Asia
21 April 2021
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Padige Basil Rohan Fernando
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 16, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Padige Basil Rohan Fernando, of the diocesan clergy of Kuru ...
20 April 2021
ASIA/SRI LANKA - March for justice and blessing of the new Chapel of the martyrs to commemorate the Easter massacres
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "We invoke God and call on the government for justice. Tomorrow church bells across the nation will ring to commemorate the victims of the attacks of April 21, 2019, when terrorists committed a ...
20 April 2021
ASIA/THAILAND - Thai Catholics help Karen displaced people fleeing Myanmar
Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - A great commitment by the Church in Thailand is underway to rescue, welcome and help refugees fleeing Myanmar who hide in the forest near the Thanlyin River, which marks the border between Th ...
20 April 2021
ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Existential peripheries: Caritas supports tuberculosis prevention in prisons
Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - With an aid project for the medical staff in the country's prisons, the Catholic Church in Tajikistan would like to launch a new mission to accompany prisoners and go "to the periphery" to prea ...
19 April 2021
ASIA/IRAQ - Coronavirus pandemic: Election of the new Assyrian patriarch postponed due to new wave of infections
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The new wave of infections, which also affects Iraq and the Kurdistan Autonomous Region, has resulted in the election of the new Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East being postponed to a l ...
19 April 2021
ASIA/VIETNAM - A "year of grace" for the diocese of Nha Trang, in the footsteps of Cardinal Van Thuan
Nha Trang (Agenzia Fides) - He is a spiritual son and a successor of the former Bishop of the diocese of Nha Trang, Venerable Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, who greatly influenced his priestly life and his epi ...
19 April 2021
ASIA/MYANMAR - The era of hope: the new Burmese government of national unity, in opposition to the military junta
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "An era of fear and division ends and an era of hope begins". A time, says Salai Maung Taing San, spokesman for the newly formed "Burmese National Unity Government", in which "there will be no m ...
17 April 2021
NEWS ANALYSIS - Growing religious extremism in Asia and Church response
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - On March 28, Palm Sunday, the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, witnessed the bomb attacks, leaving two bombers dead and at least 20 people injur ...
16 April 2021
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholics who follow masses online due to the pandemic are increasing: Bishops want to a return to the churches after the end of the pandemic
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The number of Catholics watching Sunday Mass on social media and television is increasing in South Korea.
According to a report published by the Catholic Bishops' Conference in South Korea, the n ...
16 April 2021
ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Barnabite Fr. Scalese on the withdrawal of US troops: "The risk is to plunge back into civil war and instability"
Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "The most serious risk deriving from the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan is that the country could fall back into civil war. So far, the negotiations between the government and the Taliba ...
15 April 2021
ASIA/MYANMAR - "The nation is entrusted to God's mercy"
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We are in God's hands. Our land is entrusted to his Divine Mercy. In a period of tension, suffering and uncertainty about the future, Christ is our rock. This is the path we walk when we see dem ...
15 April 2021
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The government rewards Catholic nun "mother of the Forgotten"
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are pleased and proud that the Pakistani government has bestowed Sister Ruth Lewis 'posthumously' with the Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) for her services to the society of this countr ...
14 April 2021
ASIA/IRAQ - The government of the autonomous region creates a Committee to counter illegal expropriations of property in Iraqi Kurdistan
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Council of Ministers issued an order to form a Committee to solve the phenomenon of illegal expropriation of properties - houses and land that are mostl ...
14 April 2021
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Korean Church joins the fund to donate the anti-Covid vaccine to poor countries
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Seoul has launched an appeal to the faithful to join the special fund, created in the Vatican, to give the anti Covid-19 vaccine to people who live in poor countries or who have ...
14 April 2021
ASIA/KYRGYZTAN - "God loves the little ones": Young woman receives the sacrament of baptism in the Kyrgyz Church
Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - "With the beginning of Easter, which lasts from April 4 to Pentecost, our lives are by these two aspects: the first is Christ's victory over death through the cross; the second is the resurrecti ...
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