Asia

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  7 October 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - Death of Msgr. Anthony Xu Jiwei, prudent and zealous Pastor At 11:16 pm on Sunday, September 25, 2016, His Exc. Msgr. Anthony Xu Jiwei, Bishop of Linhai (Taichow), in Zhejiang Province (Mainland China) passed away. He was 81 years old: he had been suffering from various health pr ...
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  6 October 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The cross made by a Muslim craftsman is the symbol of the Indonesian Youth Day Manado (Agenzia Fides) - The cross was the symbol of the Indonesian Youth Day (October 4-6), which ends today in Manado. As Fides learns, the cross, made of bamboo and rattan, was built by a Muslim craftsman: the work is ...
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  6 October 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs: Gulen took advantage of interfaith dialogue to build his "sinister plots" Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - In the persisting campaign carried out by the Turkish apparatus against the network headed by Fetullah Gulen (Islamic Turkish preacher expatriated in the United States, who was once an ally of Pr ...
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  6 October 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The PMS national Director: "We await the Pope as a messenger of peace" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "We await the Pope as a messenger of peace, while the nation is experiencing a period of crisis in Kashmir. It would be a blessing for the country": says to Fides Fr. Faustine Lobo, National D ...
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  5 October 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Jordan is the Country with the highest number of refugees. Caritas Jordan: unsustainable and dangerous situation Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Jordan currently hosts two million and 7 thousand refugees: a multitude which places the Hashemite Kingdom in first place in the ranking of countries hosting the largest number of refugees and dis ...
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  5 October 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Kashmir crisis: the Church launches a major national interfaith prayer New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "We announce a major national prayer to be held on Sunday, October 16, 2016: all the Bishops, all the priests, religious and laity, will animate Masses, liturgies, vigils and prayers for the g ...
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  4 October 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - A Christian politician killed in Tamil Nadu Chennai (Agenzia Fides) - A Pentecostal Christian, engaged in politics, was murdered near a church in the south of Chennai in Tamil Nadu (southern India). As Fides learns, Dhanasekharan was 34 years old and attended a Pe ...
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  4 October 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Franciscans: concrete steps to be taken to designate a "Safe Zone" in Aleppo under the control of UN peacekeepers Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The international Community must take concrete steps "to designate Aleppo a Safe Zone", to be placed under the direct control "of UN Peacekeeping", using lessons and solutions acquired in previou ...
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  4 October 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Kurdish Peshmerga bombard the jihadist militias that occupy a Christian town in the Nineveh Plain Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, October 3, the Kurdish Peshmerga army attacked positions of the Islamic State (Daesh) in the city of Bartala, also known as Bartella, located 20 kilometers east of Mosul, in the Ninev ...
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  4 October 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - More than two thousand young witnesses of the "joy of the gospel in a plural society" Manado (Agenzia Fides) - The second Indonesian Youth Day, a national event organized by the Episcopal Conference, on the model of World Youth Day, began today October 4, in the diocese of Manado, eastern Indonesia (North ...
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  3 October 2016
  ASIA/THAILAND - Zika, first babies born with microcephaly in Southeast Asiatnenen ste meme stnene sjne e Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - After the cases of zika in Brazil (that had denounced a tragic surge of malformations in fetuses) and in Africa, America and Europe, the alarm also grows in Southeast Asia. In particular in Thai ...
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  3 October 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Balaknama: street children publish a newspaper Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Sexual abuse, child labor, street violence sums up life of street children in India. Delhi’s Balaknama newspaper - the "Voice of Children", which is run by the street children has been working ...
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  3 October 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishop Travas: "Communion and dialogue in South Punjab, infested by Islamic militants" Multan (Agenzia Fides) - "The small Catholic community in the south of Punjab province lives communion and promotes dialogue in a society where the influence of Islamic militants and violent groups is felt": says Bishop ...
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  3 October 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Patriarchs of the Syro-Antiochene Churches ask for the "Syriac" ethnicity to be recognized and included in the Iraqi Constitution Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The two Primates of the Syro-Antiochene Churches - Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II and Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Youssif III - have signed and sent a letter to the highest r ...
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  30 September 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Camillians open the first novitiate on the island of Flores Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "July 14, 2016 marked a historic moment for the Indonesian Camillian Mission: the official opening of the novitiate in Maumere, island of Flores, with the first two novices". The is what Father ...