Asia

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  9 September 2023
  SOUTH KOREA/VATICAN - Official blessing on September 16th: Statue of St. Andrew Kim Taegon placed in a niche on the outside of St. Peter's Basilica Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A marble statue of Saint Andrew Kim Taegon (1821-1846), the first priest and martyr of Korea, will be placed in an external niche of Saint Peter's Basilica and blessed on September 16th, th ...
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  7 September 2023
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - A parliamentary commission to bring truth and justice to the victims of the Easter attacks, while they suffer from the economic crisis Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The victims of the 2019 attacks have the right to truth and justice. This is a call that we cannot abandon and in which we involve civil authorities and international institutions", says Father ...
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  6 September 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - After wave of violence in Jaranwala: First chapel reopened for services Multan (Agenzia Fides) - "I have resumed the daily morning Mass in the Catholic Chapel of St. John, which had been burned down during the violence of August 16. We have also resumed the celebration of the other sacrament ...
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  5 September 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - National Teachers' Day inspired by Mother Teresa of Calcutta New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In Muzaffarnagar, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a school teacher slapped a Muslim child in her class and asked the other children in the class to do the same. In Delhi, a 14-year-old b ...
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  4 September 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Pope Francis inaugurates the 'House of Mercy': works of charity "should not turn into businesses" Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - A journalist, seeing Mother Teresa of Calcutta bent over the foul-smelling sores of a sick person, once told her: "What you do is beautiful, but, personally, I wouldn’t do it even for a m ...
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  4 September 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - "Overwhelmed by a river of grace, in joy and gratitude, the faithful feel like beloved disciples" Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - "For four days we felt a bit like the center of the world. The presence of the Pope among us in Mongolia, for the first time in history, was a literally extraordinary moment. He aroused so m ...
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  3 September 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Pope Francis: harmony among believers is a gift to the world Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - There is a "social significance of our religious traditions", which can be gauged by the extent to which we are capable of living in ‘harmony’ with other pilgrims on this earth" and ‘s ...
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  2 September 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Preghiera per la cura del Creato: l’esperienza del Centro agricolo dei Gesuiti a Giava centrale ASIA/INDONESIA - Prayer for the care of Creation: the experience of the Jesuit Agricultural Center in Central Java Salatiga (Agenzia Fides) - "Agriculture connects people to God and makes them aware of the value of Moth ...
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  2 September 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - The Pope blesses the Church of Mongolia: "God loves littleness, and through it, he loves to accomplish great things" Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - The Church sent by Christ to proclaim his Gospel of salvation is "a poor Church, sustained only by genuine faith and by the unarmed and disarming power of the Risen Lord, and capable of alle ...
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  1 September 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Time of Creation 2023: Agricultural apostolate "should enable young people to get involved" Darkhan (Agenzia Fides) - The "World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation", which is celebrated on 1 September, has a special meaning in Mongolia this year because it takes place in the presence of Pope Francis, who is ...
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  1 September 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Assyrian Patriarch Mar Awa III: the visit of Pope Francis crosses the paths of the great missionary adventure of the ancient Church of the East by Gianni Valente Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis' apostolic journey to Mongolia is "a welcome initiative" that also contributes to rediscovering "the well-documented and well-known history of Christianity in this ...
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  1 September 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Mongolia, Mary leading the way by Gianni Valente Darkhan (Agenzia Fides) - In the Cathedral of Ulaanbaatar there is a statue of the Virgin Mary that suggestively crosses the path of the small Mongolian Catholic community. She w ...
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  1 September 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - The richness of Faiths: working together for the good of all di Gianni Valente by Gianni Valente Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - "I met the Mongolian rulers and they assured me that the new Constitution guarantees religious pluralism and that all religio ...
• 31 August 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of Oriens Theological College Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 22, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Rev. Sac. Stanislaus Chinliankhup, as Rector of Oriens Theological College (OTC) ...
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  31 August 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - The Bishop of Beijing prays for diplomatic ties between China and the Holy See to be established "as soon as possible" Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Joseph Li Shan of Beijing said a prayer for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and the Holy See "as soon as possible" during the solemn Eucha ...