Asia

• 8 June 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Kuzhithurai Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 6, 2020 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Kuzhithurai, India, presented by Bishop Jerome Dhas Varuvel, S.D.B. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 8/ ...
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  6 June 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish press: Erdogan seeks "a formula" to reopen St. Sophia to Islamic worship Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given instructions to change the statute of the monumental complex of Agyasofya, the ancient Byzantine Basilica currently open to the public as a simp ...
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  5 June 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Covid-19, side effects: Catholic schools (already in crisis) risk collapsing Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - With a circular letter published Monday 3 June, Maronite Archbishop of Beirut, Boulos Abdel Sater, ordered the cancellation of the third installment of the fee to be paid by students of the schoo ...
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  5 June 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Coronavirus increases poverty New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In India there is a fight, more than against the coronavirus, against the specter of hunger and poverty. Human rights activists and Christian volunteers made an appeal to the government to ens ...
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  4 June 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - "I love Turkey". Ten years ago the murder of Bishop Luigi Padovese, "man of communion" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Even Luigi Padovese, just like St. John XXIII loved Turkey and loved the Turks". This was underlined by Br. Luca Bianchi ofmCap, Dean of the Franciscan Institute of Spirituality of the Pontifical ...
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  4 June 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Civil society and Catholic leaders campaign: "No" to new Anti-Terrorism Law Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A large part of civil society in the Philippines has launched a campaign to oppose the controversial new Anti-Terrorism Law approved in Parliament. Human rights activists, Catholic leaders, lawye ...
• 4 June 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Rouphael Zgheib Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 March 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Rev. Rouphael Zgheib, of the Maronite clergy, as National Director ...
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  3 June 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Economic crisis, the Maronite Patriarchate and the Jesuit University promote agricultural training projects Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The serious economic crisis that Lebanon has gone through, further aggravated by the Coronavirus pandemic, has seen the spontaneous initiatives of people multiply, who for the first time start to ...
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  3 June 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Interreligious coexistence and solidarity: the songs of Catholics are viral on social media Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Two songs sung by Catholic nuns, priests and lay people, in the most densely inhabited Muslim country on the planet, have got the audience of social media heated on two very topical matters: the ...
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  2 June 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - Covid-19, ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: governments cannot impose rules on the celebration of the Eucharist Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Orthodox Churches have followed the dispositions imposed by the civil authorities of their respective Countries to combat the coronavirus pandemic, closing the churches and celebrating the ...
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  2 June 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Unemployment and new poverty: lockdown due to the pandemic has a serious economic and social impact Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The pandemic and the lockdown imposed to contain Covid-19 have a serious impact on millions of destitute, marginalized or people who survive thanks to a daily wage in the Philippines. According t ...
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  1 June 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Neither monolithism nor indifferentism. Maronite patriarch defends the Lebanese institutional model Bkerkè (Agenzia Fides) - The Lebanese political model, in its historical singularity, represents a heritage to be protected and applied, and not a negative remnant of the past from which to emancipate. This is what Mar ...
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  1 June 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Ecumenical prayer for Pentecost: to bring new hope for India New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "In these difficult times, while we are fighting Covid-19, we pray for the healing of the sick and for the recovery of our land. As a family of God, we are united in one accord and united in f ...
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  1 June 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence against religious minorities: the emergency continues Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Episodes of violence against Christian and Hindu religious minorities continue to cause concern in Pakistan and to arouse indignation in civil society. Ironically, violence takes place while t ...
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  30 May 2020
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Churches help migrants during the time of the pandemic Kuching (Agenzia Fides) - While the national lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19 is still in force, many churches in Malaysia are offering aid and services for migrants. The Movement Control Order (MCO), a national ...