Asia

• 26 February 2016
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Leopold Kropfreiter Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 13, 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Leopold Kropfreiter of the Servants of Jesus and Mary, SJM as Nat ...
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  26 February 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - A website on the martyrs of Orissa Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - A website to describe the ordeal that the survivors of anti-Christian massacres in Orissa still live at a social, judicial, religious level: is the initiative launched by a group of activist ...
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  26 February 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Door open to mercy, recalling the 150th anniversary of the persecution of Byeong-in Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - On 23 February 1866 the greatest persecution of the history of the Korean Church began: about 9,000 people, almost half of the total Catholic population at that time, were killed for their faith. ...
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  26 February 2016
  ASIA/IRAN - For Iranian Christians: to participate in the elections is a "national duty" and a "sign of belonging to the people" Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - The Iranian Assyrian Christians, like those of other confessions, perceive that the participation in elections scheduled for them today is a "national duty" and also "an important sign of their b ...
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  25 February 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - New initiative of minority MP’s against the islamization law of minors Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - In recent days, members of Christians present in the Parliamentary Assembly of Iraq have called for greater representation of minorities in the government of technocrats led by Prime Minister Ha ...
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  25 February 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Paul Bhatti: re-establish the Ministry of Minorities, recalling Shahbaz Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Re-establish the Ministry of Minorities in Pakistan, an organization that at a federal level takes care of the representation of religious minorities: is the proposal that Paul Bhatti launch ...
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  25 February 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Orthodox Archbishop: celebrate Easter and Christmas together is the desire of all Christians Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "I think there is not a Catholic or an Orthodox who does not have the desire to see a rapprochement between the Churches, and to find a common date to celebrate Easter and Christmas. We pray t ...
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  24 February 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Sarathi Jhalak: Community radio which every morning allows citizens to speak Anugondanahalli (Agenzia Fides) - Every morning, a group of Indian farmers of Anugondanahalli village are huddled around Sarathi Jhalak, a community radio station that broadcasts a program on climate change. The group of ...
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  24 February 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Franciscans: "In the Jubilee Year, freedom for a thousand prisoners" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Free a thousand prisoners, detained for minor offenses in Indian jails, granting them a special "pardon" in the Jubilee Year: is what the Indian Franciscans submit to the government, hoping th ...
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  24 February 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Tension for minorities and missionaries heavily guarded Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Tension remains high in Banglasdesh, and the necessary monitoring of the missionary life "is causing some consequences on the exercise of the ministry", says a note from the Pontifical Institute f ...
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  24 February 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Mayor of Selciuk relaunches: we will build the biggest statue of the Virgin Mary in the world Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Turkish Mayor Zeynel Bakici, at the head of the town of Selcuk – where there is the archaeological site of the ancient city of Ephesus - has relauched plans to build the tallest statue in the ...
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  23 February 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Young people of different religions together invoke harmony and peace Semarang (Agenza Fides) – Get to know each other, share experiences, pray together and invoke harmony and peace in Indonesia: with this spirit young people of all religious communities came together in recent days at H ...
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  23 February 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Other 43 Assyrian Christians of the Khabur valley released by jihadists Hassakè (Agenzia Fides) - The jihadists affiliated to the self-styled Islamic State (Daesh) have released 43 other Assyrian Christians of the group of about 250 people who had been taken from the Christian villages of t ...
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  23 February 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Eucharist is mercy: meeting of the priests of Mindanao Kidapawan City (Agenzia Fides) - The Eucharist is the source of each pastoral work with families, with the poor, in the Church and in society, in need of the mercy of the Father: is the belief which emerged from the asse ...
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  23 February 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Patriarch: Arab identity of the Lebanese nation is not negotiable Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai expressed his full support to the recent statement with which the Lebanese government wanted to reaffirm that the Arab identity of Lebanon cannot be questio ...