Asia

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  20 November 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - Archbishop Kikuchi: "Without migrants, an ageing society will not be able to survive" by Fabio Beretta Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - "Dialogue is the key to stability". This is what Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi, Archbishop of Tokyo, says, who will be created Cardinal by Pope Francis at the upcoming Consistory on ...
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  19 November 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The commitment of the Franciscans: interreligious dialogue defuses religious and social tensions Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Interreligious dialogue and effective cooperation between religious leaders and civil authorities are valuable and effective means of defusing social and religious tensions and ensuring and mai ...
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  18 November 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese academics and clergy discuss the “Historical legacy of the 2024 Concilium Sinense and the Guidelines of China-Vatican Relations” Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – “The Historical Legacy of the 2024 Concilium Sinense and the Guidelines of China-Vatican Relations”, is the title of the academic seminar organized in Beijing as part of the celebrations f ...
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  18 November 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - "They do not leave us in peace." The story of Sister Hanane, who takes care of Shiites and Christians under the bombs by Pascale Rizk Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "We go out in the morning without knowing if we will return in the evening. And this is our daily reality." This is how Sister Hanane Youssef describes her daily life today in ...
• 15 November 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bishops of Korea and Japan have been walking a common "synodal" path since 1996 Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The experience of a "synodal path" that responds to the needs of the people has united the Catholic bishops of Korea and Japan for almost thirty years. The bilateral meetings of the bishops of bot ...
• 14 November 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Schools at risk due to natural disasters: the commitment of Catholic institutions in education Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Up to 35 school days have been cancelled in some areas of the Philippines due to the effects of storms and other natural disasters in recent months, according to the Philippine Ministry of Educat ...
• 13 November 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Violence returns to Manipur Imphal (Agenzia Fides) - The outbreak of violence has flared up again in Manipur, the state in northeastern India that has been shaken for a year by inter-ethnic violence between indigenous groups of the Kuki ethnic gro ...
• 13 November 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Appointment of the New Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - On October 25, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for the first Evangelization and the New Particular Churches), appointed Rev. Fr. ...
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  12 November 2024
  ASIA/KUWAIT - Strengthening ties between the Syro-Malabar Church and the Latin Church in the Arabian Peninsula Kuwait City (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia welcomes the visit of the Head of the Syro-Malabar Church, Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil, who arrived in Kuwait on November 8, where he was rec ...
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  12 November 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Italian President Mattarella pays homage to the missionaries buried near Lake Xizi together with Bishop Yang Hangzhou (Agenzia Fides) - Joseph Yang Yongqiang, Bishop of Hangzhou, a few days after his return from Rome, where he had participated in the last Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, accompanied the Italia ...
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  11 November 2024
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Cardinal Goh after the attack on a priest during a mass: “We cannot allow evil to paralyze the proclamation of the Gospel” Singapore (Agenzia Fides) – “This incident has not only seriously injured a priest in a place of worship, but has also spread fear in the community,” said Cardinal William Goh, Archbishop of Singapore, in a pastora ...
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  11 November 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - In November, the Catholic community of Wenzhou remembers the deceased missionary sisters Wenzhou (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, the Catholic community of Wenzhou, especially young Catholics, gathered in front of the Catholic Sisters Cemetery in Jingshan Park to remember all the nuns who left their homeland ...
• 11 November 2024
  ASIA/THAILAND - Appointment of bishop of Chanthaburi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Philip Adisak Phorn-Ngam, of the clergy of Chanthaburi, Thailand, until now diocesan administrator of the same diocese and parish priest of The Im ...
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  11 November 2024
  MIDDLE EAST/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï congratulates on the election of Donald Trump: "May the election lead to a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah" Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the election of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States of America, the Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Béchara Boutros Raï, expressed in the homily of the Sunday Mass ...
• 9 November 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A partnership between the Korean and French communities for the beatification of missionary Bishop Bruguière Carcassonne (Agenzia Fides) - The Korean and French Catholic communities have joined forces for the beatification of Bishop Barthelemy Bruguière (1792-1835), member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP) and first ...