Asia

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  23 February 2024
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Cardinal Marengo: “Lent is about prayer and reconciliation” Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - "Our small Catholic community in Mongolia is experiencing this season of Lent with great intensity. The nine parish communities have launched their pastoral and spiritual programs. We have t ...
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  22 February 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Ecumenical WCAL-Group: "Unbearable atrocities" waged against Palestinians in Gaza Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - In Gaza and other parts of Palestine there are "unbearable and inhuman atrocities" waged against Palestinians. Atrocities resulting "in a death toll surpassing 28,000 civilians, with over two-thi ...
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  21 February 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “Popular Mission”: Action week aims to promote priestly and religious vocations Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - The vocation crisis has also become an acute problem for the Asian churches, where so many young people have recently chosen priestly and religious life. In the Philippines, church communities are ...
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  20 February 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - The synod with the outcasts Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The "outcasts", known as Dalits or "casteless", are those excluded from Indian society, marginalized by a caste system rooted for thousand of years. Although the Constitution has formally abol ...
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  20 February 2024
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako, message to the Chaldeans: Iraqi Christians are also infected by sectarianism Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Sectarianism is destroying the sense of belonging of the Iraqi nation, and even Christians are are "drawn into these sectarian logics and its divisions". For them, a fragile minority community, th ...
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  19 February 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Possible introduction of compulsory military service leads to young people fleeing Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - There is great concern in Burmese society, especially among young men and women, after the ruling military junta declared its intention to introduce military service as "conscription", without gi ...
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  19 February 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Camillians on the island of Flores: “It is not good for man to be alone” Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "They are like a big family with 'one heart, one soul and one spirit' that cares for those who suffer and feel alone. This is the special quality that characterizes the group of young Camillians ...
• 17 February 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Khammam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Prakash Sagili of the clergy of Cuddapah, until now parish priest of Saint John Bosco in Chittor and coordinator of the CCBI Health Apostolate, as ...
• 17 February 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Khandwa, Augustine Madathikunnel Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Augustine Madathikunnel, until now administrator of the diocese of Khandwa, India, as bishop of the same diocese. Msgr. Augustine Madathikunnel w ...
• 17 February 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Nalgonda Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Karnam Dhaman Kumar, M.S.F.S. (Missionaries of Saint Francis de Sales d’Annecy), until now parish priest of S. Bartolomäus in Münster and ...
• 17 February 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Purnea Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Francis Tirkey, of the clergy of the diocese of Purnea, India, until now director of the Social Service Centre of Purnea, as bishop of the same di ...
• 17 February 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of Bishop of Indore Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Indore, India, presented by Bishop Chacko Thottumarickal, S.V.D. The Holy Father has appointed the Rev ...
• 17 February 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of bishop of Aurangabad Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Aurangabad, India, presented by Bishop Ambrose Rebello. (Agenzia Fides, 17/2/2024) ...
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  17 February 2024
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Year of Prayer: Praying like “Jesus, Mary and the Magi” Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - "To prepare for the Holy Year, a year of the Lord's mercy, we should take time for prayer. Prayer is the basis of all things, the basis of conversion, the basis of our calling through list ...
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  16 February 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian declared innocent after blasphemy accusations Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - Social and religious tensions in the Faisalabad region of Pakistan's Punjab province have calmed after Christian Younis Masih, accused of blasphemy, was declared innocent, acquitted of the ch ...