Asia

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  28 April 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Ecological operators, almost all non-Muslims, at high risk of contagion for coronavirus Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - In Pakistan about 95% of the workers involved in cleaning and sanitizing roads, hospitals, schools, sewers and public institutions belong to religious minorities: these are men and women, especia ...
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  28 April 2020
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Zero deaths due to Covid-19, the Church resumes celebrating masses Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Given the excellent management of the coronavirus emergency and the limited spread of the disease, the Catholic community in Vietnam has been able to resume celebrating the Eucharist. As Agenzia F ...
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  27 April 2020
  ASIA - An appeal from the Asian bishops for a global truce in times of pandemic Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Asia have joined the call of the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres and Pope Francis, for a global ceasefire in the face of the unprecedented threat of the coronavi ...
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  27 April 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Aid to families without income must be given priority, in the social crisis due to coronavirus Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "Our first concern is that nobody must feel hungry, so we will provide the poor with food and medicines; families without any monthly income will come first", says the director of Caritas Lebanon ...
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  24 April 2020
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Widespread information to contain Covid-19: the contribution of civil society Kabul (Agenzia Fide) - "We have launched the largest social communication campaign in the Country. Our teams of young volunteers are active in visiting 18 provinces and creating awareness of the risks of the virus and wa ...
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  24 April 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A "Non-migratory" Ramadan due to coronavirus: travelling and pilgrimages prohibited Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - For the holy month of "Ramadan", which began on the evening of April 23 and culminates on May 23 on the feast of Id-ul-Fitr, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, called "Jokowi", officially issued ...
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  24 April 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The policy towards religions does not change: the new government promotes coexistence Astana (Agenzia Fides) - About a year after the resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Kazakh ruler who led the nation from the dissolution of the Soviet Union to March 2019 making freedom of worship one of the flagshi ...
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  22 April 2020
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Church launches a charity fund for coronavirus victims Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Bangladesh launches a special fund to help alleviate the suffering of people affected by the Covid-19 emergency and the consequent lockdown. "The Covid-19 pandemic has affec ...
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  22 April 2020
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Training and legal support: the Church's commitment to orphans Dushambe (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Tajikistan continues its work in support of teenagers belonging to the poorest sectors of society: legal support for young people was born as part of the project of mutual support betwe ...
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  21 April 2020
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Covid-19: a joint response from Israel and Palestine to the virus is needed Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - "Covid 19 has caused the total closure, geographic and economic isolation of the Bethlehem region. Families do not have enough money for food, not to mention medical treatment. At the Holy Fam ...
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  21 April 2020
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The nation stops to commemorate "the martyrs", victims of last year’s Easter massacre Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "This morning all the bells of our churches and of all Christian, Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim places of worship rang to remember the martyrs of the attacks of April 21, 2019, when terrorists comm ...
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  20 April 2020
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The response to Covid-19: Bishop and priests close to people in villages Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - "Our heart is turned and entrusted to Our Lady of Smiles, in the middle of the rice fields of Cambodia, while the suspension of any form of activity for the spread of coronavirus is underway" ...
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  20 April 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - "Divine mercy" Sunday spent for the poorest, blocked by the coronavirus emergency Bhubaneswar, (Agenzia Fides) - Bishops and Catholic faithful in the State of Orissa (Odisha) lived the Sunday of Divine Mercy, April 19, by dedicating themselves to the marginalized, the "discarded", migrants and destitu ...
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  18 April 2020
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Orthodox Easter, Covid-19 does not extinguish the "Sacred Fire" rite in the Holy Sepulcher Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The prohibition to hold religious celebrations and gatherings in recent weeks by the Israeli government to curb the spread of the epidemic is also affecting the Holy Week rites of the Eastern ...
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  18 April 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Covid-19: religious minorities discriminated against in the distribution of food Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The "Saylani Welfare International Trust" organization has acted by discriminating religious minorities in the distribution of food, for the Covid-19 emergency, in the Sindh region. This was con ...