Asia

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  28 July 2020
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Covid-19, the Church offers aid to the homeless Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - With a service for the distribution of masks and hand disinfectants, Caritas Tajikistan has arranged for a project to help the homeless, while the Covid-19 health emergency is underway. This wa ...
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  28 July 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Christian faith flourishes in the territory of the "giraffe women" Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - "The parish of Tananukwe includes five villages and a population of 560 families. The majority of the people in this area are Christian, with a strong Catholic presence". Father Pius Kyan speaks ...
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  27 July 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - Support and hypothesis of compensation for Christian refugees and Yazidi refugees in Kurdistan Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The precarious condition of Christian and Yazidi refugees still displaced in the territories of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan was at the center of the talks held on Sunday 26 July in Er ...
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  27 July 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Archdiocese in Kerala offers the government its facilities as treatment centers for Covid-19 Thiruvalla (Agenzia Fides) - An Indian archdiocese has offered its various facilities and institutions to the government as treatment centers for Covid-19 patients in the state of Kerala. As Fides learns, Archbishop Thom ...
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  25 July 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Catholic volunteers engaged in assisting people under quarantine Pathein (Agenzia Fides) - "We need to help each other and show the widest solidarity towards the needy and vulnerable, while Myanmar is affected by the Covid-19 pandemic": this is the exhortation of Bishop John Hsane Hgy ...
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  24 July 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - The Church participates in the humanitarian service and control of Covid-19 in the largest slum in Asia Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - The parish of Saint Anthony in the area of Dharavi, in the archdiocese of Bombay, is offering its contribution to stem the spread of the Covid-19 virus in Dharavi, one of the largest slums in the ...
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  24 July 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai insists on Lebanese "neutrality", as the contagions of Covid-19 rise Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - While in Lebanon there has been a rise in the number of infections due to Covid 19, and prestigious institutions such as the American University are showing signs of crisis, Maronite Patriarch Be ...
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  24 July 2020
  ASIA - The Claretians: evangelization with the Bible in the time of Covid-19 Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Claretian missionaries continue and strengthen their ministry of evangelization with the spread of the Bible, in times of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Catholic publishing house Claret Publishing ...
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  23 July 2020
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Covid-19 emergency: borders closed, visas denied, the minor seminary of the Latin Patriarchate suspends its activities Beit Jala (Agenzia Fides) - The minor Seminary of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem announces the suspension of study courses and training activities for the 2020-2021 academic year. Various factors have contributed to ...
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  23 July 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - An increase in Covid-19 infections: the Church seeks international support Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "The increase in infections due to Covid-19 that occurred in Kazakhstan since 1 July has led us to ask for international support in launching an emergency project. Currently the situation related ...
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  23 July 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Bishop Tjephe: "The Church has an important role in the peace process" Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church has had and still has an important role in the peace process in Myanmar. And we can say with satisfaction that the ceasefire has been holding up for years in Kayah State and ...
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  22 July 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - "Kemalist theologians": the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque fuels Islamophobia Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The decision to reopen the ancient Christian basilica of Hagia Sophia exclusively for Islamic worship risks becoming "a serious and irreparable error", destined to foment Islamophobic sentiment ...
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  22 July 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic nun "mother of the mentally disabled" dies from Covid-19 Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The funeral of Sister Ruth Lewis, 74, religious of the Congregation of the Franciscan Missionaries of Christ the King (FMCK), who lost her battle against Covid-19 on 20 July 2020, at the Agha Kh ...
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  22 July 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - The Sisters of Bethany: one hundred houses for the poor on the centenary of the congregation Mangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The congregation of the Sisters of the Little Flower of Bethany (the so-called "Sisters of Bethany"), on the occasion of the centenary of the foundation of the Institute, has started a housing ...
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  21 July 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean patriarchate: the expulsion of Iraqis carried out by the USA is "Inhuman and immoral" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Patriarchate, led by Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako, is following with concern the story of Iraqis who have been residents of the United States of America for a long time and are now ...