Asia

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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 ...
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  21 March 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - The National Day of the Annunciation moved to April 9th Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The National Day of the Annunciation, usually celebrated in Lebanon on March 25th, this year has been moved to April 9th. This was confirmed by a document released Tuesday March 20 by the Maronit ...
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  21 March 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Gracias to Prime Minister Modi: "Attacks on minorities damage India" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - There is a growing concern in the Catholic Church in India and other minority religious communities due to "sporadic attacks on institutions and personnel of religious minorities in different ...
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  20 March 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - The alarm of the Maronite Patriarch: free Catholic schools begin to close Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis of private schools triggered by the government's provision of new "salary grids" for public sector workers is beginning to have difficult reversible effects: Maronite Patriarch Bechar ...
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  20 March 2018
  ASIA/VIETNAM - In Hue special attention and pastoral accompaniment to divided families Hue (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Hue, in central Vietnam, is dealing with a specific pastoral plan regarding the needs of divided families. As Agenzia Fides learns, many young Vietnamese marry at a young age or w ...
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  20 March 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Transition from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin, also for sacred texts Astana (Agenzia Fides) - "You can try to declare a general rule, which applies in many historical periods and in many linguistic situations: the more the creators of a new alphabet are flexible and intelligent, the more ...
• 20 March 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Bangalore and appointment of new Archbishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 19, 2018 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Bangalore (India), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Bernard Blasius Moras. The Holy Father ...