Asia

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  12 March 2018
  ASIA/SYRIA - In Ghuta, evacuation of civilians begins. Bishop Khazen says: the method used for Aleppo can work there too. Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – At least 52 civilians, including 26 children, were evacuated during Sunday 1 March from east Ghuta, an enclave east of Damascus controlled by anti-Assad militia and under siege by the Syria ...
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  9 March 2018
  ASIA/CHINA - "24 Hours for the Lord": Chinese Catholics join the Pope and the universal Church Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Despite being a working day, the parish of the Holy Trinity, in the city of Jiu Jiang, Jiang Xi province, in mainland China, is crowded with faithful of all ages since this morning, March 9th: n ...
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  9 March 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Patriarchate: "to vote is a duty" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – The participation in the upcoming political elections, scheduled for May 12, represents "a national and moral duty" and an opportunity to advance Iraq on the path of democracy, stability and j ...
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  9 March 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Women entrepreneurs increase with the help of Caritas Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Accompanying Pakistani women along the path of forming an entrepreneurial mindset and starting their own small or medium-sized enterprises: this is the goal of Caritas Pakistan which in Karachi ...
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  9 March 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Msgr. Dal Toso: "the primacy of the mission consists in listening to the Word of God" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "We cannot proclaim the Word of God if we do not first receive it with an open heart. For this reason, even for us today, the first commandment is, “Listen Israel”, as we heard in the Gosp ...
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  8 March 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Acts of vandalism on a newly inaugurated Catholic chapel in Sumatra Palembang (Agenzia Fides) - The chapel dedicated to St. Zaccaria, recently inaugurated in the diocese of Palembang, in the South of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, was attacked on the night between 7 and 8 March by som ...
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  8 March 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Msgr. Dal Toso: India offers many promises for the future of the Church Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "I thank you for this invitation that brings me for the first time in my life in India, in a country that offers many promises for the future of the Church. It has been my desire to come here ...
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  8 March 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Bishops: no interference of security services in political elections Bkerke (Agenzia Fides) - The electoral process that will lead Lebanon to vote on 6 May to renew the composition of the national parliamentary assembly must guarantee free and independent elections, and must be defended a ...
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  8 March 2018
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Christians: a renewed commitment to peace in the Korean peninsula Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Religious leaders, social workers, human rights activists, leaders of civil society organizations renew their commitment to peace in the Korean peninsula: this is one of the messages underlined at ...
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  7 March 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY - The State Council overturns decision on expropriation of Armenian church in Diyarbakir Diyarbakir (Agenzia Fides) - The decree of the Turkish government, which two years ago had ordered the expropriation of St Giragos church, in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir, was repealed by the State Council. The pronoun ...
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  7 March 2018
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Msgr. Paul Bui Van Doc was a Pastor who "brought the joy of the Gospel to all" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The sudden and tragic death of Msgr. Paul Bui Van Doc, Archbishop of Hochiminh Ville (formerly Saigon), during the course of the ad limina visit trip in Rome, has deeply struck us. The pro ...
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  7 March 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Sexual abuse on minors: it is urgent to break the taboo and adopt preventive measures Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There is an alarming increase in sexual abuse on minors in Pakistan: with this awareness the "Cecil & Iris Chaudhry Foundation" (CICF), led by the Catholic Michelle Chaudhry, has launched a progr ...
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  7 March 2018
  ASIA/CHINA - The Catholic community devoted to Saint Joseph, Patron of China Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The fervent devotion to St. Joseph, Patron of China, which has been handed down for several generations among Chinese Catholics, is rediscovered every year with further enthusiasm in March, the ...
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  6 March 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - The new evangelization in the Indian context, between secularization and communalism Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The new evangelization in the Indian context: this will be the theme which Bishops, experts, theologians, delegates from India and the Vatican will discuss, in the national symposium organized ...
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  6 March 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Record of blasphemy cases in Punjab: it is urgent to listen to the cry of the innocent Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Punjab and Lahore district are areas in which there has been an extraordinary incidence of blasphemy cases in Pakistan in the last three decades: this is what the NGO "Center for Social Justice", ...