Asia

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  23 June 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Shaw: "A Ramadan of Dialogue and Peace" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We lived an interreligious peace campaign during Ramadan, where we planted olive trees in front of Christian churches, mosques, madrassas, Catholic schools and Islamic institutes. It was a signi ...
• 22 June 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Good Shepherd" major Seminary in Coimbatore Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 5, 2017, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Stanislas Savarimuthu, of the diocesan clergy of Pondicherry-Cudd ...
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  22 June 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Youssef Absi is the new Greek-Melkite Catholic Patriarch Ain Traz (Agenzia Fides) - Youssef Absi is the new Greek-Melkite Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and of the East. 29 Greek-Melkite Catholic Bishops, gathered in the Electoral Synodal Assembly, elect ...
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  22 June 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A Bible in every family Manila (Agenzia Fides) – To distribute a copy of the Bible to every family in the Philippines: The project started in 2008 is becoming a reality thanks to the project "May They Be One Bible Campaign": says the Auxiliar ...
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  22 June 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Church: pain and sadness for the victims and the destruction of the Great Mosque in Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – The Chaldean Church expresses sadness for the destruction of the al Nuri Mosque in Mosul, renowned for the pending minaret, and reaffirms its sadness for the victims of the bombings and for all ...
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  21 June 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - In Fatima, the Maronite Patriarch will consecrate Lebanon and the whole Middle East to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai will travel to the Portuguese Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima to consecrate Lebanon and the Middle East to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The act of consecratio ...
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  21 June 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Assyrian Patriarch Gewargis III visits Telkaif and meets the head of the "Babylonian Brigades" Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Mar Gewargis III, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, visited the territories of the Nineveh Plain, liberated from the occupation of the militia of the Islamic State (Daesh). During his ...
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  21 June 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Filipino Muslims are victims of ISIS: no war of religion Zamboanga city (Agenzia Fides) - "The ideological influence of Islam on young Filipino Muslims is not to be underestimated, but the majority of Muslims in Mindanao do not support the Caliphate, does not want violence. An ...
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  20 June 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Exterior spaces of the Cathedral of Jakarta made available to Muslim faithful for Id al Fitr Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Interreligious cooperation between Christians and Muslims is seen and appreciated especially during their respective religious holidays, which become a time for expressing closeness and solidari ...
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  20 June 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: in order to rebuild the villages of the Nineveh Plain, external aid is not enough. Christians must not remain passive Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The towns and villages of the Nineveh Plain once inhabited by Christians, after three years of jihadist occupation, try to start all over again also thanks to the generous and concrete support o ...
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  19 June 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Fertile land of vocations: 37 deacons ordained in Flores in eight days Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "The island of Flores, Indonesia, is still a fertile land of religious and priestly vocations. This is demonstrated by the fact that, in the space of only eight days, on Saturday 10 and Sunday, ...
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  19 June 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Synod for the election of the New Greek-Melchite Patriarch begins Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Synod of Bishops of the Greek Melkite Church has begun today, Monday, June 19, to elect the new Patriarch. At the beginning of May Pope Francis announced that he had accepted the resignation ...
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  19 June 2017
  ASIA/JORDAN - King Abdallah II confirms: the defense of Christian and Muslim Holy Sites of Jerusalem is a "priority" for the Hashimite Monarchy Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The protection of Jerusalem's holy Muslim and Christian sites is a "priority" for the Hashimite Monarchy, committed to supporting the birth of an independent Palestinian state that has Gerusalem E ...
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  17 June 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Approval of the new electoral law. The National Director of the PMS: "compromise for stability" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The approval of the new electoral law by the Lebanese Parliament confirms and reasserts "the great compromise among different forces, which represents the essential key to reading this phase of L ...
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  16 June 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Kurdistan, the "separatists" seek Christian support Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Masrour Barzani, head of the intelligence in the autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan and President Masud's son, wanted to meet a delegation of representatives of the most rooted Churches in the r ...