Asia

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  26 January 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Forced religious conversion: may the government accept the appeal submitted to the UN Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Christian communities, Hindus, and civil society organizations in Pakistan have welcomed the recent statement submitted to the UN Human Rights Council on the phenomenon of abduction, forced re ...
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  25 January 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Indian Jesuit Father has been living in Sumatra for 50 years: a life marked by devotion to Mary and love of God Medan (Agenzia Fides) - On the Indonesian island of Sumatra, inhabited mainly by indigenous groups and where traditionalist Islam is widespread, there lives a missionary who has become a well-known and respected personal ...
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  24 January 2023
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Catechesis week: The focus is on passing on the faith in families Kuala Lumpur (Agenzi Fides) - The renewal of the Church and the transmission of the faith in Catholic families are the focus of the 2023 Catechetical Week, celebrated in the Catholic communities and culminating in "Catec ...
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  23 January 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Mission with the deaf, thanks to sign language videos Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The proclamation of the Word of God and catechesis to deaf children and adults makes use of new media tools such as videos, in which sign language is used: this is the initiative of the "Korean Ca ...
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  21 January 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Religious leaders: "Peace is possible, peace is the only way" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Religious leaders in Myanmar issue a "passionate appeal for peace", insisting that "all of us need to undertake the pilgrimage of peace". "The last few months have seen great threats to the sacre ...
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  21 January 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The community of Bataan rejects the plan to activate the nuclear power plant: life is more important than cheap electricity Balangas (Agenzia Fides) - Due to the energy crisis and the high cost of electricity, the solution is not to resort to nuclear energy, but to develop renewable energies: this is the position of a large community forum in ...
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  20 January 2023
  ASIA/NEPAL - Father Miller, missionary with a "passion for evangelization" by Paolo Affatato Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - When a missionary spends more than 60 years of his life in a country far from his homeland, it often happens that he chooses to die there, in his "adopted homeland" and also ...
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  20 January 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese New Year. Christian hope embraces the expectations and sorrows of the "great army of ChunYun" by Marta Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - After three years of closures and impediments due to the pandemic, the great "army of ChunYun" has finally returned, the endless crowds of people who travel through China to spend ...
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  19 January 2023
  ASIATHAILAND - New training center for catechists of the Hmong ethnic group Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - A new training center dedicated to Hmong catechists, called the "International Hmong Center", intended to serve the Catholic population of the Hmong ethnic group, was inaugurated in Chiang Ma ...
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  18 January 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The army destroys a Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Mandalay; the Chapel of Adoration remains standing Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - The Burmese army set fire to the ancient Church of the Assumption, built in 1894 in Chan Thar, a village inhabited by Catholics in the region of Sagaing, in the territory of the Archdiocese of ...
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  18 January 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Love for the environment and witness in the midst of earthquakes: the life of Camillian seminarians with the parishioners of Maumere Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - In recent hours, the American Institute of Geophysics USGS reported a violent tremor of magnitude 7.0 that hit the eastern part of the archipelago, near the Moluccas Islands. No damage was repor ...
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  17 January 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - New Evangelization: Mission stations in shopping malls and slums by Paolo Affatato Kalookan (Agenzia Fides) - In the diocese of Kalookan there are 32 parishes and 17 municipal missions. The diocese includes the southern part of the city of Caloocan and the cities of Malabon and Navot ...
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  16 January 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Tangshan Catholic Community marks 2023 as the Year of Spirituality Tangshan (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Tangshan, in the Chinese province of Hebei, is celebrating 2023 as the "Year of Spirituality". In the pastoral planning of the community, after the Year of the Fami ...
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  14 January 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appeal for ceasefire: "Peace is the greatest gift" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We urgently ask the parties for a ceasefire. We ask that they lay down their arms and seek a peaceful solution. We see many people suffering and it is necessary to create humanitarian corridors ...
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  13 January 2023
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - 2019 Easter attacks, the Supreme Court condemns former President Sirisena Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has ruled that former President of Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena, and four other senior officials were negligent because they did not take the necessary preventi ...