Asia

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  1 June 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “Chain of Harmony”: Silsilah Movement launches prayer initiative Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - "In the forty years of the history of the Silsilah Movement, we can remember many events, some sad, others joyful, but they challenged us to move forward and keep going. One of these painful m ...
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  31 May 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Cyclone Remal: human cost is very high Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The human cost is very high, there are obstacles to transport and delays in medical care. More than 700 pregnant women in Patuakhali district are struggling to reach the main health services for ...
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  30 May 2024
  ASIA/KUWAIT - The journey of faith of the Malabar Catholic community among the 'basements' of Little Kerala by Antonella Prenna Abbasiya (Agenzia Fides) – Jilīb is one of the oldest and most populated neighborhoods in Kuwait, divided into five blocks. Of these, block 4 is also known as ʿAbbāsīya. Here is the parish de ...
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  29 May 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - In Xiamen Bishops and scholars from Taiwan and mainland China meet to "walk together" in a Seminar dedicated to inculturation Xiamen (Agenzia Fides) - "Walking together in love, hand in hand": is the title of the Seminar on inculturation held jointly by Bishops and scholars of the Church of Taiwan and the Church of mainland China. The seminar w ...
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  28 May 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies on the election: “The voice of an opposition is needed for democracy to remain alive” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - As India approaches the end of the long process of electing the 543 members of the Lower House (in seven rounds of voting between April 19 and June 1, with the final results on June 4) "we have not ...
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  27 May 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Shen Bin celebrates the solemn liturgies on the feasts of Mary Help of Christians and the Most Holy Trinity Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - "The Most Holy Trinity is always harmonious. I encourage you to reflect in your lives the harmony that reigns in the Most Holy Trinity and to go out of yourselves to share with others and with ...
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  27 May 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Attack following blasphemy allegations: Police arrest 44 people in connection with mass violence Sargodha (Agenzia Fides) - Pakistani police have charged and arrested 44 people in connection with mass violence against a Christian. The Christian, who lived in Mujahid Colony in Sargodha, a city in Pakistan's Punjab pr ...
• 27 May 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Ende Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 25, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Fr. Paulus Budi Kleden, S.V.D., until now superior general of the Society of the Divine Word (S.V.D.) (Verbites), as metropolitan archbisho ...
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  25 May 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Nine months after the violence against Christians, work is underway to restore harmony and rehabilitate families Jaranwala (Agenzia Fides) - Nine months after the mass violence that destroyed the Christian neighborhood of Jaranwala, a town in the Pakistani province of Punjab, "there is still a certain level of hostility in the area ...
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  24 May 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Marian devotion: Catholics' love for the rosary Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Vincent Costa suddenly fell ill. Due to the effects of a heart attack, he was no longer able to walk properly. The 55-year-old man tells Fides: "I was shocked and sad. I did not know what to do. I ...
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  23 May 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Young Indonesians, between memory and justice Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Coming to terms with the past and the search for justice in light of the events of the past are issues that are mainly addressed by young Indonesians, but could also pose new challenges for the ...
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  22 May 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Rohingya refugees seriously threatened: In the crossfire between the Burmese armed forces and the Arakan Army Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The existence of Rohingya refugees is seriously threatened: this is the warning from sixteen Rohingya organizations and various non-governmental organizations from all over the world that fight f ...
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  20 May 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - One year after the outbreak of violence: Ethnic division in Manipur Imphal (Agenzia Fides) - There is no solution in sight to the deep ethnic divide in the Indian state of Manipur, in northeastern India, devastated by the inter-ethnic violence that erupted in May 2023. The riots between ...
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  18 May 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The "City of Mary" in Mariamabad, a new home for the Virgin Mary Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Our Lord of Mercy, venerated in Mariamabad in the Archdiocese of Lahore, will have a new "Grotto of the Virgin Mary" where the faithful can pray in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary, inspire ...
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  18 May 2024
  ASIA/BAHARAIN - Families and children: the heart of Bahrain's rapidly growing Syro-Malankar Catholic community By Antonella Prenna Manama (Agenzia Fides) - "More than 1,000 believers, including a hundred young people and 100 catechism students, form the heart of the Syro-Malankara Catholic community in Bahrain. It is one of t ...