Asia

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  24 February 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Identity of Buddhist and Taoist monks available online Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - An "online archive" containing the identification data of all Buddhist and Taoist monks registered with the Chinese authorities, which can also be consulted by citizens who, from now on, will no ...
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  23 February 2023
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Lent, "a journey through trials and suffering, towards full joy" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "What we are living this year is a Lent somewhat different from previous years, because Sri Lanka is going through a situation of great economic, political, social, and even moral suffering. We ...
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  22 February 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Fasting from hatred: in time of Lent, the life of displaced people of the civil conflict Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us fast from hatred towards others, even our enemies, to discover Christ who lives in them. Let us fast from pessimism and the dark thoughts that gather in our hearts today, to fill us with C ...
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  22 February 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Start of Lent, praying for the Pope's intentions Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "We must seize the opportunity of Lent to return to the Our Father". This is the encouragement addressed this year to the Catholics of the Archdiocese of Guangzhou by Archbishop joseph Gan Junq ...
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  21 February 2023
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST- Lent. Catholic Patriarchs open the time of the "Great Fast" under the sign of the Fathers of the Church Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Eastern Churches begin the penitential season of Lent while earthquakes, poverty, conflicts and political crises continue to sow pain and anguish in the region. The Patriarchs of the Eastern ...
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  21 February 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Missionary biker, last foreign bishop, says goodbye to Kalimantan Sanggau (Agenzia Fides) - At the wheel of his "two-wheeler" he covered miles and miles on the rough roads of West Kalimantan. He visited villages, celebrated the Eucharist and gave the sacraments, catechized children, yo ...
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  20 February 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Walking, together, for the protection of life Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Walking and praying side by side, religious, laity, priests, bishops for the protection and dignity of life, from birth to natural death, for the promotion of the family, for the defense of every ...
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  20 February 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Magdalene and the Tibetan church, an "oasis of coexistence" even for the Chinese state media by Marta Zhao Lhasa (Agenzia Fides) - The China News Service (CNS) (chinanews.com.cn) describes the Catholic community of Yanjing as an "oasis of coexistence" between religions and a "place of encounter" between culture ...
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  17 February 2023
  ASIA/LEBANON - "Like a mustard seed". The Catholic Churches in the Middle East indicate the points of orientation of their "synodal path" Harissa (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic communities in the Middle East are called to bear witness to "fellowship and hope in suffering", to represent the face of a Church "as humble as a 'mustard seed', which grows in the pre ...
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  17 February 2023
  ASIA - The journey of the Churches of Laos and Cambodia: the proclamation of the Kingdom of God to the poor Phnom Pen (Agenzia Fides) - "Our extremely small Churches (0.1% of the population in Cambodia, - 0.5% in Laos), live in conditions similar to those of the Acts of the Apostles, with first or second generation Christians ...
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  16 February 2023
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Priests at the service of the poor, of young people, of the care of the "Common Home" in small communities Ho Chi Minh Ville (Agenzia Fides) - "To serve God through the poor, in whom Christ is present and to be close to them every day" is the desire of Peter Pham Minh Hung, a priest in the parish of Vuon Xoai, belonging to th ...
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  16 February 2023
  ASIA/SYRIA - Aleppo, Bishop Joseph Tobji: the earthquake opens a new time of trial, also for faith Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "After the shock and terror, we are now beginning to come to terms with the extent of the material and spiritual ruins that the earthquake has left in our lives. A hard time begins, where we will ...
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  15 February 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Christians help earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in one of the poorest countries in the world want to help victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. In the past, the people of Bangladesh have themselves repeatedly been hit by the ...
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  15 February 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Little things bring joy to the suffering faces of the sick: Camillians on the occasion of theXXXI World Day of the Sick Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - The XXXI World Day of the Sick, celebrated by the Catholic Church on February 11, 2023 (see Fides, 10/2/2022), was a precious opportunity to also bring together the Camillians (MI) of Indonesia ...
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  13 February 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The people of God gather at Mary's feet to ask for peace, justice, healing, reconciliation Nyaunglebin (Agenzia Fides) - The people of Myanmar gather at the feet of the Virgin Mary to earnestly invoke, with inner emotion and spiritual participation, healing and peace. Thousands of pilgrims and devotees gathere ...