Asia

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  7 August 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Attacks on Christian churches and schools: Catholic bishops and representatives of other religious communities appeal to the government Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – "We must take decisive action against anyone who adopts intolerant behavior, even more so when it is accompanied by violent acts that constitute criminal offenses. No one should go unpunished ...
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  7 August 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian and Muslim Dalits excluded from benefits granted by the state of Maharashtra Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - Dalits (so-called "outcastes") who convert to Christianity or Islam will lose the privileges and prerogatives granted by law to the "scheduled castes," the official definition of various histori ...
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  6 August 2025
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako: Eleven years after the expulsion of Christians from the Nineveh Plain, they bear witness to their fidelity to Christ in the midst of tribulations Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Eleven years ago, Christians "were forced by the Islamic State, to leave Mosul and towns of Nineveh Plain, accompanied by looting and burning their properties, homes and Churches. The anxiety of ...
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  6 August 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Korean bishops on abortion law changes: An amendment that "obscures the essence of life" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The proposed amendment to South Korea's abortion law "obscures the very essence of life," the Korean Bishops' Conference said in a statement issued following the "partial amendment to the maternal ...
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  4 August 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Arrested nuns in Durg released on bail: Bishops express their gratitude to the government New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - After several days in jail, Sister Preeti Mary and Sister Vandana Francis of the Green Garden Sisters were released on bail. They were arrested in July at the train station in Durg (Chhattisga ...
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  4 August 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Laying of the foundation stone of the St. Camillus House of Charity in Nita Nita (Agenzia Fides) - "A historic event, simple and full of meaning, that testifies to how the seeds of St. Camillus's charism, planted in this country about fifteen years ago, are beginning to bear concrete fruits of l ...
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  2 August 2025
  ASIA/JAPAN - Nagasaki, the Cathedral bell destroyed by the atomic bomb will ring again: "It will ring to invoke peace" by Fabio Beretta Nagasaki (Agenzia Fides) – Buildings razed to the ground, living beings disintegrated, people killed in seconds as a result of an energy so devastating that their shadows remain imprinted on the wal ...
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  1 August 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Request to open the Cause of Canonization of the Salesian Gaetano Nicosia, apostle among the lepers of Macau Macau (Agenzia Fides) – A request has been made to open the Cause of Canonization of the Salesian missionary Gaetano Nicosia, originally from Sicily and who died in Hong Kong at the age of 102. The announcement was mad ...
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  1 August 2025
  ASIA/KUWAIT - The Church of Our Lady of Arabia in Ahmadi has been elevated to a Minor Basilica: the first of its kind in the Arabian Peninsula Ahmadi (Agenzia Fides) – “This historic recognition by the Holy See is not only a great honor for our Vicariate, but a profound affirmation of the living faith of our people in the Arabian Peninsula.” Bishop Aldo B ...
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  31 July 2025
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Countering misinformation and spreading messages of love, tolerance, and courage: Cambodian and Thai youth united in harmony Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – “We ask every man and woman, every child and elderly person with a good heart, to overcome conflict and choose the path of humility, wisdom, and dialogue.” This is what was said in the ...
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  30 July 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian bishops appeal to government over attacks on nuns and promised "rewards" for those who attack priests New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – The nation's constitutional rights must be protected and guaranteed. This is what the Indian bishops are asking for in an appeal to the government in the face of "the growing climate of host ...
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  30 July 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The adventure “accompanied by small prayers” of Junho Chu, “digital missionary”
  by Pascale Rizk Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – “Now I know. After all, even the Fathers of the Church, Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas, repeated this simple phrase: to be ha ...
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  30 July 2025
  Wars that annihilate peoples and the “Tranquillitas Ordinis” of Saint Augustine by Cardinal Dominique Joseph Mathieu OFMConv* Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - More than a month has passed since the ceasefire came into effect, and we are still far from a peace agreement. Everything suggests that, instead ...
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  29 July 2025
  ASIA/THAILAND - Ceasefire violated: the Diocese of Ubon Ratchathani welcomes displaced people in emergency shelters Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – Clashes on the border between Thailand and Cambodia continue, despite the ceasefire signed less than 24 hours ago. The Thai military has accused Cambodia of violating the agreement, claiming t ...
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  28 July 2025
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - The young people of the Vicariate of Northern Arabia at the Jubilee of Youth, “full of hope to be able to share Christ’s love with others” Awali (Agenzia Fides) – “We are ready to join other young people from different parts of the world on this pilgrimage, full of hope in the mission of sharing Christ’s love, especially with our peers. We have hope, ...