Asia
6 May 2023
ASIA/CHINA - The Chinese Catholic communities continue their journey during the Marian month, between "Pilgrim Virgins" and the ordination of new priests
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - After the blessing in the Marian Shrine, the statues of Our Lady "made their way" to the deaneries of the province of Jiangxi. This "Visitation of Mary" initiative is based on the story of the v ...
5 May 2023
ASIA/CHINA - Year of Catechism in Xiamen, Eucharistic Congress in Thangsan. Doctrine and sacraments keep Chinese Catholics in their faith
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - A Chinese edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the great and rich official exposition of all catechesis and Catholic doctrine, compiled under the supervision of then-Cardinal Joseph ...
5 May 2023
ASIA/BANGLADESH - New parish of St. Joseph in the diocese of Jajshahi: bishop and parish priest remember Italian missionary
Rajshahi (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Rajshahi has a new parish: the parish of Saint Joseph in Bhutahara, located in a remote and tribal rural area in the northern part of the country. The inauguration of the new par ...
4 May 2023
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A new ecclesial service to support social cooperatives, a tool for development and the fight against poverty
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - With the aim of encouraging and supporting the creation and management of social cooperatives to accompany groups and communities living in extreme poverty on the path of food security and develo ...
4 May 2023
ASIA/JAPAN - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 8, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed the Rev. Joseph Naoki Momma, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Tokyo (for biog ...
3 May 2023
ASIA/TAIWAN - Appointment of Bishop of Tainan
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today the Holy Father Francis has appointed the Reverend Fr. John Baptist Huang Min-Cheng, O.F.M., until now director of the Centre for Franciscan Spirituality in Hsinchu, provincial counse ...
3 May 2023
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Church Statistics: Around 11.3% of Koreans are Catholics
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The number of Korean Catholics in the country's 16 dioceses is 5,949,862 in 2022, an increase of 0.2% (11,817) compared to the previous year.
According to data collected at the end of 2022, the ...
3 May 2023
ASIA/CHINA - Pilgrimages, processions, ordinations, rosaries in the neighborhood: the Marian month of Chinese Catholic communities has begun
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - New priestly ordinations, solemn Eucharistic celebrations, neighborhood processions, pilgrimages to shrines, rosaries prayed in small groups among neighbors, following the "method of the Visitat ...
3 May 2023
ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of Bishop of Nha Trang
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 1, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Joseph Huynh Van Sy, of the clergy of Quy Nhon, until now judicial vicar and rector of the Saint Joseph Seminary of Quy Nhon, ...
3 May 2023
ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of Bishop of Kottapuram
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 1, 2023, the Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Kottapuram, India, presented by Bishop Joseph Karikkassery. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 3/ ...
2 May 2023
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian woman and a Muslim man arrested for alleged blasphemy
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Musarat Bibi, an illiterate Christian woman, employed at the "Girls Higher Secondary School" in the city of Arif-Wala, in the Pakistani province of Punjab, was arrested together with a Muslim man ...
2 May 2023
ASIA/IRAQ - The Iraqi government launches data collection to create a digital "database" on Christian communities
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – in order to create a digital "database" on Iraqi Christians, which photographs their distribution in areas of the country, their level of education, professional skills, marital status, the nu ...
29 April 2023
ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop Stephen Chow: love for our country is part of the Catholic Church’s teachings
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Love for our country "is part of the Catholic Church’s teachings", and in the current situation experienced by Catholics in mainland China and Hong Kong it is proper and convenient to pray ...
28 April 2023
ASIA/CHINA - On the 10th anniversary of his death: Diocese of Shanghai commemorates Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian
Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - More than a thousand people filled the cathedral of the diocese of Shanghai yesterday to commemorate Jesuit bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian, who died ten years ago, on April 27, 2013.
During the s ...
27 April 2023
ASIA/CHINA - New priestly ordinations for Chinese dioceses on the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - From the diocese of Beijing to the dioceses of Wanxian (now Wanzhou), Sanyuan (in Shaanxi Province) and Jilin, Chinese Catholic communities welcomed six new priests ordained, as is customary, on ...
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