Asia

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  28 December 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - President Widodo recalls the key message of Christmas: hope Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - For the Catholic community in Indonesia, this year Christmas was celebrated both in a virtual way - thanks to new technologies - and through concrete gestures of closeness and sharing with the p ...
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  28 December 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic seminarian killed in the Indonesian province of Papua Jayapura (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas 2020 was saddened by a serious episode for Catholics in Papua. On the evening of 24 December, the lifeless body of Zhage Sil, a Catholic seminarian, was found in a ditch in Jayapura, ...
• 28 December 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Shillong, India Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Victor Lyngdoh of Jowai as metropolitan archbishop of the archdiocese of Shillong, India. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 28/12/2020) ...
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  23 December 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic healthcare initiative: a new geo-tagging software in response to the Covid-19 crisis New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI) has developed and introduced new geo-tagging software as part of the response to the Covid-19 health crisis. The new geo-tagging software, calle ...
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  23 December 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - Farewell to Bishop Rubén Tierrablanca, beloved pastor and man of fraternal charity Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Bishop Rubén Tierrablanca Gonzàlez OFM, Apostolic Vicar of Istanbul for Latin Rite Catholics, did not survive Covid-19 against which he had been fighting for the past few weeks in an ...
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  23 December 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Archdiocese of Lahore supports former Christian prisoners for the creation of businesses Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We give thanks to God because today we are able to support our brothers so that they create their own entrepreneurial activity. They have suffered a lot over the past five years. We have taken t ...
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  23 December 2020
  ASIA/THAILAND - Testimony of a missionary: "The sense of the common good of the Thai people: we are ashamed of contributing to the malaise of others" Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - "Much has been said about the different approach to the pandemic that exists between Western and Asian countries. In some cases the results still make us reflect despite the fact that there i ...
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  22 December 2020
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The Scalese Barnabite: "The country is under the protection of the Virgin Mary who weaves the threads of peace" Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "We Christians are called to look at the facts in a realistic way, but we must never allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by pessimism. We can learn to read signs of hope, even in the apparently insi ...
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  21 December 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Interreligious gathering for Christmas: believers, together, messengers of peace and unity Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are messengers of love, unity, peace and harmony and our interreligious gathering for Christmas brought together citizens of Karachi, of all faiths, in order to set a good example of interre ...
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  21 December 2020
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Hamas limits Muslim "interactions" with Christmas celebrations in the Gaza Strip Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - The provision by which a department of the Ministry of Religious Affairs in the Gaza Strip, governed by the Palestinian Islamist party Hamas, has given instructions to Muslims to limit their "inter ...
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  21 December 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Family Christmas at the Ark Village, but generosity does not decrease Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "The Christmas we will experience at the Ark Village will be more intimate and more family-friendly than usual. In past years, the month of December represented a very eventful period, because ma ...
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  19 December 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bail for the kidnapper of the Catholic girl Arzoo Raja Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A Karachi court of first instance has granted bail to the kidnapper of the Christian minor Arzoo Raja, setting the bail at 500,000 Pakistani rupees (about 2,700 euros) and a similar bail for his ...
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  19 December 2020
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - In Kuala Lumpur, the Church suspends all public Masses and liturgies until Epiphany due to the pandemic Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur has suspended all public masses in all parishes, churches, chapels from Christmas Eve (December 24) until the solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord (January ...
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  18 December 2020
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Heads of the Churches of Jerusalem: at Christmas let us rejoice in God's gift for us, in these difficult times Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The birth of Jesus and the celebration of his Nativity "constantly remind us that God is with us and always will be". For this reason, the imminent liturgical Solemnity of the Lord's Birth cal ...
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  18 December 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Bishop of the Burmese territory with the highest Christians presence dies: A Pastor dedicated to listening and dialogue Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - Today, December 18, in the Catholic cathedral of Loikaw, capital of the Burmese state of Kayah - the state with the highest percentage of Christians in the country-, the funeral of Bishop Stephen ...