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Pope Francis arrives in East Timor, Asia’s youngest and most Catholic country

September 9, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope Francis arrives in East Timor on Sept. 9, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Dili, East Timor, Sep 9, 2024 / 11:06 am (CNA).
Upon his arrival in the Catholic island of East Timor on Monday, Pope Francis entrusted the new country to the Bles… […]

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Church in Kyrgyzstan: a ‘blossoming bud’ growing in the peripheries of the world

April 8, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

The Apostolic Administration in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, made up of priests, religious, and laypeople, gather in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, during Easter Week, April 2-3, 2024, to pray and discuss the work of the small but growing Catholic community spre… […]

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Indian Cardinal Ferrão to head Asian bishops’ conference amid Church’s continued growth

February 26, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão on Aug. 27, 2022, in Vatican City. / Credit: Franco Origlia/Getty Images

Rome Newsroom, Feb 26, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA).
Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, the archbishop of Goa and Daman, was elected as the new president of… […]

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Cardinal Bo: Even military in Myanmar respects the Church

September 9, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Cardinal Charles Bo of Myanmar / Mazur, catholicnews.org.uk

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 9, 2021 / 16:38 pm (CNA).
When Cardinal Charles Maung Bo became the first cardinal of Myanmar in 2015, he took his new position seriously. “The pope … […]

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In the shadow of an atheist superpower: Catholicism in Taiwan

June 16, 2020 R. Cavanaugh 5

On May 23, Pope Francis appointed Thomas Chung An-zu as the new archbishop of Taipei, Taiwan in a move that came just days after Taiwan’s devoutly Catholic vice president, Chen Chien-jen, stepped down from office […]

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Was this 18th century priest a “Vietnamese Moses”?

July 12, 2017 Sr. Maria Thuan Nguyen 1

In his book A Vietnamese Moses: Philiphe Binh and the Geographies of Early Modern Catholicism, George E. Dutton recounts the saga of Father Philiphe Binh’s attempts to petition the Portuguese king for a new bishop […]

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