Asia

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  29 September 2025
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Ecumenical group refutes Netanyahu's speech at the UN: occupation, not the Palestinian Authority, is harming Christians in Palestine Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "cannot be allowed to twist the truth" regarding the situation of Christians in the Holy Land and the problems and suffering that have caused their ...
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  29 September 2025
  ASIA/KOREA - "40 days of prayer for life" in response to the intention to legalize abortion and the abortion pill Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Changing the term “abortion” to “termination of pregnancy”; “legalizing the termination of pregnancy”; “introducing the abortion pill”: these are some of the guidelines included ...
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  27 September 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian arrested for blasphemy on social media; the Committee for Peace: "No one would do it intentionally" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – “No Christian in Pakistan, fully aware of the devastating consequences, would intentionally publish or write anything that could be perceived as blasphemous against Islam,” says Father Laza ...
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  26 September 2025
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako: Fewer than seventy Christian families remain in Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – In Mosul, once a multi-ethnic city, where at least 50,000 baptized people lived, there are now fewer than 70 Christian families. And across the country, Christians, who once exceeded one million ...
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  26 September 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Nihil obstat” for the Beatification of Father Leo Bang Yu-ryong, founder of Korean monastic life Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic community of Seoul has announced that it has received the “Nihil obstat” (no objections) from the Holy See for the beatification process of Father Leo Bang Yu-ryong (1900–1986 ...
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  25 September 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - The three Bishops of Zhangjiakou celebrate the Eucharistic liturgy together in Qujiazhuang: communion in the diocese is "a grace and a gift from God" Zhangjiakou (Agenzia Fides) – The consecration of the Bishop of Zhangjiakou is “a grace and a gift from God,” and together with the newly consecrated bishop, the auxiliary bishop and the bishop emeritus of the dioc ...
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  25 September 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Churches open to displaced persons: parishes and active structures for preventive intervention Legazpi City (Agenzia Fides) – While controversy erupts nationwide over "ghost projects" intended to prevent climate disasters, funded but never implemented due to corruption, the Catholic Church in the Philippines has ...
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  25 September 2025
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The pineapples of Dien Bien Parish, the mountain poor and the charity of Christ by Andrew Doan Thanh Phong "This gift is not only young sweet pineapple plants, but also the love and care of the parish for the people. We hope that these young trees will take roots and grow strongly in the land of ...
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  24 September 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Doctors from the Shanghai Catholic Intellectuals Association promote initiatives for children with special needs. Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) – They are taking off their white coats and offering their help like family members, as if they were the patients' aunts and uncles. This is how doctors and therapists from the Shanghai Catholi ...
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  24 September 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Association of Catholic lay people: Anti-conversion laws “are a wound to the nation” Mangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The so-called "anti-conversion laws" in force in twelve Indian states are "a wound to Indian democracy, national ethics, freedom of belief, conscience, and expression." For this reason, lawsui ...
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  24 September 2025
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - AVONA Catechists begin their Jubilee journey in Rome Manama (Agenzia Fides) – September 25, 2025: On this spiritually significant day, a group of 26 devoted catechists from the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia (AVONA) are about to leave for Rome, carrying with the ...
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  23 September 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishop Bagaforo: "Protests concern moral issues" Manila (Agenzia Fides) – "The campaign, carried out by a movement against corruption, is not political. Rather, it concerns a moral issue, which is why Catholic representatives and institutions are at the forefront: be ...
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  23 September 2025
  When school becomes a place of terror: 41,000 attacks on educational institutions in 2024 by Cosimo Graziani The endless slaughter of children killed while at school worsens year after year. In Africa, in the heart of Europe, in the Middle East, which is marked by the tragedy in Gaza, and in the United St ...
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  22 September 2025
  ASIA/TAIWAN - 8,000 people at the first Gathering of Migrant Workers organized by the Taiwanese Catholic community Hsinchu (Agenzia Fides) - A concrete plan for the pastoral care of migrant workers and itinerant people, which responds to the urgent needs of their daily lives and expresses the gratitude of the entire Church community ...
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  22 September 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Attempted murder of a Presbyterian pastor Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Presbyterian pastor Kamran Naz, who was wounded by gunfire yesterday, September 21, in the Iqbal Town district of Islamabad, miraculously survived the attempted murder. As Fides learned from ...