Asia

• 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 ...
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  27 June 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Walking the path of forgiveness: a month of prayer for North-South relations Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Walking the path of forgiveness": with this expression and with this spiritual attitude the Church in South Korea celebrated, on June 25, the special "Day of prayer for national reconciliation", ...
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  26 June 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Diocese of Wenzhou, consecration and inauguration of the new Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart Shi Jiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - "Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain". These words from Psalm 127 accompanied and the inauguration of the new Catholic parish church dedicated to the Sacred ...
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  26 June 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - An action plan to put the encyclical Laudato Sì into practice: personal and community commitment Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Identify concrete measures to respond to climate change and redefine the active role of the Catholic community in implementing the proposals, indications and suggestions contained in the encyclica ...
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  26 June 2023
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Melkite Greek-Catholic Church prepares the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of the re-establishment of full union with the Church of Rome Rabouè (Agenzia Fides) - The celebrations for the three hundredth anniversary of the re-establishment of full communion of the Melkite Church with the Church of Rome will begin in Damascus on November 11, with a solemn ...
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  24 June 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - May it be real peace, and not a fragile "armistice". 73 years after the start of the war, Korean Catholics pray for reconciliation and national unity by Paolo Affatato Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In the mid-1990s, the Swiss Kathi Zellweger, then director of international cooperation programs at Caritas Hong Kong, began to take an interest in North Korea, where a severe ...
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  22 June 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - New Chinese studies on the valuable role of missionary congregations and institutes in the apostolic work of the Church in China in the first half of the 20th century Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The first half of the 20th century represented a crucial historical phase for contemporary China, and also for the apostolic work of the Catholic Church in "Middle-earth". Those decades were mar ...
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  22 June 2023
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The Catholic community remembers and honors those who gave their lives for faith in Christ Taing Kok (Agenzia Fides) - At least once a year, Cambodian Catholics stop to commemorate those who gave their lives for faith in Christ and are "seeds and fathers" of today's Cambodian faith community: more than 3,000 C ...
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  22 June 2023
  EURASIA/RUSSIA - Siberia, a new Catholic Church dedicated and named after Saint Joseph in Berdsk Berdsk (Agenzia Fides) - The new Catholic Church in the heart of Siberia is named after Saint Joseph. Members of the small Catholic community in Berdsk, a town of 95,000 people 40 kilometers from Novosibirsk, are delight ...
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  22 June 2023
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Nuns or guerrillas? The missionary adventures of the Salesian nuns in the mountains of East Timor Dili (Agenzia Fides) - "I really wanted to bring Jesus to the people, but then it was they who brought me to him" is how Sister Maria Fe Silva sums up her whole life in one sentence. The Catholic nun was born in the Phil ...
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  21 June 2023
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian parties raise new alarm over illegal land acquisitions in the Nineveh plain Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Five political groups led by Christian leaders and activists have issued a new alarm over large-scale real estate operations which, according to them, aim to change the balance of the demographic ...
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  20 June 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Rohingya, the people no one wants Cox's Bazar (Agenzia Fides) - They have been called, with an expression that sums up their history and story, "the people no one wants". The Rohingya people, a Muslim ethnic minority who for centuries have lived in Rakhi ...