In the large open space outside Rome, one million young people celebrated their Jubilee ahead of the next WYD in Asia. AsiaNews spoke to some of the 1,500 Koreans in attendance, “eagerly waiting ...

Beijing (AsiaNews) – Robert Francis Prevost “has visited China on several occasions and has learned about its culture and reality,” says Card Stephen Chow Sau-yan, bishop of Hong Kong, in an ...

It was supposed to be a land of promises for those who had always lived from subsistence farming. Thanks to the employment brought by the mine, they had access to modern education and healthcare. But ...

Meeting with Bill Gates, President Prabowo Subianto expressed gratitude for the aid, which the foundation began to give in 2009. The Indonesia leader also pledged to award the US philanthropist ...

Extremist groups have attacked the LeMan magazine, while a Turkish court issued an arrest warrant for the chief editor and three other people, including the cartoonist. Erdogan calls the cartoon a ...

Yerevan (AsiaNews) - Armenian Turkologist Varoužan Gegamyan commented in Novosti. Armenia on the processes of redefining influences in the Caucasus region, where Turkey is increasingly occupying ...

Hong Kong (AsiaNews) – The Diocese of Hong Kong has eight new permanent deacons. Yesterday Bishop Stephen Chow Sau Yan ordained them in a solemn celebration held in the Cathedral of the ...

Clashes with Russia over northern territories is a constant in the history of the past centuries. But today there is no rush of Heilongjiang province residents to seek a home in Siberia at all ...

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 ...

The Pakistani government has decided to strengthen alternative justice mechanisms in the tribal province on the border with Afghanistan, promoting the traditional jirga system and integrating it ...

The pontiff was among the few voices in the world to constantly remember this Southeast Asian country torn apart by a war that has now lasted for more than four years. In 2017, at a time of great ...

The list of participants in the 16th Ordinary General Assembly in Rome next October was announced today. Momoko Nishimura, a consecrated woman from Yokohama, is one of nine delegates who will ...