Asia

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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Bethlehem calling Lourdes: partnership between towns supports Palestinian Christians Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) – Lourdes and Bethlehem share a “common destiny”, because "without pilgrimages, Bethlehem, like Lourdes, would be a small forgotten village”. With these words charged with realism the m ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops call embrace between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill “an ecumenical and prophetic step” Bkerkè (Agenzia Fides) – The recent embrace on 12 February in Cuba between Pope Francis and the Orthodox Patriarch Moscow Kirill, and their Joint Declaration represent “an ecumenical and prophetic step” taken by t ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishop of Malolos says steelworks project must be stopped Malolos City (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop José F. Oliveros of the diocese of Malolos calls for the immediate cancellation of a steelworks project which would irreversibly ruin the life of the local people and the natural e ...
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  2 March 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Politics as a service”: a testimony by the spiritual father of Shahbaz Bhatti ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Politics as a service”: a testimony by the spiritual father of Shahbaz Bhatti Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – “Recognising his gifs of leadership and concern for the good of the Catholic Church in ...
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  2 March 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Petition for rights of displaced Christians amidst preparations for battle to take back Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – While US military sources confirm that the next objective in the fight against Islamic State jihadists (Daesh) will be to take back Mosul, a petition has been forwarded by Iraqi Chaldean Rae ...
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  2 March 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Nation marks fifth anniversary of the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – With special prayers in churches in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Khushpur and Sargodha and in many other places, Pakistan commemorated Shahbaz Bhatti on the 5th anniversary of his assas ...
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  1 March 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Newly launched TV news chanel declares “war on war” Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – In the heart of the Middle East region torn apart by bloody conflict, a new satellite TV channel of Information , proposing news “ from the Catholic point of view”, in order to “buil ...
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  1 March 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Jesuit run East Asian Pastoral Institute marks 50 years of pastoral service in the spirit of Vatican II Manila (Agenzia Fides) – It has become a point of reference in Asia for primary and on-going pastoral formation in the spirit of Vatican II: for 50 years the East Asian Pastoral Institute EAPI based in Manila, has ir ...
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  1 March 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Shahbaz Bhatti, diocese collects testimony for 'Martyrdom' Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – At this time of year when Pakistan's Catholics mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Shahbaz Bhatti, a Catholic, MP for Minority Groups assassinated in Islamabad on 2 March 2011, the ...
• 29 February 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - New PMS National Director , Rev. Pedige Basil Rohan Fernando Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 13 October 2015, appointed as new National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Sr ...
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  29 February 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Coutts: “Our mission is to spread love in a context of violence and terrorism” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “As Pakistani Christians we face numerous challenges every day: many will have heard of the so-called blasphemy law and the emblematic case of Asia Bibi, an innocent Christian mother sentenc ...
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  29 February 2016
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Children taught to be responsible at school Singapore (Agenzia Fides) – People in Asian countries are increasingly aware of the necessity of helping minors be aware of daily responsibilities . At school, besides learning to read and write, and study history, pro ...
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  29 February 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Number of Christians in the Gaza Strip continues to dwindle Gaza (Agenzia Fides) – The small Christian presence in Gaza Strip continues to dwindle: in recent months at least thirty young people decided to leave the land in which they were born to emigrate and funeral services ...
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  29 February 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Government annunces new measure to curb corrupt state works abetting fraud to the damage of Iraqi Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) –State workers abetting property to the damage of Christians will be severely punished with temporary suspension or definitive dismissal. This was announced in a television interview by the ...
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  29 February 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Execution of Qadri, the killer of governor Taseer Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) – Mumtaz Qadri, bodyguard and killer of the governor of Punjab Salmaan Taseer, assassinated 4 January 2011, was hanged this morning in Adiala prison, under massive security measures. After t ...