Asia

• 3 March 2026
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of Tabuk Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Pope Leo XIV has appointed Father Sean Buslig Mejia, of the clergy of the same Vicariate, as Apostolic Vicar of the Apostolic Vicariate of Tabuk, currently Pro-Vicar of the same Vicariate ...
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  3 March 2026
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The country is on the path to recovery after Cyclone Ditwah: "There is trust, there is unity" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The country is recovering from the disaster of Cyclone Ditwah, which struck us in December 2025. I see that people are gradually getting back on their feet. The government continues to support ...
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  3 March 2026
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Apostolaic Vicar, Bishop Aldo Berardi: “We are opening churches in Kuwait and Bahrain for personal prayer” Manama (Agenzia Fides) – “Yesterday was another long night. There was also a thunderstorm, and it was difficult to tell whether the rumbles we heard were thunder or drones,” the Italian Embassy in Bahrain told Fide ...
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  2 March 2026
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - “The Lion's Roar”: Bishop Martinelli invites everyone to pray the Rosary every day for the gift of peace Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) – Just hours after the start of the US and Israeli attack on Iran, which began on the morning of Saturday, February 28, Bishop Paolo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia, issued an a ...
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  2 March 2026
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians and Muslims pray for peace during Lent and Ramadan Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – “Our meeting as Christian and Muslim leaders, as we observe this special time of Lent and Ramadan, is intended as a sign of peace and unity, especially amidst the war between Afghanistan and ...
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  2 March 2026
  ASIA/KUWAIT - "The Lion's Roar," Apostolic Nuncio Nugent: "The situation is serious and worsens day by day" Kuwait City (Agenzia Fides) - The situation is serious and worsens day by day. Last night, the American Embassy here in Kuwait was hit by a drone; fortunately, there were no casualties. Furthermore, two US military aircr ...
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  28 February 2026
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Explosions in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar. "Churches closed, all activities suspended," the Apostolic Vicar of Northern Arabia asks for prayers for peace Awali (Agenzia Fides) – “At the moment, we don’t know much; we have suspended all activities. I have invited the priests of the Vicariate to gather this evening at 7:00 p.m. local time for a Mass for Peace,” Bis ...
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  28 February 2026
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Mineral water, ice cream, pizza: three "San Camillo Dreams" come true by Luigi Galvani* Kupang (Agenzia Fides) – Among the many dreams that fill a missionary's heart are those of conversions, vocations, works of charity… and others, simpler and more practical, that carry the scent ...
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  27 February 2026
  ASIA/PAKISTAN -"Open war" between Pakistan and Afghanistan; "Terrorist attacks and the expulsion of Afghans have increased hostility" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Hostilities between Pakistan and Afghanistan have escalated into “open war,” Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif declared. Mutual attacks and military escalation between Pakistan and Af ...
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  26 February 2026
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Father Fernando on the Easter attacks: "We want nothing more than justice" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – Sri Lankan police have arrested former intelligence chief, retired General Suresh Sallay, in connection with the Easter Sunday attacks of April 21, 2019. The coordinated attacks on three luxur ...
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  25 February 2026
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A bill to protect religious minority property in Punjab Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A bill entitled "Protection of Minority Community Properties Bill 2026," intended as a comprehensive measure to protect the property of religious minorities throughout Punjab province, has been s ...
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  24 February 2026
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Jesuit Fr. Alejo: "The spirit of EDSA calls us to a responsibility in the present" Manila (Agenzia Fides) – "For 40 years, the Philippine education system has failed to convey the spirit of the EDSA revolution. Textbooks do not fully explain what happened during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos S ...
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  24 February 2026
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A new church opens amidst conflict to spread devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - A church dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus – a devotion that is gaining increasing importance in Myanmar during a time of war and suffering – was opened in the Archdiocese of Yangon, a ...
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  24 February 2026
  ASIA/CHINA - Called and led to true happiness. The "Program for the practice of charity" for the Lenten journey of the Parish of Lucheng Wenzhou (Agenzia Fides) – Fasting and other forms of penance that Catholics practice during Lent are not self-imposed deprivations for the sake of self-satisfaction, but arise from gratitude for the gift of true peace ...
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  23 February 2026
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Forty years after the "Rosary revolution", a "revolution of the heart" is urgently needed today Manila (Agenzia Fides) – “Filipinos today face a new ‘moral fatigue’ and, forty years after the historic People Power Revolution of 1986, they are called to actively safeguard freedom and truth.” This was the s ...