Asia

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  9 October 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to journalist Maria Ressa, a sign of hope for the future Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "This is the first Nobel Prize ever awarded to a Filipino citizen. The fact that it is awarded to a woman and a brilliant journalist, Maria Ressa, distinguished for her professionalism in the cur ...
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  8 October 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Political elections, the Chaldean Patriarchate shares the appeal for the vote of Grand Ayatollah Al Sistani Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - While Iraqi citizens are preparing to go to the polls to elect the 329 members of the new Parliament, the Chaldean Patriarchate joins its voice to that of the Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, who ...
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  8 October 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Aid to evicted and displaced citizens due to public construction works in Karachi Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Over 12,000 families have lost their homes, 96,000 people are homeless and more than 30,000 children have left schools, due to the demolitions carried out by the authorities along the Gujjar an ...
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  8 October 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - A park named after the Jesuit, Father Stan Swamy: Hindu extremists oppose Mangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Naming a park after Father Stan Swamy, the Jesuit unjustly arrested for sedition who died in hospital, in judicial custody, last July (see Fides, 6/7/2021), is the initiative of the Society of ...
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  7 October 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite bishops: "satisfaction" for the new government, anguish for the "human hemorrhage" of young people fleeing the Country Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - In the "worrying" condition in which Lebanon finds itself, the "absolute priority" is to try to stop the flight of young people who leave the country, a real "human hemorrhage" that deprives the ...
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  7 October 2021
  ASIA - Bishop Dell’Oro: "The new Bishops' Conference will benefit the mission of the Church in Central Asia" Karaganda (Agenzia Fides) - The new Bishops' Conference of Central Asia - which will bring together the bishops of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan - represents an opportunity for the matur ...
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  7 October 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Visiting the sick and loving the poor in the name of Jesus Goa (Agenzia Fides) - Visiting the sick, bringing comfort to the suffering and relief to the poor in the name of Jesus: this is the mission of a group of nurses from Goa who, as volunteers, go to orphanages, homes for th ...
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  6 October 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako: the future of Christians in the Middle East depends above all on them Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The presence of Christian communities in the Middle East and their survival in the lands of the first apostolic preaching call into question "first of all" the responsibilities of Middle Eastern ...
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  6 October 2021
  ASIA - Evangelization in Central Asia in times of Evangelii Gaudium: webinar of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The mission of evangelization in Central Asia in times of Evangelii Gaudium. Context, difficulties, perspectives": is the title of the webinar organized by the Pontifical Missionary Union ...
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  6 October 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - In the Year dedicated to St. Joseph, the first book on the saint in Bengali Rajshshi (Agenzia Fides) - "Saint Joseph: protector of the family and of the universal Church" is the title of the first book published in Bengali in honor of the saint, in the special year dedicated to him. This is what ...
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  5 October 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic leaders: "Politics incites religious hatred, violence is orchestrated" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The violence in 13 places in the northern states of India is not random or the work of isolated elements. It is a systematically orchestrated and synchronized work to intimidate the Christian ...
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  5 October 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Record of violence in a single day against Christian communities New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In just one day, October 3, at least 13 episodes of violence and threats were committed by members of radical Hindu groups to the detriment of Christian communities in the states of Uttarakhan ...
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  4 October 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Preserving the beauty and the population of Boracay: "No" to the spread of gambling Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the Western Visayas region, in the center of the Philippines, calls for the protection of the social, cultural and moral environment of Boracay, a well-known island and tou ...
• 4 October 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of metropolitan Archbishop of Bhopal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Bhopal, India, presented by Archbishop Leo Cornelio, S.V.D. At the same time he appoi ...
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  4 October 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Spiritual comfort for the faithful, between conflict and pandemic Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - Life is not easy in the various territories of Myanmar, marked by the pandemic and by the ongoing conflict between the regular army and the resistance forces (People Defense Forces), born through ...