Asia

• 26 May 2026
  ASIA/KOREA - Appointment of coadjutor archbishop of Daegu Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Simon Jong-Gang Kim, until now bishop of Cheongju, as coadjutor archbishop of the metropolitan archdiocese of Daegu, Korea. Archbishop-elect Simon ...
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  26 May 2026
  "Why are you here?": the legacy of a Korean missionary in Mongolia by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Ulaanbaatar (Fides News Agency) - Three years after his death on May 26, 2023, the figure of Father Stephen Kim SeongHueon remains very much alive in the memory of the Church in Mongolia. A ...
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  25 May 2026
  ASIA/BRUNEI - The life of Catholics in the Islamic monarchy: "With faith and benevolence, praying for local vocations, we are happy" Bandar Seri Begawan (Fides News Agency) – In the small Sultanate of Brunei, located in the northwest of the island of Borneo, there are three Catholic churches and three priests in total, all born there, because only n ...
• 25 May 2026
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - Elevation to the Episcopal Dignity of the Apostolic Administrator of Kyrgyzstan Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has elevated to episcopal dignity, assigning him the titular see of Aeto, the Reverend Father Anthony James Corcoran, S.J., apostolic administrator of Kyrgyzstan. H.E. ...
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  23 May 2026
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Apostolic Vicar Shaw: "A mission of love and fraternity in Balochistan" Quetta (Fides News Agency) – Christians in Balochistan live and bear witness to their faith in Christ in the spirit of love, building bridges between different population groups: This was stated by Msgr. Sebastian Shaw ...
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  22 May 2026
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Proclaiming the Gospel, schools, development: the new Catholic community close to the indigenous people in the Northwest Joypurhat (Fides News Agency) - The Catholic community of Joypurhat is “young, poor, but dynamic and closely connected with the indigenous communities.” It is “a sign of the Church’s growth and its outreach to et ...
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  21 May 2026
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Violence in Papua, Catholics attacked in a church; over 100,000 civilians internally displaced Timika (Fides News Agency) – “The recent drone attack on a Catholic church in Intan Jaya has claimed civilian lives and severely traumatized the local population. As Friars Minor of the Justice and Peace Commission, ...
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  20 May 2026
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Radio Veritas Asia, a voice of hope among refugees of the civil conflict Banmaw (Fides News Agency) – In remote areas, among refugees who have fled towns and villages due to the conflict, in communities scarred by the wounds of civil war and insecurity, one voice continues to offer hope and ...
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  20 May 2026
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Dengue alert: prevention committees in parishes Colombo (Fides News Agency) - Since the beginning of 2026, nearly 28,000 cases of dengue have been recorded in Sri Lanka, with 15 deaths. The epidemic is being exacerbated by the approaching monsoon rains, which encourag ...
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  19 May 2026
  Father Costa: The Church in Mongolia is also a ‘laboratory’ of synodality and inculturation Ulaanbaatar (Fides News Agency) - At the heart of a numerically small (less than 0.1% of the country’s population) yet surprisingly creative Church, the “pastoral week” recently held by the Apostolic Prefecture of ...
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  19 May 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - Hostage crisis in Manipur: Christian religious leaders mediate for release and peace Imphal (Fides News Agency) - A delegation of Christian religious leaders from Manipur and other northeastern Indian states is attempting to mediate the ethnic conflict in Manipur. This conflict, which erupted between the ...
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  18 May 2026
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Archbishop Joseph Vu Van Thien: “The Church in Vietnam, grateful for the missionaries and martyrs, sings its Magnificat” by Paolo Affatato Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – With 30,000 new baptisms annually, the Catholic community in Vietnam demonstrates the vitality of its faith “in the context of a society with many complexities ...
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  18 May 2026
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Arshad: Faced with the educational emergency, “we are committed to the education and vocational training of young people” Islamabad (Fides News Agency) – “In my ministry as a Pastor, first in Faisalabad and then in Islamabad, I have come to understand that in Pakistan we must focus on young people, because they represent 60% of the popu ...
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  16 May 2026
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Cardinal Coutts: "Pakistan as a mediator of peace: We are working for harmony, in Pakistan and in the world" Rome (Fides News Agency) – "Pakistan is acting as a mediator of peace between two major powers, Iran and the United States, for world peace. This is a very positive development. I am also surprised that Pakistan is sud ...
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  15 May 2026
  Cardinal Chow at the exhibition marking the 80th anniversary of the diocese's foundation: our joy is in being able to share the joy of the Gospel with Hong Kong Hong Kong (Fides News Agency) – “The joy of our Church lies in being able to share the joy of the Gospel with Hong Kong”. With these words, Cardinal Stephen Chow Sau-yan, Bishop of Hong Kong, outlined the present a ...