Asia

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  2 January 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Donating organs is a service to God and humanity Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - The 77-year old Bishop Agnelo Gracias, auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, has decided to donate his organs after death. This trend has grown tremendously in the Christian community: an increasing number ...
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  2 January 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - In Aleppo, the Heads of Christian Churches pray together for peace Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - In Aleppo, at the beginning of the new year, on the occasion of World Day for Peace, Patriarch Mar Ignatios Aphrem II, Primate of the Syrian Orthodox Church, presided over the prayer for peace in ...
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  29 December 2016
  ASIA/THAILAND - "The Kingdom of God is among us", even in a slum Pathumthani (Agenzia Fides) - "Last night, after the celebration of the vespers I asked Pan, one of the seminarians who helps me in the community work - the slums around Pathumthani, where he had been and he answered: I ...
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  29 December 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - New Jesuit university in New Town Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) – The West Bengal Assembly has recently approved a 2016 draft law of the Saint Xavier University of Calcutta, thus paving the way for the creation of a new university in New Town, Rajarhat, to ...
• 29 December 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Purwokerto Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 29 December 2016, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Purwokerto, Indonesia, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Julianus Kemo Sunarko, S.I. (S ...
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  22 December 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians in Orissa seek protection for Christmas Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before Christmas, the Christians of Kandhamal district in the Indian state of Orissa, the epicenter of anti-Christian massacres of 2008, call for a Christmas in peace and free fro ...
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  21 December 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians celebrate the Prophet’s birthday, the Muslims celebrate Christmas Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Dialogue and good Muslim-Christian relations are also built with the mutual participation in the major holidays of the respective religions. It so happens that the Lahore Franciscans celebrated P ...
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  20 December 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Archbishop Pizzaballa: the law to 'silence' mosques would represent a "dangerous precedent" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM, Apostolic Administrator of the vacant see of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, expressed his disapproval regarding the project supported by the Israe ...
• 20 December 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishops of Bombay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 December 2016 the Holy Father appointed rev. Allwyn D'Silva, Episcopal Vicar of Bombay, and rev. Barthol Barretto, of the clergy of Mumbai, parish priest and Vicar Forane as auxiliary ...
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  19 December 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - UN to vote on sending observers to Aleppo. Father Murad: Muslims first victims of the jihadists Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "The victims of violence in Syria are all Syrians, Muslims and Christians. And the poor are those who suffer most, those who have not had a chance to escape". While the evacuation of the populat ...
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  19 December 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - A new law will change the access to information in the Country Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Sri Lanka’s upcoming 69th independence commemorations, which will be celebrated on February 4, will be of special value to the island’s media, if the new law on the Right to Information (RTI ...
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  19 December 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - Immaculate Mary and St. Ambrose: models of authenticity of the Catholic academic research Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Mary Immaculate and St. Ambrose, Doctor of the Church, are the two models of authentic inner purity, of the search for truth and of the Catholic academic research without prejudices or personal ...
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  17 December 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The tribal become entrepreneurs thanks to a nun Kohima (Agenzia Fides) - Farmers, artisans, merchants: Garo tribals in the Indian state of Nagaland in northeast India, have become entrepreneurs and have improved their standard of life dealing with cultivation, process ...
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  17 December 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch to other Churches: let us not proceed in a random order. Let us be united as "Christian member" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The emergency situation that the entire Iraqi nation is facing also calls Christians not to proceed in a random order, emphasizing in an exasperated manner the identity factors of each ecclesial ...
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  16 December 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Christmas without the Muslims in Mindanao: a step back Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - "In some parts of the Philippines, especially in Mindanao, some Muslim leaders have discouraged their followers to join the Christians for the Christmas celebrations. This is an alarming sign. ...