Asia

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  26 January 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Preparing for WYD 2027 in “synodal” style Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - A laboratory of ideas, a place of listening and exchange, an organizational "hub" to coordinate the different charisms and make World Youth Day (WYD) 2027 an authentic initiative of evangelization ...
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  25 January 2024
  ASIA/THAILAND - The formation Center for priests in Saeng Tham confirms and renews its educational mission Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Many Thai priests and consecrated persons have spent years of formation and personal growth at the "Lux Mundi" College and Major Seminary in Saeng Tham, an institute that has played a very valua ...
• 25 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Consecration of bishop of Zhengzhou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Thursday 25 January 2024, the Reverend Taddeo Wang Yuesheng received episcopal consecration, following his appointment by the Holy Father on 16 December 2023 as bishop of Zhengzhou, ...
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  25 January 2024
  ASIA/CINA - The Reverend Thaddeus Wang ordained Bishop of the Diocese of Zhengzhou by Gianni Valente and Marta Zhao Zhengzhou (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Zhengzhou has a new Bishop, after being without a resident Bishop for over seventy years. Today, Thursday January 25, the episcopal ordinat ...
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  24 January 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Camillian missionaries help mentally ill people: “We feel honored” Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "Here we have no time to grow old because the various activities keep us young," writes Father Luigi Galvani from the island of Flores in Indonesia. The Camillian missionary, who is a pioneer in ...
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  23 January 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - 'Reaching for Hope, Branching together': Family Day 2024 in the Sacred Heart Parish in Manama Manama (Agenzia Fides) - "We are the people of one God, we are one family, we come from different countries, with different languages, cultures and traditions, but we are all brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ", emphas ...
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  23 January 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic studies no longer compulsory for non-Muslim students Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - It is a turning point for religious minorities in Pakistan: the study of Islam is no longer compulsory for non-Muslim students in schools at all levels. The Federal Ministry of Education and V ...
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  22 January 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Election campaign: “Avoid instrumentalizing the election” Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Call for "observation of the democratic process", for a "peaceful, honest, fair and dignified election" and for the avoidance of religious content and topics in the political election campaign s ...
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  22 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - State University honors Thomas Aquinas on his 800th birthday Wuhan (Agenzia Fides) - The School of Philosophy of the Chinese State University "Huazhong University of Science and Technology" (HUST) in the city of Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, will hold an academic ceremony in J ...
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  20 January 2024
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The diocesan phase of the cause of beatification opens for two missionary bishops Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The testimony of the two bishops François Pallu (MEP) (1626-1684) and Pierre Lambert de La Motte (MEP) (1624 - 1679), the first missionaries sent to the Far East, is precious for Vietnamese Catho ...
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  19 January 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Presidential election: Ash Wednesday rite postponed to Thursday Ruteng (Agenzia Fides) - So that the faithful can experience the important moment of the elections with full attention and with a conscience enlightened by faith and the search for the common good and charity, and on the ...
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  19 January 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - "The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia is a symbol of freedom and religious coexistence" Awali (Agenzia Fides) - The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia, in Awali, also known as the Cathedral in the Desert, in addition to its predominantly religious nature, is a place of welcome and sharing for thousands of peop ...
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  18 January 2024
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako calls for withdrawal of sectarian militias from the Nineveh Plain Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Church, calls on the government in Baghdad "to assume its national and legal responsibilities by adopting practical and clear measures ...
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  17 January 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The service of the missionaries of Saint Columban in Pakistan for more than forty years Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - More than forty years, the missionaries of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban - priests, nuns and lay missionaries - have been at the service of the people of Pakistan. Father John Boles, ...
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  17 January 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - Nuclear Disarmament: A Natural Buddhist-Catholic Alliance, Explains Japanese Leader by Victor Gaetan * “Jesus and Buddha were peacemakers and promoters of non-violence,” Pope Francis, May 28, 2022 Nagasaki (Agenzia Fides) - At the United Nations headquarters in New York City, on the third f ...