Asia

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  5 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindus who read the Bible threatened by extremists Bareilly (Agenzia Fides) - A group of 70 faithful Hindus in Uttar Pradesh, who in the past 4 years gather to read the Bible, have been threatened and targeted by Hindu extremist groups such as Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) ...
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  4 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu radicals attack a Catholic college Vidisha (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of police deployment was done at the St. Mary's Post Graduate College in Vidisha, Sagar Diocese in Madhya Pradesh, central India as Hindu right-wing groups threaten to perform Hindu ri ...
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  4 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Attacks against Indian Christians during the Christmas season New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Christian communities in India suffered at least 23 attacks for religious reasons during the Christmas period, which have instilled a feeling of fear and have hurt the faithful. This is what l ...
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  4 January 2018
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Fighting child and maternal mortality: a service to the country Myitkina (Agenzia Fides) - "To bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth": with this spirit the Catholic-inspired "St. Bryce Missions" operates in one of Myanmar's conflict areas, that of Kachin state. The area, with a C ...
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  29 December 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - After 50 years, the first public Christmas Festival in Yangon Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian communities in Myanmar, Catholic and Protestant, have publicly celebrated Christmas in the streets of Yangon, for the first time in 50 years: as Agenzia Fides learns, in the past Ch ...
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  29 December 2017
  ASIA/ISRAEL - President Rivlin to Churches: our sovereignty over Jerusalem guarantees religious freedom for all Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The sovereignty of the State of Israel over Jerusalem, recognized by the US Administration with a one-sided choice rejected by a very large majority by the UN, "will never compromise the freed ...
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  23 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Prayer vigils all over the country in memory of the victims of the attack to the church in Quetta Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - During the days immediately preceding Christmas, Pakistani Christians across the country gather for prayer vigils and peace demonstrations in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack tha ...
• 22 December 2017
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Jerome Nguyen Dinh Cong Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 6 June 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Fr. Jerome Nguyen Dinh Cong, of the diocesan clergy of Xuan Loc, as Na ...
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  22 December 2017
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - Fr. Sáez Martín: "In Ashgabat to announce that God wants us to be saints like Him" Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) - "The central theme of my preaching for the Catholic community of Turkmenistan is 'You will be like God', the sentence with which the demon tempted Adam and Eve. Their mistake was that of wantin ...
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  22 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christmas will be celebrated in the church hit by the attack in Quetta Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - The faithful Christians of Quetta will celebrate the Christmas liturgies in the Methodist church hit by the attack on December 17: this is what Protestant Pastor Simon Bashir, who is responsible ...
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  21 December 2017
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - Christmas just like Greccio for the small Catholic community Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) - "It will be a simple Christmas, marked by the Eucharist and by the living representation of the Nativity. In fact, our children are preparing a small theatrical show to narrate how Saint Franci ...
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  21 December 2017
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Cardinal Yeom: Christmas encourages the defense of nascent life Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "As Christians, it is our duty to defend human life.The teaching of the Catholic Church clearly states that the human embryo should be considered as a human being and that no one has the right, un ...
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  21 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Churches in Pakistan tighten security measures as Christmas approaches Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – Following the suicide bombing at Quetta Methodist church, all Christian churches in Pakistan are tightening security measures in view of Christmas, enlisting on local young volunteers to coo ...
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  20 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Property issues, devastated a Catholic church in Punjab Sialkot (Agenzia Fides) - More than 50 men have raided and devastated the Catholic church of St. Paul in Sialkot, a city of Pakistani Punjab, claiming ownership of the land where it stands. The parish priest, Fr. Victor ...
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  19 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Interreligious prayer in memory of the victims of Quetta Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - We must remain united and face the causes of extremism: is the appeal launched on the occasion of a special interreligious prayer vigil organized in the cathedral in Lahore in memory of the victi ...