Asia

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  28 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldian Catholic Lara Zara elected mayor of Alqosh Alqosh (Agenzia Fides) - Chaldian Catholic Lara Yussif Zara is the new mayor of Alqosh, the small town of Nineveh Plain, inhabited mostly by Christians, which for three years was the residential area near the border line ...
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  27 July 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - After tensions on the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Al Azhar convenes an "International Conference" on Jerusalem Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The University of Al Azhar, the most prominent academic-theological center of Sunni Islam, announced the decision to convene an International Conference on Jerusalem by September next year to disc ...
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  26 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Pressure continues to involve Christians in the referendum on independence in Kurdistan Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Political leaders of the autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan continue to manifest in various ways the intention to involve Christians in support of the referendum convened for next September 25 i ...
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  25 July 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Still tensions at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Fr.Neuhaus: when sacred things are touched, rage always explodes Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli government has ordered the removal of installed metal detectors to control the entry at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. But it is still early to understand whether this m ...
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  24 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - 15 statues of Our Lady of Lourdes put in the villages of the Nineveh Plain instead of those destroyed by jihadists Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) – On July 20-25, in many villages and towns of the Nineveh Plain once inhabited mostly by Christians, 15 statues of the Virgin of Lourdres will be put in place of those removed and destroyed by ...
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  24 July 2017
  ASIA/SIRIA - Christian professor killed in Hassakè, Syrian city controlled by Kurdish militias of the PYD Hassakè (Agenzia Fides) - The lifeless body of Basil Isaac, a Christian professor from the Khabur valley, who was killed with a bullet to his head, was found in a village eight kilometers east of the Syrian city of Hass ...
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  21 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate: there is an attempt to put a hand on the towns of the Nineveh Plain Bhaghdad (Agenzia Fides) - It is unfortunate that the "attempt to put a hand on the towns of the Nineveh Plain, through public or concealed struggles is imposing a negative influence on the native people of this land". T ...
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  20 July 2017
  ASIA/CHINA - Summer camp, school of faith and life for children Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Some recited the rosary for the first time and learned how to use the crown, some participated in the Mass for the first time from beginning to end, and there are those who are more discipline ...
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  20 July 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Churches in Jerusalem on the tensions around al-Aqsa-Mosque/Haram esh-Sharif: no to measures that alter the Status Quo Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Leaders and representatives of all Churches and Christian communities in Jerusalem express "serious concern" regarding the new spiral of tension and violence around Haram ash-Sharif. With a do ...
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  20 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Citizens of the Christian village of Alqosh protest against the mayor's removal from office Alqosh (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of citizens in Alqosh, a Christian majority city of the Nineveh Plain, participated in the protest march that this morning Thursday, July 20, crossed the central streets of the town cent ...
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  19 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian Mayor of Alqosh dismissed. The Nineveh Plain is increasingly a "controversial area" in the eyes of Kurdish secessionists Alqosh (Agenzia Fides) - With an unusual emergency procedure, the Council of the Iraqi Province of Nineveh dismissed the mayor of Alqosh, a town of the Nineveh Plain historically inhabited by Christians, and replaced him ...
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  18 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - "Rehabilitation Camp" Jihadist families set up in a Christian Village of the Nineveh Plain Bartella (Agenzia Fides) - After the conquest of Mosul, Iraqi security forces have transferred at least 170 families with members considered to be affiliated to the self-proclaimed Islamic State (Daesh) to a "Rehabilitat ...
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  18 July 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Freed from prostitution to become lawyers who pursue exploiters New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Children systematically mistreated and forced into prostitution with 20 clients per day, without rights, no voice and no one worrying about their inhuman conditions. This is the harsh reality ...
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  18 July 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai to President Aoun: People are exhausted, it is necessary to favor the repatriation of Syrian refugees Annaya (Agenzia Fides) - "Even with all our solidarity with the refugees, the Lebanese hope that the process to guarantee them a safe return in their Country, by setting aside the different political positions that hinde ...
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  17 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Clash between self-proclaimed "Christian militias" operating in the Nineveh Plain Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) Niniveh Plain Protection Units (NPU) have blamed the so-called "Babylonian Brigades" for having broken into one of their posts to seize military supplies and, above all, to release six of their m ...