Asia

• 1 June 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of bishop of Pathein Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Henry Eikhlein, of the clergy of Pathein, Myanmar, until now diocesan administrator of the same diocese, as bishop of the diocese of Pathein, Myan ...
• 1 June 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Resignation and succession of bishop of Mawlamyine, Myanmar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Mawlamyine, Myanmar, presented by Bishop Raymond Saw Po Ray. He is succeeded by Bishop Maurine Nyunt W ...
• 1 June 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of Bishop of Jullundur Vatican City - (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Jullundur, India, presented by Bishop Franco Mulakkal (EG) (Agenzia Fides, 1/6/2023) ...
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  1 June 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Dioceses and parishes committed to "carbon neutrality", in the spirit of Laudato Sì Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the global climate crisis, humanity faces the great task of so-called "carbon neutrality", defined in climatology as "the state of equilibrium between carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of ...
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  31 May 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The "Marian month" ends with pilgrimages and visits to shrines Ende (Agenzia Fides) - More than 15,000 pilgrims have visited the cave dedicated to Mary, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, in Mbay, in the Archdiocese of Ende, on the island of Flores, considered "the Catholic heart of Indone ...
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  30 May 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Young Christian sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy through WhatsApp Bahawalpur (Agenzia Fides) - Nouman Asghar, a 24-year-old Christian from the city of Bahawalpur, in Punjab, was sentenced to death for blasphemy today, May 30, by a court of first instance in Bahawalpur. The young man ha ...
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  30 May 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Freeing "modern slaves" from their chains: the mission of a parish priest in Punjab by Paolo Affatato Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - Five Christian families are trapped in the web of "slave labour" in the clay factories scattered in the countryside of Pakistani Punjab. Each of them includes young people, ...
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  29 May 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Tense situation in Papua: Catholics are trying to resolve the conflict Jayapura (Agenzia Fides) - "The conflict in the Indonesian Papua region is destined to increase in intensity, due to the growing deployment of members of the Indonesian security forces, after the case of the kidnapping o ...
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  29 May 2023
  ASIA/TURKEY - Erdogan remains in power. Bishop Bizzeti: the inadequacy of certain Western analyzes emerges Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The final results of the elections in Turkey, with the victory of the incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also highlight "the inadequacy of Western media tools in presenting the Turkish sit ...
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  27 May 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Women entrepreneurs in rural areas, thanks to the Archdiocese of Calcutta Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) – To restore dignity to women in society, especially in rural areas; to promote their entrepreneurial capacities and develop their skills: it is with this objective that the organization "Seva ...
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  26 May 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Premature death of a Korean fidei donum priest, an example of missionary passion, humility and poverty Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - There are missionaries who leave an indelible mark both in the community where they carried out their apostolic service and in the community of origin, which "brought them to faith" and acco ...
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  25 May 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Prayer and symposium for reconciliation and unity on the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in South Korea is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the war that devastated the peninsula from 1950 to 1953. To mark the occasion, the Korean Church has annou ...
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  24 May 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Girls forced into early marriage: education is the key to the fight against this phenomenon Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - A dramatic figure has been published by UNICEF in recent weeks, indicating that approximately 51% of girls under 18 in Bangladesh are forced into early marriage. Due to a cultural practice, which ...
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  24 May 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Marian processions, Confirmations, Masses and Prayers: how Chinese Catholics experienced the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - 300 Catholics from the parish of Bailing, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Help of Christians, in the diocese of Shantou (Chinese province of Guangdong), received today, Wednesday, May 24, ...
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  24 May 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "A long journey in God's hands". The missionary adventure of Sister Adriana, 62 years at the service of the Korean people Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I arrived in Seoul and everything was destroyed. There were only the cathedral and the central station." Thus begins the story of Sister Adriana Bricchi, a missionary of the Daughters of Saint Mar ...