Asia

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  8 March 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Oblate missionaries of Mary Immaculate 50 years at the service of evangelization, also in the desert Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Although they are few, the Oblate missionaries of Mary Immaculate (OMI) have courageously accepted the challenge of working to create a new ecclesiastical unit in Baluchistan, a vast, harsh and ...
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  4 March 2022
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops describe war in Ukraine as "surrender" to logic of violence Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The war in Ukraine is a "surrender to the logic of conflict and violence" and marks "the failure of all political and diplomatic attempts to avoid conflict", said "with regret" the Maronite bish ...
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  4 March 2022
  ASIA - Cardinal Bo and the Bishops of Asia: No to nuclear war, the world needs healing Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Avert in every possible way the risk of a nuclear war, promote dialogue and bring global healing to the world: this is the hope expressed in an appeal launched today, March 4, by Cardinal Charles ...
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  3 March 2022
  ASIA/SYRIA - Orthodox Church of Antioch: the war in Ukraine tears apart peoples "born from the same baptismal font" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - For the end of the "painful events" in Ukraine, the Bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church want to look at the "spiritual ties between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples, born from the same baptis ...
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  3 March 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society remembers the Catholic minister Shahbaz Bhatti on the 11th anniversary of his death Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Christian, Muslim and Hindu faithful, civil society leaders and members of human rights organizations paid tribute to the late Federal Minister for Minority Affairs, the Catholic Clement Shahbaz ...
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  2 March 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Bishop Dell'Oro: "We are all children of God" Karaganda (Agenzia Fides) - "Faced with what is happening in Ukraine, I believe that the obligation of each of us must be to offer our neighbor a perspective that is not political. Here in Karaganda there are people of 1 ...
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  2 March 2022
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Church kicks off the "Synod of women" Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The appointment is for Saturday, March 5 in Bkerké, at the headquarters of the Maronite Patriarchate. In that framework, and in the presence of the Maronite Patriarch Béchara Boutros Raï, the ...
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  1 March 2022
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic journalists, promoters of harmony and truth Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "The contribution of Catholic journalists to the nation is invaluable", says to Fides the Executive Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Indonesia, Father Peter Christian Siswantoko, told Ag ...
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  1 March 2022
  ASIA/TURKEY - Bishop Bizzeti: the Turkish government's "courageous" choice to close access to the Black Sea to warships Iskenderun (Agenzia Fides) - "In Florence, for the first time, 60 Catholic bishops and 65 Christian, Muslim and Jewish mayors met and signed a document, which contains many serious and interesting things. This convergenc ...
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  28 February 2022
  ASIA/TURKEY - Ukrainian President Zelensky telephones Patriarch Bartholomew: "We feel the support of your prayers" Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - "Thank you for this warm conversation, Your Holiness Bartholomew. Your words are like hands that support us in this difficult moment". This is how the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky wa ...
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  28 February 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A vote for truth, peace and justice Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Vote for "truth, common good, peace and justice": this is the appeal addressed to the faithful by the Filipino Bishops, as the country enters the electoral campaign in view of the upcoming genera ...
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  28 February 2022
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Call for prayer and peace for Ukraine Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us pay attention to Pope Francis' appeal to pray and fast for peace in Ukraine. The power of the sincere prayers of so many people can achieve what is beyond human imagination": this is t ...
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  26 February 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Pallottine missionaries committed to "making every child flourish" Vutukuru (Agenzia Fides) - "In India we are dedicated to accompanying boys and girls in the process of schooling and to the fight against poverty that affects many families. Our mission is that every child flourishes". T ...
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  26 February 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Letter to the authorities: the Archdiocese of Hanoi calls for respect for religious freedom Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Hanoi has sent a letter of urgent complaint to various leaders, civil servants and civil authorities, at provincial and national government level, asking the "People's Commi ...
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  25 February 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Two Catholic priests arrested for providing humanitarian aid to displaced people Pekhon (Agenzia Fides) - The Myanmar army has arrested two Catholic priests who were on their way to help internally displaced people in Shan State, in the eastern part of Myanmar. As Fides learned from the local Church, ...