Asia

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  14 September 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Prayer and solidarity of the Korean faithful for the victims of the earthquake in Morocco Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - We entrust the survivors, rescuers and volunteers working in earthquake-stricken Morocco "to the special protection of the Virgin Mary, to her maternal intercession", said Archbishop Peter Soon-Ta ...
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  14 September 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - A new academic year begins in Catholic seminaries. Walk and grow in the faith of the Apostles Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The formation of new and "passionate workers" for the proclamation of the Gospel, at the service of the future of the Church, which in China continues to walk in the faith of the Apostles, is th ...
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  13 September 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A "personal Prelature" for the "migrants of the Gospel" is being studied Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The idea of establishing a "personal Prelature" for Filipino migrants would allow the Church to carry out its pastoral care and missionary work effectively, says Bishop Narciso Abellana, chairman ...
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  13 September 2023
  ASIA CHINA - Cardinal Zuppi in Beijing: Previous visits by cardinals to the People's Republic of China by Marta Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The visit of Cardinal Matteo Zuppi to Beijing, sent on a mission on the official mandate of Pope Francis to try and help find ways of peace in the face of the ongoing war in Uk ...
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  12 September 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Catholic parishes welcome and provide education to displaced children: "Help with prudence, charity and patience, in silence", says the Bishop of Mawlamyine Mawlamyine (Agenzia Fides) - In the parish of Saint Mary of the Assumption in Mawlamyine, southern Myanmar, more than 700 children receive humanitarian assistance and education daily. In other of the 14 parishes of the d ...
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  11 September 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - New episodes of violence in the Indian state of Manipur: Christians study the Encyclical "Fratelli Tutti" as a "manual for reconciliation" Imphal (Agenzia Fides) - New violence is recorded in the Indian state of Manipur, the scene of an ethnic conflict which, in recent months, has inflamed the region of North-East India (see Fides, 9/5/2023 and 9/6/2023). A ...
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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 ...