Asia

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  21 December 2017
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - Christmas just like Greccio for the small Catholic community Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) - "It will be a simple Christmas, marked by the Eucharist and by the living representation of the Nativity. In fact, our children are preparing a small theatrical show to narrate how Saint Franci ...
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  20 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Property issues, devastated a Catholic church in Punjab Sialkot (Agenzia Fides) - More than 50 men have raided and devastated the Catholic church of St. Paul in Sialkot, a city of Pakistani Punjab, claiming ownership of the land where it stands. The parish priest, Fr. Victor ...
• 19 December 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Mgr. Esteban Lo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 6 June 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Mgr. Esteban Lo, LRMI (Lorenzo Ruiz Mission Institute), of the Archdio ...
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  19 December 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Threats of Hindu extremists to Christian schools in view of Christmas Agra (Agenzia Fides) - It is unacceptable that national Hindu right-wing groups keep on threatening Christians ahead of Christmas, say Church leaders in India. Days ago the "Hindu Jagran Manch" extremist group warned the ...
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  19 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Anglican Bishop: "Christians are being put to the test, the God-with-us will console us" Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - The greatest good to protect in the country is peace. This is what Methodist Bishop Sadiq Daniel, at the head of the Protestant community in the provinces of Sindh and Beluchistan stated in the a ...
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  19 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Interreligious prayer in memory of the victims of Quetta Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - We must remain united and face the causes of extremism: is the appeal launched on the occasion of a special interreligious prayer vigil organized in the cathedral in Lahore in memory of the victi ...
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  18 December 2017
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Pakistan: protection and full citizenship for religious minorities There is not only terrorist violence, gratuitous and destructive that affect religious minorities in Pakistan. The attack on the Methodist Church in Quetta brings to light the difficult condition of religious minorities ...
• 18 December 2017
  ASIA LAOS - Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of Vientiane Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 16 December 2017, the Holy Father appointed Cardinal Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, I.V.D., currently Apostolic Vicar of Paksé, as Apostolic Vicar of Vientiane (Laos). (SL) (Agenzia F ...
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  18 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In Quetta the funerals of Christians, victims of the attack that "wants to destabilize Pakistan" Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - A crowd of over 1,500 Christians from all over Pakistan, members of the five confessions present in the country, gathered today in the Christian cemetery of Quetta, for the funeral of the victims ...
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  18 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Bishops: "The attack on Quetta is inhumane; let us pray for peace" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The massacres of innocent lives increase in Pakistan. Let us pray to our Lord Jesus Christ so that, as a nation, he can give us strength, wisdom, tolerance and peace. May God give the victims ...
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  15 December 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian refugees are "the undesirables", says Maronite Archbishop Nassar Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Refugees of the Syrian conflict "are crushed between two walls: they cannot go home, because the streets are blocked and their houses are in ruins, on the other hand the world despises them and ...
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  14 December 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Summit in Bkerké: Christian and Muslim leaders united in "no" to US choices on Jerusalem Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Every unilateral attempt to impose Jerusalem as the exclusive capital of the State of Israel represents an "unjust" act and contrary to all international pronouncements concerning the profile of ...
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  14 December 2017
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Evangelical presence of the Barnabites and silent witness Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The mission of Catholics in Afghanistan is based on a particularity: it is almost exclusively made of silent testimony. When one is active in faith, there is no need for words. But let us ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï: the US move on Jerusalem "slap in the face of the Christians of the East". Islam-Christian summit tomorrow in Bkerkè Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The US Administration’s decision to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem "is a slap in the face of Palestinians, Christians, Muslims and all the Arabs". President Donald Trump' ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - A Muslim Prime Minister in a nation with a Catholic majority Dili (Agenzia Fides) - Although it is going through a turbulent political phase and its newborn government is in difficulty, Mari Bin Amudi Alkatiri is a Muslim Prime Minister who leads a country with a large Catholic ma ...