Asia

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  13 September 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Bishops: "Stop intolerance at school; justice for Sharon Masih’s family" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The government of Pakistan seems more interested in school infrastructure and security of buildings than in the quality aspect of the education system. We live in a society where students spread ...
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  13 September 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Marayati: "War is fought through forgiveness" Munster (Agenzia Fides) - "War is not fought with war, but through dialogue, forgiveness, reconciliation, and the will to start a new life and follow new paths of peace": said Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo, Butr ...
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  12 September 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Churches in Pakistan: solidarity with Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and immediate truce Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Strong condemnation of the attacks suffered by the people of Rohingya in Myanmar, and full solidarity and closeness to the Muslim population: this is a declaration signed by the President of the ...
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  12 September 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Protection of abused girls: the experience of the NGO Suraksha Belagavi (Agenzia Fides) - Rescuing girls sold for the sex market, trafficking, prostitution, child marriage: it is with this spirit that the NGO Suraksha organization, is committed to the recovery, rehabilitation, devel ...
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  12 September 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Abducted Salesian priest released: "We thank God and Pope Francis' commitment" New Dehli (Agenzia Fides) - "First of all, we express our deep gratitude to God for the happy conclusion of this incident. We must then thank the Indian government, which put into place every effort for the release of Fr ...
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  11 September 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - An open letter to Christian leaders: "You cannot keep silent in the face of the spread of Hindu extremism" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "We, as Indian Christians, are concerned about the change that we see in our country that, from a pluralist democracy, is almost turning into a sort of reign dominated by a Hindu ideology. The ...
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  11 September 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic leaders: you cannot rule the country with murders Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "In the so-called crusade against drugs launched by President Duterte, extrajudicial killings continue at a pace of about a thousand per month. The poor are those most affected. To understand the ...
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  9 September 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - An alliance based on faith to combat violence against children Ranchi (Agenzia Fides) - A "National action plan against violence on children" was born in the Indian state of Jharkhand. The organization is part of a network already present in several South Asian countries (Afghanista ...
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  8 September 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Assad visits the Syriac Orthodox monastery of the Holy Cross in Saydnaya Saydnaya (Agenzia Fides) - Syrian President Bashar al Assad visited the temporary seat of the Syriac Orthodox monastery of the Holy Cross, under construction, accompanied by his wife Asma and other family members. He was ...
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  8 September 2017
  ASIA/MYANAMAR - The Bishop of the Rohingya Territory: "It is urgent to respect human dignity and build peace" Pyay (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation of the Rohingya today is very difficult to judge. There is no reliable news and the news that circulates differs, depending on whether it comes from the government, the Rohingya or o ...
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  8 September 2017
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The history of the Korean Church in the Vatican Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The history of the Catholic Church in the last 230 years is a story of salvation that testifies God's will and works": says to Agenzia Fides, Elisabeth Soo-ran Park, of the Sisters of the ...
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  7 September 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite church: salary increase for private school teachers has to be funded by the State Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Lebanese government's new provisions on a salary grid and the resulting increase of salaries in the public sector risk having a devastating impact on the entire reality of Lebanese schools ma ...
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  7 September 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Mother Teresa's lesson: Faith as an aid in combating addictions Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - Faith is a decisive force in fighting addictions related to drugs, alcohol, gambling and many others. This is what Fr. Joseph Pereira says, a priest of the diocese of Mumbai who was blown away by ...
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  7 September 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Boom of vocations to priesthood in the diocese of Manado Manado (Agenzia Fides) - Seminarians and priests in Manado, capital of the Indonesian province of North Sulawesi, in eastern Indonesia, are not lacking. As a matter of fact, they are overabundant. As Fides learns, in the ...
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  6 September 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Experiences of true Islamic Christian brotherhood in Catholic majority areas Lembata (Agenzia Fides) - In a country, Indonesia, with the most densely populated Muslim majority in the world, there are also small Christian and Catholic majority areas, especially in the central part of the vast Asia ...