Asia

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  1 March 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Lent, time to help Christians in Orissa Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians in different parts of India, especially in Kandhamal district in Orissa, need constant prayer and support from everyone, especially during Lent": says to Agenzia Fides Archbishop ...
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  1 March 2017
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - For the Lunar Year celebration, Lenten penance postponed Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - "Tsagaan Sar", which literally means "White Moon", rich in symbolism and rituals that take place in families, such as a thorough cleaning of the house, wishes pronounced by the elders, praye ...
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  1 March 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Maronite Archbishop: Bitter Lent for the Syrian churches, many priests have fled Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The Christians of Syria are preparing to live a "bitter Lent", and among the many factors of suffering and sorrow afflicting the Churches of Syria there is the fact that many priests who during ...
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  27 February 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "Repent to save the planet: urgent ecological conversion" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we are faced with an environmental holocaust. It is a very delicate moment. Pope Francis raised his voice against this impending disaster talking about modern sins, 'ecological sins' made ...
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  24 February 2017
  ASIA/JORDAN - Tourism of the Hashemite Kingdom focuses on "Christian places" Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Biblical religious tourism and especially national "Christian heritage" are increasingly at the center of the Jordanian government strategies to encourage the flow of foreign visitors to the Hashe ...
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  23 February 2017
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Diocesan Yearbook: 591 thousand Catholics in Hong Kong, 5 thousand more than last year Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – At the end of August 2016, there were 591,000 Catholics out of a population of 7,346,700 inhabitants in Hong Kong. The Catholic figure is contained in the new Yearbook of the Church of Hong ...
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  23 February 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Peace Center: "The answer to terrorism is unity" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Our response to terrorism is unity. We will continue to promote peace, justice, harmony with all men and women of good will in Pakistan, in the face of the terrorist threat that has bloodied the ...
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  22 February 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Health education seminars for students and a medical mission for over 600 sick people Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - Since their arrival in the diocese of Maumere on the island of Flores, Indonesia, in 2009, the religious Camillians have promoted the celebration of World Day of the Sick with various initiative ...
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  22 February 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Israeli army begins the demolition of Bedouin villages. Even the "School" at risk Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli army bulldozers have already taken action to implement the announced demolition of Bedouin villages situated within the territories of the occupied West Bank, east of Jerusalem, in ...
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  22 February 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Lynching in Lahore: 42 Christians convicted of terrorism Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Lahore anti-terrorist court sentenced 42 Christians for terrorism. As Fides learns, the Court pronounced the sentence for Christian citizens accused of lynching which occurred after the terroris ...
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  22 February 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - One more seat reserved for Christians in the new bill on parliament Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - A bill to review the distribution of seats in the House of Representatives among the different Iraqi electoral districts, published by the relevant parliamentary institutions on Monday, February ...
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  21 February 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Thousands of victims due to air pollution: for the Church "conscience and action" are needed New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Eighteen thousand Indians die every day from direct or indirect causes of air pollution. And the progressive air poisoning is often linked to climate change. This is what a new study published ...
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  21 February 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Marine Le Pen in Lebanon: even Middle Eastern Christians must be helped. Meeting with the Grand Mufti canceled, meeting with Maronite Patriarch Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The best way to protect Christians in the Middle East consists in the "eradication of radical Islam", while we must avoid policies that encourage the exodus of Middle Eastern Christians from thei ...
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  21 February 2017
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - New priest ordained in Mongolia in the Jubilee year Ulaan Baatar (Agenzia Fides) - While the Catholic Church in Mongolia in 2017 celebrates its silver Jubilee, the community is celebrating the ordination of Bernard Kambala, a member of the Congregation of the Immaculate H ...
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  20 February 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - "Televita", the first Catholic TV Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesia has its first Catholic television in streaming and will soon broadcast via satellite frequency. As Fides learns from the Commission for Social Communications of the Archdiocese of Jaka ...