Asia

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  22 October 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The military occupies a Baptist church: new episodes of attacks on Christians Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - The military in Myanmar devastated a Baptist church after attacking the village of Tlang Rua in the diocese of Hakha, in the Burmese state of Chin, in the northwestern area of Myanmar, and encampe ...
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  21 October 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Post-election controversy over the distribution of seats reserved for Christian candidates Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the Iraqi parliamentary elections, which took place on Sunday, October 10, the foreseeable post-electoral controversies over the distribution of the 5 parliamentary seats reserv ...
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  20 October 2021
  ASIA/SYRIA - Melkite Patriarch Youssef Absi: the Gospel can be proclaimed only for "a force that is not ours" Latakia (Agenzia Fides) - In the present time, in which faith "is dying out in many regions of the world", one cannot become and remain Christian by virtue of human strategies and formation courses. One can flourish and ...
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  20 October 2021
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - The Apostolic Prefect: mission is nourished with the depth of faith Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - Moving from "promptness" to a dimension of greater "depth". This is the need for the near future for the Church in Mongolia, according to what was highlighted by Msgr. Giorgio Marengo, Apost ...
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  20 October 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Food crisis for the poor: Jesuit alarm for food security New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The fact that the poor have no food in India, despite the fact that the nation has plenty of it, is a patent injustice: highlights the Indian Jesuit Fr. Irudhaya Jothi SJ, scholar and promoter ...
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  19 October 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Synod of Bishops on Synodality: For a Church on the move under the sign of mission Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Myanmar regards the Synod as a "fruitful opportunity to reconsider its character as a Church on the move, which is really missionary": This is what the Catholic Dioceses ...
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  19 October 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Archbishop of Bangalore refuses to collect data on the activities of Christian missionaries Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian churches are critical of the plans of the government of the Indian state of Karnataka to conduct special research and collection of data on the activities of missionaries and emp ...
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  18 October 2021
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - The Superior of the mission: "New creative forms of evangelizing" Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) - The presence of the Catholic Church in Turkmenistan "is a very humble little flock in a land with an Islamic majority and for this reason it must keep a low profile, but this does not represent ...
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  18 October 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Abolition of the death penalty: a civil society campaign Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign for the abolition of the death penalty, launched by civil society and embraced by Christian Churches and organizations, is intensifying in Indonesia. Several Indonesian civil soci ...
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  16 October 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Beirut massacre, Shiites accuse the militiamen of the Lebanese Forces. Father Zgheib: some seek to rekindle religious clashes Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Lebanon crisis is tinged with blood and rekindles in the collective unconscious of many Lebanese the nightmares never erased from the years of the civil war. After the death of seven Shiite d ...
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  16 October 2021
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The Bishop of Almaty: it is time to promote the role of the laity in the Church Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "In Kazakhstan as everywhere else, the Mother Church must do everything, and even what seems impossible, to meet her children whether they are baptized or not, because it is difficult for anyone ...
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  15 October 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako: the liturgy is not a show Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The liturgy is not "the representation of a show", but is "the strongest expression of the living faith of the Church", the work of Christ himself who through it "calls us to become part of his ...
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  15 October 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Rohingya Christians: Assassination of leader Mohib Ullah must be seriously investigated Cox's Bazar (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply saddened to see that our leader of the Rohingya community Mohib Ullah, founder of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH) was killed by the self-proclai ...
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  14 October 2021
  ASIA/SYRIA - Successor of Greek Orthodox Archbishop Boulos Yazigi appointed in Aleppo, eight years after his mysterious disappearance Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The Synod of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, led by Patriarch Yohanna X Yazigi, has appointed Bishop Efrem Maalouli as new metropolitan of the Greek Orthodox archieparchy of Aleppo an ...
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  14 October 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Liturgical and pastoral activities resume in the Missionary Month Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - With the pandemic situation under control in many parts of Vietnam, and according to the new provisions of the central government, since 1 October, coinciding with the start of the Miss ...