Asia

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  7 July 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Presidential vote, challenge between two Dalit candidates: who will defend the rights of minorities? New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Two seventy-year-old leaders who represent the dalit community (the untouchables) will run for president of the Indian Union in the upcoming July 17th elections. In India, the President of the ...
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  7 July 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - For now the expropriation of 50 Syriac Orthodox Churches, monasteries and cemeteries has been denied Mardin (Agenzia Fides) - Turkey declares that it has not yet implemented any measure to expropriate 50 Christian churches and monasteries scattered around Mardin, in the Turkish southwestern Tur Abdin region, to transfer ...
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  6 July 2017
  ASIA/CHINA - New impetus from the first workshop of Evangelization Pechino (Agenzia Fides) - It is time to give new impetus to missionary mobilization, nourished by the Word of God and by prayer, led by the Holy Spirit, with greater involvement of the laity: are the reflections of the p ...
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  6 July 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops: urgent measures against the proliferation of private weapons Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The proliferation of private weapons among civilians worries the Maronite Bishops who call upon the Lebanese authorities to counteract it with effective measures, without guaranteeing any toleran ...
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  6 July 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishop of Marawi: "Let us pray and hope that the war ends soon" Marawi (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is exhausting: more than 40 days of guerrilla war have gone by and our beautiful city of Marawi has been reduced to rubble. We are suffering for Father Chito and the other hostages ...
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  6 July 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - UNESCO Committee: No to unilateral measures that alter the status of Jerusalem and its Holy Places Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The old city of Jerusalem and its historic walls remain in the list of world heritage sites to be considered "in danger". And all the "facts" and the legislative or administrative measures put ...
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  5 July 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian President Assad meets the new Patriarch and Bishops of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The Melkite Greek Catholic Church and the other Churches and ecclesial communities in Syria played an "important role" at a national level during the Syrian conflict, to the effect of consolida ...
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  5 July 2017
  ASIA/NEPAL - After the earthquake, faith grows in the people of God Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - In a tragic event like an earthquake, God's grace is not lacking: this is what emerges from the context of Nepal where, after the 2015 earthquake, faith in the people of God has strengthened: ...
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  4 July 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Targeted attacks on Muslim minorities: the climate of intolerance in society is worrying New Dehli (Agenzia Fides) - "Attacks on minorities seem to have become the norm. Throughout India, many Muslims have been attacked by crowds, often instigated by messages on WhatsApp, that accuse Muslims of killing cattl ...
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  4 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: the right to talk about the future of Nineveh Plain are mainly the people of the region Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Discussions and even divisions among the Iraqi Christians increase around the future political-administrative settlement of the so-called Nineveh Plain, a region which has recently been liberated ...
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  3 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: Western countries have encouraged the emigration of Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The most painful issue that has hit the Iraqi Christian communities in recent years was their mass escape from Mosul and Nineveh Plain, when entire villages were evacuated one night before the a ...
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  3 July 2017
  ASIA - Cardinal D'Rozario: "Women, families and young people in Asia: witnesses of the Gospel" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Women and families in Asia witness the Gospel despite many challenges and difficulties": says to Fides Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario, CSC, Archbishop of Dhaka and President of the Office for the lai ...
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  1 July 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Duterte's first year: a disaster for human rights Manila (Agenzia Fides) - In the first year of presidency in the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte and his administration "have been responsible for a wide range of human rights violations, intimidation and arrests, establishi ...
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  1 July 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - A Catholic Lebanese University questions the concept of "citizenship" in Islam Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A conference hosted today, Saturday, July 1, by the Notre Dame de Louaïzé University, deepens the crucial question of the compatibility between the principles of citizenship and pluralism and t ...
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  30 June 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish government seizes more than fifty Syriac-Orthodox churches, monasteries and cemeteries Ankara (Agenzia Fides) – There are at least fifty Syriac-Orthodox churches, monasteries and cemeteries scattered around Mardin, which have recently been seized by the Turkish government under the direct attention of th ...