Asia

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  3 April 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Priests and sisters tell government: No surrogate maternity for India New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – A new Bill intended to regulate the practice of “surrogacy” in India is “a direct attack on the sacred values of marriage, the family, the dignity of women, as well as the natural righ ...
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  31 March 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - The fishermen of Kerala, devoted to St. Joseph Cochin (Agenzia Fides) - Saint Joseph was not a fisherman, but his figure is venerated by the fishermen of Kerala, a state in southern India where fishing represents the local economy. The saint is a point of reference f ...
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  31 March 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A lawyer of the Ahmadiyya community killed in an ambush Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A prominent lawyer and human rights defender, Malik Saleem Latif, who worked ly in Nankana Sahib in Punjab, was gunned down yesterday, March 30, while he was riding a bike driven by his son a fe ...
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  30 March 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - UN inquiry on the conditions of the Rohingya: NGOs and the Church approve Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Myanmar, civil society organizations, several international NGOs have expressed full approval for the UN's decision to establish an official inquiry and a mission to invest ...
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  30 March 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Planting trees in madrasas and to break fasting together: Christian-Muslim initiatives Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Our goal is to encourage and foster a culture of peace, understanding and harmony between religions in Pakistan, especially between Muslims and Christians": says Fr. Francis Nadeem OFM Cap, Exec ...
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  30 March 2017
  ASIA/CHINA - A Lenten journey of interreligious dialogue and spirituality Zheng Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - A Chinese Buddhist monk shares his experience as a pilgrim in India and his great personal devotion to Saint Teresa of Calcutta, and shows the medal of the Saint, blessed on the day of her ca ...
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  29 March 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A new Archbishop in Semarang, ready for Asia Youth Day Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Robertus Rubiyatmoko will be consecrated Archbishop of Semarang, in Central Java, on May 19, and the first major event that will accompany the Pastor of the local community is Asia Youth Da ...
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  28 March 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Free Patriotic Movement leader: an electoral law to get out of political confessionalism is needed Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing discussion between the Lebanese political forces to establish the electoral law with which to celebrate the upcoming parliamentary election is an opportunity to lead the Country out o ...
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  28 March 2017
  ASIA/YEMEN - Health system on the brink of collapse: every 10 minutes a child dies Sana'a (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the intensification of the armed conflict, children continue to be the most vulnerable in Yemen (see Fides 27/03/2017). Every ten minutes a child dies in the Country from preventa ...
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  28 March 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - War On Drugs: Catholics commit themselves to form the consciences of police officers Quezon City (Agenzia Fides) – To raise the awareness of police officers and armed forces, engaged in the daily fight against drugs against traffickers and drug dealers, so that they always respect the principles of jus ...
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  24 March 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - In a liberated Church the 14 "rules of behaviour" imposed by jihadists to the people of Mosul have been found Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Penalties for those who smoke and those who drink, prohibition for women to leave the house if it is not necessary, death penalty for blasphemy are some of the 14 "rules of behavior" that the mili ...
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  24 March 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The experts alarm: the Holy Sepulcher at risk of collapsing Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Sepulcher risks collapsing if nothing is done to shore up its unstable foundations. The alarm was launched by the same team of archaeologists and experts who have just successfully co ...
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  24 March 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - After the Jubilee: in search of the "13th innocent prison apostle" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - In the Year of mercy the community of the baptized in India has multiplied initiatives of pastoral closeness and solidarity in Indian prisons. Hundreds of prisoners have been released or have ...
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  24 March 2017
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The Country is experiencing economic crisis and millions of children do not go to school Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly a third of Afghan children do not attend school and, in a country at war like Afghanistan, this factor increases the risk of becoming victim of child labor, children are recruited by armed ...
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  23 March 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Hassaké: let us not help only Christians Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - The militants of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (Daesh) have withdrawn from the surroundings of Hassaké. For years, they had positions in less than twenty kilometers from the capital of the ...