Asia

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  17 November 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - New meetings between newly elected President Aoun and the heads of Churches Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - While in Lebanon there are increasing signs of the imminent presentation of a new government, led by the Sunni Premier Saad Hariri, newly elected President Michel Aoun, after meeting Maronite P ...
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  17 November 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - President Barzani: we will not withdraw from the reconquered lands, Kurdistan will be multiethnic and multireligious Bashiqa (Agenzia Fides) - The Kurdish Peshmerga troops will not withdraw from lands they reclaimed from ISIS in the military campaign for the liberation of Mosul, explaining that this was agreed with the United States a ...
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  16 November 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Religious leaders: "Peace is the common good" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Peace is the supreme good for all citizens and all communities in Myanmar: says a heartfelt appeal to political and military leaders launched by a group of Burmese religious leaders, including Ca ...
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  15 November 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Catholic Organizations: Winter-emergency for refugees from Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The beginning of military operations to liberate Mosul from the jihadist Islamic State (Daesh) is causing the rapid increase in refugees fleeing Iraq's second city. There are those who believe tha ...
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  15 November 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarchs and Catholic Bishops: Lebanese increasingly poor, a government of national "reconciliation" is urgently needed Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - In Lebanon, following the election of former general Michel Aoun to the office of President of the Republic, a government that can promote national reconciliation and the rapid drafting of an ele ...
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  15 November 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Duterte’s turnaround: Yes to nuclear energy Bataan (Agenzia Fides) - The Philippines will make use of nuclear energy and reactivate the Bataan plant, in the north of Manila: this announcement by Energy Secretary, Alfonso Cusi, who confirmed the willingness of Pres ...
• 14 November 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - Appointment of the Coadjutor Bishop of Hong Kong Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 13 November 2016 the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Michael Yeung Ming-cheung, titular Bishop of Monte di Numidia and Auxiliary of the same diocese, as Coadjutor Bishop of the Dioce ...
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  14 November 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholics migrate to other Churches: Ecumenical comparison Coimbatore (Agenzia Fides) – To contain the migration of Catholics to other Christian denominations: with this explicit goal the diocese of Coimbatore, in Tamil Nadu state (southern India), one of the oldest dioceses i ...
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  11 November 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Complaint of Christians: Kurd Party imposes a census to manipulate the demographic balance in the Syrian area of Hassakè Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - The apparatus and officials of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), and its military wing YPG (People's Protection Unit), rooted in the north-eastern regions of Syria, with a Kurdish major ...
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  11 November 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - 10,000 children have died due to preventable diseases Sana'a (Agenzia Fides) - The humanitarian crisis in Yemen continues to worsen. Since last March at least 10,000 children under 5 years of age have died due to preventable diseases. The rate of malnutrition continues to g ...
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  11 November 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Muslim protests, the Archbishop of Jakarta: the guideline is legality Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Tension is still high in Indonesia, after the massive demonstration of radical Islamic groups that on November 4 led through the streets of Jakarta over one hundred thousand people, who demanded ...
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  10 November 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Patriarchate proposes the creation of a "Council of Churches in Iraq" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarchate of Babylon is studying the project for the creation of a "Council of Churches in Iraq" bringing together all the Churches and ecclesial communities present on Iraqi territory, a ...
• 10 November 2016
  ASIA/KOREA - Appointment of the Bishop of Incheon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 10 November 2016, the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. John Baptist Jung Shin-chul, titular Bishop of Cuicul and Auxiliary of the same diocese, as Bishop of Incheon (Korea). (SL) (Age ...
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  10 November 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Justice for the Christian couple burned alive for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the terrible murder of the Christian couple Shama and Shahzad, burned alive for alleged blasphemy on November 4, 2014 in Kot Radha Kishan, in Kasur district, the fight for justice ...
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  9 November 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Gracias: "The hospital for the terminally ill is a monument to mercy" Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "The hospital that takes care of the terminally ill and cancer patients is a monument to mercy": this is what Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Mumbai said during his visit to the "Shanti Av ...