Asia

• 21 October 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - President Prabowo Subianto takes office as Head of State Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The new Indonesian Head of State, Prabowo Subianto, has officially taken office as the eighth President of the country, after the handover from outgoing President Joko Widodo. In his first spe ...
• 18 October 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Controversial Islamic preacher visits the Pakistani government Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "It is really shocking for us that the controversial Indian Islamic preacher Zakir Naik has been invited by the Pakistani government and is appearing in the main Pakistani cities to sow religious ...
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  18 October 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Churches of Bangladesh write to the Chief Counselor: "Easter should become a national holiday" by Fabio Beretta Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Easter should become a national holiday. This is what the Christians of Bangladesh are asking the transitional government to do in a letter signed by Bishop Bejoy N. D'Cruze, ...
• 17 October 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation and succession of archbishop of Makassar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Makassar, Indonesia, presented by Archbishop Johannes Liku Ada’. He is succeeded by Bishop Frans ...
• 17 October 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops on the death of businessman Ratan Tata: "A beacon of compassion" esteemed by the Catholics Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "Ratan Tata was an icon among entrepreneurs, a visionary leader and a philanthropist whose indelible contribution to society will be remembered for generations," said the Indian Bishops' Confe ...
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  16 October 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Joint appeal by religious leaders: “God give our people hope to withstand this catastrophe” Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Lebanese homeland is wounded, "and the wound infects each of us". With these words, Maronite Patriarch Béchara Boutros Raï began his speech at the opening of the extraordinary Summit of religio ...
• 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 ...
• 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, ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...