Asia

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  11 November 2021
  ASIA - Promoting peace in Afghanistan, Korea and Myanmar: the commitment of the Asian Conference of "Religions for Peace" Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - Promoting, supporting and implementing, through dialogue and interreligious collaboration, awareness of the dignity of all forms of life; the fight against human trafficking; peace building and re ...
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  10 November 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A Catholic church hit by rockets, Baptist churches burned down Pekhon (Agenzia Fides) - Last night some rockets and heavy weapon bullets fired by soldiers of the Burmese army hit the Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, in the diocese of Pekhon, in the southern part of the Shan S ...
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  10 November 2021
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The Bishop in Sabah: "Christ's mission continues in the midst of the pandemic" Sandakan (Agenzia Fides) - "We are disciples and brothers in Christ even if we are socially separated. Christ's mission does not stop when we are separated to contain the spread of the virus", said Mgr. Julius Dusin Gito ...
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  10 November 2021
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A missionary Foundation named after Cardinal Nicholas Cheong Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Nicholas Cheong Missionary Scholarship Foundation": South Korea’s Seoul Archdiocese has launched a new missionary society in memory of the late Cardinal Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, former Archbish ...
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  9 November 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - "You are a living Church": 400 boys and girls expected in Bagdhad for the meeting of the Chaldean Youth Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "You are a living Church". The words spoken by Pope Francis in Baghdad, in the homily of the liturgical concelebration he presided over in the Chaldean Cathedral of St. Joseph during his pastora ...
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  9 November 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The bill to protect women rejected: protest campaign by Christians Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "We must all be united to defend and promote the proposed bill to protect women of religious minorities from forced conversions. Not only do we want this proposal to become law, but we also want ...
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  8 November 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - The alarm of Catholic Patriarchs and bishops: let us resist the designs of those who want to annihilate Lebanon Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the designs pursued by those who want to cancel the singular and unparalleled physiognomy of Lebanon from the Middle Eastern scenario, the only effective response remains that of retur ...
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  8 November 2021
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Christians bring "the light of hope and care" alongside people of other faiths Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - "We have been living with the pandemic for almost two years and we have seen how it has been a universal cause of suffering for mankind. Yet, even in times of greatest darkness, faith communit ...
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  8 November 2021
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Keep the door of hope open, especially for women Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "That thread of hope that opened in the early 2000s in Afghanistan began to disappear with the shrinking of humanitarian space and the advance of the war". This is what Alessandra Morelli, long-tim ...
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  6 November 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The poorest Filipinos are "non-citizens": undocumented and without identity Manila (Agenzi Fides) - "There are many Filipinos, among the poorest, who are undocumented in our country. They are people without identity, without rights. It is a terrible situation": Bishop Pablo Virgilio David told A ...
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  6 November 2021
  ASIA/TURKEY - Different signals from the Turkish authorities towards schools and foundations of non-Muslim minorities Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - Apparently contradictory and difficult to decipher signals are coming from the different levels of Turkish power regarding the state of difficulty in which foundations and schools linked to minor ...
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  6 November 2021
  ASIA - Conflicts in Asia: Afghanistan and Myanmar the most serious cases Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Seven countries in Asia experienced active armed conflicts in 2020 and 2021. There were three in South Asia: Afghanistan, civil war (major internationalized civil war), India (high-intensity, inter ...
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  5 November 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - “Inter-ritual” football tournament between the parishes in Baghdad. The Chaldeans win on penalties Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The final of the "Pope Francis Tournament", the sporting event that competed 12 teams, representing local Armenian, Chaldean, Syriac, Latin and Coptic ecclesial communities, ended on penalties. ...
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  5 November 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - More than 120 Catholic religious who died of Covid in 2021: "They did not hold back" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - More than 120 consecrated Catholics (including friars and nuns) died from January to September 2021 because of Covid-19 in Indonesia. They were infected in the exercise of their mission of pasto ...
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  4 November 2021
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Catholic Churches of the Holy Land confirm their "Eucharistic hospitality" to the baptized of the non-Catholic Eastern Churches Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - A priest belonging to one of the Catholic communities present in the Holy Land can administer the sacraments of Penance, the Eucharist and the Anointing of the sick even to Christians belongin ...