Asia

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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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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  27 April 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Vietnamese Catholics, engaged in the mission in Korea for twenty years Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Vietnamese Catholic faithful present in the Archdiocese of Seoul are migrants who have settled in Korea and are fully integrated into the local Church. In recent days they participated in a Eu ...
• 26 April 2023
  ASIA/TIMOR - Appointment of Bishop of Baucau Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Leandro Maria Alves, of the clergy of Díli, until now parish priest of the Cathedral and executive secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Timor ...
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  26 April 2023
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Election campaign: A country in search of peace, stability and development Dili (Agenzia Fides) - With a view to the general elections scheduled for May 21 in East Timor, the electoral campaign has begun in the youngest nation in Asia. The President of the Bishops' Conference of East Timor, Bis ...
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  25 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Reopening of shrines after 3 years. Chinese Catholic communities are preparing for the Marian month Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "We can join the universal Church, remembering the prayer intention of Pope Francis and imitating Our Lady the Virgin Mary in following Christ her Son, to reveal the face of the Risen Lord and l ...
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  24 April 2023
  ASIA/TURKEY - 108 years since the Armenian Genocide. Commemorations banned in Istanbul Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - On April 24, 1915 more than 100 Armenian intellectuals, parliamentarians, writers and journalists were taken from their homes and deported on a journey of death to the Turkish towns of Çankır ...
• 24 April 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Jaipur Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 22, 2023, the Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Jaipur, India, presented by Bishop Oswald Lewis. The Holy Father has appointed ...
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  22 April 2023
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Commemoration ceremony for the victims of the 2019 attacks Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - A 40 km human chain to remember the victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks that hit two Catholic churches and a Protestant one in Sri Lanka (see Fides, 22/4/2019). The commemoration ceremony ...
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  22 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Day for Vocations: masses, prayers and many initiatives to ask for "new workers for the Lord's vineyard" Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "Show the beauty of vocations and promote them": is the appeal of Joseph Li Shan Bishop of the Diocese of Beijing addressed to priests, nuns, seminarians and all baptized Catholics on the occasi ...
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  21 April 2023
  ASIA - Synodal and ecumenical journey in Central Asia Karaganda (Agenzia Fides) - "We shared our impressions and the legacy that Pope Francis left us after visiting this land, during his trip to Kazakhstan in September 2022, through a sincere account of this apostolic journ ...
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  20 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Proclaiming the Gospel through art: the "Via pulchritudinis" of the Chinese Catholic communities Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - On April 22, the 300th anniversary of the founding of the "Church of the West" will be celebrated in the parish of Xitang with the performance of a concert of sacred music. The Xitang church, de ...
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  19 April 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Do not ruin the paradise of bio-diversity: appeal of the Bishops of Palawan to President Marcos Brooke's Point (Agenzia Fides) - It is necessary to protect the island of Palawan, a "paradise of biodiversity", a national natural heritage, which risks being irreparably ruined by mining operations: for this reason, th ...