Asia

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  22 July 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - Pandemic crisis and strong impact on the economy: young people take to the streets Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha met in recent days about forty CEOs of major Thai companies and businesses to discuss the serious social consequences of the pandemic and its economic impact on ...
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  21 July 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Ecumenical meetings to relaunch the Council of Patriarchs and Heads of Churches present in Iraq Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of the Chaldean Church, led by Patriarch and Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, held a series of meetings in Erbil with representatives of other Churches and ecclesial communities present i ...
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  21 July 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Age limit for religious conversion: the Ministry of Religious Affairs opposes Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Pakistani Ministry of Religious Affairs has no intention of setting age limits for religious conversion. As Fides learns, during a recent meeting of the Parliamentary Commission for the right ...
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  21 July 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Participating in the political life of the nation and "choosing a leader who embodies the example of Jesus": the invitation of the Bishops Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Almost eight months before the general elections scheduled for May 2022, Mgr. Pablo Virgilio David, Bishop of Caloocan, recently elected President of the Bishops' Conference of the Philippines ...
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  20 July 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Massacre on the eve of the Islamic holiday. Patriarch Sako writes to "Muslim brothers": fratricidal struggles open the gates of hell Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "We have two options: either we unite and cooperate so that our country recovers completely, or we persist in perpetuating our struggles, and open - God forbid - the gates of hell". This is the ...
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  20 July 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Archbishop Howlader: "Young people are missionaries of the Kingdom of God" Chattogram (Agenzia Fides) - "By receiving adequate formation, young people can overcome, with the help and grace of God, all the challenges, fears and concerns that help them realize their dreams. They can be missionari ...
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  20 July 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Administrator of the diocese of Loikaw: the third wave of the pandemic overlaps political and social crisis Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - "In Kayah State and in our diocese of Loikaw, fighting between the military and the People Defense Forces (PDF) began in mid-May. They already caused more than 100,000 civilians to flee their hom ...
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  19 July 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï: "Lebanese people are similar to a flock without a shepherd". And he entrusts the nation to St. Charbel Diman (Agenzia Fides) - The Lebanese people, hungry and bent by the crisis, appear similar to a flock without a shepherd. And in the state of prostration in which they find themselves, also due to the inadequacy of their ...
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  19 July 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Attack on nuns, closure of the emergency department of a Catholic hospital Mokama (Agenzia Fides) - The Emergency Department of the Catholic Hospital of Nazareth in Mokama, southeast of Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, was closed after the attack, on July 16, suffered by the nuns who work t ...
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  19 July 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - "It's time to save lives": Cardinal Bo's appeal for "Martyrs' Day", in the midst of the pandemic Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, July 19, is Martyrs' Day. Their blood was shed to make this country a great country. As the COVID spirals out of control, inflicting fear, anxiety and death, the only way we can pay homa ...
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  17 July 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako: elections at risk of boycott, even Christians could desert the polls Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The risk of fraud and the experience of having been "robbed" of the quota of parliamentary seats reserved by the electoral system for candidates from Christian communities will push many Christi ...
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  17 July 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - National prayer for the end of the pandemic Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "We behave in the best possible way, respecting the protocols, and for the rest we entrust ourselves to God who always has His unfathomable plans, which human beings do not understand. We believ ...
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  17 July 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Solidarity of Catholic organizations around the world to support the nation in the second wave of Covid-19 New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - While Southwest India, in the Kerala region, records a high number of coronavirus infections (more than 13 thousand cases per day) both in rural and urban areas, and while the mortality rate i ...
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  16 July 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Prime Minister-designate Hariri resigns from office. Father Zgheib: crisis with uncertain outcome Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - With Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri's renunciation to form a new government "a new stage of the Lebanese crisis opens. The outcome appears uncertain: new ways out may be opened, or the coun ...
• 16 July 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Delhi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed rev. Deepak Valerian Tauro, of the clergy of Muzaffarpur, former Rector of St. Albert's College in Ranchi as auxiliary bishop of the Metropolitan Archd ...