Asia

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  7 September 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Boom of vocations to priesthood in the diocese of Manado Manado (Agenzia Fides) - Seminarians and priests in Manado, capital of the Indonesian province of North Sulawesi, in eastern Indonesia, are not lacking. As a matter of fact, they are overabundant. As Fides learns, in the ...
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  7 September 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Mother Teresa's lesson: Faith as an aid in combating addictions Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - Faith is a decisive force in fighting addictions related to drugs, alcohol, gambling and many others. This is what Fr. Joseph Pereira says, a priest of the diocese of Mumbai who was blown away by ...
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  7 September 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite church: salary increase for private school teachers has to be funded by the State Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Lebanese government's new provisions on a salary grid and the resulting increase of salaries in the public sector risk having a devastating impact on the entire reality of Lebanese schools ma ...
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  6 September 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Experiences of true Islamic Christian brotherhood in Catholic majority areas Lembata (Agenzia Fides) - In a country, Indonesia, with the most densely populated Muslim majority in the world, there are also small Christian and Catholic majority areas, especially in the central part of the vast Asia ...
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  5 September 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Muqtada al Sadr in the Vatican? So far no official request (and no invitation) Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Announcements and rumors which have circulated in the past few days regarding a next visit to the Vatican by Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr and his possible encounter with Pope Francis have ...
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  5 September 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A Bishop: "Rohingya, a matter of humanity. May both parties build peace" Mawlamyine (Agenzia Fides) - "In the ongoing crisis in the state of Rakhine, it is urgent to show humanity. We launch a humanity appeal to both sides: the military and Rohingya guerrillas. We must respect and build a fut ...
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  5 September 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Heads of the Churches of Jerusalem: assault on the "Status Quo" in order to weaken the Christian presence in the Holy Land Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches of Jerusalem, "a systematic attempt to undermine the integrity of the Holy City" and "to weaken the Christian presence in the Holy City" ...
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  5 September 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Over 17 million people affected by flooding, intervention of the Camillian Task Force Patna (Agenzia Fides) - The state of Bihar (North-East India) is again submerged by water. This is what the Camillian Task Force (CTF) India told Fides, reporting the deaths of 514 people and of 17.2 million affected in ...
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  4 September 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Still tensions between the Chaldean Patriarchate and some Christian political acronyms Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Patriarchate responded with an official note to the recent criticisms publicly addressed to Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako by the Chaldean National Congress, a political acronym found ...
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  4 September 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Church in Pakistan proclaims the Year of the Eucharist Multan (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to make the Eucharist the center of our Christian life, our families and our homes": with this spirit, the Catholic Church in Pakistan celebrates 2018 as a special "Year of the Eucharist ...
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  1 September 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishop of Marawi’s appeal: "Priority is to save the lives of hostages" Marawi City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are living hours of great concern. The crisis in Marawi is almost over. The Filipino army has reconquered much of the city and among the terrorists a handful of diehard people remain who ...
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  1 September 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Member of the Sutoro Brigade killed in Qamishli. Archbishop Hindo: Russia and the US do not support Kurdish autonomist projects Hassakè (Agenzia Fides) – On Thursday August 31 a clash between militiamen in the north-east Syrian city of Qamishli caused the death of a member of Sutoro self-defense groups, often accredited by the media as "Christ ...
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  31 August 2017
  ASIA/JORDAN - Memorandum of Understanding for new joint projects between the American University of Madaba and Jordanian Christian Schools Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The American University of Madaba and the General Secretariat for Christian educational institutions in Jordan signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at fostering the collaboration and sharing ...
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  31 August 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Quran teaching compulsory at school: more Islam in society Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Pakistan's senate approved the teaching of the Quran compulsory in public schools. The text obliges all educational institutions to impart the teaching of the Quran to Muslim students from cla ...
• 31 August 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. Joseph" Major Seminary in Mandalay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 1, 2017, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the Rector of the "St. Joseph" Interdiocesan Philosophical Seminary in the ...