Asia

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  3 May 2025
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The 167 Catholics killed in the Easter massacre to be included in the list of “Witnesses of Faith” Colombo ( Fides Agency) - The 167 Catholics killed in churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019, will be included in the List of “Witnesses of Faith” of the 21st century compiled by the Dicastery for the ...
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  2 May 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Representatives of various Christian denominations: “Pope Francis' empathy is a strong appeal to our common humanity” Faisalabad (Fides Agency) - “Pope Francis was a promoter of peace and solidarity everywhere and in all circumstances; in Pakistan we remember him with great respect and affection. His voice, which he always raised in f ...
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  2 May 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - At the beginning of the month dedicated to Mary, Chinese Catholics pray for the late Pope Francis and the conclave Beijing (Fides Agency) - A day of community and gratitude for the gifts of grace. This is how many Chinese Catholics celebrated the feast of St. Joseph, patron saint of workers, on May 1, the beginning of the month of Ma ...
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  1 May 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Mercy and fraternity: Pope Francis' legacy in Cambodia Phnom Penh ( Fides Agency) - Being “apostles of mercy and of the heart of Christ”; being and living the Church “as a space of reconciliation for all.” These are some of the evangelical seeds planted by Pope Franc ...
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  30 April 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop in Madhya Pradesh: “Pope Francis' welcoming approach has improved interreligious coexistence” Indore (Fides Agency) - “What surprised us positively is like a surprise from the Holy Spirit: so many people, so many non-Christians, who spontaneously appreciate Pope Francis as a man of dialogue, welcome, and compas ...
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  29 April 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Kashmir: Catholics pray for peace between India and Pakistan Jammu (Fides Agency) - “The Catholic faithful of Kashmir are praying incessantly for peace in Kashmir. They pray in churches and homes. And they are marching the streets alongside other people of good will, carrying li ...
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  28 April 2025
  ASIA - “We must go to Asia.” What prompted Pope Francis to look East? by Paolo Affatato (Fides Agency) - Universality, inculturation, mercy, and reference to the Sacraments: throughout his pontificate, Pope Francis has recognized in the dynamic spread and living of the Gospel in Asian c ...
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  28 April 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Tension between India and Pakistan after attack in Kashmir: a Catholic among the victims Srinagar (Fides Agency) - The Parliament of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir passed a resolution today, April 28, expressing its dismay at the terrorist attack on April 22 in Pahalgam (Kashmir), which killed 26 peop ...
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  25 April 2025
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - “Humility, courage, justice, and love. Pope Francis has been a tireless messenger of peace” by Aldo Berardi*, O.SS.T. Manama (Fides Agency) - How can we begin to describe the life of this extraordinary pastor? Letters are pouring in from all over the world praising his witness: a witness of humility, courage ...
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  25 April 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The nation remembers Pope Francis with gratitude, “a man of peace and reconciliation” Loikaw (Fides Agency) - In a refugee camp in Kayah State, in the Diocese of Loikaw - one of the areas affected by the ongoing civil war in Myanmar - Catholic faithful gathered for a prayer vigil according to the traditio ...
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  25 April 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Xinhua News Agency: The Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the “Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Church in China” have sent a message of condolence to the Vatican on the death of Pope Francis Beijing (Fides Agency) - “Yi Hui Yi Tuan” - literally “One Association and One Conference,” a formula used to refer to the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the “Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Chu ...
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  25 April 2025
  ASIA/THAILAND - Sister Elizabete Ferreira de Souza on Missionary Childhood: “I try not to disturb the Lord's work” Chiang Rai (Fides Agency) - “What St. John Paul II repeatedly emphasised, especially on the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood, is true: the cooperation of children in e ...
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  24 April 2025
  Pope Francis and his “beloved tormented Syria” by Jacques Mourad* Homs (Fides Agency) - We have been celebrating Mass for Pope Francis every day since he went to heaven. We do this to remember him and pray for his soul. He was a person who chose to live humbly, ...
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  24 April 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Announcement on the website of the “Catholic Church in China” and the Patriotic Association: “Pope Francis has returned to the Father's house” Beijing (Fides Agency) - “Pope Francis returned to the Father's House on April 21, 2025, at 7:35 a.m. in the Residence of Santa Marta, at the age of 88. We pray that, thanks to God's mercy, Pope Francis may enjoy etern ...
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  24 April 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Young Cambodians attracted to Jesus were baptised during Easter Vigil Phnom Penh (Fides Agency) - “There are many non-Christians who, driven by curiosity or desire, attend our churches every Sunday. And among them, there are those who ask to begin the journey of preparation for baptism,� ...