Asia

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  16 October 2024
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Easter attacks: new investigations are "a good sign of justice" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The fact that the government under the newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has confirmed its will to conduct a thorough investigation into the Easter 2019 attacks is certainly a go ...
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  15 October 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Israeli strike on Christian-majority village in Northern Lebanon Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - At least 23 people were killed yesterday, October 14, in a bomb attack on a building in the predominantly Christian village of Aitou, near Zgharta, in the far north of Lebanon, which has so far b ...
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  14 October 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "Korea Mission Society" celebrates its 50th anniversary: "A community on the move" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The spirit is one of going out, of communicating the Gospel "ad gentes". Fifty years after its foundation, the "Korea Mission Society" (KMS) continues to practice this missionary spirit and reaffi ...
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  12 October 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Bishop Hormat: The “domestic” and “ad gentes” mission of the Catholics of Flores. “Vocations are not our work, but God’s,” Ruteng (Agenzia Fides) - Ruteng (Agenzia Fides) - Verbites, Somaschians, Montfortians, Vocationists, Scalabrinians and Camillians, together with the Sisters of Perpetual Help, the Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual ...
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  11 October 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Mindanao Relgious Leaders Conference: “We are peacemakers” Davao (Agenzia Fides) - "We are peacemakers. Peace based on justice is our duty," emphasize the members of the Mindanao Religious Leaders Conference, gathered on 8 and 9 October in Davao, in the south of the Philippines, ...
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  10 October 2024
  ASIA - ASEAN calls for "concrete actions" to stop the civil war in Myanmar Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - "Concrete measures" to end the civil war in Myanmar and to resume diplomatic efforts to resolve it are what the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is calling on the Myanmar militar ...
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  9 October 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - North Korea has cut off road and rail access to South Korea: Catholics continue to keep alive the hope of peace and reconciliation Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - North Korea has cut off road and rail access to South Korea with the aim of "completely separating" the two countries. The North Korean army has announced that it is proceeding to "permanently iso ...
• 8 October 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of bishop of Sindhudurg Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Sindhudurg, India, presented by Bishop Anthony Alwyn Fernandes Barreto. (EG) (Agenzia Fides, 8/10/2024) ...
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  8 October 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Through Mary to Jesus: the "matriarchal" Church in the State of Meghalaya Nongstoin (Agenzia Fides) - "In our territory, where women are at the center of family and social life, the Church also has a feminine face. And devotion to the Virgin Mary is strong and deep-rooted," says to Fides Wilbe ...
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  7 October 2024
  VATICAN - Pope writes to the Catholics in the Middle East: Do not let yourselves be swallowed up by the darkness that surrounds you, and console the heart of God Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Thank you for wanting to stay in your country, thank you for knowing how to pray and love despite everything. You are a seed loved by God," a year after the renewed conflict between Israel ...
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  7 October 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A mission of compassion and mercy towards the terminally ill Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission is an immense work of mercy, both spiritual and material," said the doctors and nurses of St. Elizabeth Hospital, a Catholic hospital in Hyderabad (southern Pakistan), quoting Pope Fr ...
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  5 October 2024
  ASIA/THAILAND - Arrest or repatriation: the fate of many Burmese fleeing war Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - These are migrants, often illegal immigrants, who flee from Myanmar, devastated by civil war, across the border to Thailand in search of peace and to build a new life there. The flow of migrants ...
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  5 October 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - October 7, after a year. Patriarch Sabbah: there will only be peace when the tragedy of the Palestinian people is brought to an end Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The catastrophe that is devastating the Holy Land and the entire Middle East «did not begin on October 7, 2023». The cycles of violence that have generated the tragic present experienced als ...
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  4 October 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The ecclesial information site Xinde invites Chinese Catholics to pray with the Pope for peace in the world Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "Not to be missed! The Pope has called for a day of prayer and fasting for world peace on October 7": Xinde.org, the most visited Catholic information site in Chinese, based in the province of H ...
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  4 October 2024
  ASIA/LAOS - ASEAN: International conference to seek resumption of dialogue in Myanmar Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - An international conference to be held by Laos, which currently holds the presidency of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), of which Myanmar is a member, will discuss the react ...