Asia

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  7 April 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "Come and you will see": a day for vocations in Seoul dedicated to teenagers Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Since 2009, the Archdiocese of Seoul celebrates the Day dedicated to vocations, in particular designed and conceived for teenagers: the Catholic Youth Day. As reported to Fides by the communicat ...
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  7 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Autonomous Region of Kurdistan takes charge of Christian civil servants forced to flee their lands Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan has renewed, until the end of 2016, the commitment to pay the salaries of Christian civil servants and public employees who worked in Mosul, in the Ninev ...
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  6 April 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - In the Syrian city of Sadad, the Christians who had to flee to Europe are beginning to return Sadad (Agenzia Fides) - In the Syrian city of Sadad, Christian families who had to flee to Europe to escape the violence of the conflict are beginning to return. This was reported to the Russian media by Suleiman al Khal ...
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  6 April 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - New Franciscan fraternity in Turkey Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - To witness the Gospel, promoting ecumenical and interreligious dialogue and dialogue with culture, in specific ways, through Francis of Assisi’s example: this is the spirit with which the Fri ...
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  6 April 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Syriac Orthodox Church: the arrest of Metropolitan Swerios is offensive and humiliating Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - The Syriac Orthodox Church considers the way the Palestinian police arrested Metropolitan Swerios Malki Murad, Patriarchal Vicar of the Holy Land "insulting". Such police custody – which too ...
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  6 April 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Caritas helps immigrants and migrants Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The work of aid of Caritas Sri Lanka reaches immigrant workers and those who migrate abroad in search of work. Caritas works with economic aid, education, professional training programs, in a ne ...
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  6 April 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - 6 children die or are injured every three days Sana'a (Agenzia Fides) - The toll after a year of war in Yemen is that 6 children are killed or maimed every three days. For them it is also dangerous and difficult to play or sleep. With the intensification of the war ...
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  5 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Intrusion during a Christian assembly: faithful threatened, Bibles confiscated New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A group of about 40 Hindu extremists in a Pentecostal Christian Assembly stormed during a prayer meeting, interrupting the worship, threatening the faithful and seizing Bibles: as reported to ...
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  5 April 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: "Vote politicians with a high vision and dedicated to service" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Choose political leaders animated by a high "vision" of common good and dedicated to the service of citizenship: is the exhortation Filipino Bishops propose to the faithful in view of the politic ...
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  5 April 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The relics of Mar Elian have been recovered in the sanctuary devastated by Jihadists. Father Jacques Mourad: rebirth of the monastery Qaryatayn (Agenzia Fides) – In Quaryatayn, the Syrian city recently returned under Syrian military control, the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) have gone, leaving rubble and devastation in Mar Elian sanctuary, w ...
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  5 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Bishops: may Christians be involved in the new government Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The request to include even Christian politicians in the government, the invitation to the faithful not to be persuaded by those who promote their escape from Iraq, and a clear statement of suppor ...
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  4 April 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Farmers killed by the police: the Church condemns violence Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "A death is always tragic, especially when it is a violent death. Let us pray for our farmers in Kidapawan: may they find peace and happiness in heaven. The police have the mandate to preserve pe ...
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  4 April 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Syrian Orthodox Bishop stopped and released by the Palestinian police Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - The Palestinian Police stopped Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan Swerios Malki Murad, the Patriarchal Vicar who leads the Syrian Orthodox Christian community present in Holy Land. The arrest took p ...
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  4 April 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Hospital patients want the return of the missionary wounded Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) – The sick of Dinajpur hope Fr. Piero Parolari, the Italian missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, wounded in an ambush with attempted murder, will soon return to Bangladesh. ...
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  4 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Priest who gambled funds for refugees has been suspended Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Chaldean priest Amer Saka, who claimed he had gambled away hundreds of thousands of dollars earmarked for refugees fleeing violence and persecution in Iraq, has been temporarily suspended from t ...