Asia

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  13 August 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Lebanon on the brink of the abyss by Father Gabriel Hachem* Beirut (Fides News Agency) - Since the outbreak of civil war in 1975, Lebanon, a small Middle Eastern country, has not known peace or stability. The population, including Christians, have res ...
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  12 August 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Seoul celebrates the Assumption and its 79 years of independence, Archbishop Chung Soon-taek: "Listening promotes unity" Seoul (Fides News Agency) – "Listening promotes unity, and those who experience such healing from division embark on strengthened paths of faith". This is the heart of the message that the Archbishop of Seoul, Peter So ...
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  12 August 2024
  ASIA/IRAN Middle East, Holy See concerned: Parolin calls the President of Iran War in the Middle East, Parolin-Pezeshkian phone call Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The war in the Middle East is likely to expand more and more. Faced with this bleak scenario, papal diplomacy comes out into the open, taking new steps to avoid escalation. In the after ...
• 12 August 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Sheikh Hasina's ouster seen in India as a grave blow to New Delhi's positions in the area Dhaka (Fides News Agency) - The ouster of Sheikh Hasina Wazed, the former Prime Minister who led Bangladesh for 15 years, is having important geopolitical repercussions in the region. An initial interpretation seems to i ...
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  9 August 2024
  VATICAN - The Pope's caress to Chinese Catholics: "I would like to meet with local bishops and the people of God who are so faithful" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A people of "great faith" who are also "teachers of hope", is the caress that Pope Francis sends to all Chinese people, renewing his desire to make an Apostolic Journey to the Asian country ...
• 8 August 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - "It is to be hoped that public order will be restored after the incidents that have affected mainly Hindus and Christians" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We are waiting for the new government led by Muhammad Yunus" an source from the local Church in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, told Fides. Muhammad Yunus, 84, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 ...
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  7 August 2024
  ASIA/QATAR - Syro-Malabar Community celebrates 25 years of existence under the sign of its "missionary character" Doha (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Qatar is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Syro-Malabar Community of St. Thomas in Doha with numerous activities. On July 3, the feast of St. Thomas, a procession of ...
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  7 August 2024
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Pope Francis: "One cannot invoke God’s name to foment contempt, hatred and violence towards others" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "One cannot invoke God’s name to foment contempt, hatred and violence towards others," said Pope Francis this morning before the General Audience in the Audience Hall during a meeting wit ...
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  6 August 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Vailankanni, the Indian Shrine where everyone experiences Mary's motherhood New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - India is preparing for the great Marian feast celebrated at the Shrine of Velankanni in the state of Tamil Nadu. Every year this Marian shrine is visited by millions of pilgrims, half of whom ...
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  6 August 2024
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako on the expulsion of Christians from the Nineveh Plain ten years ago: "The collective tragedy is still ingrained in people's minds" by Fabio Beretta Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Although the black flag of the Islamic State no longer flies over the Nineveh Plains, "only 60 percent of Christians have returned". It is a collective tragedy, directed aga ...
• 5 August 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - After the Prime Minister's resignation, the army takes power Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Now that the protesters have got what they wanted, we hope that the situation will calm down," a local source in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, where today, August 5, Prime Minister Sheikh Has ...
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  5 August 2024
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - "As the day approaches, we are very excited and we are preparing to welcome the successor of Peter with great devotion": the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians await Pope Francis Comoro (Agenzia Fides) - "As coordinators, we do not work alone, two parishes are involved in the area of Comoro: the Parish of Aimutin of the Claretian religious and that of Mary Help of Christians, of the Salesians. We ...
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  3 August 2024
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Cardinal Tong Papal Envoy to the Fifth Eucharistic Congress of Taiwan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed His Eminence Cardinal John Tong Hon, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, as his special envoy to preside at the concluding celebration of the Fifth Eucharistic Congr ...
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  3 August 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - "The righteous will grow like a cedar in Lebanon." Patriarch Stephen Douayhy proclaimed blessed Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "The righteous will flourish like the palm tree, will grow like the cedar of Lebanon". This is how Cardinal Marcello Semeraro began his homily during the solemn liturgical celebration of the beat ...
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  1 August 2024
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The Church's grateful memory of the martyrs and the present of the Church Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The Roman Martyrology celebrates on August 1 the memory of two priests who were martyred "in the city of Nam Dinh in Tonkin, today Vietnam" and "beheaded for their Christian faith under Emperor Mi ...