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Msgr Machado with Pope Francis in Abu Dhabi: The Church must go everywhere‍

Msgr Felix Machado is the archbishop of Vasai and president of the Office for Ecumenism and Interfaith Affairs of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences. For him, “It is not just where Catholics are that the Church must go.” The papal visit is not a waste of time. He was in Abu Dhabi fro

CARDINAL FILONI: “HOLY SEE-CHINA PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT OF HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE”

Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, followed the delicate and complex path of the Catholic Church in China since 1992, the year of its arrival in Hong Kong. In those same years the diplomatic detente began between the People’s Republic of China and the Holy See, with the first […]

BP. HINDER: THE POPE IN ARABIA WILL BE A BRIDGE FOR DIALOGUE WITH MUSLIMS

Pope Francis’s visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a country where most migrant workers are Catholic from different Asian countries, is an “encouragement and a recognition of their existence and value,” this according to Paul Hinder, Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia (United Arab Emirates, Oman and Yemen). Speaking to AsiaNews on the eve of […]

CHALDEAN PATRIARCH: ONE MILLION IRAQI CHRISTIANS HAVE EMIGRATED IN RECENT YEARS

In recent years, with the migratory flows of the Iraqi population to other countries, about a million indigenous Christians have left Iraq. Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako recalls this in a message released on January 31 on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of his patriarchal election. On this occasion, the Patriarch traces a brief account […]