Asia

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  19 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Interreligious prayer in memory of the victims of Quetta Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - We must remain united and face the causes of extremism: is the appeal launched on the occasion of a special interreligious prayer vigil organized in the cathedral in Lahore in memory of the victi ...
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  18 December 2017
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Pakistan: protection and full citizenship for religious minorities There is not only terrorist violence, gratuitous and destructive that affect religious minorities in Pakistan. The attack on the Methodist Church in Quetta brings to light the difficult condition of religious minorities ...
• 18 December 2017
  ASIA LAOS - Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of Vientiane Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 16 December 2017, the Holy Father appointed Cardinal Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, I.V.D., currently Apostolic Vicar of Paksé, as Apostolic Vicar of Vientiane (Laos). (SL) (Agenzia F ...
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  18 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In Quetta the funerals of Christians, victims of the attack that "wants to destabilize Pakistan" Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - A crowd of over 1,500 Christians from all over Pakistan, members of the five confessions present in the country, gathered today in the Christian cemetery of Quetta, for the funeral of the victims ...
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  18 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Bishops: "The attack on Quetta is inhumane; let us pray for peace" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The massacres of innocent lives increase in Pakistan. Let us pray to our Lord Jesus Christ so that, as a nation, he can give us strength, wisdom, tolerance and peace. May God give the victims ...
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  15 December 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian refugees are "the undesirables", says Maronite Archbishop Nassar Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Refugees of the Syrian conflict "are crushed between two walls: they cannot go home, because the streets are blocked and their houses are in ruins, on the other hand the world despises them and ...
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  14 December 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Summit in Bkerké: Christian and Muslim leaders united in "no" to US choices on Jerusalem Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Every unilateral attempt to impose Jerusalem as the exclusive capital of the State of Israel represents an "unjust" act and contrary to all international pronouncements concerning the profile of ...
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  14 December 2017
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Evangelical presence of the Barnabites and silent witness Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The mission of Catholics in Afghanistan is based on a particularity: it is almost exclusively made of silent testimony. When one is active in faith, there is no need for words. But let us ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï: the US move on Jerusalem "slap in the face of the Christians of the East". Islam-Christian summit tomorrow in Bkerkè Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The US Administration’s decision to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem "is a slap in the face of Palestinians, Christians, Muslims and all the Arabs". President Donald Trump' ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - A Muslim Prime Minister in a nation with a Catholic majority Dili (Agenzia Fides) - Although it is going through a turbulent political phase and its newborn government is in difficulty, Mari Bin Amudi Alkatiri is a Muslim Prime Minister who leads a country with a large Catholic ma ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Violation of human rights on the indigenous of Papua Manokwari (Agenzia Fides) - A pastoral delegation composed of three members of the Asian Christian Conference (ACC) recently concluded a visit to the Indonesian province of West Papua, listening to stories about serious ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - The Indian government praises the service of the Church to the poor New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian government has praised the service rendered by the Catholic Church towards the poor, the marginalized and the needy in India. As Fides learns, on December 12 Indian Vice President V ...
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  12 December 2017
  ASIA/JORDAN - The Heads of Churches: "silent procession" against the US decision on Jerusalem Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Bishops and Heads of Churches present in the Hascemite Kingdom of Jordan have invited their fellow citizens to take part in a silent procession with candles to publicly express the common disappro ...
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  12 December 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Christian leaders: "Indonesia risks division" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment we are worried. Our unity as an Indonesian nation is in danger of breaking. Restlessness and worry have been felt more and more in recent years. There are those who, vaguely or sh ...
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  12 December 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - After the war years, the monastery of Deir Mar Musa flourishes again Nebek (Fides Agency) - There is still no news about the fate of the Roman Jesuit Paolo Dall'Oglio, kidnapped at the end of July 2013 while he was in Raqqa. But the monks and nuns of the monastic community of Khalil Allah ...