Asia

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  29 May 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Special Day of Prayer for Myanmar: "Peace is possible" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday May 30th, the Catholic communities in the Philippines will offer a special prayer for Myanmar. The chairman of the Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), Archbishop Romulo G. Va ...
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  29 May 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Xaverian missionaries have been giving Christian witness among the poor for 70 years Khulna (Agenzia Fides) - "When the first Xaverian missionaries arrived in what is now Bangladesh in 1952, there were few Christians in this area of the Indian subcontinent. At the end of World War II, Greater India was d ...
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  28 May 2021
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Tobji of Aleppo after the presidential election: "Sanctions cause hunger and do not lead to more democracy" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - While the European Union has extended the economic sanctions against Syria by one year, Western politicians and the media have described the presidential election on Wednesday, May 26th, from whi ...
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  28 May 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Harmony Day: a culture of "taking care" as a way to peace Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Today, May 28, the Catholic Church in Bangladesh is celebrating of Harmony Day across the country under the motto "Harmony in Brotherhood". The President of the Episcopal Commission for Christian ...
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  28 May 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Intense fighting in Kayah State: two young Catholic volunteers who assisted the displaced people were killed Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - Intense fighting continues in eastern Myanmar's Kayah state between the Burmese regular army (Tatmadaw), which continues to bomb cities and villages, and the Popular Defense Forces, spontaneously ...
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  28 May 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Fake news about the rape and religious conversion of a Christian girl, and the attack on a church: damage to religious minorities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - On May 24, news spread in Pakistan of the alleged kidnapping of a 14-year-old Christian girl, Sunita Masih, in Faisalabad, Punjab Province. She was supposed to have been abducted, raped and then ...
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  27 May 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Urban warfare and another church hit in Kayah: resistance is being prepared Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - Some rockets fired by the soldiers of the Burmese regular army hit the Catholic church of St. Joseph in the city of Demoso, in the Kayah state, in the eastern part of Myanmar, where intense fight ...
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  27 May 2021
  ASIA/SYRIA - Aleppo, Archbishop Boutros Marayati appointed Patriarchal Administrator of the Armenian Catholic Church Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Armenian Catholic Archbishop Boutros Marayati, at the head of the Armenian Catholic community of Aleppo, was appointed Interim Apostolic Administrator of the Armenian Catholic Church, after the d ...
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  26 May 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Farewell to Krikor Bedros Ghabroyan, Patriarch of the Catholic Armenians Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - On the morning of Tuesday May 25, Krikor Bedros XX Ghabroyan, Patriarch of Cilicia of the Catholic Armenians passed away due to illness in a clinic in Beirut. Born in Aleppo (then under French pr ...
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  26 May 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Interreligious prayer in the Italian Church for peace and brotherhood Milan (Agenzia Fides) – To put an end to the violence, tension and war in Myanmar, and pray so that the Burmese population can return to live in an atmosphere of peace and brotherhood: with this spirit, on Saturday May ...
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  26 May 2021
  ASIA/PALESTINE - After the bombings, Patriarch Pizzaballa launches an aid appeal for the Christian community of Gaza Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – An aid appeal to meet the urgent needs "of our brothers and sisters in Christ especially in Gaza and in places severely affected" during the latest armed conflict which for eleven days again ...
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  26 May 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo appeals after church bombs: it is a humanitarian tragedy, stop the attacks Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "It is with immense pain that we express our concern over the attack on innocent civilians who took refuge in the Church of the Sacred Heart on the night of May 23", said Cardinal Charles Maung B ...
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  25 May 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A civic and political education plan: Catholics prepare for next year's general elections Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The May 2022 general elections will be a crucial turning point in the history of the country. For this reason, one year after that important event, Catholics are called to begin a process of awar ...
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  25 May 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako to Christian politicians: unite forces and strategies, free yourselves from sectarianism Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Iraqi acronyms and political parties encouraged by Christian activists must bring together the forces, strategies and policies to tackle together the emergencies and problems that weigh on the l ...
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  24 May 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Bombing of a Catholic church in Kayah State, two dead among refugees Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Burmese army (Tatamadaw) soldiers attacked the village of Kayan Tharyar, 7 km from Loikaw, capital of Kayah State, with artillery shells last night, with the aim of hitting suspected rebel gr ...