Asia

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  10 March 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Caritas Jordan opens a new center in Salt Salt (Agenzia Fides) - A medical and a dentist clinic, a space for children, fully equipped rooms for further education and professional training: are the services provided by the new center that Caritas Jordan has opene ...
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  9 March 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - In the language of Turkish politicians the anti-Armenian sentiment resurfaces Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has accused the Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) of "collaboration", comparing them with "gangs of Armenians who were collaborators of the Russians ...
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  9 March 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - Jihadists spread terror in a girls' school in Aden Aden (Agenzia Fides) – On Tuesday, 8 March Islamic Jihadists raided a school in Aden, where they wanted to give "a last warning" to the students who had not yet put in practice the order to adapt the clothing rules imp ...
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  8 March 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: no “Christian militia ” to free land occupied by jihadists ASIA/IRAQ – Chaldean Patriarch: no “Christian militia ” to free land occupied by jihadists Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - “To think that our victory can depend on the formation of isolated armed factions to fight to ...
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  8 March 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Churches in Lahore could be demolished to make way for new underground railway line Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – A Number of sites and buildings of historic, artistic and religious value as well as several church buildings risk being demolished to make way for a new line of the underground railway planned ...
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  8 March 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Promotion of lay Catholics and commitment to dialogue, priorities for the Catholic Church in India Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – “There is need for on-going formation for the laity to enable them to understand and to live their role in the Church. In today’s socio-political scenario, it is fundamental to recog ...
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  7 March 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Bishops of India and Missionaries of Charity: “will not abandon Yemen” Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - “Concern, anger and grief, a cowardly attack”: this was how the Catholic Bishops of India, in plenary assembly in Bangalore until 9 March, reacted to the massacre on 4 March in Aden, Y ...
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  7 March 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - Bishop Hinder: the martyred Sisters were loved by the Yemenite people. Still no news of abducted priest Aden (Agenzia Fides) – The local people “loved the Mother Teresa Sisters killed in Aden, and admired their way of serving others regardless of religious belonging , putting first the most in need. This earned ...
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  7 March 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Completed and available the Catechism of the Catholic Church in Urdu "A Work of Mercy ” Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – “At the end of 13 years of intense work , the entire Catechism of the Catholic Church translated into Urdu, approved by the Holy See and sent to press, has been just published in Pakistan. ...
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  5 March 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - Massacre of Sisters, Bishop Ballin: the closer the Church is to Jesus the closer she shares in his passion Aden (Agenzia Fides) – “The closer the Church is to Jesus the more closelyshe shares in his passion”. The massacre by a group of armed men committed inside a Home for elderly and disabled persons entrusted to the c ...
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  4 March 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - Terrorist attack kills 4 Mother Teresa Sisters, together with helpers and elderly patients in care Aden (Agenzia Fides) Four Missionary Sisters of Charity, the community founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, were shot dead by gunmen early this morning in an attack on the structure in the Yemenite city of Aden where ...
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  4 March 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Five new Korean missionaries “ad gentes” Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Five new Korean missionaries are charged to carry the good news of the Gospel to distant lands: with a special Mass celebrated in Seoul Cathedral on 3 March, Cardinal Yeom Soo-jung, Catholic ...
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  4 March 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - International Seminar : how Christians and other non-Muslim social groups are portrayed in official school programmes in Arab countries Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – A two day international seminar opened today in Beirut to discuss how Christians and other non-Muslim social groups are portrayed in official school programmes in Arab countries. The initiati ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - The Word of God and Mercy accompany Chinese Catholics along the path of Lent ASIA/CHINA – The Word of God and Mercy accompany Chinese Catholics along the path of Lent Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Misericordiae Vultus, the Bull of Indiction for this extraordinary Holy Year, the word of God a ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A Centre for suppying information on the situation of human rights in N. Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) –While the United Nations Security Council has unanimously established harsh sanctions on North Korea following Pyongyang's recent nuclear experiment – compulsory inspections, ban on arms sale, ...