Asia

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  4 April 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Massacre of innocent Christians: minorities under attack Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - "It is sad to see that once again our people are attacked and killed on the occasion of one of our religious festivities. First the bomb at Christmas and now a massacre of the innocents at Ea ...
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  4 April 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY- Arguments and protest follow civil authorities’ intervention in internal matters of the Armenian Patriarchate Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) – Within the Apostolic Turkish Armenian community protests and division continue regarding the results of the process of election of the new Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, with see in I ...
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  28 March 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian tortured to death in a hospital Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Pakistani Christian died after the brutal beatings suffered by security guards and medical staff at a hospital in Lahore. As Agenzia Fides learns, Sunil Saleem, 26, was killed on March 26 while ...
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  28 March 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Cardinal Tagle to wash feet of migrants, refugees on Holy Thursday Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila will wash the feet of 12 migrants and refugees or displaced during Mass on Holy Thursday, March 29, at Manila Cathedral. As reported to Agenzia Fides by the ...
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  27 March 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - Islamic-Christian Feast of the Annunciation celebrated at the Presidential Palace Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time, Lebanese President Michel Aoun opens the doors of the presidential palace of Baabda to the celebration of the Annunciation, which since 2010 has been proclaimed an Islamic-Ch ...
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  27 March 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The youth of Pakistan: "Every baptized person is a missionary: this is our vocation" Sahiwal (Agenzia Fides) - The young Catholics of Pakistan express satisfaction and hope because the Catholic Church, through the Synod dedicated to young people, is interested in their future. This is what emerged from a ...
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  27 March 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - "May India be guided by justice and truth": the hope of Christians for Holy Week New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "In this Holy Week, let us pray for our country and its political leaders, at federal and regional levels, so that they can be guided by justice and truth. Let us bring before God the innocent ...
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  26 March 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Governor Hammadi: 4 thousand families of Christian refugees have already returned to Mosul and in the Nineveh province Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - More than four thousand families of Christian refugees have returned to Mosul and the Nineveh Province in recent months, after Iraqi President Haider al Abadi proclaimed the defeat last 9 December ...
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  26 March 2018
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - A seed of hope after 6,000 days of war Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent times there have been some positive signs: in mid-February the Taliban declared that they are ready to start negotiations with the United States; at the end of the same month, Ashraf Gh ...
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  26 March 2018
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "The risen Christ removes the stones that have trapped our people" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "Easter is a day of hope. Darkness seemed to have swallowed up the small group of disciples of Christ. But the Resurrection has turned all the despair into a celebration of hope. Human history ha ...
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  23 March 2018
  ASIA/THAILAND - A missionary: "Feast, joy, peace: Easter in Thailand" Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - "Creation is the first visible Word of God. Creation is the first legible sacred text: God said: Let there be light, and there was light. Let there be plants and animals, and there were plan ...
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  23 March 2018
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian sources: Turkish air raids destroy Christian archaeological sites Afrin (Agenzia Fides) - The Directorate-General of the Syrian Department of Antiquities denounced, in an official note, the destruction of important Christian archaeological sites caused by air raids carried out by the T ...
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  23 March 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "National Day of Pakistan": Muslims and Christians together for peace Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Muslims and Christians together for peace, praying for a future made of harmony, reconciliation, prosperity, common well-being: this is how today, March 23, the "Pakistan Day", a national holiday ...
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  22 March 2018
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Interreligious violence, the Director of the PMS: "After the civil war, people want peace and prosperity" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "In Kandy, interreligious violence has stopped and the situation has returned to normal. Tourism can return to prosper, as we all hope, while we are trying to mend the social fabric according to ...
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  22 March 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - New social initiatives could give impulse to religious freedom Astana (Agenzia Fides) - "The new social initiatives proclaimed by Kazakh President Nazarbaev have the potential to bring improvements, also in the religious sphere and have favorable repercussions for the religious free ...