Asia

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  30 October 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - "The importance to recognize and see the other as a human being": Neve Shalom-Wahat al Salam, where Israelis and Palestinians live together Tel Aviv (Agenzia Fides) - "We are living in traumatic times of war. Everyone at our School for Peace is shocked and saddened by the incomprehensible atrocities committed by Hamas and the lethal and vengeful response tha ...
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  28 October 2023
  ASIA/LAOS - "Now that I am Bishop, I still have a lot to learn". The 'on the move' mission of the Vicar Apostolic of Paksè by Paolo Affatato Paksè (Agenzia Fides) - "The missionary spirit, the missionary practice of going to the villages and visiting Catholic families, or talking about Jesus to those who do not know him, with joy in the he ...
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  27 October 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The pastoral service of three new priests in Taunggyi, a territory where life is in danger due to the civil war Taunggyi (Agenzia Fides) - For the three new Burmese Jesuit priests of the archdiocese of Taunggyi, a city in central Myanmar, which is part of the territory of Shan State, the task of serving the community and caring fo ...
• 27 October 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Khrist Premalaya" Regional Philosophate Seminary in the archdiocese of Bhopal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 11, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed the rev. Father Thomam Peringalloor, SVD, 68 (2/11/1955) and 39 years of pries ...
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  27 October 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Sister Giovanna, Comboni missionary in the land of Jesus: "join us in prayer" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "You know very well the reality we are experiencing. The war has been going on since October 7: bombings by Israel on Gaza following Hamas attacks (see Fides, 8/10/2023). Here in Jerusalem, th ...
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  26 October 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - The Holy See grants the "Nihil Obstat" for the cause of beatification of the 35 martyrs of Odisha Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – For the Catholic Church in India there is a "significant step forward" in the process of beatification of Kanteshwar Digal and Companions, the so-called "35 Martyrs of Kandhamal", who were ...
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  26 October 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Filipino Muslims express solidarity with the Palestinian population Marawi city (Agenzia Fides) - Filipino Muslims express their solidarity with the Palestinian people subjected to bombings in Gaza and call for an end to Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip: the conflict in the Middle East ...
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  25 October 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Young people are entrusted with building peace in North-East India. Prayer for the Middle East, in communion with the Pope Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - Ethnic and cultural diversity, pluralism, different languages and origins are a wealth that must be spent to nourish dialogue, mutual exchange, individual and community growth, openness to vast ...
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  24 October 2023
  Time is Greater than Space. The Holy See diplomacy and the “Vietnamese lesson” by Victor Gaetan (In the decade 1965-1975, between 790,000 and 1.14 million Vietnamese civilians and soldiers died as a result of war while the US military suffered over 58,000 casualties. Between 1963-1973, the US d ...
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  24 October 2023
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Jubilee of Saint Arethas: all parishes celebrate the Martyrs of Arabia Manama (Agenzia Fides) - There are special events that mark the path of the Catholic Christian community of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia: in particular, today, October 24, all the parishes of the Catholic C ...
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  24 October 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A new station in the Catholic radio network, in the wake of Radio Veritas by Paolo Affatato Tandang (Agenzia Fides) - The new Catholic radio inaugurated by the Philippine diocese of Tandag is called "Unitas Radio". It is the first Catholic radio station in the Surigao region, on the island ...
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  23 October 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - World Mission Sunday 2023: Catholic communities remember missionaries, who gave their lives to proclaim the Gospel Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Following in the footsteps of the missionaries of the past and with a view to the proclamation of the Gospel in today's China, many Catholic communities in mainland China intensely experienced W ...
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  23 October 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Full support for the Palestinian people: Peace in the Middle East lies in the "two-state solution" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - On October 15, 1937, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the political leader who would become the founding father of Pakistan a few years later, after the partition of India and Pakistan in 1945, said in a ...
• 21 October 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Appointment of coadjutor archbishop of Makassar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Fransiskus Nipa, of the clergy of Makassar, Indonesia, hitherto judicial vicar and deputy parish priest of the cathedral, as coadjutor archbis ...
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  21 October 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "God's chef": As a missionary among the poor and homeless Seoul (Agenzi Fides) - Father Vincenzo Bordo, missionary of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, put on the apron 30 years ago and is now known in South Korea and beyond as "God's chef". He has lived and worked as a missiona ...