Asia

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  7 March 2025
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The country is heading towards elections. The Archbishop of Dhaka: the important thing is to build a democratic, secular and inclusive nation Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) – While Muhammad Yunus, head of the interim executive of Bangladesh, mentions the possibility of “new elections” – still without a confirmed date but scheduled for late 2024 or early 2025 � ...
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  7 March 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholics pray for the recovery of Pope Francis Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - Chinese Catholics are living the Lenten period of the Jubilee Year with spiritual meditations that also consider the frailties linked to old age and illness in the light of Christian hope, find ...
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  6 March 2025
  ASIA/HONG KONG - PIME missionary Giosuè Bonzi leaves Hong Kong: Sixty years of commitment to people with disabilities Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Father Giosuè Bonzi of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), an Italian missionary from Bergamo, has left Hong Kong and his physically and mentally disabled children and young ...
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  6 March 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bangsamoro: dialogue initiatives to counter the increase in violence in the Muslim region Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - The increase in violence in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), in the south of the Philippines, is a factor that worries society, public opinion and religious le ...
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  5 March 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - In Kachin State: Catholic pastoral center bombed Banmaw (Agenzia Fides) - The pastoral center on the grounds of the Catholic Church of St. Michael in Nan Hlaing, in a rural area of the diocese of Banmaw (northern Myanmar), was hit and destroyed by a bombing raid by the ...
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  4 March 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Apostolic Prefect Figaredo: a border wall is not the solution to the fight against human trafficking Battambang (Agenzia Fides) - The Thai government has announced that it will study the feasibility of building a wall along the border with Cambodia to prevent illegal border crossings. According to the Bangkok government ...
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  4 March 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - The Bishops of Shanghai and Hong Kong pray together for the Pope's health at the Marian Shrine of Sheshan Sheshan (Agenzia Fides) – “I was here with Bishop Joseph Shen Bin to pray for Pope Francis.” With these words, Cardinal Stephen Chow Sau-yan, Bishop of Hong Kong, describes the central moment of his recent visit to ...
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  4 March 2025
  ASIA/KUWAIT - Workshops and Seminars in the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia: "Women Pilgrims of Hope in a Synodal Church" Kuwait City (Agenzia Fides) – The AVONA Women's Program (AWP) in the Vicariate of Northern Arabia continues its mission in Kuwait with a conference and workshop held in four parishes: Our Lady of Arabia in Ahmadi, St ...
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  3 March 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Lent in the Catholic community in Beijing: a daily work of charity Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The parish of the Cathedral of the Diocese of Beijing invites the Catholic faithful, as "pilgrims of hope" in the Holy Year, to a "daily work of charity for the entire Lent (from March 5 to Apri ...
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  3 March 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Bangalore, the Eucharist chapel desecrated: monstrance with the consecrated host stolen Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Last weekend, numerous Catholic faithful took part in prayers of reparation in the churches of Bangalore, the capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka, after the desecration of the Eu ...
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  3 March 2025
  ASIA/THAILAND - Apostles among Burmese refugees, the Capuchin Friars bring food and spiritual comfort Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - In the Thai parish of Mae Teng, in the diocese of Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, 350 Burmese Catholics belonging to the Kayaw, Kayah and Kayan tribes have found refuge. In recent days, the ...
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  1 March 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Three priests go on a mission and the Pope's blessing for the "Korea Mission Society" on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its foundation Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The work of missionaries is an action that "touches hearts and leads to a deeper encounter with Jesus Christ". This is the wish that Pope Francis, hospitalized at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome for ...
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  1 March 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Contemplation and apostolate in Kalimantan: the Jubilee of the Augustinian Sisters of Divine Mercy Ketapang (Agenzia Fides) - Their monastery is a place of prayer and spirituality, immersed in the green lungs of the rainforest. The Augustinian Sisters in the province of West Kalimantan have always considered prayer as ...
• 1 March 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Ajmer Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend John Carvalho, of the clergy of the diocese of Ajmer, India, until now head of Saint Paul’s Sr. Sec. School in Ajmer, as bishop of the same dioc ...
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  28 February 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Fertility rate reverses trend: Church community works to restore hope Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The number of newborns and the fertility rate in South Korea are bucking the trend and rising for the first time in nine years of steady decline. According to the 2024 demographic trends, data rel ...