Asia

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  1 October 2026
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In Mariamabad, the memory of Capuchin missionary Father Frank Van Butsele, who gave his life for the Gospel Lahore (Fides News Agency) – As the feast of St. Francis of Assisi approaches, during the eighth centenary of his death (1226–2026), the Catholic community of Mariamabad village, in Pakistan’s Punjab Province, is l ...
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  1 October 2026
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Franciscan family marks the 800th anniversary of the Transitus of St. Francis in a spirit of dialogue and peace Islamabad (Fides News Agency) – Franciscan fraternities in Pakistan are marking the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi (1226–2026), ahead of the liturgical feast of St Francis on October 4, renewi ...
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  30 September 2026
  The Gospel bears fruit among mountainous ethnic minorities in Northern Vietnam by Andrew Doan Thanh Phong Păc Năm (Fides News Agency) – Rather than waiting for the local people to come, the priest actively entered their lives. Initially, he went to the local market to converse, build up the ...
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  30 September 2026
  The Heaven opened, the Bishop’s Mission, and the Grace of being a little flock by Cardinal Giorgio Marengo* Rome (Fides news Agency) – On September 29, Anthony James Corcoran, SJ, was ordained a bishop beneath the vaults of Rome’s Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls. Cardinal Giorgio Mar ...
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  30 September 2026
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - In the tribal area of Joypurhat, Bishop Gomes: “the new diocese between poverty and hope” by Paolo Affatato Joypurhat (Fides News Agency) – “In poverty and weakness, there is God’s Providence; there is his Spirit accompanying us and bringing us gifts that surprise us. We experience this every day in ...
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  29 September 2026
  Bishop Martinelli at the Inter-Christian Symposium in Thessaloniki: Migrants have made the Arabian Peninsula a “Laboratory of an Intercultural Church” Thessaloniki (Fides News Agency) – The global migration flows that characterize the present age intersect, in surprising and mysterious ways, with the paths of apostolic ministry. In recent decades, the large number ...
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  29 September 2026
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - “The fate of the flock is my fate”: Bishop Anthony Corcoran’s missionary road by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Biškek (Fides News Agency) – On September 29, Cardinal Giorgio Marengo will lay his hands on the head of Father Anthony Corcoran, an American-born Jesuit, who will become a bishop that day. ...
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  28 September 2026
  100 YEARS SINCE THE ORDINATION OF THE FIRST SIX CHINESE BISHOPS/II - Bishop Melchior Sun Dezhen and the Diocese of Anguo One hundred years after the ordination of the first six Chinese bishops consecrated in modern times (October 28, 1926), Fides News Agency is publishing a series of documentary profiles on these Successors of the Apostles ...
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  28 September 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - In Mumbai, the Church’s mission at the heart of the megalopolis by Paolo Affatato Mumbai (Fides News Agency) – A Church called to carry out its mission in the heart of one of India’s largest, most dynamic and complex megalopolises: this is the daily reality of the Archdiocese ...
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  25 September 2026
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Auxiliary Bishop of Saigon: “We stand alongside migrants and families, bringing the Gospel to the complexities of the metropolis” Ho Chi Minh City (Fides News Agency) – A metropolis in constant transformation, Vietnam’s economic centre and a destination for millions of people from every part of the country. It is in this context that the Cathol ...
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  24 September 2026
  ASIA/MYANMAR — Bishop among displaced people in Kachin State: “You are not forgotten” Myitkyina (Fides News Agency) — They brought hope and spiritual consolation to more than 1,000 internally displaced people living in the St. Teresa refugee camp, described as “the most vulnerable faithful of the Dioc ...
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  24 September 2026
  ASIA/INDONESIA - After the earthquake: the dream of a safe home for hundreds of families in Flores Maumere (Fides News Agency) – More than a month after the earthquake that struck the island of Flores on 15 August 2026 (see Fides, 15/8/2026), the emergency is not yet over. Tremors continue, albeit with less intensit ...
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  23 September 2026
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Easter bombings: “Towards Truth and Justice” Colombo (Fides News Agency) – “It is a wound that is slowly healing. The healing process is underway. With this verdict, we can say that we are moving in the direction of truth and justice, since those who carried ou ...
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  23 September 2026
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - San Francesco 800: Music and fraternity at the Cathedral in Awali to celebrate the Poverello of Assisi

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  Awali (Fides News Agency) – Music as a language of faith, the memory of St Francis as an opportunity for encounter, and dialogue as a path towards building peace. These were the ...
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  22 September 2026
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Easter attacks verdict: 15 of 24 defendants convicted Colombo (Fides News Agency) – Fifteen of the 24 defendants have been convicted in the trial concerning the attacks of 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, which targeted three churches and three luxury hotels in Sri Lanka, ki ...