Asia

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  14 June 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Violence and poverty in a never-ending conflict Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar is the most violent place in the world, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED). The international, non-profit and independent organization collects, class ...
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  14 June 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Where does the great devotion of Chinese Catholics to the Sacred Heart of Jesus come from? by Marta Zhao Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - According to the "Guide to the Catholic Church in China" edited by the great French missionary Jean Charbonnier (1932-2023), there are over 200 parishes, churches and chap ...
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  13 June 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - "Smile and the world will smile at you": World Children's Day celebrated for the first time in Bahrain Awali (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 children of different nationalities took part in World Children's Day, celebrated for the first time in the Catholic community of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia. "It ...
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  13 June 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Fraternity and mercy, the words that express the meaning of the Pope's visit to Indonesia Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The importance of Pope Francis' visit to Indonesia will be marked by the two terms that will also be the leitmotif of his presence in the Asian archipelago: fraternity and mercy. This is what th ...
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  13 June 2024
  ASIA/IRAQ - Cardinal Sako returns to Baghdad: "We are not a Church of strangers" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "We are not a Church of strangers" because "we are the descendants of Abraham the Chaldean, the father of all believers" and "we are one of the colors of the beautiful Iraqi fabric that must be ...
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  12 June 2024
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi government recognizes Chaldean Patriarch Sako as responsible for the properties of the Chaldean Church Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - A decree signed by Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa al-Sudani "appoints" Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako as Patriarch of the Chaldean Church "in Iraq and in the world" and recognizes him as ...
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  12 June 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - More violence in Manipur: residents vote for opposition coalition Imphal (Agenzia Fides) - In the troubled state of Manipur, in north-east India, there are renewed signs of tension and violence. After the parliamentary elections and the inauguration of Narendra Modi, leader of the nati ...
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  12 June 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Belgian delegation led by Cardinal Jozef De Kesel visits mainland China Ulaan Chab (Agenzia Fides) - A five-member Belgian delegation led by Cardinal Jozef De Kesel, Archbishop Emeritus of Malines-Brussels and President of the Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation of Leuven is visiting China. The d ...
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  11 June 2024
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The legacy of Pope John XXIII shapes studies at the Academy in Vinh Vinh (Agenzia Fides) - Humility, goodness, listening, gentleness, attention to the "little ones" and the "last" must characterize the path of study and integral and missionary formation, in the sign of patience and in-de ...
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  11 June 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - “Open, inclusive, innovative, rational”. Chinese universities and scholars praise the philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas and publish the "Summa Theologiae" in Chinese Wuhan (Agenzia Fides) - "Openness, inclusiveness, innovation, rationality" and many other characteristics of the philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) were the focus of the "Fifth National Forum on Medieval Phil ...
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  10 June 2024
  ASIA/IRAQ - Ten years after the ISIS occupation: less than 50 Christian families have returned to Mosul by Gianni Valente Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Mosul, ten years later. It was June 10, 2014 when the jihadist militiamen of the Islamic State (IS) managed for the first time to raise their black flags in the second Iraqi ci ...
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  10 June 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Shamanism on social media has many young followers Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In a country known worldwide for its technological progress, shamanism is experiencing a rebirth among younger generations, promoted by social media. Although more than half of the country's 51 ...
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  10 June 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - The power of prayer and dialogue: young Bahrainis testify to a living Church at the International Youth Pastoral Congress Manama (Agenzia Fides) - "Participating in the global meeting of young people from all over the world and meeting Pope Francis has strengthened my faith in the power of prayer, dialogue, connection and the search for ins ...
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  8 June 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Obstacles to peace and that olive tree planted in the Vatican gardens by Father Ibrahim Faltas ofm* Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis wished to recall the June 8, 2014 meeting between the President of the Palestinian Authority Abu Mazen and President of the State of Israel Shimon ...
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  8 June 2024
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - A community linked to the memory of the martyrs Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - "We are a small Church that is still closely linked to the memory of the martyrs. Our young Cambodians are being trained in the seminary where the Cambodian Bishop Joseph Chmar Salas also liv ...