Asia

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  22 October 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - The Pope to young Indians at the national assembly: "Make your lives fruitful" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The first national Catholic Indian youth conference kicked off yesterday, 21 October. The conference is organized by the Youth Commission within the Bishops' Conference of India (CCBI), which ...
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  22 October 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - Young Lebanese Christians elaborate projects and proposals to promote Tripoli as a city of peace Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - 30 young Lebanese Christians took part in the training program entitled "The future of Christians in Tripoli: challenges and prospects for the new generation", organized by the St. Francis Conve ...
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  20 October 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY: Erdogan calls for autonomy for the Gagauzi people, the Christian Turks of Moldova Komrat (Agenzia Fides) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during his recent visit to Moldova, reached an agreement with Moldavian President Igor Dodon, who fully implemented the status of political-administrative ...
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  20 October 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Bishop visits the displaced persons of Palu: "I am here to give comfort" Manado (Agenzia Fides) - "I am here to give comfort and encourage the population that suffers": said the Bishop of Manado, Mgr. Benedictus Estephanus Rolly Untu, of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, addressing the di ...
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  20 October 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - "The beauty of being small" in the Kazakh Church Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "When I think about the Kazakh Catholics, I am always amazed at the greatness of their faith. They do not have ancient traditions and Catholic roots, but I see a profound devotion to the Church, ...
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  18 October 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Church in the Philippines remembers Italian missionary Fausto Tentorio, killed seven years ago Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Seven years have passed since the killing of Italian missionary Fausto Tentorio of PIME, killed on the island of Mindanao on October 17, 2011. On the seventh anniversary of his death, the Church ...
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  18 October 2018
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Once again the Beit Jamal Catholic cemetery desecrated Beit Shemesh (Agenzia Fides) - 28 graves of the cemetery attached to the Salesian convent of Beit Jamal, near the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, has one again been desecrated by unknown persons. The discovery of the intim ...
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  17 October 2018
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The demolition of the village of Khan al Ahmar begins. Appeal of the Episcopal Justice and Peace Commission Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Tuesday, October 16, three bulldozers continued the work of leveling the land around the Bedouin village of Khan al Ahmar, in the occupied West Bank, east of Jerusalem, in an area c ...
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  17 October 2018
  ASIA - The young Christians of Asia, ambassadors of peace Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - Young Christians in Asia are called to be "ambassadors of peace" in the various social and political contexts of the Asian nations where they live. This is what emerges from the third meeting ...
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  16 October 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Trial for seven innocent Christians: appeal for their release New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to speed up the judicial process which sees seven innocent Christians of Kandhamal, a district in the Indian state of Orissa, in prison. The seven have been languishing in jail be ...
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  15 October 2018
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - The funeral ceremony: thanksgiving mass for Bishop Padilla Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Wenceslao Padilla, Apostolic Prefect of Mongolia, who died from a heart attack on September 25 (see Fides 26/9/2018), three days before his 69th birthday, was buried in Ulaanbaatar on ...
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  15 October 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY - A conference in Istanbul on Ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue in the Franciscan mission Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) – From 15-29 October the XXIII Course of permanent formation for ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue in the Franciscan mission begins, organized in Istanbul by the Pontifical Antonianum Uni ...
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  15 October 2018
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Ethnic-religious reasons behind the tensions between minorities and government Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - There are ethnic-religious reasons behind the tensions in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, located in the eastern part of Tajikistan. This is what Giannicola Saldutti, an associate resea ...
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  12 October 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Jesuits alongside the poor to build a fair and respectful nation Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuits of South Asia support the cause of the poor and with this spirit have promoted and launched the "Lok Manch" ("People's Forum"), a platform of leaders of civil society organizations ...
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  12 October 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Camillians and volunteers from the diocese of Manado engaged together to provide rescue operations in Sulawesi Palu (Agenzia Fides) - "I am in Palu, I visited some places where the earthquake sowed great devastation", says to Agenzia Fides Father Andi Suparman, a Camillian missionary, who arrived on the island of Sulawesi on beha ...