Asia

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  16 April 2021
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholics who follow masses online due to the pandemic are increasing: Bishops want to a return to the churches after the end of the pandemic Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The number of Catholics watching Sunday Mass on social media and television is increasing in South Korea. According to a report published by the Catholic Bishops' Conference in South Korea, the n ...
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  16 April 2021
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Barnabite Fr. Scalese on the withdrawal of US troops: "The risk is to plunge back into civil war and instability" Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "The most serious risk deriving from the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan is that the country could fall back into civil war. So far, the negotiations between the government and the Taliba ...
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  15 April 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - "The nation is entrusted to God's mercy" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We are in God's hands. Our land is entrusted to his Divine Mercy. In a period of tension, suffering and uncertainty about the future, Christ is our rock. This is the path we walk when we see dem ...
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  15 April 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The government rewards Catholic nun "mother of the Forgotten" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are pleased and proud that the Pakistani government has bestowed Sister Ruth Lewis 'posthumously' with the Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) for her services to the society of this countr ...
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  14 April 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - The government of the autonomous region creates a Committee to counter illegal expropriations of property in Iraqi Kurdistan Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Council of Ministers issued an order to form a Committee to solve the phenomenon of illegal expropriation of properties - houses and land that are mostl ...
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  14 April 2021
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Korean Church joins the fund to donate the anti-Covid vaccine to poor countries Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Seoul has launched an appeal to the faithful to join the special fund, created in the Vatican, to give the anti Covid-19 vaccine to people who live in poor countries or who have ...
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  14 April 2021
  ASIA/KYRGYZTAN - "God loves the little ones": Young woman receives the sacrament of baptism in the Kyrgyz Church Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - "With the beginning of Easter, which lasts from April 4 to Pentecost, our lives are by these two aspects: the first is Christ's victory over death through the cross; the second is the resurrecti ...
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  13 April 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A diocese opens health centers in all parishes during the pandemic Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A diocese in the Philippines has decided to create a health facility in each parish to meet the needs of the population in the midst of the pandemic. Mgr. Pablo Virgilio David, Bishop of Kalookan ...
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  13 April 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Solidarity of Catholics towards the Church and the people of Myanmar Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "With pain and sadness we have followed the recent episodes of the seizure of power by the military and the inhuman atrocities on the peaceful demonstrations of citizens who are demanding democrac ...
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  12 April 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Inauguration of the new Archbishop of Karachi: "I want to be a shepherd with the smell of sheep" Karachi (Agenzia Fides): "I thank God for choosing me as Archbishop of Karachi and I thank Pope Francis for considering me worthy to lead the archdiocese. The Holy Father's humility and love for those who live in the sub ...
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  12 April 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Patriarch in the 'message for Ramadan': let's remove the definitions that offend Christians from school texts Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "On the occasion of the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, I extend my sincere congratulations and my sincere blessings to our Muslim brothers and sisters, asking the Almighty God to bless the ...
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  12 April 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Civil society network: stop extrajudicial executions, "red tagging" and impunity Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic communities are really appalled and deplore the countless human rights violations and extrajudicial executions committed by government forces and stigmatize the prevailing culture o ...
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  10 April 2021
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarch Pizzaballa: the proclamation of the Gospel passes through the gratitude of "forgiven sinners", such as Mary Magdalene Magdala (Agenzia Fides) - Men and women of all times, to be reached and touched by the announcement of the Risen Christ, need "witnesses in the same league", "sinners like the Apostles and as we are today". And the story ...
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  10 April 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN- Two Christian nurses accused of blasphemy Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - Two Christian nurses from Faisalabad, a city of Pakistani Punjab, have been formally accused under the Pakistani penal code 295 B, one of the articles of the notorious "blasphemy law" of com ...
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  9 April 2021
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syriac Catholic Patriarch: Those who use sanctions as an instrument of political pressure starve the Syrian people Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - In the Syrian crisis, "it is neither fair nor logical to condition the lifting of sanctions on a so-called political solution while ordinary people are impoverished and suffering from hunger, d ...