Asia

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  5 September 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Ecumenical Patriarchate rejects the "false allegations" regarding the involvement in the failed coup Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople deplores the "false allegations" that have circulated in recent days in the Turkish press regarding the involvement of Ecumenical Patriarch Barthol ...
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  2 September 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - A Synod of the Chaldean Church on the exodus of Christians, martyrs to be beatified and communities of the diaspora Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The beatification of the Chaldean martyrs, pastoral and charitable interventions in favor of the displaced, the phenomenon of the emigration of Christians and the choice of the new Chaldean Bishop ...
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  2 September 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Taliban attack a Christian neighborhood in Peshawar: a Catholic layman killed Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - Four Taliban militants attacked early this morning, at 5.30 am, a "Christian colony", a Christian neighborhood in Peshawar, a city in northern Pakistan. The lay Catholic Samuel Masih, a father, ...
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  2 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Sister Prema: "Thanks to Pope Francis, who chose Mother Teresa as an icon of mercy " Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - "We are grateful to God and to Pope Francis, who proclaimed the Year of mercy and chose Mother Teresa as an 'icon of mercy'. Mother Teresa’s canonization is an opportunity to spread the messa ...
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  2 September 2016
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - Unofficial rumor on the death of President Karimov. Patriarch Kirill thanks him for facilitating "interreligious dialogue" Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - While diplomatic sources cited by international agencies announced the death of the President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, who in past days suffered a brain hemorrhage, the Patriarch of Moscow ...
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  1 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops: "Mother Teresa, a fully Indian saint" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The canonization of Mother Teresa is an important event for India. We are grateful to the government for its support regarding the ceremony on September 4 at the Vatican. It is an important d ...
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  1 September 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Turkish press accuses Patriarch Bartholomew of complicity with the failed coup Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time a Turkish media has explicitly accused Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I of being an accomplice in the failed coup last July 15, organized, according to Anka ...
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  1 September 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Expropriation of land ordered by the government are likely to stir up sectarian conflicts Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The possible confiscation of collectively owned land from the State near the Lebanese village of Aqoura (Jbeil district) is likely to stir up sectarian strife. The tension around the sensitive is ...
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  1 September 2016
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - First Mass of the first Mongolian priest Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - A heartfelt reflection on the cross and a moving story of his vocation: is what Fr. Joseph Enkh said during the celebration of his first Mass in the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Ula ...
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  31 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Mother Teresa: a life spent taking care of others Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "Mother Teresa focused her energy on others, not on herself" and this was one of her secrets and her holiness: to take care and focus on one’s neighbor, in the awareness of the preciousness of ...
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  31 August 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The religious call to fight drug trafficking without summary justice Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "In the last two months we have seen a steady increase in the number of extrajudicial executions, which has now reached about a thousand, and the count continues. Most of these deaths are related ...
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  31 August 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - Encounter with the Lord in mercy and solidarity with the Italian earthquake victims Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The encounter with the Lord in mercy and charity; the prayer for the Italian earthquake victims, for children and young people who return to school, for evangelization and for those who h ...
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  31 August 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Greece calls for Ankara to offer an apology for the "Greek-Pontic Genocide" Athens (Agenzia Fides) - The Greek people "will continue their battle until Turkey recognizes the Pontic genocide and offers a sincere apology for the crimes committed by their ancestors". This is what in recent days the ...
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  30 August 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - UN Commission: repeal the blasphemy law Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has called on Pakistan to repeal the blasphemy law. In the periodic report on the country, released on August 26 and sent to Fides, th ...
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  30 August 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Young man arrested for the murder of Father Santoro freed ahead of time Trabzon (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish 26-year-old Oguzhan Ayudin, who was convicted in 2006 to 18 years and 10 months in prison for having killed Catholic Italian priest Andrea Santoro, was released a few days ago far ah ...