Asia

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  4 April 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The "Missionaries of Mercy" and the queue of people for confessions. Easter in the midst of violence Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - There are five priests, who already during the Jubilee of Mercy, in 2015, had received from the Pope the mandate to dispense God's forgiveness in the sacrament of Confession. Today, the team of f ...
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  3 April 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - "The widow's offering": the Lenten offerings of poor Bangladeshis for works of charity Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - These are offerings that come from very poor families, from faithful who often struggle for survival but who - like the evangelical "widow's offering" - do not want to miss a donation for communit ...
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  3 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Deaths due to pandemic, premature deaths, decrease in vocations: the aging of Chinese clergy is accentuating Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The "Qingming Feast", a day in which, according to Chinese tradition, ancestors and the dead are commemorated, falls every year on April 4 or 5. On this anniversary, the Catholic Church in China ...
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  1 April 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Three historical figures of the Catholic community of Seoul towards the altars Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Seoul has officially declared the opening of the beatification process for three historical figures of priests who provided pastoral service in the Archdiocese: Bishop Barthelem ...
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  1 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Palm Sunday: Catholic communities promote the seventh National Collection Day Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - On Palm Sunday, for the seventh consecutive year, the Chinese Catholic community celebrates National Collection Day tomorrow, April 2. The initiative is promoted by Jinde Charites, the orga ...
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  31 March 2023
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Three online meetings in Russian on Pope Francis' Message for World Mission Day 2023 Astana (Agenzia Fides) - The series of three online training meetings in Russian organized by the Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Kazakhstan and the International Secretariat of the Pontifical Miss ...
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  31 March 2023
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The mission of the Church "on a synodal journey": towards the pastoral assembly in peninsular Malaysia Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan pastoral assembly of ecclesial realities in Peninsular Malaysia - which is being prepared and will be held between summer and autumn 2023 - will talk about formation, the need ...
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  31 March 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - New opportunities for communion and unity for the diocese of Baoding Baoding (Agenzia Fides) - After the difficult time of the pandemic, when churches were closed due to health provisions, even in the diocese of Baoding, in the Chinese province of Hebei, the daily life of the local Cathol ...
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  30 March 2023
  ASIA/IRAQ - Bishops of the "Nineveh Council": Christians could boycott the upcoming elections Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Churches present in Mosul and in the Nineveh Plain, in a striking initiative, have announced the possible boycott of the next rounds of elections by the Christian component of t ...
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  30 March 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Gospel translated into the Cuyonon language, to "connect with God" Puerto Princesa (Agenzia Fides) - Making the Gospel understandable and "connecting with God" the populations who speak the indigenous Cuyonon language, settled mainly on the island of Palawan and on other islands in the ...
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  30 March 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Formation activities for catechists and lay people resume after three years of difficulties linked to the pandemic Liaoning (Agenzia Fides) - Three years have passed since the life of the Catholic community in China began to be conditioned and, so to speak, "slowed down" due to the Covid 19 pandemic. At last now many ordinary activit ...
• 30 March 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Aizawl Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the Reverend Joachim Walder, of the clergy of Aizawl, until now episcopal vicar of the Barak Valley Region, as auxiliary of the diocese of Aizawl, assi ...
• 29 March 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the Bishop of Loikaw, Celso Ba Shwe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Rev. Celso Ba Shwe, of the clergy of Loikaw, currently Diocesan Administrator as Bishop of the Diocese of Loikaw (Myanmar). His Exc. Msgr. Celso Ba S ...
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  29 March 2023
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - New details on the intervention of armed agents in the Catholic church of Talas Talas (Agenzia Fides) - In the last few hours, new details have emerged that clarify the dynamics and scope of the events that took place on Sunday March 26 in the Catholic parish of Saint Nicholas in Talas, Kyrgyzstan ( ...
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  28 March 2023
  ASIA/JORDAN - First Solemn Mass of Nuncio Dal Toso in Amman Amman (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of Monday, March 27, in the Church of the Virgin of Nazareth in Amman, Archbishop Giampietro Dal Toso presided over the first solemn Eucharistic liturgy concelebrated in Jordan afte ...