Asia
16 October 2023
ASIA/CAMBODIA - Prayer for the reconciliation of the peoples of Israel and Palestine
Phnom Penh (Fides News Agency) - A heartfelt, sincere and deeply sympathetic prayer for the Holy Land goes up to God from tiny Cambodia, a country in Southeast Asia where about 20,000 Catholics live, 0.13 percent of the ...
14 October 2023
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Mission is a give and take: Korean missionaries in Japan and Filipino church members in Korea
Seoul (Fides News Agency) - Today, more than ever, the mission of evangelisation is based on a dynamic of give and take, as an exchange of gifts.This is also evident in the Catholic faith community in Korea, which today, ...
13 October 2023
ASIA/TAIWAN - Preparing for World Mission Sunday: Webinar on the Pope's message and "Missionary night"
Taipei (Fides News agency) - With a webinar in Chinese on Pope Francis' message for World Mission Sunday 2023, the National Directorate of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Taiwan aims with this unprecedented event to ...
12 October 2023
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Catholic Patriarchs of the Middle East Invite for Prayer and Call for Implementation of the International Resolutions of the United Nations
Rome (Fides News Agency) - The Catholic Patriarchs of the Middle East call on the sons and daughters of their Churches to "intensify prayers" to implore the Lord Jesus Christ to restore peace to the land where he himself ...
12 October 2023
ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian Christians stand with the suffering people in the Holy Land
Aleppo (Fides News Agency) - "We are close to the people who suffer from the violence and war in the Holy Land. We can only pray for peace. We unite ourselves spiritually and concretely with all the faithful who will cel ...
11 October 2023
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Death penalty is always a loss: civil society calls for abolition
Seoul (Fides News Agency) - While the Korean Ministry of Justice has transferred two death row inmates to Seoul Detention Center, where executions could be carried out for the first time in 26 years, numerous voices and ...
11 October 2023
ASIA/BAHRAIN - The seed of the Pontifical Mission Societies among the priests of the Apostolic Vicariate of North Arabia
Manama (Fides News Agency) - To promote the missionary spirit of priests who pastorally accompany the communities of foreign workers in the Arabian Peninsula was the main objective of a talk given by the Secretary Genera ...
10 October 2023
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic Communities Pray for Peace in Israel and Palestine
Manila (Fides News Agency) - Peace is the greatest good and a wound to peace, in the "body" that is humanity, causes pain and apprehension not only at the local level, but in the whole body, in the entire international c ...
10 October 2023
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Religions for Peace, Rabbis for Human Rights and Order of Malta Call for End to Escalation
Jerusalem (Fides News Agency) - "After the unprecedented terrorist attacks and the taking of hostages by Hamas, a military operation by the Israeli army is underway to fight terrorism and free the hostages. While we pray ...
9 October 2023
ASIA/MYANMAR - The Rosary and the Magnificat, "weapons" of the Burmese faithful in the midst of conflict
Mandalay ( Fides News Agency) - In churches in Mandalay, a city in north-central Myanmar, the Catholic faithful gather daily for the recitation of the Rosary prayer, thus celebrating the month of October, dedicated to Ou ...
9 October 2023
ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of Metropolitan Archbishop of Imphal
Vatican City ( Fides News Agency) - On Oct. 7, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Imphal (India) presented by Archbishop Dominic Lumon.
The Holy Father appo ...
8 October 2023
ASIA/ HOLY LAND - Gaza parish priest: no one knows what lies ahead
Gaza (Fides News Agency) - "No one knows what lies ahead, and unfortunately there are no signs that what started yesterday may end soon." Father Gabriel Romanelli, pastor of Gaza's Catholic parish dedicated to the Holy F ...
7 October 2023
ASIA/INDONESIA - What name for Jesus in the Indonesian language?
Jakarta (Fides News Agency) - The Indonesian government will no longer use, in Bahasa, Indonesia's national language, the term "Isa Al-Masih," a word of Arabic origin, to refer to Jesus Christ and Christian holidays. An ...
6 October 2023
ASIA/THAILAND - Immersed in nature, young people discover the deep meaning of "Laudate Deum"
Chiang Mai (Fides News Agency) - "Immersing ourselves in nature allows us to discover and learn many new things. We lived the 'Time of Creation,' inspired by Laudato si'. Now, with young university students in Northern T ...
5 October 2023
ASIA/INDIA - Five months after the start of violence in Manipur, a way forward is sought to start peace talks
Imphal ( Fides News Agency) - "The path to seek peace is a steep, difficult, impassable one," says Thomas Menamparampil, Archbishop Emeritus of Guwahati who, at the head of the "Manipur Interfaith Forum for Peace and Har ...
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