Asia

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  5 July 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian accused of blasphemy for posting a Bible passage on Facebook Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - Haroon Shehzad, a 49-year-old Christian from the village of Chack 49, near Sargodha, in the Punjab province of Pakistan, has been accused of blasphemy and arrested for publishing a post on Fa ...
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  4 July 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Latin Patriarchate after attack on Jenin: Barbaric acts, our church also affected Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The attack by the Israeli army on the Palestinian city of Jenin represents an "unprecedented" aggression, with "barbaric acts" that also destroy sacred sites and take the lives of people who d ...
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  4 July 2023
  ASIA/JAPAN - Discharge of radioactive water in the ocean: a call to "seek alternative ways" Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - Opposition to the discharge of radioactive contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean is growing. Twelve years after the accident at the Fukushima nuclear pow ...
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  4 July 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Joseph Shen Bin administers the sacraments of Christian initiation to 34 catechumens: “Be a blessing to all” Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - Last Sunday, July 2, Bishop Joseph Shen Bin presided over the solemn liturgical celebration in the Cathedral of St. Ignatius in Shanghai, where 34 catechumens celebrated the sacraments of Chris ...
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  3 July 2023
  ASIA/SYRIA - Franciscan Hanna Jallouf new Apostolic Vicar in Aleppo. Safeguarding the hope of the poor even in the lands dominated by jihadists Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Father Hanna Jallouf, a Syrian, Friar Minor of the Custody of the Holy Land, is the new Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo for Catholics of the Latin rite. He succeeds his Lebanese confrere Georges Abou K ...
• 3 July 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Bishop of Asansol Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 3, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Elias Frank, of the clergy of the diocese of Asansol, India, until now professor of canon law at the Pontifical Urbania University of Rome ...
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  3 July 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The arrests of missionaries, nuns, priests, lay people accused of supporting communist armed groups continue Isulan (Agenzia Fides) - The practice of "red tagging", or labeling a person as 'communist' or 'supporter of communist groups or armed terrorists', continues to affect religious and missionaries and their collaborators ...
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  1 July 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Farewell to Ren Yanli, appreciated and passionate scholar of Chinese Catholicism and China-Holy See relations Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "Chinese Catholics are Catholics like everyone else. They have the same faith, they read the same Bible, they go freely to church for Mass, to pray and receive the sacraments. Like the others Ca ...
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  1 July 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Inner Mongolia, the new church of the Mercy of Jesus inaugurated thanks to the support and donations of the local Catholic community Bameng (Agenzia Fides) - The new church in the Diocese of Bameng (Inner Mongolia) dedicated to the Mercy of Jesus, was built with the generous support of volunteer work and donations from the local Catholic community. Th ...
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  1 July 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Shaw on the growth of parishes and mission stations in Punjab by Paolo Affatato Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to live our Christianity in Pakistan here and now, without fear and without concern. With the Gospel as our guide, the Church as our mother, the poor and the needy as ...
• 30 June 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Calapan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 26, the Holy Father appointed Bishop Moises Magpantay Cuevas, until now titular bishop of Maraguia and auxiliary of the archdiocese of Zamboanga, as vicar apostolic of Calapan, Phil ...
• 30 June 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Itanagar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 29, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Itanagar, India, presented by Bishop John Thomas Kattrukudiyil. The Holy Father has appointed ...
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  30 June 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A new Bishop in the Kayah state, a war zone: a Pastor who accompanies the people's Way of the Cross Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Loikaw, capital of Kayah state, in the eastern part of Myanmar, welcomed its new Bishop, ordained yesterday on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, with a celebration imbued with fa ...
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  28 June 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Islamic 'Feast of Sacrifice' celebrated in brotherhood between Muslims and Christians Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Dear Muslim brothers and sisters, every year you celebrate Eid-ul-Azha, the 'Feast of Sacrifice', to obtain God's blessings. In the Old Testament of the Holy Bible, we see that men of faith sacri ...
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  27 June 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Farewell to missionary Jean Charbonnier, friend and "benefactor" of the Church in China Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - There is not a Chinese Catholic or Chinese academic interested in the life of the Church who does not have or has never consulted the volume "Guide to the Catholic Church in China" by Father Jea ...