Asia

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  18 March 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians remember the martyrs of the attacks on the churches in Lahore Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Every year when I hear and think about the attack of March 15, 2015, I deeply feel the pain my people faced in Lahore, fearful memories lead me to think that we are not safe in our country": thi ...
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  16 March 2019
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: the laity and especially women are involved in roles of responsibility also in the Eastern Churches Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "Common priesthood", shared by all the baptized, animates the vocation and mission proper to the laity and in particular of women in the Church, in the diversity of talents and in the complem ...
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  16 March 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Official request of the Indian Bishops: postpone the date of the expected vote on Holy Thursday New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of India has written to the Electoral Commission of India, a governmental body that manages the upcoming general elections, officially asking to change one of the dates ...
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  16 March 2019
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - A small community founded on the Word of God Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) - "When I arrived in Turkmenistan, 22 years ago, there were no Catholic faithful. Over time, I saw a community rise before my eyes. Being a witness of this birth was a great grace of God, because ...
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  15 March 2019
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Housing for the mentally ill: new project of the Camillian religious in Flores Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "It is sad and deplorable to see the conditions in which mentally ill people live on the island of Flores", says to Agenzia Fides Father Luigi Galvani, a Camillian missionary who has been workin ...
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  14 March 2019
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish institute of history prepares 25 volumes to refute allegations on "Armenian genocide" Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - A committee of experts from the Turkish institute of history sponsored the research work of its members in historical archives and libraries in the United States, Russia, Germany and the United ...
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  14 March 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops of Tamil Nadu: change the date of the elections, which coincides with Holy Thursday Madurai (Agenzia Fides) - The Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council has sought change in the poll date for the southern Indian state, scheduled on April 18. The state’s 39 parliamentary and 18 assembly seats will go to poll on ...
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  12 March 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Justice for the outcasts: Christians and Muslims demonstrate New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Christians and Muslims gathered for the great demonstration of national protest announced today, March 12, in New Delhi, to demand an end to discrimination and legitimate rights f ...
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  12 March 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - Young Christians and Muslims will celebrate the Marian feast of the Annunciation together Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - About 1600 boys and girls from over 40 countries will take part in the World Ecumenical Youth Meeting, scheduled in Beirut from 22 to 26 March. The ecumenical meeting is organized and sponsored b ...
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  11 March 2019
  ASIA/SYRIA - Maronite Bishop of Damascus: Syrian Christian communities are getting older and older Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The Syrian population lives in an undetermined condition, without "peace or war". An uncertain and difficult situation, which is becoming unsustainable for the weakest, and which sees an impres ...
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  11 March 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - The enemies are hunger and disease: Lenten campaign of Caritas India Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - The enemies to be defeated in India are hunger and diseases: with this approach Caritas India, the humanitarian arm of the Indian Bishops' Conference, is focusing its Lenten campaign this year ...
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  8 March 2019
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian Orthodox priest: negotiations under way in Baghuz for the release of Archbishop Mar Gregorios Baghuz (Agenzia Fides) - Syrian Orthodox priest Samuel Gümüs, engaged in the pastoral care of the Syrian Orthodox communities present in Germany, declared that the Orthodox Syrian Metropolitan of Aleppo, Mar Gregorios ...
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  8 March 2019
  ASIA - Joint appeal of the Directors of the PMS of India and Pakistan: "Dialogue is urgently needed for the common good of our peoples" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The rulers of India and Pakistan must sit down at a negotiating table and start dialogue sessions to address and resolve the long-standing issue of Kashmir. We are aware that it is an anci ...
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  8 March 2019
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - The community of baptized people increases in a climate of dialogue and peaceful coexistence Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - "If I were to take stock of the last 10 years, I would say that the Uzbek church has not grown in number but in the composition of people, because many have emigrated and at the same time new g ...
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  7 March 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Religious leaders: peace between India and Pakistan, in the name of Francis of Assisi Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Peace between India and Pakistan "is necessary and it is the only viable way, because both countries cannot afford a war, while peace is the only way to prosper and make progress". As Agenzia Fid ...