Asia

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  11 January 2017
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - All children, including stateless children, must have access to education Petaling Jaya (Agenzia Fides) - No child, whether or not in possession of a birth certificate, should be denied access to education. The complaint comes from a Malaysian lawyer, a human rights advocate. Stateless childre ...
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  11 January 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Lebanese President Aoun, Maronite Christian, mends relations with Saudi Arabia Riyadh (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Lebanon Michel Aoun, a Maronite Christian, began his first trip in the Arabian Peninsula with the first result of mending relations with Saudi Arabia, which last year had experie ...
• 11 January 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi communists to Chaldean Patriarch: thanks for your contribution to national reconciliation Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Iraqi communists pay tribute to Chaldean Patriarch Raphael Louis Sako I, and thank him for his contribution to national reconciliation and for his continuous efforts to encourage the involvement ...
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  10 January 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic Students denounce an Islamic leader for "blasphemy" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Union of University Students in Indonesia (Perhimpunan Mahasiswa Katolik Republik Indonesia, PMKRI) filed a complaint for blasphemy regarding a Muslim religious Habib Rizieq Shihab, ...
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  10 January 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Official of Iraqi Kurdistan: at least 100 places of worship destroyed or damaged by jihadists in the Nineveh Plain Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - At least 100 places of worship have been vandalized or completely demolished in the territories of Mosul and Nineveh Province since June 2014, when the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) impos ...
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  9 January 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The laying of the foundation stone of the Indonesian Camillian Theologate in Maumere Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "It seems incredible ... but the Indonesian Camillians are in urgent need of new spaces for their young religious and novices", says to Agenzia Fides Father Luigi Galvani, MI, missionary in Flor ...
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  9 January 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Archdiocese of Manila strengthens the commitment for the rehabilitation of drug addicts Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Manila, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, signed an agreement which establishes a partnership between the Archdiocese of Manila and "Fazenda da Esperança" ("Farm of Hope"), a specia ...
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  9 January 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian neighborhood of Mosul freed. Chaldean priest: not all refugees will return Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, January 8 the Iraqi regular army regained control of al Sukkar, an area in eastern Mosul once inhabited mostly by Christian families. This is what local sources reported to online magaz ...
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  5 January 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A missionary: "A death sentence every day" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "There are over 6,000 deaths, suspected marijuana drug dealers or other drugs, and 1,000 people killed, only on the basis of a suspect, in the last month. For some it may be a great success: it i ...
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  4 January 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian arrested for alleged blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Babu Shahbaz, a Christian from the village of Kamahan, near Lahore, was arrested by the police for alleged blasphemy. As Fides learns, on December 30 a formal complaint was filed to the police ag ...
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  4 January 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - The Sisters of Loreto: 175 years on mission in South Asia Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - The Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM), which brings together the religious better known as "Sisters of Loreto", celebrates 175 years of missionary presence in South Asia. "With immens ...
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  3 January 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Land-grabbing and assault on Pakistani Christians in Sindh Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - For Christians in Pakistan the new year opens with a painful issue: mafia organizations in cahoots with the police in Sukkur, in the district of Hyderabad (Sindh province in southern Pakistan) ...
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  2 January 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christmas festivities and education for the children of the Christian couple burned alive for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Pakistani Christian couple Shama and Shahzad Masih, beaten and burned to death for alleged blasphemy in November 2014, have three children Suleiman, Sonia and Poonam who celebrated the Christ ...
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  2 January 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - The civil authorities: Christians, return to Basra Basra (Agenzia Fides) - The celebrations for the beginning of the new year 2017 gave civil authorities of the province of Basra this opportunity to spread many messages and signals of attention towards Christians. In par ...
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  2 January 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Donating organs is a service to God and humanity Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - The 77-year old Bishop Agnelo Gracias, auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, has decided to donate his organs after death. This trend has grown tremendously in the Christian community: an increasing number ...