Asia

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  10 March 2022
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Migrants and asylum seekers are reshaping the face of the Catholic community in the Holy Land Tel Aviv (Agenzia Fides) - In the difficult situations they face, the communities of migrants and asylum seekers increasingly characterize the face of the ecclesial communities of the Holy Land, even in their spiritual t ...
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  10 March 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - "Anti-conversion law" proposed in the state of Haryana New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In the Indian state of Haryana, a bill has been presented to regulate religious conversion. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state, located in northern India, has announced t ...
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  9 March 2022
  ASIA/JORDAN - a "Synodal Questionnaire" for Catholics in the Hashemite Kingdom Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The Synod Coordinating Committee set up by the Patriarchal Vicariate for Jordan of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem has also released a questionnaire in digital electronic version with the aim ...
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  9 March 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - Spirituality, concrete abstinence, conversion, pandemic: the Bishops' Lenten recommendations to accompany the synodal journey of the communities Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "I sincerely hope that the reading of the Word of God, the recitation of the Rosary and the Way of the Cross will be more and more widespread in families and communities", recommended in his Pa ...
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  9 March 2022
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Lent dedicated to the protection of life and creation Penang (Agenzia Fides) - Care for life and creation is at the center of the Lenten program in the diocese of Penang and will be for three years. Focusing on the theme “Together we renew and rebuild”, the Diocese of ...
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  8 March 2022
  ASIA/LEBANON - The synodal journey, a "favorable opportunity" for young Christians in the Middle East Rabieh (Agenzia Fides) - The Churches of the Middle East are called to rediscover and reactivate at all levels their synodal vocation, if they want to preserve the transmission of the faith and their apostolic traditions ...
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  8 March 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Oblate missionaries of Mary Immaculate 50 years at the service of evangelization, also in the desert Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Although they are few, the Oblate missionaries of Mary Immaculate (OMI) have courageously accepted the challenge of working to create a new ecclesiastical unit in Baluchistan, a vast, harsh and ...
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  4 March 2022
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops describe war in Ukraine as "surrender" to logic of violence Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The war in Ukraine is a "surrender to the logic of conflict and violence" and marks "the failure of all political and diplomatic attempts to avoid conflict", said "with regret" the Maronite bish ...
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  4 March 2022
  ASIA - Cardinal Bo and the Bishops of Asia: No to nuclear war, the world needs healing Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Avert in every possible way the risk of a nuclear war, promote dialogue and bring global healing to the world: this is the hope expressed in an appeal launched today, March 4, by Cardinal Charles ...
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  3 March 2022
  ASIA/SYRIA - Orthodox Church of Antioch: the war in Ukraine tears apart peoples "born from the same baptismal font" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - For the end of the "painful events" in Ukraine, the Bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church want to look at the "spiritual ties between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples, born from the same baptis ...
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  3 March 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society remembers the Catholic minister Shahbaz Bhatti on the 11th anniversary of his death Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Christian, Muslim and Hindu faithful, civil society leaders and members of human rights organizations paid tribute to the late Federal Minister for Minority Affairs, the Catholic Clement Shahbaz ...
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  2 March 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Bishop Dell'Oro: "We are all children of God" Karaganda (Agenzia Fides) - "Faced with what is happening in Ukraine, I believe that the obligation of each of us must be to offer our neighbor a perspective that is not political. Here in Karaganda there are people of 1 ...
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  2 March 2022
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Church kicks off the "Synod of women" Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The appointment is for Saturday, March 5 in Bkerké, at the headquarters of the Maronite Patriarchate. In that framework, and in the presence of the Maronite Patriarch Béchara Boutros Raï, the ...
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  1 March 2022
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic journalists, promoters of harmony and truth Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "The contribution of Catholic journalists to the nation is invaluable", says to Fides the Executive Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Indonesia, Father Peter Christian Siswantoko, told Ag ...
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  1 March 2022
  ASIA/TURKEY - Bishop Bizzeti: the Turkish government's "courageous" choice to close access to the Black Sea to warships Iskenderun (Agenzia Fides) - "In Florence, for the first time, 60 Catholic bishops and 65 Christian, Muslim and Jewish mayors met and signed a document, which contains many serious and interesting things. This convergenc ...