Asia

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  15 January 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Detained for 100 days: international initiative calls for the release of 83-year-old Jesuit father Stan Swamy Jaipur (Agenzia Fides) - Today, January 15, 2021, the 83-year-old Jesuit Father Stan Swamy, who has been imprisoned in Taloja Prison in Mumbai since October 8 for alleged sedition, has been detained for a total of 100 da ...
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  15 January 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops call for a fair vaccination campaign taking into account ethical principles Manila (Agenzia Fides) - In a joint Pastoral Letter, the Philippine bishops call on the country's government to ensure that the anti-Covid-19 vaccination is equally available to all citizens, but also to choose a vaccine ...
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  14 January 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Christians support and promote the anti Covid-19 vaccination campaign Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Indonesia support the national Covid-19 vaccination campaign. After the first injection of the vaccine organized live on TV for the President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, the first p ...
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  14 January 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Prayer for Pope Francis’ visit to be recited on every Sunday Mass Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - From next Sunday, January 17, the Chaldeans are invited to recite together a prayer composed by Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako in order to ask the Almighty Lord to make possible the announced visi ...
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  14 January 2021
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - Pastoral Letter for the new year: "Christ is faithful to his Church and offers great opportunities for grace, in the challenge of the pandemic" Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - "2020 brought with it unprecedented challenges: many people fell ill, others continue to face serious economic difficulties. Our country went through political and social upheavals. For many, th ...
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  13 January 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Position of the Episcopate against a revision of the Constitution during the pandemic Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Several Bishops of the Philippines express strong reservations about the new initiatives to revise the 1987 Constitution during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the Philippine political panorama, in fac ...
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  13 January 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - Pandemic exacerbates gender discrimination at work Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - In Thailand, over 47% of the workforce are women, who are, however, often treated unfairly and discriminatively: They are paid less than men and often do the heaviest work under insecure conditi ...
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  12 January 2021
  ASIA/TURKEY - Sister Maria Concetta Mustacciu died of Covid-19: "guardian" of the Church of Tarsus Tarsus (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Maria Concetta Mustacciu of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Church died yesterday, Monday, January 11th as a result of Covid-19 disease. Sister Maria Concetta was the mother super ...
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  12 January 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Murder of two young Christians, killed for not wanting to give up their faith according to the pastor of their Protestant community Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The merciless murder of Abida and Sajida is a tragedy that shows how the lives of religious minorities in Pakistan are held by a thread or is worthless. Rape, kidnappings, forced conversions and ...
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  12 January 2021
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Legislative elections: Nur Otan party of former president Nazarbayev wins Nur Sultan (Agenzia Fides) - "After the resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev, it was believed that Kazakhstan could open itself to the first democratic concessions on a political and economic level and emulate the so-call ...
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  11 January 2021
  ASIA/KIRGHIZSTAN - Elections and constitutional referendum: the country towards presidentialism with leader Japarov Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not surprising that Sadyr Japarov won the Kyrgyz presidential elections with almost 80% of the vote. What is significant, however, is the fact that yesterday the constitutional referendum ...
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  11 January 2021
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - The contribution of Catholic nurses to health assistance during the pandemic, a channel of God's love Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic nurses in Singapore, in this time of pandemic, are a valid and precious contribution, and it is an extraordinary channel for communicating God's love. This is what the Archdiocese ...
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  11 January 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Publication of the slogan and logo of the Pope's apostolic visit to Iraq Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "You are all Brothers": the expression of Jesus, taken from a verse of Matthew's Gospel ("As for you, do not be called 'Rabbi.' You have but one teacher, and you are all brothers", Mt 23, 8) has ...
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  9 January 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The feast of the Black Nazarene attracts thousands of faithful in prayer in Manila Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The pandemic and health protocols have not discouraged Catholics from meeting today, January 9, to pray and worship the "Black Nazarene", which is one of the most heartfelt devotions in the count ...
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  9 January 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Cardinal Coutts for his 50 years of priesthood: "God helps me to witness and announce the Gospel in Pakistan" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Fifty years of priesthood in the name of Harmony which is his episcopal motto: this is what Cardinal Joseph Coutts, Archbishop of Karachi said in an interview with Agenzia Fides on the occasion ...