Asia

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  29 April 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Kashmir: Catholics pray for peace between India and Pakistan Jammu (Fides Agency) - “The Catholic faithful of Kashmir are praying incessantly for peace in Kashmir. They pray in churches and homes. And they are marching the streets alongside other people of good will, carrying li ...
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  28 April 2025
  ASIA - “We must go to Asia.” What prompted Pope Francis to look East? by Paolo Affatato (Fides Agency) - Universality, inculturation, mercy, and reference to the Sacraments: throughout his pontificate, Pope Francis has recognized in the dynamic spread and living of the Gospel in Asian c ...
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  28 April 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Tension between India and Pakistan after attack in Kashmir: a Catholic among the victims Srinagar (Fides Agency) - The Parliament of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir passed a resolution today, April 28, expressing its dismay at the terrorist attack on April 22 in Pahalgam (Kashmir), which killed 26 peop ...
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  25 April 2025
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - “Humility, courage, justice, and love. Pope Francis has been a tireless messenger of peace” by Aldo Berardi*, O.SS.T. Manama (Fides Agency) - How can we begin to describe the life of this extraordinary pastor? Letters are pouring in from all over the world praising his witness: a witness of humility, courage ...
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  25 April 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The nation remembers Pope Francis with gratitude, “a man of peace and reconciliation” Loikaw (Fides Agency) - In a refugee camp in Kayah State, in the Diocese of Loikaw - one of the areas affected by the ongoing civil war in Myanmar - Catholic faithful gathered for a prayer vigil according to the traditio ...
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  25 April 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Xinhua News Agency: The Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the “Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Church in China” have sent a message of condolence to the Vatican on the death of Pope Francis Beijing (Fides Agency) - “Yi Hui Yi Tuan” - literally “One Association and One Conference,” a formula used to refer to the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the “Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Chu ...
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  25 April 2025
  ASIA/THAILAND - Sister Elizabete Ferreira de Souza on Missionary Childhood: “I try not to disturb the Lord's work” Chiang Rai (Fides Agency) - “What St. John Paul II repeatedly emphasised, especially on the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood, is true: the cooperation of children in e ...
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  24 April 2025
  Pope Francis and his “beloved tormented Syria” by Jacques Mourad* Homs (Fides Agency) - We have been celebrating Mass for Pope Francis every day since he went to heaven. We do this to remember him and pray for his soul. He was a person who chose to live humbly, ...
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  24 April 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Announcement on the website of the “Catholic Church in China” and the Patriotic Association: “Pope Francis has returned to the Father's house” Beijing (Fides Agency) - “Pope Francis returned to the Father's House on April 21, 2025, at 7:35 a.m. in the Residence of Santa Marta, at the age of 88. We pray that, thanks to God's mercy, Pope Francis may enjoy etern ...
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  24 April 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Young Cambodians attracted to Jesus were baptised during Easter Vigil Phnom Penh (Fides Agency) - “There are many non-Christians who, driven by curiosity or desire, attend our churches every Sunday. And among them, there are those who ask to begin the journey of preparation for baptism,� ...
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  24 April 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Minister of Religious Affairs, former imam of Istiqlal Mosque: “Francis, one of my dearest friends” Jakarta (Agence Fides) - The photo of the Grand Imam of the Istiqlal Mosque, Nasaruddin Umar, bending down to tenderly kiss the head of Pope Francis in his wheelchair - during his trip to Indonesia in September 2024 - is ...
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  23 April 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim leaders: “Francis, a vibrant voice of peace and brotherhood” Lahore (Fides Agency) - “Pope Francis has always been a vibrant voice of peace, brotherhood, and unity,” said Muslim and Christian leaders during a special prayer meeting organized on April 22 by Father Asif Sardar, ...
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  23 April 2025
  “For me, Pope Francis has been a father who listens” by Louis Raphael Sako* Baghdad (Fides Agency) - Pope Francis was a phenomenon. I have known other Popes, but Francis was different. His simplicity, spontaneity, humanity, and spirituality were very moving to me. ...
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  22 April 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Masses and vigils: Indonesian Catholic community unites in prayer for Pope Francis by Father Luigi Galvani M.I.* Jakarta (Fides Agency) - The news of Pope Francis' death has caused deep emotion among Indonesian Catholics, who remember him with affection and gratitude for his pastoral commitment and ...
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  21 April 2025
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Father Faltas remembers Pope Francis: The power of meekness, the courage of Love by Father Ibrahim Faltas ofm* Jerusalem ( Fides Agency) - We were in Emmaus when Pope Francis left us. We were remembering the living presence of the Risen One when the Holy Father joined him. The news of his death le ...