Asia

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  12 June 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - New Prime Minister al Kadhimi visits Mosul and the Nineveh Plain: "Christians, one of the most authentic members of the Country" Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians represent one of the most authentic components of Iraq, and it saddens us to see them leave the Country". With these words, new Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al Kadhimi, on behalf of th ...
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  12 June 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Attack on a Christian family: new episode of discrimination on a religious basis Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - "Our Muslim neighbors have threatened us to leave our home within 24 hours; listening to this threat I dialed the police helpline, but before the police arrived, they started beating me and, ho ...
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  10 June 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - "Egyptian Fatwa" against those who want to re-transform Ayasofya in Mosque. The pronouncement of the Council of State is awaited Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish Council of State, in a session put on the agenda for next Thursday 2 July, will consider opening the monumental complex of Ayasofya to Islamic worship again, reversing the decision ...
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  10 June 2020
  ASIA - Asian Churches promote hope and compassion in the time of the pandemic Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - Christian Churches in Asia are authentic lighthouses of hope and compassion in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis. "Churches live and play a crucial role in accompanying suffering people and co ...
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  10 June 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Pandemic and Pancasila: the Charter of the five principles, the "guiding beacon" for care, cooperation and brotherhood Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - " Pancasila establishes how to behave towards others. With humanity, and consent in the national interest, which must be placed before our individual interest; finally it wants to see us engaged ...
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  9 June 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Vincentians: the anti-terrorism law will bring suffering, violence, impunity Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "We, the Vincentian Family in the Philippines, call on our government to face the poverty and suffering of our people, exacerbated by a health crisis caused by a feared COVID-19 virus. We must ta ...
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  9 June 2020
  ASIA - Migrants in the grip of Covid-19 Bangok (Agenzia Fides) - The suffering condition of migrants has multiplied throughout Eastern Asia, South and North during the Coronavirus period and paradoxically above all in more advanced countries, such as Singapore ...
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  8 June 2020
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Covid-19 emergency: churches reopen for worship, but with some exceptions Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - After a lockdown in force since mid-March, given the ascertained spread of coronavirus in all states of the Malaysian Federation, the Malaysian government has decreed the possibility of reo ...
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  8 June 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Christian Evan Jabro at the head of the Ministry for refugees and migrants Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian professor belonging to the Chaldean Church will manage the policies of the Iraqi government regarding the migratory emergency and the relocation of internally displaced persons. Her ...
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  8 June 2020
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Catholic community is mobilizing for assistance to the poor and economic recovery, in the midst of the Covid-19 emergency Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Sri Lanka has mobilized for assistance to poor families and the most vulnerable people, affected by the socio-economic impact of the Covid-19 health emergency. As repor ...
• 8 June 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Kuzhithurai Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 6, 2020 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Kuzhithurai, India, presented by Bishop Jerome Dhas Varuvel, S.D.B. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 8/ ...
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  6 June 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish press: Erdogan seeks "a formula" to reopen St. Sophia to Islamic worship Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given instructions to change the statute of the monumental complex of Agyasofya, the ancient Byzantine Basilica currently open to the public as a simp ...
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  5 June 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Covid-19, side effects: Catholic schools (already in crisis) risk collapsing Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - With a circular letter published Monday 3 June, Maronite Archbishop of Beirut, Boulos Abdel Sater, ordered the cancellation of the third installment of the fee to be paid by students of the schoo ...
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  5 June 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Coronavirus increases poverty New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In India there is a fight, more than against the coronavirus, against the specter of hunger and poverty. Human rights activists and Christian volunteers made an appeal to the government to ens ...
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  4 June 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - "I love Turkey". Ten years ago the murder of Bishop Luigi Padovese, "man of communion" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Even Luigi Padovese, just like St. John XXIII loved Turkey and loved the Turks". This was underlined by Br. Luca Bianchi ofmCap, Dean of the Franciscan Institute of Spirituality of the Pontifical ...