Asia

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  23 June 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Militant Christian politician released by the Syrian apparatus after 30 months of detention Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - Christian political activist of Syriac-Orthodox confession Gabriel Moshe Kourieh, head of the political bureau of the Assyrian Democratic Organization, arrested by Syrian security forces in Qam ...
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  23 June 2016
  ASIA - Death penalty in Indonesia and the Philippines: need to become promoters of an abolitionist culture Oslo (Agenzia Fides) - "The campaign for the abolition of the death penalty is a big challenge in order to protect life, to promote justice and to humanize our societies. However, the campaign can be successful when citi ...
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  23 June 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The legal battle over the ownership of the Armenian Catholicosate continues. Waiting for the pronouncement of the Constitutional Court Antelias (Agenzia Fides) - A lawsuit filed last year by His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of seeking the return of the historic Sis Catholicosate was not taken into consideration by Turkey’s Justice Mi ...
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  22 June 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Bishops divided, Synod of the Melkite Greek Church postponed Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Synod of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, after being opened on Monday 20 June in Ain Traz in a climate of internal tension, was interrupted and postponed until further notice due to the no ...
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  22 June 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Death penalty: the Church to oppose President Duterte Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the Philippines will do everything possible to discourage political action likely to reintroduce the death penalty in the country. As Fides learns, the President of the Epi ...
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  22 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Five Christians acquitted from charges of blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An anti-terrorism court in Lahore acquitted five Christians accused of blasphemy. The case was registered on August 16, 2015 against sixteen persons accused of having published material considere ...
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  21 June 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic priest victim of an attempted murder Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest was attacked in the state of Assam (in Northeast India) by an unidentified person and was hospitalized with serious injuries caused by machetes. Fr. Sushil John Soren, parish ...
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  21 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Catholic minister: "Stop to honor killing in Pakistan" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Honor killing is the worst form of example of brutality and bestiality in Pakistani society. The killing of a child by the mother or father is the desecration of the sacred bond of motherhood an ...
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  21 June 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops: No to sectarian partition plans in the Middle East Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - It is necessary to stop the dismemberment sectarian plans with which some international circles think they can resolve conflicts, redrawing the boundaries of the Middle Eastern Countries, beginn ...
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  21 June 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Reconciliation meeting in Zarqa in the church damaged during a fight Zarqa (Agenzia Fides) - A reconciliation meeting among the inhabitants of the neighborhood and the effective work done by many of them to repair the damage, put an end to the story of the Greek Catholic church in Zarqa, ...
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  20 June 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Three people killed in a suicide attack, Patriarch Ignatius Ephraim II escapes the bombing Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - Three people were killed by a suicide attack yesterday during a religious meeting organized in Qamishli in northern Syria, to commemorate the "Assyrian genocideof 1915, by the Ottoman army. Acc ...
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  20 June 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Caritas: poverty, development and climate justice on the political agenda Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Work towards development and put the poor "at the center of the political agenda": is the appeal of Caritas Philippines and of a group of about 30 religious and civil organizations to newly ele ...
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  18 June 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Claretians engaged in solidarity with flood victims Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Religious Claretians in Sri Lanka are actively engaged in helping victims of the floods that hit the country last May, leaving massive damage to persons, houses, facilities. The Major Superior o ...
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  18 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Police Violence against Christians Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Pakistan are abused also by the police. On Sunday, June 12 police officer Amir Abdullah raided the Protestant Christian Church in Fazalia district, Lahore, and hit and humiliated Pa ...
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  17 June 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Assad receives the Patriarch and six Syrian Catholic Bishops: "the President is planning a totally new secular Constitution" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Syrian President Bashar Assad is planning a new Constitution for the nation led by him, to ensure equal rights for all citizens and eliminate discrimination toward religious minorities. These a ...