Asia

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  29 July 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - “al-Nusra Front” takes new name. Bishop Audo: a purely tactical move, there is no such thing as 'moderate rebels' Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – The decision of the Jabhat al-Nusra jihadist group to take a new name and announce that it has formally left the al Qaida network, represents “purely a tactical move to accredit the simulacr ...
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  28 July 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - “Follow Saint Francis and live the Jubilee”: Chinese youth in communion with WYD Zhou Zhi (Agenzia Fides) – “Follow Saint Francis and live the Jubilee”:” with this slogan a Franciscan summer parish youth camp, in the diocese of Zhou Zhi in Shaan Xi province, mainland China, young Chinese Cat ...
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  28 July 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Palestine's Scout movement one of the oldest reinvigorated Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) – After a long period of suspension of contact with analogous groups and networks at the global level, the Scout Movement in Palestine, re-connects with its long history taking part gatheri ...
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  28 July 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: it is “shameful” to have to wait for other countries to decide who shall be the next President of Lebanon Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - “It is shameful that the Lebanese people should have to wait for years while other countries in the region choose who shall be the new President of their country”. This is how Maronite ...
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  27 July 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - President Abbas writes to Pope Francis: horrified at the murder of the French priest, we condemn anyone who justifies terror with religion Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - “We are horrified at the barbarous attack on the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in which we lost the parish priest Jacques Hamel. On behalf of the State of Palestine and the Palestin ...
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  27 July 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Bishop of Aleppo says: Father Hamel and the other martyrs save the world, let us not exploit their suffering Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – The tragic death of Father Jacques Hamel, the elderly French priest murdered while he was saying mass, “belongs to the great history of Christian martyrdom including the recent martyrs o ...
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  26 July 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ -Chaldean Patriarch proposes to Iranian and Iraqi Shiites the creation of a Standing Committee for Dialogue Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – A Standing Committee for Dialogue between representatives of Shiite religious centres and the Chaldean Patriarchate to tackle together in friendly cooperation difficulties experienced by t ...
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  23 July 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - “The wedding couple in Cana”: some non-Christian couples at Spiritual Camp on Marriage Xian Xian (Agenzia Fides) – To feel the presence of the Holy Spirit in the life of a married couple and experience the beauty and happiness of Christian marriage: these were the intentions of some 35 married couples, ...
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  23 July 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - An estimated 250,000 Syrian children refugees in Lebanon are unable to attend school Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – More than half the 500,000 school-age refugee children from Syria, registered in Lebanon cannot attend school because of limited availabilityof resources and strict Lebanese government resid ...
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  22 July 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - "We long for your peace ". Almost 700 young people from the Holy Land in Krakow for World Youth Day Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – Over the past few days some 700 young people from the Holy Land have been making their way to Poland to take part in World Youth Day WYD 2016, the culminating events of which will take ...
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  21 July 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Arrest warrants for three suspects for the kidnapping of the Syrian nuns in Maalula Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Lebanese military prosecutor, Fadi Sawan, on Wednesday, July 20 issued an arrest warrant against three Syrians suspected of having participated in the kidnapping of the Sisters of the Syrian ...
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  20 July 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Order of the Holy Sepulchre inaugurates its new Web site Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The initiatives and projects implemented and supported especially in Holy Land by the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre will have from now on a new instrument in order to be known thro ...
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  20 July 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - A photo of the Salesian kidnapped in Aden "posted" on his Facebook account. Bishop Hinder: I think he is still alive Aden (Agenzia Fides) - "We have no further news, and today, with technical means available, everything is possible in this field. But the photo may be authentic. There are those who, however believe that father Tom is st ...
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  19 July 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - The "Marathon of God's Word" began in the parish of Bei Tang Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - "One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God" (Mt 4,4): with this motto, on July 17, the "Marathon of God's Word" began. The initiative, w ...
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  19 July 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Barzani seeks the support of Christians on the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - A referendum on the future to establish the full independence of Iraqi Kurdistan and the assurance that Christians will return to live as "owners" in the villages of the Nineveh Plain conquered by ...