Asia

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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 ...
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  13 April 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako: may the light of Christ's Easter illuminate the darkness of these times of war Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - During Easter, which this year partly coincides with Ramadan (the month of fasting and prayer in the Islamic calendar), "every believer in God, and in particular Christians, must reject the dead ...
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  13 April 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The Bishop of Karaganda "The example of Veronica, icon of Christ, to be reborn to new hope" Karaganda (Agenzia Fides) - "Prayer changes hearts and converts them to God so that they can welcome the gift of the Spirit, who with love heals the world of hatred and grants peace. We invite all the faithful to serious ...
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  13 April 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - The synodal journey of the sisters of Leshan, in the footsteps of the "Woman among women" Leshan (Agenzia Fides) - In the footsteps of "Woman among women", the sisters of the diocesan Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Our Lady, of the diocese of Kiating (today Leshan), in the province of Sichuan in mainland ...
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  12 April 2022
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Father Romanelli: 722 permits for Christians in Gaza to celebrate Easter in Jerusalem Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - This year 722 Palestinian Christians living in the Gaza Strip will be able to celebrate Easter in Jerusalem, in the places that witnessed the passion, death and resurrection of Christ. This was rep ...
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  12 April 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The President of Kazakhstan announces the visit of Pope Francis: for the Church it is a "sign of attention to the peripheries" Nur-Sultan (Agenzia Fides) - "The news fills us with joy. We are grateful to the President of Kazakhstan for inviting Pope Francis and we really hope the visit can take place, 20 years after the visit of Pope John Paul I ...
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  12 April 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - New Prime Minister elected, Christians: "The Constitution is always the point of reference" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope that the tense political situation in the country is over, given that the new Prime Minister has taken office. We wish the new Prime Minister, Mohammad Shehbaz Sharif and the political p ...