Asia

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  26 April 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - The Indian Bishops: closeness to the population affected by the pandemic; the government is clearly responsible New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Deep concern and anguish for the second wave of Covid-19 that seriously affects the nation and full closeness and solidarity with the entire Indian population. With these sentiments, the India ...
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  24 April 2021
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Vocation Day: In Bangladesh Catholic families foster priesthood vocation Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - In Bangladesh, as many as 26 deacons were ordained AS priests in 2020. It is the highest number ever recorded in the history of the country. There is an important role of Catholic families in orde ...
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  24 April 2021
  ASIA - Day of Vocations: the fulcrum of the vocations of the Verbite Missionaries in Asia Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Congregation of the Verbite Missionaries (Society of the Divine Word, SVD), comprising priests and religious brothers, is committed to spreading the Gospel of Christ, the Son of God made man, i ...
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  22 April 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Churches close, but not faith and charity: Christians face second wave of Covid-19 Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - Churches are temporarily closing due to the second wave of Covid-19, but not faith, hope and charity among Indian Christians: as Agenzia Fides learned, with the increase in cases of Covid-19 in I ...
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  22 April 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Food security in times of the pandemic: Catholic congregations set up “community pantries” Manila (Agenzia Fides) - In the midst of the growing scenario of Covid-19 and its negative impact on poverty, food security and employment, the Church in the Philippines has launched the initiative of "community pantries ...
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  21 April 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Archbishop Palma: "500 year celebrations show us the grace of baptism and the missio ad gentes" Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - "The 500th anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines is an opportunity to relive the grace of baptism that makes us witnesses of Christ and missionaries on a personal and community level. We h ...
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  21 April 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Catholic entrepreneur provides Muslim fellow citizens with evening meals to strengthen inter-religious harmony Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "I personally feel very strongly Christ's call to love my neighbor. With this spirit I would like to offer our Muslim brothers and sisters a free break-fasting dinner during the second year of th ...
• 21 April 2021
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Padige Basil Rohan Fernando Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 16, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Padige Basil Rohan Fernando, of the diocesan clergy of Kuru ...
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  20 April 2021
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - March for justice and blessing of the new Chapel of the martyrs to commemorate the Easter massacres Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "We invoke God and call on the government for justice. Tomorrow church bells across the nation will ring to commemorate the victims of the attacks of April 21, 2019, when terrorists committed a ...
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  20 April 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - Thai Catholics help Karen displaced people fleeing Myanmar Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - A great commitment by the Church in Thailand is underway to rescue, welcome and help refugees fleeing Myanmar who hide in the forest near the Thanlyin River, which marks the border between Th ...
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  20 April 2021
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Existential peripheries: Caritas supports tuberculosis prevention in prisons Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - With an aid project for the medical staff in the country's prisons, the Catholic Church in Tajikistan would like to launch a new mission to accompany prisoners and go "to the periphery" to prea ...
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  19 April 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Coronavirus pandemic: Election of the new Assyrian patriarch postponed due to new wave of infections Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The new wave of infections, which also affects Iraq and the Kurdistan Autonomous Region, has resulted in the election of the new Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East being postponed to a l ...
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  19 April 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - A "year of grace" for the diocese of Nha Trang, in the footsteps of Cardinal Van Thuan Nha Trang (Agenzia Fides) - He is a spiritual son and a successor of the former Bishop of the diocese of Nha Trang, Venerable Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, who greatly influenced his priestly life and his epi ...
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  19 April 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The era of hope: the new Burmese government of national unity, in opposition to the military junta Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "An era of fear and division ends and an era of hope begins". A time, says Salai Maung Taing San, spokesman for the newly formed "Burmese National Unity Government", in which "there will be no m ...
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  17 April 2021
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Growing religious extremism in Asia and Church response Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - On March 28, Palm Sunday, the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, witnessed the bomb attacks, leaving two bombers dead and at least 20 people injur ...