Asia

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  13 September 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bishop Lee: "Young Koreans hope that Carlo Acutis will be the patron of World Youth Day in Seoul" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – "Carlo Acutis is already a role model and a source of inspiration for young Koreans. His person is also very well known in view of World Youth Day (WYD) 2027 in Seoul. We will continue to presen ...
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  13 September 2025
  ASIA/ARAB EMIRATES - Kate and catechism in the Arabian Peninsula, an experience of a new motherhood Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) – Her name is Catherine Miles-Flynn, but everyone calls her Kate. For more than twenty years, she has tirelessly dedicated herself to the Christian formation of young people in the Apostolic V ...
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  12 September 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Joseph Ma Yan'en, Auxiliary Bishop of the new Diocese of Zhangjiakou. Civil Recognition of the Episcopal Ministry of Bishop Augustine Cui Tai by Gianni Valente Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Today, September 12, the liturgical feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary, at 9 a.m., the official installation ceremony of Joseph Ma Yan'en as auxiliary bishop of the new d ...
• 12 September 2025
  VATICAN - Statement by the Director of the Holy See Press Office on Bishops Augustine Cui Tai and Joseph Ma Yan'en Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - We publish the statement by the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, on the recognition by the civil authorities of the episcopal ministry of Bishops Augustine Cui Tai and J ...
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  12 September 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic killed during pilgrimage: Christians demand justice Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply saddened by the murder of Afzal Masih. He was a devout Catholic who was participating in a Marian pilgrimage to venerate and pray to the Virgin Mary. Today, we express our deepest ...
• 12 September 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Zhangjiakou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Friday 12 September 2025, the civil recognition and inauguration of Bishop Joseph Ma Yan'en, formerly of Xiwanzi, took place. The Holy Father, within the framework of the dialogue on ...
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  11 September 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Floods worsen, Caritas Executive Director: "The human and economic costs are enormous" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – "It can be said that the entire country is flooded. No province has been spared by the heavy rains and flooding. There are approximately four million displaced people, and the need for assistan ...
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  10 September 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Suppression of the dioceses of Xiwanzi and Xuanhua with the erection of the diocese of Zhangjiakou, China, and consecration of the first bishop of Zhangjiakou, China Zhangjiakou (Agenzia Fides) - With the desire to promote the pastoral care of the Lord’s flock and to attend more effectively to its spiritual good, on 8 July 2025 the Supreme Pontiff Leo XIV decided to suppress the di ...
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  10 September 2025
  HOLY LAND/JORDAN - Bombing in Doha, Bishop Iyad Twal: "If there is a desire to live in peace, the only solution is that of two States" Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The solution of two peoples and two states in the Holy Land is "the only solution, if there is a desire to live in peace and justice." This is what Iyad Twal, auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchal ...
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  10 September 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - First church dedicated to Carlo Acutis to remind young people: “Holiness is possible today” Verapoly (Agenzia Fides) – While on Sunday, September 7, in St. Peter's Square, Pope Leo XIV canonized Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis, in India, the Archbishop of Verapoly, Joseph Kalathiparambil, consecrated a ...
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  9 September 2025
  ASIA/NEPAL - Apostolic Administrator: "Young people demonstrate for good governance and for their future" Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) – "I see many people on the streets, young people and students, protesting against corruption and a political class that only thinks about its own interests. Their ideals are good, they demand ...
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  8 September 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Bishop Regus: "The crisis has many faces: Young people are protesting against corruption and injustice" Labuan Bajo (Agenzia Fides) - "The crisis Indonesia is currently experiencing has many faces. One could say that it is a combination of different crises: a moral crisis, a crisis regarding respect for the law and the rul ...
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  6 September 2025
  ASIA/THAILAND - Hundreds of young people pray in Bangkok before the relics of Carlo Acutis Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – Hundreds of young Thai Catholics gathered in downtown Bangkok to pray before the relics of Carlo Acutis, the first saint of the "Millennials," who, along with Pier Giorgio Frassati, will be ca ...
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  5 September 2025
  ASIA/LAOS - New minor Seminary in Vientiane named after Carlo Acutis Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - The new minor Seminary in Vientiane, Laos, has been inaugurated named after Carlo Acutis. Bishop Anthony Adoun Hongsaphong, apostolic vicar of Vientiane, capital of Laos, a small state in Sout ...
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  4 September 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Students in front of Parliament; Catholic rectors: promote dialogue and protection of freedom and democracy Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of student movements, workers, and civil society groups gathered today in front of the Parliament building in the capital, Jakarta, for a protest. A coalition of student associat ...