Asia

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  18 November 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic leaders: "demonetization only affects the poor" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A measure that targets the poor: this is how some Catholic leaders have judged the recent measure of the Indian government defined by economists "demonetization". In recent days, the governmen ...
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  18 November 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Purges continue, Turkey removes the only Christian co-mayor Mardin (Agenzia Fides) - In the institutions and Turkish political bodies purges ordered by the central government against politicians and officials continue, accused of being supporters of the network of Fethullah Gulen ...
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  17 November 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Archbishop Suharyo: "The appeal against corruption is above all for the Church" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "Corruption exists in the Catholic Church and the pastoral appeal of Indonesian Bishops to stop corruption is above all for the Church, which must renew itself and develop a service system able ...
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  17 November 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - New meetings between newly elected President Aoun and the heads of Churches Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - While in Lebanon there are increasing signs of the imminent presentation of a new government, led by the Sunni Premier Saad Hariri, newly elected President Michel Aoun, after meeting Maronite P ...
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  17 November 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - President Barzani: we will not withdraw from the reconquered lands, Kurdistan will be multiethnic and multireligious Bashiqa (Agenzia Fides) - The Kurdish Peshmerga troops will not withdraw from lands they reclaimed from ISIS in the military campaign for the liberation of Mosul, explaining that this was agreed with the United States a ...
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  16 November 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Religious leaders: "Peace is the common good" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Peace is the supreme good for all citizens and all communities in Myanmar: says a heartfelt appeal to political and military leaders launched by a group of Burmese religious leaders, including Ca ...
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  15 November 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Catholic Organizations: Winter-emergency for refugees from Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The beginning of military operations to liberate Mosul from the jihadist Islamic State (Daesh) is causing the rapid increase in refugees fleeing Iraq's second city. There are those who believe tha ...
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  15 November 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarchs and Catholic Bishops: Lebanese increasingly poor, a government of national "reconciliation" is urgently needed Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - In Lebanon, following the election of former general Michel Aoun to the office of President of the Republic, a government that can promote national reconciliation and the rapid drafting of an ele ...
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  15 November 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Duterte’s turnaround: Yes to nuclear energy Bataan (Agenzia Fides) - The Philippines will make use of nuclear energy and reactivate the Bataan plant, in the north of Manila: this announcement by Energy Secretary, Alfonso Cusi, who confirmed the willingness of Pres ...
• 14 November 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - Appointment of the Coadjutor Bishop of Hong Kong Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 13 November 2016 the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Michael Yeung Ming-cheung, titular Bishop of Monte di Numidia and Auxiliary of the same diocese, as Coadjutor Bishop of the Dioce ...
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  14 November 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholics migrate to other Churches: Ecumenical comparison Coimbatore (Agenzia Fides) – To contain the migration of Catholics to other Christian denominations: with this explicit goal the diocese of Coimbatore, in Tamil Nadu state (southern India), one of the oldest dioceses i ...
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  11 November 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Complaint of Christians: Kurd Party imposes a census to manipulate the demographic balance in the Syrian area of Hassakè Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - The apparatus and officials of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), and its military wing YPG (People's Protection Unit), rooted in the north-eastern regions of Syria, with a Kurdish major ...
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  11 November 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - 10,000 children have died due to preventable diseases Sana'a (Agenzia Fides) - The humanitarian crisis in Yemen continues to worsen. Since last March at least 10,000 children under 5 years of age have died due to preventable diseases. The rate of malnutrition continues to g ...
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  11 November 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Muslim protests, the Archbishop of Jakarta: the guideline is legality Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Tension is still high in Indonesia, after the massive demonstration of radical Islamic groups that on November 4 led through the streets of Jakarta over one hundred thousand people, who demanded ...
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  10 November 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Patriarchate proposes the creation of a "Council of Churches in Iraq" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarchate of Babylon is studying the project for the creation of a "Council of Churches in Iraq" bringing together all the Churches and ecclesial communities present on Iraqi territory, a ...