Asia

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  9 January 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholic communities help the earthquake-stricken populations of Tibet, in the spirit of the “Jubilee of Hope” Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - More than 120 dead, almost 200 injured, 50 thousand displaced, tens of thousands of homes destroyed or damaged. This is the preliminary toll of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Dingri co ...
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  9 January 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "May the Jubilee Year be a year of reconciliation and resettlement of displaced persons" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Over 600 members of the various Christian denominations in Myanmar gathered in Yangon for a celebration and dinner to celebrate Christmas and to express their best wishes for the New Year, togeth ...
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  8 January 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Archbishop of Seoul celebrates Mass for Catholic parliamentarians in the chapel of the National Assembly: Focus on the common good Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Focus on the common good is what Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-taick of Seoul asks the Catholic parliamentarians of South Korea to do, a country where in the last four weeks the political elite has ...
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  3 January 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Sister Esther, North Korean youth and the (silent) work for reconciliation by Pascale Rizk Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - It was a "December horribilis” for South Korea. Amidst political turmoil and lives lost in the latest plane crash, the clouds of sadness and pain do not seem to leave the sky ...
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  2 January 2025
  ASIA/SYRIA - Orthodox Patriarch Yohanna X extends his hand to Syria's new political leaders: "our Cross will remain embracing the Crescent of tolerance" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "We extend our hand to work with you to build the new Syria, and we are waiting for Mr. Al-Sharaa and his new administration to stretch out their hand to us in turn", said Yohanna X, Greek-Orth ...
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  1 January 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Christ was born of a woman and is one of us. For this reason, he is able to save us Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Christ Jesus "was born of a woman and is one of us. For this reason, he is able to save us". On the day when the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Mary, the Most Holy Mother of God, Pope F ...
• 1 January 2025
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Resignation and succession of the Bishop of Cân Tho Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Cân Tho (Vietnam), presented by His Exc. Msgr. Stephanus Tri Buu Thiên. He is succeeded by His Exc ...
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  31 December 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - "Let the doors of all churches be open to all": Chinese Catholic communities begin the Jubilee of Hope with enthusiasm by Marta Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The evening of Saturday 28 December marked the official beginning of the Jubilee Year in the Diocese of Beijing. Priests, nuns and numerous lay people gathered in front of the p ...
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  29 December 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The Jubilee of Hope has also begun in Shanghai Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - With a solemn procession behind the Cross, the public reading of the papal Bull proclaiming the Jubilee, and the community recitation of the Jubilee prayer, the Chinese Catholic communities hav ...
• 28 December 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and succession of bishop of Jhansi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Jhansi, India, presented by Bishop Peter Parapullil. He is succeeded by Bishop Wilfred Gregory Moras, ...
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  28 December 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Three missionaries of St. Columban among Korea's "heroes of independence" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Korean Ministry of Patriotic and Veterans Affairs has recognized three missionaries of the Society of St. Columban as "heroes of independence", highlighting them as examples of life and models ...
• 27 December 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Yangon, Myanmar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Raymond Wai Lin Htun, of the clergy of the diocese of Hpa-An, until now professor of canon law and economics and Saint Joseph’s Major Seminary i ...
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  27 December 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Christmas in a cave for refugees from Loikaw Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of Christmas took place this year in an extraordinary setting for the faithful Catholic refugees in the diocese of Loikaw, in eastern Myanmar. Gathered in the shelter of a cave in ...
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  27 December 2024
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Martyr and pastor, Father Diep gives his life with joy Bac Lieu (Agenzia Fides) - Since the 1980s, groups of pilgrims from all over Vietnam have come to the church of Tac Say, in the Mekong Delta, the southernmost area of the country. Their visit is motivated by devotion and ...
• 23 December 2024
  ASIA/LAOS - Resignation and Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of Vientiane Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Vientiane, presented by His Eminence Cardinal Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, I.V. ...