ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of coadjutor bishop of Aurangabad
Vatican City (Agenzi Fides) - The Holy Father appointed the Reverend Bernard Lancy Pinto, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Bombay, until now parish priest of Saint Michael and dean of the deanery of North Mumbai in In ...
5 January 2024
ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Jhabua
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 30, 2023, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Peter Rumal Kharadi, of the clergy of the diocese of Jhabua, India, until now diocesan administrator, as bishop of the same dioc ...
5 January 2024
ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Nashik
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 30, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Nashik, India, presented by Bishop Lourdnada Daniel.
The Holy Father has appointed B ...
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Peace and reconciliation invoked for the 1,400th time
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - It was March 7, 1995, when Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan (1922 - 2009), then Archbishop of Seoul and Apostolic Administrator of Pyongyang, launched the initiative to celebrate a special "Mass for ...
VATICAN - Pius XII, the Korean War, the West and that Christmas of 1951
by Gianni Valente
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas 1951, like now, the world was at war.
At the time it was the Korean War. It began with the invasion of South Korea by the North Korean army (June 25, 1950). An immense ...