Asia

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  20 April 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - A theatre, a swimming pool, a football field to educate about peace by Father Ibrahim Faltas ofm * Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Franciscans opened their first school in the Middle East in 1598, in Bethlehem, in the Holy Land. Since then, many more schools have opened, providing ed ...
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  20 April 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The journey towards World Youth Day 2027 in Seoul: Opportunity for fruitful cooperation under the sign of synodality Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The preparation for World Youth Day 2027 is an opportunity for fruitful collaboration between bishops, priests, religious and laity on a path of communion and synodality. The Organizing Committee ...
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  19 April 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - World Day of Prayer for Spiritual Vocations: “Mission means following Christ” Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - A cloth bag with the "Our Father" printed on it and an invitation to everyone to always carry the Word of God with them "to be nourished by it every day". This is the unique gift distributed at ...
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  19 April 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Stop the spread of gambling in Negros Oriental: civil society protects the lives of young people Dumaguete City (Agenzia Fides) - Gambling is a scourge in the Philippines. Present in society and culture for centuries, it has also taken on illegal forms and is widespread throughout the archipelago. The Philippine gov ...
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  18 April 2024
  ASIA/KUWAIT - Mission in the Confessional: The Story of Father Dominic Santamaria by Antonella Prenna Kuwait City (Agenzia Fides) - More than eighteen thousand masses, eight thousand one hundred and forty baptisms and seven hundred and forty-eight marriages. The number of liturgies and sacraments ce ...
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  17 April 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Punjab Province: Catholic lawyer is human rights minister Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic lawyer Khalil Tahir Sindhu is Minister of Human Rights in the government of Pakistan's Punjab province, an area that is the economic, social and cultural heart of the nation and where th ...
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  17 April 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - 100th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic parish in Lanniquing: Yi ethnic group pays tribute to the French missionary Paul Vial Kunming (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 Catholics, most of whom belong to ethnic minorities in Yunnan province (southwest China), celebrated the 100th anniversary of the parish of Our Lady of Lourdes in Lanniqing, whose ...
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  16 April 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Is there an attempt to destabilize a country shaken by the economic crisis and the conflict in the Middle East? Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Is there an attempt to destabilize Lebanon by reactivating sectarian conflicts? This is the question that is being asked in the Land of the Cedars following a series of events that have heightene ...
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  16 April 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - "No" to religious polarization on the eve of the elections: Catholic religious and lay people reject the film on "love jihad" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In India, where an electoral marathon begins on April 19th - a long process in seven stages for the election of the Indian Parliament that will end on June 1st - there is no need for cultural, ...
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  16 April 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Stop any form of revenge by Father Ibrahim Faltas ofm* Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Land has been at war for almost seven months. I use the verb to live, even though war means death, suffering and destruction. It is a way of life, or ...
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  15 April 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Father Bouwen after Iranian attack: “Developments are unpredictable. We need a peace conference” by Gianni Valente Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the renewed outbreak of violence in Israel-Palestine on October 7, 2023, the region has been overwhelmed by a series of tragic events that seem to defy rational anal ...
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  15 April 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Bishop of Loikaw: "There is light in the faces of the suffering people, but a dawn of new hope for the nation is urgently needed" Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - "I am in the parish of Soudu, a village in the diocese of Loikaw. It is one of the parishes where pastoral life is still possible. Our cathedral in Loikaw is still occupied by the Burmese army. M ...
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  13 April 2024
  The martyrology of Catholics in Rwanda in 1994 by Stefano Lodigiani Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In Rwanda, which in 1994 was struck by a tremendous genocide that reached the impressive figure of one million victims in a population of 6,733,000 inhabitants (44% Catholic ...
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  12 April 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Democratic Party wins in the parliamentary elections Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In the parliamentary elections on April 10 in South Korea, the Democratic Party and its coalition won a clear victory: according to the official count of seats, the parties received a total of 175 ...
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  12 April 2024
  ASIA/KUWAIT - "Bride who adorns herself with her jewels". The six rites that make the Catholic Church in Kuwait vibrant by Antonella Prenna Kuwait City (Agenzia Fides) - Maronite, Coptic Catholic, Syro Malabar, Syro Malankara, Melkite and Latin are the six rites that bring together in one large Church the varied Catholic community of ...