Asia

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  23 July 2018
  ASIA/JAPAN - Caritas: urges people to volunteer to help flood-affected survivors, while the heat wave hinders relief efforts Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Japan, organ of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Japan, has launched an appeal to find volunteers who are willing to work for relief and rehabilitation programme in the aftermath of mass ...
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  20 July 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: "A government is needed!" Beirut (Agenzia fides) - National appeals are repeated asking the Lebanese political forces to urgently form a government to allow the country to concentrate its efforts and allow it to face the economic and regional cha ...
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  19 July 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - "Come and see": Jesus' invitation inspires the first international convention of young Syriac Catholics Faytrun (Agenzia Fides) - The "method" used by Christ to draw men and women of all times to him is always what he used in his gatherings with the first apostles: "Come and see" (Jn 1, 39) . And the words of Jesus' invita ...
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  19 July 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - New Evangelization to remain rooted in Christ Manila (Agenzia Fides) - To provide a gripping experience of Jesus, a gripping experience of the community called the Church, and a gripping experience of the mission, the calling, motivated only by the love of Christ, a ...
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  18 July 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Fadi Iskander becomes a priest, son of Syriac Orthodox priest-martyr Boulos Iskander Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – To receive priestly ordination from the hands of the same bishop who had ordained his father many years before, killed in 2006 and celebrated as a martyr by Iraqi Christians, is what happened to ...
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  17 July 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Mufti of the Lebanese Republic: there is no Middle East without Christians of the East Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Middle East will no longer exist if the exodus of the Christians of the East continues to reduce the presence of those bearing the name of Christ in the Middle Eastern countries. The alarm wa ...
• 16 July 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Purwokerto Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 14 July the Holy Father appointed Rev. Christophorus Tri Harsono as Bishop of the diocese of Purwokerto (Indonesia), currently Vicar General of the diocese of Bogor. Rev. Christophorus ...
• 16 July 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Maumere and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 14 July the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Maumere (Indonesia), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Gerulfus Kherubim Pareira, S.V.D. The Holy Fathe ...
• 16 July 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Tiruchirapalli Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 14 July the Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Tiruchirapalli (India), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Antony Devotta. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 16/7 ...
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  14 July 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Camillian community celebrates the Patron Saint with the sick Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - The feast of St. Camillus de Lellis, patron saint of the sick, doctors, nurses and hospitals, is celebrated on July 14. The Camillian religious together with the universal Church commemorate thi ...
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  13 July 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Redemptorists: "It is urgent to combat violence and impunity" Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - "It is urgent to wake up and fight the culture of impunity and violence in the country": this is the appeal launched by the Redemptorists of the Philippines, on the occasion of the 33rd anniversary ...
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  12 July 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Over 50,000 signatures demanding the release of the 7 innocent Christians in Orissa Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - As the tenth anniversary of the attack on Christians which occurred in August 2008 in the Indian state of Orissa is approaching, an online signature campaign demanding the release of seven i ...
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  11 July 2018
  ASIA/THAILAND - Towards the 350th anniversary of the Apostolic Vicariate of Siam Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Almost 350 years have passed since the first Catholic mission in Siam began: to commemorate the imminent anniversary of the Apostolic Vicariate of Siam (Mission of Siam: 1669-2019), the Bishops' ...
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  11 July 2018
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: action must be taken to stop the ecological holocaust Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We are in a critical moment of human history. Faith without action is an empty faith, the Apostle James warns. All our pious convictions require real actions. Martin Luther King used to say: 'So ...
• 10 July 2018
  ASIA/INDIA Catholicosato di Echmiadzin per c (Agenzia Fides) – Continua la mobilitazione di gruppi di manifestanti armeni che lo scorso 6 luglio sono entrati nella Sede patriarcale del Catholicosato di Echmiadzin per chiedere le dimissioni di Karekin II, Patriar ...