Asia

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  24 January 2018
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian Orthodox Patriarch to diplomats in Damascus: help Syria regain peace Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the beginning of the new year Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, Mar Ignatius Aphrem II, organized a reception to which all the diplomats accredited to the Arab Republic o ...
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  23 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Church leaders withdraw their complaint against Hindu extremists New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Church leaders in Madhya Pradesh, central India, have withdrawn a legal appeal filed in recent days at Madhya Pradesh High Court against a group of radical Hindu groups who had tried to enter ...
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  23 January 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Tentorio’s murder, the missionaries: "We hope the truth will come to light" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "We are still in a preliminary phase, it is already the third time that the results of an investigation into the murder of Father Fausto Tentorio are presented, but in the past they were not enou ...
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  22 January 2018
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Christians are discriminated against in society but play a valuable role Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Bangladesh, a small minority in a country with a Muslim majority, often face discrimination: says to Agenzia Fides Catholic priest Fr. David Bipul Das, of the Church of Our Lady of G ...
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  22 January 2018
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Catholic Bishops to Israeli authorities: expulsion exposes Eritrean and Sudanese refugees to dangers and wars Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli authorities are imposing on Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers to choose between prison or exodus in other Countries, and this political choice risks exposing "so many lives to d ...
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  22 January 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Yet another Christian victim among sewer laborers Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – A Christian, Shehzad Mansha Masih was a resident in Korangi, Karachi. Like so many Pakistani Christians, he worked for the sewage line but was not provided any security measure for his safety ...
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  19 January 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Death of Razia Joseph, Catholic human rights activist Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The funeral of Razia Joseph, a Catholic woman and human rights activist, who died on January 17 in Faisalabad, will be held at 3 pm local time. The woman was founder and director of the "Woma ...
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  19 January 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholics promote peace and non-violence against the exploitation of faith Jakarta, (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community has an important role to play in Indonesia for the promotion of peace and harmony and to fight against any political manipulation of religion: says to Agenzia Fides Nat W ...
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  17 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Over 500 police officers monitor a Catholic College New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Over 500 policemen are monitoring St .Mary's College in the city of Vidisha, in Madhya Pradesh, to avert the attack by militants of the "Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad" (ABVP) extremist mo ...
• 15 January 2018
  ASIA/JAPAN - Appointment of the Rector of the interdiocesan Seminary "Japan Catholic Seminary" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Francis Xavier Hiroaki Nakano, of the diocesan clergy of Kagoshima, as Rector of ...
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  15 January 2018
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Christians committed to promoting religious harmony Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Sri Lanka is strongly committed to promoting religious harmony and to building a peaceful and reconciled society, after the wounds of the civil war. Christians try to be present in ...
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  15 January 2018
  ASIA/IRAN - Confirmation of the ordination of a deaconess in the Armenian Apostolic Church Teheran (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-four year old Ani-Kristi Manvelian, an anesthesiologist by profession, was ordained as deaconess in the Cathedral of St. Gregory the Illuminator of Tehran last September by Archbishop Seb ...
• 12 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the Interdiocesan Seminary "Papal Seminary" in Poona Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 21 July 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Bhausaheb Sansare of the Society of Jesus (SJ) as Rector of the Interd ...
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  12 January 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Bishops: the government must approve policies for the protection of children Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The whole nation cries for this sin. It is a sin that makes us feel ashamed. Let us try to find the courage to take all the necessary measures and to protect the lives of our children in every p ...
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  12 January 2018
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - The Oblate Sáez Martín: "The Catholic community grows with enthusiasm" Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) - "The period spent in Turkmenistan was a very positive experience. The participation in the catechesis held in the church of Ashgabat was very high: the entire community of the capital was prese ...