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The Pope's voice is heard for the first time since his tracheotomy in a mass also attended by Tanzanian bishops.
| 11/03/2005
| VATICAN

Many voices are raised on prisoners' behalf: Taiwan's Cardinal Shan, European Parliament Vice-President Mario Mauro and many Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant online media.
| 09/03/2005
| CHINA – VATICAN

The bill that authorises use of force shows that the military is getting stronger in Beijing, says the prelate. Christians on both sides of the strait must work closely for reconciliation.
| 08/03/2005
| TAIWAN - CHINA - VATICAN

Pope thanks all the leaders and faithful of different religions for their visits to the hospital and prayers. "Let us offer our suffering to God for the good of humanity and our purification," says the Pope.
| 06/03/2005
| VATICAN

The Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad says Iraqi and other foreign hostages should not be forgotten.
| 05/03/2005
| IRAQ - VATICAN

Campaign for liberation of 19 bishops and 18 priests arrested or kept from carrying out their ministry. Join the petition by writing to the National People's Congress and the Olympic Committee.

| 05/03/2005
| china - vatican
by Bernardo Cervellera
Interview with Anthony Lam, an expert on the Church in China at the Holy Spirit Study Centre, a research institute of the Diocese of Hong Kong.
| 01/03/2005
| CHINA - VATICAN

In his reflection before the Angelus read by Bishop Leonardo Sandri, the Pope said that every form of human suffering encloses a promise of divine salvation and joy. I entrust myself again: Totus tuus! The Pope appears at the hospital window and blesses the crowd outside. He greets them touching his throat with his hand.
| 27/02/2005
| VATICAN

| 26/02/2005
| VATICAN – UNITED NATIONS

| 24/02/2005
| vatican
by Bernardo Cervellera
| 24/02/2005
| vatican - italy

A missionary with the Brotherhood of Saint Charles Borromeo in Siberia tells us of the astonishment of non believers who met the love of Christ.
| 23/02/2005
| RUSSIA - VATICAN - ITALY
by Chiara Lubich
He led a life in the service of the Church.
| 23/02/2005
| VATICAN – ITALY
by Piero Gheddo
From India, Fr Piero Gheddo, founder of AsiaNews, remembers the teachings of Communion and Liberation founder on mission and the relationship between faith and life.
| 23/02/2005
| VATICAN - ITALY

Hanoi's new Catholic Bishop and Huê's new Auxiliary Bishop are appointed.
| 22/02/2005
| VIETNAM - VATICAN
by Bernardo Cervellera
| 22/02/2005
| VATICAN – ITALY

In an apostolic letter released today, John Paul II praises communication as an instrument of mission but also warns against the risks of cultural globalisation that the media can cause.

| 21/02/2005
| VATICAN
by Bernardo Cervellera
| 21/02/2005
| VATICAN - ASIA
Editor's choices
 
by Oswald Gracias *
The archbishop emeritus of Bombay (Mumbai), representative of Asia on Pope Francis’s Council of Cardinals, wrote to AsiaNews about the new pope. “He brings hopes, expectations, understanding, openness and a missionary thrust,” the cardinal ...
| 10/05/2025
| VATICAN – ASIA
 
by Alessandra De Poli
Cardinal Prevost, a spiritual son of St Augustine, was elected pope on the very day the Church celebrated the liturgical feast of the martyrs of Algeria, among whom were two Augustinian nuns. And in the description of the “disarmed and disarming” ...
| 09/05/2025
| VATICAN /1
 
Born in Chicago, he is the first pontiff from North America who also served as bishop of Chiclayo and has Peruvian citizenship. For two terms he was prior general of the Augustinians, a religious order also present in many Asian countries. Pope Francis ...
| 08/05/2025
| VATICAN
 
by Nirmala Carvalho
The Indian military claims that Operation Sindoor against Pakistan was “focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature.” Pakistan’s response killed students at a Catholic school. Sadly, “two students lost their lives, and their ...
| 07/05/2025
| INDIA – PAKISTAN
 
by Nirmala Carvalho
In a town of just 8,000 inhabitants in the state of Goa lie the roots of both the Indian Filipe Neri Ferrão and the Pakistani Joseph Coutts, who from this afternoon are participating as electors in the selection of the new pontiff. A sign of the ...
| 07/05/2025
| TOWARDS CONCLAVE
 
by Anna Pozzi
On the day of the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Saigon and the reunification of the country, the experience of the Scalabrinian missionaries who stand by the families arriving in the big city from the countryside.
| 30/04/2025
| VIETNAM
 
Sources told AsiaNews that local priests were summoned yesterday to ratify the choice of Fr Wu Jianlin, vicar general. Another election was held in the Diocese of Xinxiang, in Henan, whose underground bishop has been arrested several times. During the ...
| 29/04/2025
| CHINA
 
by Gianni Criveller
The College of Cardinals Francis created reflects the world more than the Catholic Church, or rather, it reflects her missionary vocation. Numbers count far less than bearing evangelical witness, which Christians are expected to live in the community ...
| 27/04/2025
| EDITORIAL
“L’Asia: ecco il nostro comune compito per il terzo millennio!” - Giovanni Paolo II, da “Alzatevi, andiamo”