and many places in the region have put in place plans to deal with the fifth tropical storm of 2021 that has brought ...
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  17 September 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - "Marriage encounter": Christian spouses rediscover the richness of the Sacrament Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Married life is a life of patience, forgiveness and listening. It is a life of mutual enrichment, thanks to the presence and strength that Jesus Christ gives. It is a long journey together, enligh ...
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  16 September 2021
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Young people meet "the living Christ" Astana (Agenzia Fides) - "Even if the Catholic Church is a small reality, it is present throughout Kazakhstan. Especially in summer, a season that is relatively short in the country, we have numerous faith and mission fo ...
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  16 September 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï: Abu Dhabi Document and "Fratelli Tutti" become a 'compass' for Lebanese Catholic schools Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - In Lebanon overwhelmed by a devastating crisis, which also has alarming effects on the state of health of the national school system, it is important and necessary that the teachings proposed by ...
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  16 September 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops of Northern Luzon: amid assassinations, corruption, pandemic we find ourselves in the "valley of death" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "It is like being in the valley of death: the killing of drug addicts and opponents; victims of the pandemic; death from hardship due to a visionless government and blatant corruption that seems ...
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  15 September 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Anti-Covid measures loosened, Maronite Church returns to receiving communion on the tongue Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - While in Lebanon the spread of infections from Covid-19 seems to be weakening, emergency measures are beginning to be removed in the Maronite Church regarding the methods of administering the sa ...
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  15 September 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - "Bringing the face of Jesus to the most abandoned places": the Sisters of the Holy Face and their mission among the last Koting (Agenzia Fides) - "It was October 24, 1991. My Congregation sent me as a missionary to Flores, a small island in Indonesia that I had never heard of". Thus begins the story of Sr. Aloisia dal Bo, from the Congrega ...
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  15 September 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The "Legion of Mary", compassionate face of the Church Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - To be "the compassionate face of the Church in Indonesia": this is the appeal made by Indonesian Cardinal Ignatius Suharyo, Archbishop of Jakarta, to the "Legion of Mary" (or "Legio Mariae"), a ...
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  14 September 2021
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Cardinals Yeom: "Peace requires an open heart" Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - Peace on the Korean Peninsula is a great challenge and a great obligation for the Catholic Church in Korea. This was emphasized by Cardinal Yeom Soo-jung, Archbishop of Seoul and Apostolic Admi ...
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  14 September 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Scalabrini Missionary Sisters open new mission in Davao Davao (Agenzia Fides) - The Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters open a new mission in the Philippines, in Davao. After Quezon City and Manila, Davao is the third most populous city in the Philippines: It has more than one an ...
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  13 September 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The dream of St. Camillus continues: the first church dedicated to the Saint in the district of Okara Okara (Agenzia Fides) - "A house of prayer, a place of worship where one can connect with God and where other activities that are not prayer and spiritual are not allowed" declared Mgr. Indrias Rehmat, Bishop of Faisalab ...