Asia

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  27 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal: Christian couple sentenced to death for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal has been filed to the Court of Appeal and the first hearing will take place in May regarding a Christian couple Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kausar. This was reported to Fides by the ...
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  27 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians in Baghdad on a pilgrimage to Ur of the Chaldeans Bassora (Agenzia Fides) - It was the biggest pilgrimage made by Iraqi Christians in recent years: about 200 Chaldeans from Baghdad went to Ur, the historical site of lower Mesopotamia, now in the Iraqi governorate in Dhi ...
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  26 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The "Clock Church" destroyed in central Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday April 24 the Latin church in the center of Mosul, historically officiated by the Dominican Fathers and known as the "Church of the Miraculous Virgin" or dubbed as the "Clock Church", was ...
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  26 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Minors in tears because forced to marry Chittorgarh (Agenzia Fides) - In Chittorgarh, a city of Rajasthan in northern India, where early marriage is widespread, a secret video shows child brides sobbing because they are forced to marry. Six marriages took plac ...
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  26 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops meet the Prime Minister: "We invite the Pope to India" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of Indian Bishops met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The group was led by the President of the Bishops' Conference (CBCI), Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, accompanied by the Gene ...
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  26 April 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Long trail of targeted killings: "Christians continue their pastoral and social activities" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We are aware, concerned but not alarmed. Fanatical groups are spreading death, but we hope that the government can control them. The pastoral and social activities of the Church continues": says ...
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  25 April 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Ecumenical Patriarch wants to meet Erdogan to talk about the Theological Institute of Halki Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, wants to meet President Tayyip Erdogan to talk about the status of the Patriarchate, and above all would like clarification on the rece ...
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  25 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girl kidnapped and victim of forced marriage and conversion to Islam: the phenomenon does not stop Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - Help his daughter, victim of abduction, forced marriage and conversion to Islam: is the appeal launched by Sarwar Masih, a Pakistani Christian who asked the help of lawyer Sardar Mushtaq Gill, hea ...
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  25 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Mass explained to young people, for the 400th anniversary of the Church of St. Andrew Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - The Jubilee of the 400th anniversary of the founding of St. Andrew's Church in Bandra, in Mumbai, was the occasion for a special celebration dedicated to the young: it was a Holy Mass animated wi ...
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  25 April 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - A predominantly Christian city bombed by Islamist rebels. Armed truce in Qamishli between the Kurdish militias and pro-Assad army Hama (Agenzia Fides) - Islamist militias linked to Al Qaeda Jabhat al Nusra Front group launched an attack with mortars on the Syrian city of Sqelbiya, a predominantly Christian city, in the central province of Hama on S ...
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  22 April 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - NGOs appeal to the government: need to face the crisis of the Rohingya Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – Need to face the crisis of the ethnic minority of Rohingya Muslims, who in the past five years have seen a dramatic escalation of human rights violations, marked by repression, discrimination a ...
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  22 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - St. Elisabeth Catholic hospital at the forefront in the country for the care of cancer patients Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - A special unit that provides home palliative care to cancer patients, with pain control therapy, has recently opened, and this is the first experience at a national level: the St. Elisabeth Ca ...
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  22 April 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Patriarchs of Antioch remember the two Bishops kidnapped: "We do not have the support of the 'giants'. Our only hope is in the Lord" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Three years since the disappearance of 2 Metropolitan Bishops of Aleppo - Syrian Orthodox Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and Greek Orthodox Boulos Yazigi – the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antio ...
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  22 April 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - The death of Mgr. Thomas Zeng Jingmu, courageous witness of fidelity to the Church Yujiang (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, April 2, 2016, His Exc. Mgr. Thomas Zeng Jingmu emeritus and unofficial Bishop of the diocese of Yujiang, in Jiangxi Province (Mainland China) died at the age of almost 96. On Mar ...
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  21 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian couple lynched: the trial gets serious Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - It will not be easy to get justice for the death of the Christian couple Shahzaz Masih and Shama Bibi, lynched and burned alive in November 2014 by a crowd of Muslims in Kasur, for alleged blasph ...