Asia

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  8 October 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Indonesian priest: "the government should listen to the expectations of young people" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "The expectations of young Indonesians are legitimate; they demand transparency, work, development, good politics, and a future. The problem is that they are being exploited for other purposes," ...
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  8 October 2025
  ASIA/LEBANON - Pope Leo's visit and the weaknesses of the "Lebanese Awakening" by Pascale Rizk Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – Just as the country awaited John Paul II in 1997 and Benedict XVI in 2012, the Land of Cedars is now looking forward to the imminent arrival of Pope Leo XIV, who is expected ...
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  7 October 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “A beautiful gift for the Church in Indonesia”: new mission of the Salesians in Borneo Sungai Raya (Agenzia Fides) – On September 1, 2025, three Salesians—Fr. Adi Prinanto, Fr. Tarsisus Trianto, and Fr. John Laba—officially began their mission in Sungai Raya, near Pontianak, on the island of Borneo, ...
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  7 October 2025
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Discrimination against women and violations of rights: an NGO appeals to the Permanent People's Tribunal Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – On October 8, the Permanent People's Tribunal (PPT) will open its hearing to examine the complaint filed by a coalition of Afghan civil society organizations, which denounces the rights violati ...
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  6 October 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Archbishop Neli: "We need to consider whether closing the border between Manipur and Myanmar will have peaceful effects" Imphal (Agenzia Fides) - "Here in Manipur, we find ourselves in a situation similar to that in Korea or in divided Germany, where the same people are separated by a border. The Kuki-Zo people live partly in the Indian st ...
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  4 October 2025
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Secretary General of the Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle visits Seminaries Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – The official visit of Father Guy Bognon (PSS), Secretary General of the Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle, to Sri Lanka, concluded today with the ordination of four new priests (one ...
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  3 October 2025
  ASIA/THAILAND - A missionary reports: "God surprises me every day by accompanying adults to baptism" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "What particularly strikes me about my missionary work in Thailand is that God surprises me every day, allowing me to witness the blossoming of faith in adults and to accompany adults to baptism ...
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  2 October 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Patron Saint of the Missions: Catholic communities celebrate Saint Thérèse of Lisieux Ningbo (Agenzia Fides) – With rosary prayers, processions, testimonies of faith, liturgies, and theatrical performances, Chinese Catholics celebrated the feast of the Patron Saint of the Missions, Saint Thérèse of th ...
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  2 October 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - New archbishop of Cebu visits earthquake victims Cebu (Agenzia Fides) – The new Archbishop of Cebu, Msgr. Alberto Uy, celebrated his inauguration on the morning of September 30th in the Cathedral of Cebu City, a city in the center of the Philippine archipelago, thus ...
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  1 October 2025
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Catholics' aid to families affected by Typhoon Bualoi: material goods and a heart full of love by Andrew Doan Thanh Phong Thanh Hoa (Agenzia Fides) – Despite the danger posed by the severe floods that submerged entire communities in Thanh Hoa province, on the morning of September 30, 2025, a group of Catholi ...
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  1 October 2025
  ASIA/JAPAN - Missionary witness in the “Land of the Rising Sun” by Pascale Rizk Nagasaki (Agenzia Fides) - It was the year 1549 when Francis Xavier landed in Kagoshima. Although he was not the first European to set foot on Japanese soil, which had already been reached by traders, ...
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  30 September 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - A missionary story: The Diocese of Sanyuan celebrates 400 years of apostolic work in Shaanxi Province Sanyuan (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Sanyuan, in the northwestern Chinese province of Shaanxi, is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the new beginning of the proclamation of the Gospel in Shaanxi Province, as part ...
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  30 September 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Auxiliary Bishop of Yangon: "national dialogue is the only path to peace" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – "Our goal is to promote a national dialogue everywhere to find a way out of the conflict that has been going on for four years and is causing great suffering for the entire nation, for people's ...
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  30 September 2025
  Dis-Order of the World - Global Order and the "twilight" in which "monsters emerge" by Cardinal Dominique Joseph Mathieu, OFM Conv.* Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - In his "Prison Notebooks," the Italian politician and writer Antonio Gramsci said in the 1930s: "The old world is dying, the new world struggl ...
• 29 September 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Mourning in the Episcopate: Placidus Pei Ronggui (1933-2025) Luoyang (Agenzia Fides) - On the morning of September 6, 2025, His Exc. Msgr. Placidus Pei Ronggui, Coadjutor Emeritus of the Diocese of Luoyang, Henan Province, Mainland China, passed away at the age of 92. The Prelate ...