Asia

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  7 November 2018
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Cardinal Yeom: "I will accompany Pope Francis if he goes to North Korea" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "We will welcome a possible visit of the Pope to Pyongyang", said Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, Archbishop of Seoul, and Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Pyongyang. "If the Pope visits N ...
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  7 November 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY - The man who murdered Don Andrea Santoro has been wounded Bodrum (Agenzia Fides) - Oguzhan Akdin, the 28-year-old man who in 2006 killed the Italian priest fidei donum don Andrea Santoro, was wounded, with his brother Alparslan Akdin, by gunshots following a fight with two peop ...
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  6 November 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic religious leaders: "We defend the Prophet, but Asia Bibi is innocent" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "No one tolerates a blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad and we are ready to sacrifice our lives for him. But how can the Court ever punish a defendant when there is solid evidence of her innoc ...
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  6 November 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The spiritual and structural growth of the small Catholic community Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "A mission can grow from different points of view, not only numerically: I believe that the Church of Kazakhstan in recent years is affected by a process of development that touches many aspects, ...
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  5 November 2018
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Towards the general elections: everyone's commitment to the common good is urgent Dhaka (Agenzia FIdes) - "We must pray and commit ourselves in order to ensure that the next general elections are just, peaceful and credible": says Anita Haldar, a Catholic, a social worker who works in the Bengali Cath ...
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  5 November 2018
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Fr. Scalese: "The path of dialogue is the only path for the future of the country" Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "The future of Afghanistan is entrusted to a hope: that the forces in question are willing to carry out a targeted negotiation, on the one hand, to the renunciation of the use of Taliban force, on ...
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  31 October 2018
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Bishops on the political crisis: "wisdom and balance prevail" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "Everyone should keep in mind that, if there is instability in the country, it is the people who suffer, so we sincerely appeal to all political parties to put aside their interests and respect ...
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  31 October 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi has been acquitted: "A victory for all of Pakistan" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Asia Bibi has been acquitted. In the hearing on October 31st which began at 9 am, a three-member panel of Supreme Court justices, led by the President of the same Court, Judge Mian Saqib Nisar ...
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  31 October 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Impulse to new media to spread the work of Caritas Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not news that our world is increasingly linked to communication. For many people, living means being connected. An approach that certainly has limits and negative aspects. However, we must ...
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  30 October 2018
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Cardinal D'Rozario: "The care of children is a pastoral priority" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The care and protection of children is a pastoral priority for the Church in Bangladesh: said Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario, Archbishop of Dhaka, who took part in a gathering of pastoral animators wh ...
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  30 October 2018
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Monastery of Deir el Sultan, tension rises between Coptic Church and Orthodox Church of Ethiopia Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The contrast between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Tewahedo Orthodox Church of Ethiopia about the dispute on Deir el Sultan monastery, the place of worship placed on a roof terrace of the ...
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  30 October 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Desecration of religious symbols: Catholics deplore the Pakistani media Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A peaceful protest against the desecration of the Christian faith and Christian religious symbols was organized by Christians in Karachi who yesterday met in front of the Karachi Press Club. Tho ...
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  29 October 2018
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The Barnabite in Kabul: "The Taliban defeated in the elections, the desire for peace is stronger than bombs" Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "If we were to evaluate the elections for the renewal of the Lower House (Wolesi Jirga) of the Afghan Parliament according to our parameters, one could say that they were a total failure. If, howe ...
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  29 October 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: the "government of national unity" must be open to all political forces Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A possible Lebanese "national unity" government must necessarily "group all the Lebanese political forces", and not just divide the ministries among the political forces that won the elections. T ...
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  29 October 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - To bring the light of Christ to prisoners in the Philippines Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Our attention is focused on the condition of our brothers and sisters who are in prison, deprived of their liberty and deprived of their most basic human rights, we are all aware, for example, o ...