Asia

• 22 November 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Larantuka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Larantuka, Indonesia, presented by Bishop Fransiskus Kopong Kung. The Holy Father has appointed the Re ...
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  22 November 2025
  ASIA - Pilgrims of Hope in Asia: the Missionary Congress of the Churches of the Continent Penang (Agenzia Fides) - An Asian missionary congress entitled “The Great Pilgrimage of Hope” will take place in Penang, Malaysia, from November 27 to 30. It is organized by the Office for Evangelization of the Feder ...
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  21 November 2025
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Katharina Zellweger: "Sanctions against North Korea need to be reconsidered and peace diplomacy is needed" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – “North Korea is subject to extremely strict sanctions due to its missile and nuclear programs. The sanctions are having an effect, but instead of harming the regime, they are primarily affecti ...
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  21 November 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholic communities celebrate the memory of witnesses to the faith, in the month in which the deceased are commemorated Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Father Paul Wang, a Lazarist, served between Beijing and Hebei Province during difficult times in the 1970s and 1990s. He traveled on foot from village to village, wearing hand-me-down clothes ...
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  20 November 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Myanmar's army raids and arrests people in "Scam cities" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar's military government has launched an operation to combat online criminal activity in so-called "scam cities" located on the border between Myanmar and Thailand: on November 18, the army ...
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  20 November 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Cardinal Lazzaro You: “The Council of Shanghai was of crucial importance for the history of the Asian churches” Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The “Concilium sinense”, which took place in Shanghai between May and June 1924, was an event of crucial importance for the history of the Church in Asia. This ecclesiastical event “marked ...
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  19 November 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Anti-conversion laws: Catholics promote protection of freedom of conscience based on the constitution Jaipur (Agenzia Fides) – In the northern Indian state of Rajasthan, bordering Pakistan, the Jaipur Catholic Welfare Society has turned to the Supreme Court to challenge the Rajasthan Prohibition of Unlawful Religious C ...
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  18 November 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Followers of the "Iglesia Ni Cristo" take to the streets: they demand "justice, accountability, transparency" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - With an impressive demonstration that drew over 300,000 people to the streets of Manila over two days, the "Iglesia Ni Cristo" (INC, Church of Christ), a powerful Philippine Christian evangelical ...
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  17 November 2025
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Bishop Subroto: Silent march of Catholics in Dhaka “to say No to fundamentalism and violence” Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) – “Tomorrow we will be in the city center and march hand in hand. The faithful and parish communities of the capital, Dhaka, have organized a silent march and a sit-in for peace, to denounce the ...
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  17 November 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - The "Jubilee of Hope" pilgrimages continue, in the spirit of charity Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – A group of volunteers from the Immaculate Conception Parish of the Diocese of Beijing departed early Saturday morning, November 15, to visit the Hongyang Nursing Home, run by nuns, in Renqiu, ...
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  15 November 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - National emergency declared after typhoons: “The construction boom is also a problem” Manila (Agenzia Fides) – A rapid succession of catastrophic typhoons has prompted President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to declare a one-year national emergency. The Philippines were recently hit by devastating floods caused ...
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  14 November 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian man tried for blasphemy on social media acquitted Sargodha (Agenzia Fides) – Haroon Shehzad, a 49-year-old Pakistani Christian from Sargodha (in Punjab), who had been charged and tried for blasphemy, was acquitted by the Sargodha District Court on November 8. This was ...
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  13 November 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - World Day for the Poor: Camillian missionaries and small miracles of charity on the island of Flores Kupang (Agenzia Fides) – “On the island of Flores, small miracles have very human dimensions: a packet of rice, a school notebook, a door and a window instead of a chain, a center for lonely and abandoned people, a h ...
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  12 November 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - The 600th Anniversary of Leuven Catholic University celebrated in Beijing Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – The 600th anniversary of the founding of Leuven Catholic University (KU Leuven) was celebrated in Beijing. The university was officially founded in Belgium on December 9, 1425, by Pope Martin ...
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  12 November 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Attack in Delhi, arrests in Kashmir; Bishops: unity in the fight against terrorism New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – Indian police have arrested several suspects in Kashmir in connection with the attack in New Delhi, where a car bomb exploded near the historic ‘Red Fort’ on November 10, killing eight p ...