Asia

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  28 February 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Fertility rate reverses trend: Church community works to restore hope Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The number of newborns and the fertility rate in South Korea are bucking the trend and rising for the first time in nine years of steady decline. According to the 2024 demographic trends, data rel ...
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  27 February 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - The life of Matteo Ricci is being studied in the Beijing parish he founded 420 years ago Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The parish of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Diocese of Beijing (known as Nan Tang, the "church of the South") continues the communal reading of the biography of Matteo Ricci, ...
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  27 February 2025
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Puja ritual in a Buddhist temple dedicated to Pope Francis Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Buddhist monks of a temple in the capital Colombo spontaneously gathered for a special "Puja" ritual to pray for the health of Pope Francis and his speedy recovery. During the Puja ritual, t ...
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  26 February 2025
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Cost of living and fight against crime: the population's expectations from the new government Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The people of Sri Lanka are waiting for a change in the new government, especially on the economic level, with measures that reduce the cost of living and lower taxes on essential goods such as ...
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  25 February 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - United in prayer and hope: meeting and prayer in Taizé style for the Pope Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic faithful of Phnom Penh are gathering in the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in the Cambodian capital for prayer and Eucharistic adoration in the style of the Taizé community, to ...
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  25 February 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Sister Ana, a missionary among young Filipinos: this is how we help them discover their talents by Pascale Rizk San Carlos (Agenzia Fides) - A few days ago the seventh edition of the "Asian Mission" initiative ended, which this year had the motto "Made for a mission. Made for peace". The event brought together 5 ...
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  24 February 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - New bishop consecrated in Rakhine State as fighting continues Pyay (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic faithful of the Rakhine State (or Arakan), in western Myanmar, have welcomed their new Bishop, Peter Tin Wai, a "Good Shepherd" called to lead the Catholic faithful in a situation of c ...
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  22 February 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - In the Jubilee Year, Catholics entrust themselves to the intercession of Cardinal Stephen Kim, Servant of God Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of people - up to 800 a day - come every day to the Catholic cemetery of Yogin, a city south of Seoul, to visit the tomb of Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan (1922-2009), "Servant of God" and ...
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  21 February 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - In the Holy Year, the new “Good News” website launched in Bahasa Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The celebrations of the Holy Year of the Archdiocese of Jakarta coincide with the launch of the “Kabar Baik” (“Good News”) initiative. The newly created Catholic web platform is dedicate ...
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  20 February 2025
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem back Armenian Patriarchate in the face of threat of confiscation of Church property Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - " If one member suffers, all suffer together", say the Patriarchs and Heads of the Christian Churches of Jerusalem, quoting St. Paul from the First Letter to the Corinthians, in order to maint ...
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  20 February 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - BJP woman as Delhi Chief Minister: raising expectations among Catholics New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Rekha Gupta (50) is the new Prime Minister of the Capital Territory of Delhi. The Indian People's Party (Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP), which also leads the federal government with Narendra Mod ...
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  19 February 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - "I only kneel before God": the last words of Father Martin Ye Naing Win by Paolo Affatato Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - When on the evening of February 14 a commando of ten armed men arrived at the rectory of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in the village of Kangyi Taw (in the Shwe Bo dist ...
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  18 February 2025
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - The first training course on ecumenical and interreligious dialogue at the Abrahamic Family House inspired by the Document on Human Fraternity Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) – A week of meetings, dialogues and visits to symbolic places in the Arabian Peninsula to experience and understand how different religions can really live together peacefully in the same plac ...
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  18 February 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Jubilee Year: in the diocese of Multan there is hope for education Multan (Agenzia Fides) - Among the Catholic population of southern Punjab, in the diocese of Multan, the hope that is nurtured in the Jubilee Year is to have concrete educational opportunities, says Father Jamshed Gill ( ...
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  17 February 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Funeral ceremony in the birthplace: ten suspects arrested in connection with the murder of Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - More than 5,000 people, despite the dangers and general violence, gathered in the village of Pyin Oo Lwin to pay their last respects to Catholic priest Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, who was brutall ...