Asia

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  30 September 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Murderers of the three Christians in Malatya convicted, but no prison for now Malatya (Agenzia Fides) - Nine years after the killing of three Christians slaughtered in the southeastern Turkish city of Malatya, the Criminal Court sentenced five Turkish, accused of being the perpetrators of the trip ...
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  30 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Inclusion and quality in education policy: the proposals of religious minorities New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Religious minorities in India, in particular Christians and Muslims, invite the federal government not to "saffronize education", by imposing a new education policy with particular focus on cu ...
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  30 September 2016
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Eight Jesuits, new priests, at work in the sign of mercy Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - Eight new Vietnamese priests of the Society of Jesus have been ordained and have already been engaged in pastoral work in the country. The ordination celebration, held on August 25 in H ...
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  29 September 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: Palestinian refugees have the "natural right" to return to their homeland Bkerkè (Agenzia Fides) - The international recognition of the Palestinian State is an act which cannot be delayed if one really wants to favor the re-establishment of peace in the Middle East. And one must also support ...
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  29 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu extremists disrupt meetings among Christians Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - A meeting on the Gospel was interrupted with violence and a stand with Bibles and Christian material were destroyed: is the latest violence perpetrated by Hindu extremists against Christians i ...
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  29 September 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two parables in modern version represented on stage to announce the Gospel of mercy Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - To represent two parables, revisited and updated in a new version, to announce the Gospel of mercy: is the initiative organized, among the events of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, by the Catechetica ...
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  28 September 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Bishop Shomali: "Peres man of peace. In Israel there is a need for men like him" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "We have lost a great man. A man of inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue. A man of peace. Let us pray because in Israel, especially now, there is a need for men like him". This is how B ...
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  28 September 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Hattar’s murder: Apostolic Administrator Pizzaballa's condolences to the writer's family Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The first official visit to the Hashemite Kingdom of Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM, the new Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, will take place in a simple for ...
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  27 September 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraq's parliament: no to changes in the status of Nineveh Province to reserve "protected areas" to religious minorities Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi Parliament voted yesterday, Monday, September 26, a motion to close the door to any possibility of changing the legal status of the northern province of Nineveh. The motion, presented ...
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  27 September 2016
  ASIA/THAILAND - With the nightmare of the "Buddhist blasphemy", the Church prepares missionary October Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "In this phase, under military power, society and especially young people complain about the lack of freedom and pluralism: one cannot criticize the government. But our pastoral activities are n ...
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  27 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Former street child opens a "coffee-library" for homeless minors Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - A coffee-library for poor street children was recently opened in India's financial capital called Bombay to Barcelona - and was born from the dream of a former street child, now an adult, who wit ...
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  27 September 2016
  ASIA/LAOS - Three new priests ordained: a historic step for the Church Luang Prabang (Agenzia Fides) - "First of all let us thank the Lord for his great gift: we are very happy for the three new priests who will work full time in the small Catholic Church in Laos. All three will dedicate th ...
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  27 September 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Among Lebanese young people under 25, only 25% are Christians Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Christians account for 34% of the Lebanese population registered in the civil Status register. But if the focus is placed on the Lebanese population up to 25 years of age, the percentage o ...
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  24 September 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In the Year of Education, schools at the center of the diocesan pastoral of Faisalabad Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - In the Pakistani diocese of Faisalabad, in Punjab province, the Year of mercy coincides with a special "Year of Education", proclaimed by Bishop Joseph Arshad. "We urgently need to grow in th ...
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  24 September 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Elections, Archbishop Lahham: all Christian candidates in Islamist lists rejected Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Among the 130 members of the new Jordanian Parliament in the political elections held on September 20, only 9 are of Christian faith, equal to the minimum "guaranteed" to the Christian minority fr ...