Asia

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  12 April 2024
  ASIA/KUWAIT - "Bride who adorns herself with her jewels". The six rites that make the Catholic Church in Kuwait vibrant by Antonella Prenna Kuwait City (Agenzia Fides) - Maronite, Coptic Catholic, Syro Malabar, Syro Malankara, Melkite and Latin are the six rites that bring together in one large Church the varied Catholic community of ...
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  11 April 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - Bishop Berndt: "We learn peace and non-violence from the people in Okinawa" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We learn peace and non-violence from the people of Okinawa. These gentle people give us the Gospel, they give us a completely Franciscan value such as that of peace, both internally and in ...
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  11 April 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Generous participation of Chinese Catholic communities in the 2024 "National Collection" to support relief initiatives in emergency situations Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - As in the past eight years, this year, at the end of the Lenten season many Chinese Catholics took part in the National Collection Day, an initiative promoted by Jinde Charites, the organiz ...
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  10 April 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - The face of the Japanese Catholic Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the ad limina visit of the Bishops of Japan, Fides publishes some figures and information about the Catholic Church in Japan. The Catholic Church in Japan today has 419 ...
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  9 April 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Cardinal Raï, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites calls for calm after the murder of a member of the Lebanese Forces Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Condemnation for the barbaric murder and a strong appeal for "calm and moderation in this delicate and tense political, security and social situation". This is what the Maronite patriarch, Cardin ...
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  9 April 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - 470 baptisms in Shanghai, consecration of a new church in Wenling: an Easter full of fruits of faith Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 470 baptisms were celebrated in the diocese of Shanghai during the Easter Vigil. In the other Catholic dioceses of China, a precious flourishing of the gift of faith was also recorde ...
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  9 April 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - Among the "treasures of faith", the experience of Blessed Angelo Orsucci, missionary in Japan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Among the "treasures of faith" presented by the traveling exhibition "Thesaurum fidei: Missionary martyrs and hidden Christians in Japan. Three hundred years of heroic fidelity to Christ", ...
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  9 April 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Father Ibrahim Faltas: War also darkens the future of Christians in the Land of Jesus Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - If you want to see Hell - said the Syrian Bishop Jacques Mourad at the beginning of the last war in Gaza - today you have to go to the Holy Land, where the massacres of innocents have turned i ...
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  8 April 2024
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The feast at the end of Ramadan lived "in the authentic spirit of Easter, to celebrate a dawn of peace and fraternity" Miri (Agenzia Fides) - In Miri, a Malaysian city in the province of Sarawak (in Malaysian Borneo), less than 100 meters away are the "Masjid An Naim" mosque and the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd. There is mutual h ...
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  8 April 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - 'Money, money, money'. The reasons for conflicts and the arms race according to missionary Archbishop, Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi by Victor Gaetan* Archbishop Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi, age 65, holds a startling number of key positions, yet he’s calm as a church usher. President of Caritas Internationalis, Secretary General of the Federation ...
• 6 April 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Goa and Damão Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Simiao Purificaçao Fernandes of the clergy of Goa and Damão, India, until now director of the Saint Pius X Pastoral Institute, as auxiliary bish ...
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  6 April 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic Church calls for protection of the rights of indigenous peoples on the island of Boracay Boracay (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops and movements call on the State Human Rights Commission of the Philippines to protect the indigenous Ati communities on the island of Boracay, a tourist paradise in the Phil ...
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  6 April 2024
  ASIA/ HOLY LAND - Father Neuhaus: amid Gaza rubble, Christians proclaim that Christ is risen by Gianni Valente Jerusalem (Fides News Agency) - In Palestine and Israel, in 6 months of war, «it is shameful that no one has been able to call the warmongers to account». Jesuits write this words in the statement ...
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  5 April 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Rohingya under pressure: imprisoned, without citizenship, but forced to join the Burmese army Sittwe (Agenzia Fides) - In order to replenish its ranks, decimated by combat losses, the Myanmar army is resorting to the forced recruitment of young men from the Rohingya people and sending them to the front in the fig ...
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  4 April 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Parliamentary elections: the Church questions the political parties Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church believes that the purpose of politics is to promote human dignity and achieve the common good and that, by exercising its mission among men, it can "pass moral judgment in thos ...