Asia

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  14 February 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - US Group to Trump: To create "protected areas" for Iraqi Christians is part of our "national security interests" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The new US administration is called upon to designate a "Safe Zone" for Iraqi Christians in the Nineveh Plain, and other "safe zones" including Yazidis and Turkmen. And that is because Christ ...
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  13 February 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - President Aoun: militias of Hezbollah are "complementary" to the Lebanese Army Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Shiite militias of Hezbollah do not represent a danger for the stability of Lebanon but, on the contrary, are "necessary" for the Lebanese State security and represent a "complementary" force ...
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  13 February 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - The demand for Christian literature increases New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – There is demand for Christian literature in India and the market is expanding: says to Fides, Fr. Saju Chackalackal, Carmelite of Mary Immaculate (CMI) and director for the evangelization an ...
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  13 February 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian families are returning to Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The first Christian families are beginning to return to the eastern districts of Mosul. As reported by ankawa.com site, at least three Armenian families have already returned to their houses, desp ...
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  10 February 2017
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Water crisis, a risk to public health: warning of the Church Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The water crisis and the lack of safe drinking water causes a high risk to public health in Sri Lanka. Many situations of poverty, suffering, disease of the population are linked to the issue of ...
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  10 February 2017
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Fr. Neuhaus’ appeal to the Israeli Government against the expulsion of 14 Filipino teenagers without residence documents Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Jesuit Father David Neuhaus, Patriarchal Vicar for Hebrew-speaking Catholics of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, as coordinator of the Pastoral Care of Migrants, addressed an open letter t ...
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  8 February 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "There is a wakeup call for democracy. May 2017 be the year of peace" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "Myanmar is going through one of the most harrowing moments of its history. The people of Burma are deeply saddened. Myanmar needs the attention of the world in order to strengthen its fragile pa ...
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  8 February 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Bishop Shomali: the "legalization" of illegal Israeli settlements is against the virtues of justice, which comes from God Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The law the Israeli Parliament passed yesterday which "regulates" even retroactively houses and Israeli settlements built illegally on Palestinian territory illegally occupied by the army of ...
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  1 February 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - President Aoun gives Metropolitan Georges Khodr the national honor of the Order of the Cedar Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Lebanon Michel Aoun gave Greek-Orthodox Metropolitan Georges Khodr of Mount Lebanon the National Order of the Cedar, the honor for great services rendered to Lebanon, for acts of ...
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  1 February 2017
  ASIA/LAOS - Two new priests for Laos in 2017 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The small Catholic community in Laos (less than 1% out of seven million inhabitants) is preparing to celebrate two new priestly ordinations in 2017: say to Agenzia Fides the Laotian Bishops ...
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  1 February 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: "foreign bullies" or sectarian militias to protect Christians in the Nineveh Plain are not needed Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – There is no need for foreign forces to protect villages and areas of the Nineveh Plain where sooner or later Christians who lived there until August 2014 will return, when those territories we ...
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  31 January 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A Muslim lawyer killed: "An attack on democratic transition" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Strong condemnation and outrage for the murder of Muslim lawyer U Ko Ni, adviser of the National League for Democracy (NLD): is what civil society organizations, associations and other Christian ...
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  31 January 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Commission of Inquiry into the failed coup of July 15 also collects information on the visit of Fethullah Gulen in the Vatican Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission of Inquiry into the failed coup of July 15 is also collecting information on the visit of Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen Fethullah Gulen - indicated by the Turkish authorities as ...
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  31 January 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Are US borders open only to Christians? "Who makes these differences feeds fanaticism" says Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "We Christians of Syria and the Middle East do not like any speeches that make differences between us and Muslims when justice, peace and aid to those in need are at stake. Who makes these differ ...
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  30 January 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Gracias: "Climate change affects the poor and women" Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "Women, the poor and the vulnerable are the first victims of climate change. We are administrators and we are not masters of creation. We have a moral obligation to protect and preserve it", said ...