Asia

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  27 September 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraq's parliament: no to changes in the status of Nineveh Province to reserve "protected areas" to religious minorities Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi Parliament voted yesterday, Monday, September 26, a motion to close the door to any possibility of changing the legal status of the northern province of Nineveh. The motion, presented ...
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  27 September 2016
  ASIA/THAILAND - With the nightmare of the "Buddhist blasphemy", the Church prepares missionary October Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "In this phase, under military power, society and especially young people complain about the lack of freedom and pluralism: one cannot criticize the government. But our pastoral activities are n ...
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  27 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Former street child opens a "coffee-library" for homeless minors Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - A coffee-library for poor street children was recently opened in India's financial capital called Bombay to Barcelona - and was born from the dream of a former street child, now an adult, who wit ...
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  27 September 2016
  ASIA/LAOS - Three new priests ordained: a historic step for the Church Luang Prabang (Agenzia Fides) - "First of all let us thank the Lord for his great gift: we are very happy for the three new priests who will work full time in the small Catholic Church in Laos. All three will dedicate th ...
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  27 September 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Among Lebanese young people under 25, only 25% are Christians Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Christians account for 34% of the Lebanese population registered in the civil Status register. But if the focus is placed on the Lebanese population up to 25 years of age, the percentage o ...
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  24 September 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In the Year of Education, schools at the center of the diocesan pastoral of Faisalabad Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - In the Pakistani diocese of Faisalabad, in Punjab province, the Year of mercy coincides with a special "Year of Education", proclaimed by Bishop Joseph Arshad. "We urgently need to grow in th ...
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  24 September 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Elections, Archbishop Lahham: all Christian candidates in Islamist lists rejected Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Among the 130 members of the new Jordanian Parliament in the political elections held on September 20, only 9 are of Christian faith, equal to the minimum "guaranteed" to the Christian minority fr ...
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  24 September 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Children will pray to implore the end of massacres of children Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of boys and girls in Aleppo, Christians and Muslims, will meet on October 6, to pray so that the spiral of death unleashed in recent days especially on their defenceless children stops i ...
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  23 September 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako at the Synod: digital culture aggravates our spiritual crisis Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The pastoral, administrative and financial affairs of the Chaldean Church is full of "shades", and among them there is the focus on self-interest which indicate how "the motivational and spiritual ...
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  23 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Inquiry in the anti-Christian massacres in Orissa: there was careful planning Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian massacres that occurred in Orissa in 2008 are the result of careful planning by Hindu nationalist groups of the "Sangh Parivar" network at the highest level. Illiterate masses ...
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  23 September 2016
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Mercy and inclusion with immigrants, who are "a blessing" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - Mercy and inclusion are the fundamental teachings in the Gospel for every Christian who has relationships with immigrants: says the message Mgr. Bernard Paul, President of the Commission fo ...
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  22 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - "The Church is committed to the development of the Dalits more than the Government", while violence increases New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Violence against Dalits (the "outcasts" or "untouchables") in India have increased in recent years: say the official data of the National Crime Record Board (NCRB), illustrated in recent days ...
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  22 September 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Parliamentary elections, Islamist forces back in Parliament Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The counting of the votes of the Jordanian parliamentary elections, held on Tuesday, September 20, still continues. But the first partial results, relating to 11 out of 23 districts, portend the r ...
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  21 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - A Pastor and a Christian couple attacked by Hindu extremists Kharghar (Agenzia Fides) - Aggression against a Pentecostal Christian Pastor and a Christian couple in Kharghar, in the municipality of Navi Mumbai, in the Indian state of Maharashtra. As Fides learns, on September 16 Pa ...
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  21 September 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Religious leaders pray for peace: terrorism in the name of God is "a sign of the end times" Harissa (Agenzia Fides) - Terrorism carried out in the name of religion is "a sign of the Times" that testifies "the approach of the Day of Judgment". And the discord traps scattered by those who use Islam to justify the ...