Asia

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  15 November 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Pastoral service with prisoners: human dignity is the key to any possible reform of the prison system Goa (Agenzia Fides) - Their pastoral service takes place mainly inside prisons. There they can meet, listen, understand, help prisoners and accompany them on a path that goes from release to full human rehabilitation, wi ...
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  14 November 2022
  ASIA/KIRGHIZSTAN - The project for the construction of the first Catholic cathedral has been presented Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - Kyrgyzstan will soon have its first Catholic cathedral. The religious building will rise in the heart of the capital Bishkek, and its first stone has already been blessed by Pope Francis. Constr ...
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  14 November 2022
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Ten couples choose the sacrament of marriage: a new path in the Catholic community Thakurgaon (Agenzia Fides) - They have asked to receive the sacrament of marriage now, after beginning their life as a couple in previous years. This is the choice made by ten couples accompanied, spiritually and pastora ...
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  11 November 2022
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Bishop on upcoming election: "Choose on the basis of your conscience" Johor (Agenzia Fides) - "When we elect corrupt politicians we become accomplices. We become accomplices of evil when we pretend to be blind, deaf or dumb in the face of evil. We therefore ask all young people in particul ...
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  10 November 2022
  ASIA/TURKEY - Farewell Antioch. Father Bertogli leaves his “Domus Ecclesiae” after 35 years of mission by Gianni Valente Antakya (Agenzia Fides) - For the 86-year-old Italian Capuchin Father Domenico Bertogli, who comes from Modena, the time has come to say goodbye. At the beginning of November he left his parish of St. ...
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  10 November 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The proclamation of the Gospel in Mindanao with the experience of the basic ecclesial communities Cagayan de Oro (Agenzia Fides) - The proclamation of the Gospel on the island of Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines, goes forward thanks to the experience of the basic ecclesial communities (BEC), in ...
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  9 November 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Care of the 'Common Home' in eastern Davao: make it a "zone free of mining exploitation" Davao (Agenzia Fides) - "Every Catholic, in conscience, recalling the Encyclical Laudato Sì of Pope Francis, which promotes 'the care of the Common Home', cannot approve this operation of destruction of our territory by ...
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  8 November 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - Celso Costantini's “prophecy”, 100 years after his arrival in Beijing Pordenone (Agenzia Fides) - One hundred years ago, Cardinal Celso Costantini, from the Friuli region of northern Italy, arrived in Beijing after a long journey, sent to China by Pope Pius XI as the first Apostolic Delega ...
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  8 November 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Imran Khan's "long march": in the post-flood phase, "the country needs stability" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "The country lives in a situation of uncertainty and precariousness. Society is deeply polarized. The party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan enjoys some popular support, even among the most e ...
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  7 November 2022
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Between poverty and discontent, the nation struggles to recover from the economic and social crisis Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Sri Lanka is struggling in economic and social recovery, while it is going through the systemic crisis that has shocked the nation since the first months of the year 2022. As analysts say, mul ...
• 7 November 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Liberation from the office of Vicar Apostolic of Calapan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has liberated Bishop Warlito Itucas Cajandig from the office of vicar apostolic of Calapan, Philippines, for health reasons. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 7/11/2022) ...
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  5 November 2022
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - The great missionary adventure of the Apostolic Vicariates of Arabia by Gianni Valente Awali (Agenzia Fides) - In Bahrain, the archipelago kingdom which this morning, Saturday November 5, saw some 30,000 people gather at the Bahrain National Stadium in Awali to take part in the liturgica ...
• 4 November 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of Bishop of Kengtung Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father has appointed Bishop John Saw Yaw Han, until now titular of Buffada and auxiliary of the archdiocese of Yangon, as bishop of the diocese of Kengtung, Myanmar. (SL) (Agenzi ...
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  4 November 2022
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Pope Francis: may humanity be saved from the tragic infantilism of those who play with bombs Awali (Agenzia Fides) - The times we are living in, East and West resemble «two opposing seas», which spread conflicts throughout the world to assert their hegemony. In this scenario dominated by dark omens, religiou ...
• 3 November 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of Thành-Phô-Hô Chí Minh, Hochiminh Ville Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 1, 2022, the Holy Father Francis, appointed Rev. Joseph Bui Cong Trac, of the clergy of Ho Chi Minh Ville, currently Rector of the Major Seminary of Hô Chí Minh Ville, as Auxi ...