Asia

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  18 September 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - A Directory on the identity, formation and role of lay catechists, who bring the first proclamation of the faith New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Their favorite means of transport is often the bicycle. Sometimes, when it is possible, and when the distances are too large, they travel by motorcycle, if the parish has one available. These ...
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  18 September 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Four Chinese Bishops in Europe to reactivate after the covid fraternal cooperation between the Churches Leuven (Agenzia Fides) - In Europe (Belgium, Holland and France) to reactivate the path of fraternal cooperation between the Churches after the difficult parenthesis marked by the pandemic. This is the reason for the one ...
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  15 September 2023
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Season of Creation 2023: Looking at God in nature Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the "Season of Creation" 2023 (September 1st to October 4th), the Catholic community in Singapore wants to accompany Catholics and non-Christians and especially young people when it ...
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  14 September 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Prayer and solidarity of the Korean faithful for the victims of the earthquake in Morocco Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - We entrust the survivors, rescuers and volunteers working in earthquake-stricken Morocco "to the special protection of the Virgin Mary, to her maternal intercession", said Archbishop Peter Soon-Ta ...
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  14 September 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - A new academic year begins in Catholic seminaries. Walk and grow in the faith of the Apostles Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The formation of new and "passionate workers" for the proclamation of the Gospel, at the service of the future of the Church, which in China continues to walk in the faith of the Apostles, is th ...
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  13 September 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A "personal Prelature" for the "migrants of the Gospel" is being studied Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The idea of establishing a "personal Prelature" for Filipino migrants would allow the Church to carry out its pastoral care and missionary work effectively, says Bishop Narciso Abellana, chairman ...
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  13 September 2023
  ASIA CHINA - Cardinal Zuppi in Beijing: Previous visits by cardinals to the People's Republic of China by Marta Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The visit of Cardinal Matteo Zuppi to Beijing, sent on a mission on the official mandate of Pope Francis to try and help find ways of peace in the face of the ongoing war in Uk ...
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  12 September 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Catholic parishes welcome and provide education to displaced children: "Help with prudence, charity and patience, in silence", says the Bishop of Mawlamyine Mawlamyine (Agenzia Fides) - In the parish of Saint Mary of the Assumption in Mawlamyine, southern Myanmar, more than 700 children receive humanitarian assistance and education daily. In other of the 14 parishes of the d ...
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  11 September 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - New episodes of violence in the Indian state of Manipur: Christians study the Encyclical "Fratelli Tutti" as a "manual for reconciliation" Imphal (Agenzia Fides) - New violence is recorded in the Indian state of Manipur, the scene of an ethnic conflict which, in recent months, has inflamed the region of North-East India (see Fides, 9/5/2023 and 9/6/2023). A ...
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  9 September 2023
  SOUTH KOREA/VATICAN - Official blessing on September 16th: Statue of St. Andrew Kim Taegon placed in a niche on the outside of St. Peter's Basilica Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A marble statue of Saint Andrew Kim Taegon (1821-1846), the first priest and martyr of Korea, will be placed in an external niche of Saint Peter's Basilica and blessed on September 16th, th ...
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  7 September 2023
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - A parliamentary commission to bring truth and justice to the victims of the Easter attacks, while they suffer from the economic crisis Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The victims of the 2019 attacks have the right to truth and justice. This is a call that we cannot abandon and in which we involve civil authorities and international institutions", says Father ...
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  6 September 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - After wave of violence in Jaranwala: First chapel reopened for services Multan (Agenzia Fides) - "I have resumed the daily morning Mass in the Catholic Chapel of St. John, which had been burned down during the violence of August 16. We have also resumed the celebration of the other sacrament ...
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  5 September 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - National Teachers' Day inspired by Mother Teresa of Calcutta New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In Muzaffarnagar, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a school teacher slapped a Muslim child in her class and asked the other children in the class to do the same. In Delhi, a 14-year-old b ...
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  4 September 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Pope Francis inaugurates the 'House of Mercy': works of charity "should not turn into businesses" Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - A journalist, seeing Mother Teresa of Calcutta bent over the foul-smelling sores of a sick person, once told her: "What you do is beautiful, but, personally, I wouldn’t do it even for a m ...
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  4 September 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - "Overwhelmed by a river of grace, in joy and gratitude, the faithful feel like beloved disciples" Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - "For four days we felt a bit like the center of the world. The presence of the Pope among us in Mongolia, for the first time in history, was a literally extraordinary moment. He aroused so m ...