Asia

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  17 March 2021
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Solidarity and support of Cardinal Yeom and the Archdiocese of Seoul towards the people of Myanmar Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, Archbishop of Seoul, expressed in a letter sent to the Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon and President of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences ...
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  17 March 2021
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Christian institutions, third largest employer among the Palestinian population, according to a survey people Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - A study promoted and funded by the Pontifical Mission to Jerusalem and by the Dar Al Kalima University College of Arts and Culture (academic center founded in Bethlehem by the Lutheran pastor ...
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  16 March 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Escalation of repression: Buddhist monks ready to protest and NGOs, including Caritas, subject to financial investigations Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We are currently witnessing a real escalation of military violence. Yesterday alone, in Yangon and the surrounding area, we counted 189 dead, as reported by the Myanmar Now information network, ...
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  16 March 2021
  ASIA/TURKEY - State advertising agency guarantees advertising shares for minority newspapers Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish Agency, which coordinates the distribution of advertising shares among the Turkish media, will in future guarantee the newspapers of the minorities in Turkey a share of the advertisin ...
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  16 March 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The nuns accompany and comfort the young demonstrators Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The nuns of St. Joseph of the Apparition accompany the young demonstrators nicknamed "heroes of democracy" in their peaceful protest which has been going on for more than a month. As Agenzia Fide ...
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  15 March 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic communities in prayer in honor of St. Joseph under the sign of the Apostolic Letter "Patris corde" Chennai (Agenzia Fides) - All the religious congregations inspired by the figure of Saint Joseph and many Catholic communities in India come together for online meetings, in spiritual communion, for a moment of evening p ...
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  15 March 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Call of the Bishops to end violence and Message from the Holy See in favor of the promotion of peace Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "Strengthened by the mandate and encouragement of the Holy See, we Catholic Churches commit ourselves, together with all people of good will, to the task of seeing this nation rise again in mutua ...
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  12 March 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Support of the Greek Melchite Episcopate for "Lebanese neutrality" Raboué (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Greek-Melkite Catholic Church have also launched an appeal aimed at keeping Lebanon away from regional conflicts, agreeing with the many appeals expressed in this regard by th ...
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  12 March 2021
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Judicial decision on the use of the name of Allah in Christian publications, "a victory of common sense" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - "The High Court's decision to allow the word Allah to be used by Christians across Malaysia is a victory of common sense and should not be seen as the victory of one group or community over ...
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  12 March 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "The country needs peace and freedom; the role of the army is to protect, not to attack the people" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "In this Lenten season let us not abandon the hope that Myanmar will rise again. The path to be followed with faith, love and dialogue is a path of truth and justice, which leads to freedom, peac ...
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  11 March 2021
  ASIA/JAPAN - On the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima catastrophe: Catholic bishops are calling for the nuclear power plants to be closed Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - "In 2011, after the earthquake and the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, we Bishops as believers who protect life as a gift from God, demanded the immediate abolition of nuclear power ...
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  11 March 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - "The military say 'peace' but brutality and violence increase" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "The military wants to show the people and the whole world that they are making peace and that they intend to relaunch dialogue with ethnic groups. This is why they have removed the label of a 't ...
• 10 March 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. Paul" interdiocesan Seminary in Tiruchirapalli Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 9 December, 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Andrew De Rose, of the diocesan clergy of Tuticorin, as Rect ...
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  10 March 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Lent and prayer between distancing and Buddhist feast Danang (Agenzia Fides) - It is a Lent that is affected by the measures of "social distancing", is what is being experienced by the Catholic community of Vietnam. But these measures do not affect faith and the lively spir ...
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  10 March 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Closure of the Twitter account improperly opened in the name of the Archbishop of Yangon Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Yangon, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, asked the social network "Twitter" to delete an account with his name that was wrongly attributed to him. This is confirmed by the secretariat ...