Asia

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  16 July 2025
  The BRICS + summit in Brazil raises the banner of multilateralism by Cosimo Graziani Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - On July 6 and 7, the annual summit of the so-called BRICS countries took place in Rio de Janeiro. This forum of states was founded in 2009 and has grown in recent y ...
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  16 July 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - 10th World Youth Peace Pilgrimage in the Demilitarized Zone: "There can be no world peace without peace on the Korean Peninsula" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "There can be no world peace without peace on the Korean Peninsula". This is the slogan that young Koreans launched, who gathered in the Demilitarized Zone (a strip of land created in 1953 after t ...
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  15 July 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - "Wedding without a dowry": the Chinese Catholic community promotes the gratuitousness of married life in a secularized society Taiyuan (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Meng Ningyou of Taiyuan, in the Chinese province of Shanxi, recommended in his homily at a church wedding last Sunday, July 13, that marriage, in the spirit of faith, be seen as a g ...
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  15 July 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Supreme Court declares large-scale mining legal: civil society promotes "environmental justice" Mamburao (Agenzia Fides) - The Supreme Court's recent decision to declare null and void the ordinances and resolutions of provincial governments that imposed a 25-year moratorium on mining activities in the province of W ...
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  14 July 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians accused of blasphemy continue to seek justice Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Asif Pervaiz, a 42-year-old Pakistani Christian, has been in prison for 12 years after being sentenced to death for blasphemy by a Lahore court in 2020. This is just one of many cases in which th ...
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  14 July 2025
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Jacques Mourad: Jesus wants His Church to remain in Syria by Gianni Valente Homs (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Jacques Mourad returned just a few days ago from participating in the Synod of Bishops of the Syriac Catholic Church in Rome. And he had a lot to do after his retur ...
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  13 July 2025
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Young people happy to follow their vocation: the Major Seminary in Dili celebrates its first 25 years Dili (Agenzia Fides) – Young people happy to live their vocation by following Christ and serving the Church every day. This is the reality that is lived at the Saints Peter and Paul Major Seminary in Dili in East Timor ...
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  12 July 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - The Word of God at the center of the formation meetings of 168 lay people from four dioceses Hangzhou (Agenzia Fides) - Reading and deepening one's understanding of Sacred Scripture "is the source of our faith": this was the theme of Father Lv Shoude, lecturer at the Sheshan Seminary of the Diocese of Shanghai a ...
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  12 July 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Online gambling is a "public health crisis that destroys society": Bishops call for it to be declared illegal Manila (Agenzia Fides) - In the gambling addiction treatment centers run by Caritas, Catholic organizations, and communities in the Philippines, the number of cases of online gambling addiction is increasing, a trend fue ...
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  11 July 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Three Bishops of war-torn regions address the faithful in a joint pastoral letter: "Do not let your hearts be troubled" Myitkyina (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of terrible events such as the bloody civil war and the earthquake that devastated central Myanmar, the three bishops of the Burmese dioceses of Myitkyina, Banmaw, and Lashio (in n ...
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  11 July 2025
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Summer training courses for Vietnamese catechists are on the rise by Andrew Doan Thanh Phong Bac Ninh (Agenzia Fides) - In Vietnam, all pupils across the country have a 3-month summer vacation from June to August, and catechism classes are also on summer vacation. Therefore, catech ...
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  10 July 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Camillian Mission on the Island of Flores celebrates the feast of the Order's founder Maumere (Agenzia Fides) – The Camillian mission in Indonesia experiences the feast of Saint Camillus of Lellis, patron saint of the sick and healthcare workers and founder of the Order of the Sick, with great joy and g ...
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  9 July 2025
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Israeli settlers attacks threaten the Christian village of Taybeh Taybeh (Agenzia Fides) - "From that day on, they were determined to kill him. Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but withdrew from there to the region near the desert, to a town called Ephraim. There he stayed ...
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  9 July 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops address social issues and call for a shared commitment to fair wages and human dignity Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "We are aware of the difficult situation of workers in our country: the wages they receive are far below the minimum wage that allows them to provide for their needs and support their families," ...
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  9 July 2025
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The Catholic community at the Book Fair, an opportunity to proclaim the Gospel Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – This year too, the Catholic community of Hong Kong will take advantage of the upcoming Book Fair as an opportunity to proclaim the Gospel and bear witness to the newness of the Christian exp ...