Asia

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  27 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Protestant Pastor beaten by Hindu militants New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Sunny Tyagi, who converted to Christianity and became a Protestant Pastor, was beaten by a mob of Hindu radicals who broke into a private house where a prayer meeting in the district of Gonda, ...
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  26 August 2016
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - With the first native priest, "the Catholic Church is no longer foreign" Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Mongolia is ready to welcome its first native priest: Joseph Enkh will be ordained to priesthood by His Exc. Mgr. Wenceslao Padilla, CICM, Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanba ...
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  25 August 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The initiatives of Caritas: Do not forget the victims of the Easter massacre Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The families affected by the "Easter massacre" (81 people died in the explosion in a park in Lahore on March 27) are still in difficulty: this is why Caritas in Lahore is doing its best to help t ...
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  25 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Justice for Christians massacred in Orissa New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Eight years after the anti-Christian massacres that shook the Indian state of Orissa, on August 25, 2008, the victims have not yet obtained justice: as John Dayal, an Indian Catholic intellect ...
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  24 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Mercy, beyond borders and barriers Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - To be merciful means going beyond borders and barriers: this is the meaning of the interfaith meeting organized in recent days in Wadala, one of the main areas in Mumbai, in the Indian state of M ...
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  23 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Intolerance and violence against Pentecostal Christians New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "There is growing intolerance and hostility toward small Pentecostal Christian communities, that are not allowed to do what is guaranteed by constitutional guarantees": says to Agenzia Fides ...
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  23 August 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Peace Conference "inclusive of minority ethnic groups", asks Cardinal. Bo Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - A long series of conflicts between the army and ethnic minority groups living in the country are among the issues to be addressed after half a century of military rule in Myanmar. "It is very imp ...
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  22 August 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Peace talks with communist guerrillas: the Church hopes Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the Philippines expresses "hope and confidence" for the upcoming peace talks between the Philippine government and the "National Democratic Front" (NDF) which will be held ...
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  10 August 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - "Trojan Horse of the Crusaders", "Cardinal in pectore": the fanciful accusations of the Turkish press against Fethullah Gulen Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - In recent days, the Turkish press highlighted the participation of prominent members of the local Christian communities in demonstrations "in defense of democracy", convened in the Country to con ...
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  9 August 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Catholics and Orthodox together engaged in humanitarian emergencies. Caritas Jordan launches PEER project Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The humanitarian emergencies affecting the Middle East, including conflicts and mass emigration due to wartime scenarios, solicit responses shared by Christians of different denominations. Caritas ...
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  8 August 2016
  ASIA/JAPAN - Ten days for Peace, Message from Bishops of Japan Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - In response to the strong "Appeal for Peace" at Hiroshima by Saint Pope John Paul II on February 25, 1981, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan designated the days from August 6 to 15 as "Ten ...
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  8 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - First intervention of the Camillian Disaster Service International in the area of Bihar Patna (Agenzia Fides) - "A tragedy foretold, this is how a journalist of News 18, defined the floods that hit in particular the Bihar region bordering Nepal. There is very little reliable news". Marco Iazzolino, internat ...
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  5 August 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Caritas Lebanon reopens a Centre for refugee women Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A place to welcome, care for and accompany foreign women, who have often taken refuge in Lebanon and have been left alone or marginalized, with the risk of being victims of violence: this is the ...
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  5 August 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Do not kill": the Church's campaign against extrajudicial executions Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not kill" is the title of the campaign launched by the Catholic Church in the Philippines to promote respect for human life and deplore the long trail of extrajudicial executions in the count ...
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  4 August 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girl converted to Islam by force escapes captors Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A deaf-mute Pakistani Christian girl was able to escape from a Muslim man who had kidnapped and forced her to convert to Islam and to Islamic marriage. Now, after the courageous act, the girl and ...