Asia
25 January 2024
ASIA/CINA - The Reverend Thaddeus Wang ordained Bishop of the Diocese of Zhengzhou
by Gianni Valente and Marta Zhao
Zhengzhou (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Zhengzhou has a new Bishop, after being without a resident Bishop for over seventy years. Today, Thursday January 25, the episcopal ordinat ...
24 January 2024
ASIA/INDONESIA - Camillian missionaries help mentally ill people: “We feel honored”
Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "Here we have no time to grow old because the various activities keep us young," writes Father Luigi Galvani from the island of Flores in Indonesia. The Camillian missionary, who is a pioneer in ...
23 January 2024
ASIA/BAHRAIN - 'Reaching for Hope, Branching together': Family Day 2024 in the Sacred Heart Parish in Manama
Manama (Agenzia Fides) - "We are the people of one God, we are one family, we come from different countries, with different languages, cultures and traditions, but we are all brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ", emphas ...
23 January 2024
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic studies no longer compulsory for non-Muslim students
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - It is a turning point for religious minorities in Pakistan: the study of Islam is no longer compulsory for non-Muslim students in schools at all levels. The Federal Ministry of Education and V ...
22 January 2024
ASIA/INDONESIA - Election campaign: “Avoid instrumentalizing the election”
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Call for "observation of the democratic process", for a "peaceful, honest, fair and dignified election" and for the avoidance of religious content and topics in the political election campaign s ...
22 January 2024
ASIA/CHINA - State University honors Thomas Aquinas on his 800th birthday
Wuhan (Agenzia Fides) - The School of Philosophy of the Chinese State University "Huazhong University of Science and Technology" (HUST) in the city of Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, will hold an academic ceremony in J ...
20 January 2024
ASIA/VIETNAM - The diocesan phase of the cause of beatification opens for two missionary bishops
Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The testimony of the two bishops François Pallu (MEP) (1626-1684) and Pierre Lambert de La Motte (MEP) (1624 - 1679), the first missionaries sent to the Far East, is precious for Vietnamese Catho ...
19 January 2024
ASIA/INDONESIA - Presidential election: Ash Wednesday rite postponed to Thursday
Ruteng (Agenzia Fides) - So that the faithful can experience the important moment of the elections with full attention and with a conscience enlightened by faith and the search for the common good and charity, and on the ...
19 January 2024
ASIA/BAHRAIN - "The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia is a symbol of freedom and religious coexistence"
Awali (Agenzia Fides) - The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia, in Awali, also known as the Cathedral in the Desert, in addition to its predominantly religious nature, is a place of welcome and sharing for thousands of peop ...
18 January 2024
ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako calls for withdrawal of sectarian militias from the Nineveh Plain
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Church, calls on the government in Baghdad "to assume its national and legal responsibilities by adopting practical and clear measures ...
17 January 2024
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The service of the missionaries of Saint Columban in Pakistan for more than forty years
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - More than forty years, the missionaries of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban - priests, nuns and lay missionaries - have been at the service of the people of Pakistan. Father John Boles, ...
17 January 2024
ASIA/JAPAN - Nuclear Disarmament: A Natural Buddhist-Catholic Alliance, Explains Japanese Leader
by Victor Gaetan *
“Jesus and Buddha were peacemakers and promoters of non-violence,”
Pope Francis, May 28, 2022
Nagasaki (Agenzia Fides) - At the United Nations headquarters in New York City, on the third f ...
16 January 2024
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - A missionary: "After the looting, the people return what they had stolen: a collective repentance"
Mount Hagen (Agenzia Fides) - "These days a curious phenomenon is taking place: the people who participated in the looting of recent days in Port Moresby are returning the looted goods. The appeals from the police and al ...
15 January 2024
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Release of bishops, priests and seminarians detained by the Nicaraguan government
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Nicaraguan government has released 19 bishops, priests and Catholic seminarians detained, in some cases for more than a year. Among them are bishops Rolando Álvarez and Isidoro del Carmen M ...
15 January 2024
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Christians and Muslims greet the "bishop of dialogue"
Davao (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, January 15, in Davao, city on the Philippine island of Mindanao, the Filipino Catholic community - with a large assembly of bishops, priests, consecrated people and lay people - paid ...
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