Asia

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  12 January 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Embracing diversity and celebrating unity in a single spirit: Family Day celebrated in the Cathedral Awali (Agenzia Fides) - Today, January 12, 2024, the Church in Bahrain celebrates the Patronal Feast of Our Lady of Arabia and Family Day. "This is one of the most important events that takes place on the grounds of the ...
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  11 January 2024
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - A year of prayer and blessing among the faithful of Borneo, in preparation for the Jubilee Sibu (Agenzia Fides) - Being diligent in listening to the Word of God and in prayer and, filled with God's grace, being a blessing for others: this is the mission of the baptized in the diocese of Sibu, in the Malaysian ...
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  10 January 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Church services in the forest and help for refugees: Priests are close to the people Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - Two years of civil war, which has gradually intensified, have shaped the face and pastoral approach of priests, consecrated persons, catechists and pastoral workers in many dioceses of Myanmar, e ...
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  9 January 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Make me an instrument of your peace”: Catholics in the North and South recite the prayer for reconciliation together Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - As the world looks with concern at the political and military tensions between North and South Korea that have increased in recent days, the Catholic faithful gathered today in Seoul and Pyongyang ...
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  9 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - New churches to bear witness to Christ in the new Churches in neighborhoods and Suburbs of Chinese metropolises Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – The new church dedicated to St. John, just inaugurated in Beijing, well represents the concern with which Chinese Catholic communities work to bear witness to Jesus even in the heart of the ne ...
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  8 January 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Awami League wins elections; a Rohingya integration plan is urgently needed Chittagong (Agenzia Fides) - "For about six years, Bangladesh has welcomed more than a million Rohingyas. These displaced people found refuge in the camps of Cox's Bazar but, six years after the exodus, no lasting soluti ...
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  8 January 2024
  ASIA/QATAR - A sign of hope and unity for the Catholic community celebrated in the first Christian place of worship in the Country Doha (Agenzia Fides) - "The solemn Mass celebrated by the Catholic Church in Qatar on January 1, 2024 is intended to be a sign of hope and unity for the Catholic community, bringing together people of different ethnic gr ...
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  5 January 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - "The secular politics of the Awami League is the key to popular consensus", notes a priest on the eve of the vote Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her party, the Awami League, seem to enjoy broad popular support." This is what Father Redon Robert Hadima, a Bangladeshi priest, involved in the field of ...
• 5 January 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of coadjutor bishop of Aurangabad Vatican City (Agenzi Fides) - The Holy Father appointed the Reverend Bernard Lancy Pinto, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Bombay, until now parish priest of Saint Michael and dean of the deanery of North Mumbai in In ...
• 5 January 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Jhabua Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 30, 2023, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Peter Rumal Kharadi, of the clergy of the diocese of Jhabua, India, until now diocesan administrator, as bishop of the same dioc ...
• 5 January 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Nashik Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 30, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Nashik, India, presented by Bishop Lourdnada Daniel. The Holy Father has appointed B ...
• 5 January 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Ranchi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 30, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Ranchi, India, presented by Archbishop Felix Toppo, S.J. The Holy Father has app ...
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  4 January 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Manifesto" in view of the elections: Christians and Muslims for a society without discrimination Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - To promote and build a society in which cultural, ethnic and religious discrimination is eliminated both in the general mentality and - as is still the case - in the legislation and practice of s ...
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  4 January 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite bishops sound the alarm: escalation of war has already affected Lebanon Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The escalation of the war in the Middle East has hit Lebanon, exacerbating the risks of worsening a situation that has already become a kind of "time bomb" due to the presence of more than a mill ...
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  3 January 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Peace and reconciliation invoked for the 1,400th time Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - It was March 7, 1995, when Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan (1922 - 2009), then Archbishop of Seoul and Apostolic Administrator of Pyongyang, launched the initiative to celebrate a special "Mass for ...