Asia

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  30 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Day of the Martyrs of Orissa: Church and civil society seek justice Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - A thorough and independent investigation of the police and the judiciary; adequate compensation that include Churches and humanitarian organizations; prosecute government officials and polic ...
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  29 August 2016
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - The Apostolic Prefect: "With the first priest, the Church in Mongolia is a mother who gives birth to a child" Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - "I thank the Lord who has called me to serve him through priesthood. I am also grateful to all the people who helped me to answer this call. I hope there will soon be other vocations to prie ...
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  29 August 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Political maneuvers on the future of the Nineveh Plain. The Chaldean Patriarch: it is unwise to talk now of self-determination Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The future political and administrative arrangement of Mosul and the Nineveh Plain, after the eventual liberation of those areas still under the control of the self-proclaimed Islamic State jiha ...
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  29 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Practice mercy in the media Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) – Put into practice mercy even in working with the media: in this spirit the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in Mumbai lived a seminar in which they deepened some techniques and the use of c ...
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  27 August 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Bishop Lahham to Jordanian Christians: in the elections vote who spoke good of the Church Amman (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled for September 20, Christians of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan are called to exercise their right and duty to vote in a consciou ...
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  27 August 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violent raid in a Christian neighborhood in Faisalabad Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian area "Khushal Town" in Faisalabad was attacked in past days by a crowd of Muslims who caused injuries to some Christians, including women, four young people and a senior. Christ ...
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  27 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Protestant Pastor beaten by Hindu militants New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Sunny Tyagi, who converted to Christianity and became a Protestant Pastor, was beaten by a mob of Hindu radicals who broke into a private house where a prayer meeting in the district of Gonda, ...
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  26 August 2016
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - With the first native priest, "the Catholic Church is no longer foreign" Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Mongolia is ready to welcome its first native priest: Joseph Enkh will be ordained to priesthood by His Exc. Mgr. Wenceslao Padilla, CICM, Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanba ...
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  25 August 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The initiatives of Caritas: Do not forget the victims of the Easter massacre Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The families affected by the "Easter massacre" (81 people died in the explosion in a park in Lahore on March 27) are still in difficulty: this is why Caritas in Lahore is doing its best to help t ...
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  25 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Justice for Christians massacred in Orissa New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Eight years after the anti-Christian massacres that shook the Indian state of Orissa, on August 25, 2008, the victims have not yet obtained justice: as John Dayal, an Indian Catholic intellect ...
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  24 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Mercy, beyond borders and barriers Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - To be merciful means going beyond borders and barriers: this is the meaning of the interfaith meeting organized in recent days in Wadala, one of the main areas in Mumbai, in the Indian state of M ...
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  23 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Intolerance and violence against Pentecostal Christians New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "There is growing intolerance and hostility toward small Pentecostal Christian communities, that are not allowed to do what is guaranteed by constitutional guarantees": says to Agenzia Fides ...
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  23 August 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Peace Conference "inclusive of minority ethnic groups", asks Cardinal. Bo Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - A long series of conflicts between the army and ethnic minority groups living in the country are among the issues to be addressed after half a century of military rule in Myanmar. "It is very imp ...
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  22 August 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Peace talks with communist guerrillas: the Church hopes Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the Philippines expresses "hope and confidence" for the upcoming peace talks between the Philippine government and the "National Democratic Front" (NDF) which will be held ...
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  10 August 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - "Trojan Horse of the Crusaders", "Cardinal in pectore": the fanciful accusations of the Turkish press against Fethullah Gulen Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - In recent days, the Turkish press highlighted the participation of prominent members of the local Christian communities in demonstrations "in defense of democracy", convened in the Country to con ...