Asia

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  3 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Marriage “without dowry” and birth support: Chinese Catholic communities face new challenges for families Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - In the People's Republic of China, complex social processes linked to modernity call into question the reality of everyday family life and leading to worrying consequences such as low birth ...
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  2 January 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Mission in the villages of the Mentawai Islands: traveling by canoe and on foot along dangerous paths Padang (Agenzia Fides) - "Love your neighbor as yourself, together we will enjoy what he has given us" sing the young people of the indigenous communities in the remote areas of the Mentawai Islands, west of Sumatra, one ...
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  2 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The first Apostolic Prefecture entrusted to the Chinese clergy celebrates its 100th anniversary Puqi (Agenzia Fides) - A hundred years ago, thanks to the persistent efforts of Archbishop Celso Costantini, the first Apostolic Delegate to China, the Apostolic Prefecture of Puqi in Hubei Province was founded with the ...
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  28 December 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - From Beijing to Inner Mongolia, a Christmas of faith and charity for Chinese Catholics Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - A Christmas of faith and charity was experienced by Catholic communities in all the provinces of the People's Republic of China. During vigils and solemn masses, prayers were said for peace and ...
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  28 December 2023
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Over twenty thousand participants from different ethnic groups, languages and rites at the Christmas Eve Mass Awali (Agenzia Fides) - "We come to Bethlehem grotto to present our needs and praises. We look for blessing and grace. The new born child will carry us to a radiant life and a new participation in the divine life." This ...
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  28 December 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - The legacy of mother Eliswa, a woman who worked for the emancipation and education of women in India by Sister Roobini Chinnappan Varapuzha (Agenzia Fides) - She was a woman who worked for other women in India, for social emancipation and for the elevation of their status and culture. At the head of a religious cong ...
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  23 December 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Camillian Missionaries await Christmas between pastoral service and visits to the elderly Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "Here in Flores everything happens in a fairly calm climate, there is a Christmas atmosphere with decorations and colorful lights that our Muslim friends also admire and are impressed", writes F ...
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  23 December 2023
  VATICAN - Pius XII, the Korean War, the West and that Christmas of 1951 by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas 1951, like now, the world was at war. At the time it was the Korean War. It began with the invasion of South Korea by the North Korean army (June 25, 1950). An immense ...
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  23 December 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - The readiness of Charity: at Christmas Time, Chinese Catholic communities help earthquake-affected people by Marta Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - In the days leading up to the celebration of Holy Christmas, marked in China by the effects of a devastating earthquake, Chinese Catholics promptly put into practice the commandm ...
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  22 December 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christmas Message of the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem: may the light of Jesus overcome the darkness of death that envelops the Holy Land Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the birth of Jesus arrives this year during a new time of calamity "in the land of our Lord’s birth". A time in which the horrors of war sow "inconsolable misery and sorro ...
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  22 December 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christmas for Christians freed from "slave labor" in Punjab Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - It is a Christmas full of praise and thanksgiving to God experienced by Catholic families who, in Pakistani Punjab, were freed from the condition of slavery to which they were forced, working ...
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  21 December 2023
  ASIA/JORDAN - King Abdullah II receives Christian and Muslim Leaders. Bishop Atallah: a new massacre of innocent people in Gaza Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Christians and Muslims must "stand united" in defending Holy Sites in Jerusalem, while the Hashemite Monarchy of Jordan will carry on with its role in safeguarding Islamic and Christian holy sites ...
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  21 December 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Eucharist and poverty: the Franciscans celebrate Christmas at Greccio Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - In the Philippines there is a vestige of the Rieti Valley, the "third homeland" of Saint Francis of Assisi (after Assisi and La Verna). The friars of the "Rieti House" in Quezon City, who manage th ...
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  21 December 2023
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - The Apostolic Vicar of North Arabia: "Christmas gift of love for the Catholic community" Awali (Agenzia Fides) - "Christmas is a celebration of joy, of peace. It is a time in which we recognize Jesus as the Son of God. It is essential for all of us to understand that Christmas is a gift of love, a gift that ...
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  20 December 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Bangladeshi Catholics among those in need Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - In the heart of Dhaka, the Catholic parish of Tejgaon radiates the true spirit of Advent, highlighting the importance of solidarity with those in need. In the metropolitan bustle of Dhaka, where d ...