Asia

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  17 November 2018
  ASIA/JORDAN - To paint the face of Christ. An iconography course for Iraqi parishioners and refugees in Amman Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The Face of Jesus was chosen as the model for the brief iconography course organized at the Catholic parish of St. Joseph, in the district of Jabal Amman, in the capital of Jordan. Fr. Mario Cor ...
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  16 November 2018
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Youth and peace, pastoral challenges: meeting between Bishops of Korea and Japan Uijeongbu (Agenzia Fides) - There was talk of young people, of peace, of the proclamation of the Gospel in the 24th meeting between the Bishops of Korea and Japan held this year in the diocese of Uijeongbu, in South Kore ...
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  16 November 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Hundreds of houses illegally taken away from Christians in the Nineveh province Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - There are at least 350 homes belonging to Christians which in recent years have been illegally taken away from their legitimate owners, taking advantage of their absence and through the creation o ...
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  15 November 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The commitment of Caritas: Promoting peace, harmony, human rights Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "It is urgent to promote inter-religious peace and harmony in the country. Radical groups are well organized and it is our duty to make more efforts to build peace and promote human rights": say ...
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  14 November 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: let us help promote a "spirituality of exile and of return" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Bible contains a rich patrimony of writings useful to develop a suggestive and fruitful spirituality able to support and comfort the people who experience the displacement from their ho ...
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  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Taytay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation of the pastoral governance of the Apostolic Vicariate of Taytay (Philippines), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Edgardo Sarabia Juanich. (SL) ...
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  14 November 2018
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - General elections after Christmas: satisfaction of Christians Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The general elections in Bangladesh will be held on December 30th, the date announced by Nurul Huda, Electoral Commissioner. Previously there was talk of a date on December 23, too close to Christ ...
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  13 November 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic women are committed to promoting human dignity and prosperity Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesian Catholic women are committed to promoting human dignity, prosperity and harmony in society. This was reiterated by over 600 delegates attending the 20th Congress of the Catholic Women ...
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  13 November 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops again denounce the sectarian drifts of Lebanese politics Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The teaching of catechism as an essential part of the mission of proclaiming the Gospel to which the Church is called, is the central theme of the 52nd ordinary session of the Assembly of Cathol ...
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  13 November 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A priest: "Asia Bibi was freed by an order from the Supreme Court, not by the Pope" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "In Asia Bibi’s case it was not easy to issue an honest and independent verdict, in the Pakistan context, where people are not ready to face the truth. The Supreme Court examined the case an ...
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  12 November 2018
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - A priest: "The nation needs a strong and stable democracy" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The people of Sri Lanka need a strong and stable democracy": says Father Shankar Pereira, a Catholic priest and human rights activist, to Agenzia Fides, while in the country there is a politica ...
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  9 November 2018
  ASIA/ISRAEL - US Churches write to Pompey: no to Israeli law on the confiscation of ecclesiastical properties Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Dozens of heads of churches in the United States sent a letter to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressing concern over the 'Properties Bill,' which has recently been advanced in the Knes ...
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  8 November 2018
  ASIA/SYRIA- The Syrian Orthodox Patriarch inaugurates the Syrian University of Antioch Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The newly inaugurated university in the village of Maarat Saidnaya (27 km north of Damascus) on the initiative of the Syrian Orthodox Church and its Patriarch, Mor Ignatius Aphrem II is called ...
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  8 November 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi is out of jail, in a safe place Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Asia Bibi, the Christian woman condemned to death for blasphemy and acquitted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on October 31, has been released from prison and is in a safe and secure place. P ...
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  ASIA/TURKEY - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Adrian Loza, OFM Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 6 September 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Adrian Loza, OFM as National Director of the Pontifical M ...