Asia
27 March 2023
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Displaced families and the urban poor: the solidarity commitment of Catholic communities
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - About 300 displaced families have lost their homes because, in recent days, the Department of Public Works of MetroManila has started the demolition of illegally built housing structures in the c ...
27 March 2023
ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of coadjutor bishop of Cân Tho, Peter Le Tan Loi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 25, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Peter Le Tan Loi, of the clergy of Cân Tho, Viêt Nam, until now professor and dean of studies in the Saint Pierre Doan Co ...
27 March 2023
ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of bishop of Phât Diêm, Peter Kieu Cong Tung
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 25, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Peter Kieu Cong Tung, of the clergy of Thành-Phô Hô Chí Minh, Hôchiminh Ville, until now chancellor and lecturer at Sa ...
27 March 2023
ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of bishop of Hà Tinh, Louis Nguyên Anh Tuán
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 25, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed Bishop Louis Nguyên Anh Tuán, until now titular of Catrum and auxiliary of the archdiocese of Thành-Phô Hô Chi Minh, Hôchiminh Vil ...
27 March 2023
ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Poona
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 25, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Poona, India, presented by Bishop Thomas Dabre.
The Holy Father has appointed Bishop J ...
25 March 2023
ASIA/LEBANON - Annunciation, national holiday. Lebanese Christians and Muslims together invoke Mary in the country besieged by the crisis
Kornet Chehwan (Agenzia Fides) - In a Lebanon shaken by a devastating economic crisis and yet another paralysis of the political system, on the Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord Christians and Muslims are once again ...
25 March 2023
ASIA/TAIWAN - Sisters on a Lenten "pilgrimage/retreat". To give thanks for Creation and remember their founder
Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - A pilgrimage is like "a spiritual retreat in motion". For this reason, the Taiwanese community of the Missionary Sisters of the Congregation of the Sacred Side and of Our Lady of Sorrows has chos ...
24 March 2023
ASIA/CHINA - Free medical care and scholarships for children from poor families: Charity Lent led by Chinese Catholic communities
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Throughout the world, prayer, fasting and almsgiving are the good works that the Catholic Church recommends and offers to her sons and daughters during Lent, the time of penance that precedes th ...
23 March 2023
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Parliamentary elections, the ruling party reduces its membership
Astana (Agenzia Fides) - "Starting from the downsizing of the Party that has always been in power, there are signs of great movements in the political field in Kazakhstan. There remains, in society, the question of the l ...
22 March 2023
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Message from the "Silsilah" movement for Ramadan: rediscovering spiritual values together
Zamboanga city (Agenzia Fides) - The Muslim faithful in the Philippines, an Asian nation with a strong Catholic majority where there is a Muslim community of about six million souls, concentrated in the south of the arch ...
21 March 2023
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Sacrament of Confession 24 hours a day
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - It will be a place always open, where the mercy of God is ready to welcome the faithful 24 hours a day: this is the new chapel of Divine Mercy, whose construction has been launched for Lent 2023 ...
21 March 2023
PAKISTAN - Sacrificing one's life to save the lives of others: the simple and strong faith of young Akash
by Stefano Lodigiani
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We do not need and do not want civil war. We Christians are men of peace. Do not let pain cloud our gaze: may it always be the gaze of Christ and of his Gospel. What futu ...
20 March 2023
ASIA/CHINA - Two nuns from China's first indigenous female religious congregation take 'perpetual vows'
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Two sisters of the Congregation of Saint Joseph of the Archdiocese of Beijing made their final vows today, March 20, on the occasion of the liturgical feast dedicated to the Solemnity of Saint J ...
20 March 2023
ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Joseph Han: in 20 years of episcopate, I have seen how the Lord takes care of His Church
by Joseph Han Zhi-hai,
Bishop of Lanzhou*
Lanzhou (Agenzia Fides) - To Fides: May the peace of the Lord always be with you all! I greet you on behalf of a bishop from the far west of China and I thank you for your ...
18 March 2023
ASIA/MALAYSIA - More than 1,600 catechumens on their way to baptism on Easter night
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 852 catechumens are preparing spiritually to receive the sacrament of baptism during the Easter Vigil on April 8, 2023, considering only the Catholic communities of Peninsular Ma ...
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