Asia

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  13 January 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Joseph Shen Bin administers the sacrament of baptism to 54 new Catholics at the beginning of the Jubilee Year Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - The Jubilee Year 2025 begins in the Diocese of Shanghai with the reception of 54 newly baptized people who received the sacrament of baptism on Sunday 12 January, the Feast of the Baptism of th ...
• 11 January 2025
  ASIA/THAILANDIA - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Bangkok Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Francis Xavier Vira Arpondratana, until now bishop of Chiang Mai and apostolic administrator of Bangkok, as metropolitan archbishop of Bangkok, Thailand ...
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  11 January 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Jubilee with the inmates of the vocational training center, in the name of Saint Joseph and Mary Suwon (Agenzia Fides) - The Jubilee of 2025 is also celebrated in prisons. The Detention Center for Vocational Training in the city of Hwaseong celebrated the beginning of the Jubilee in recent days with a blessing cerem ...
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  10 January 2025
  ASIA/LEBANON - General Aoun elected President. Father Zgheib: "positive neutrality" is now the key formula Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - General Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese army since 2017, has been elected President of the Republic, a position that had been vacant for more than two years. He succeeds Michel Aoun, who a ...
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  10 January 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Bringing hope to the poor": the Jubilee of Hope among brick kiln workers Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A place of suffering and death can become a place of life and hope. In this spirit, the Jubilee Year 2025 began for the people of Kot Radha Kishan, in the Pakistani province of Punjab, a place wh ...
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  10 January 2025
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Churches chosen for Jubilee 2025: a shrine for pilgrims of hope Manama (Agenzia Fides) - The Jubilee churches and Cathedrals of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia (AVONA) are ready to welcome all those who seek inspiration, healing and a new sense of belonging: the Cathedral ...
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  9 January 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholic communities help the earthquake-stricken populations of Tibet, in the spirit of the “Jubilee of Hope” Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - More than 120 dead, almost 200 injured, 50 thousand displaced, tens of thousands of homes destroyed or damaged. This is the preliminary toll of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Dingri co ...
• 9 January 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "May the Jubilee Year be a year of reconciliation and resettlement of displaced persons" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Over 600 members of the various Christian denominations in Myanmar gathered in Yangon for a celebration and dinner to celebrate Christmas and to express their best wishes for the New Year, togeth ...
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  8 January 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Archbishop of Seoul celebrates Mass for Catholic parliamentarians in the chapel of the National Assembly: Focus on the common good Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Focus on the common good is what Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-taick of Seoul asks the Catholic parliamentarians of South Korea to do, a country where in the last four weeks the political elite has ...
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  3 January 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Sister Esther, North Korean youth and the (silent) work for reconciliation by Pascale Rizk Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - It was a "December horribilis” for South Korea. Amidst political turmoil and lives lost in the latest plane crash, the clouds of sadness and pain do not seem to leave the sky ...
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  2 January 2025
  ASIA/SYRIA - Orthodox Patriarch Yohanna X extends his hand to Syria's new political leaders: "our Cross will remain embracing the Crescent of tolerance" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "We extend our hand to work with you to build the new Syria, and we are waiting for Mr. Al-Sharaa and his new administration to stretch out their hand to us in turn", said Yohanna X, Greek-Orth ...
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  1 January 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Christ was born of a woman and is one of us. For this reason, he is able to save us Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Christ Jesus "was born of a woman and is one of us. For this reason, he is able to save us". On the day when the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Mary, the Most Holy Mother of God, Pope F ...
• 1 January 2025
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Resignation and succession of the Bishop of Cân Tho Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Cân Tho (Vietnam), presented by His Exc. Msgr. Stephanus Tri Buu Thiên. He is succeeded by His Exc ...
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  31 December 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - "Let the doors of all churches be open to all": Chinese Catholic communities begin the Jubilee of Hope with enthusiasm by Marta Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The evening of Saturday 28 December marked the official beginning of the Jubilee Year in the Diocese of Beijing. Priests, nuns and numerous lay people gathered in front of the p ...
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  29 December 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The Jubilee of Hope has also begun in Shanghai Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - With a solemn procession behind the Cross, the public reading of the papal Bull proclaiming the Jubilee, and the community recitation of the Jubilee prayer, the Chinese Catholic communities hav ...