Asia

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  2 August 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - New cases of "blasphemy" against Christians and Hindus Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - New cases of "blasphemy" against religious minorities in Pakistan: as Agenzia Fides learns, at least four Christians were charged for alleged blasphemy against Islam in Punjab province last month ...
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  1 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian pastor brutally murdered by Maoist rebels Godavari (Agenzia Fides) - India’s Christians have denounced the brutal murder of an innocent Christian pastor: on 29 July Pastor Yohan Maraiah was mercilessly beaten to death in the east Godavari district, of Ind ...
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  30 July 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - A “contest” of promises over future autonomy for Niniveh Plains Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – Atheel al Nujaifi, a local Sunnite politician former governor of the Province of Niniveh and leader of the al Hadba political party, has asserted that once freed from the jihadist clutches ...
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  30 July 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Prince Hassan bin Talal: an act of blind violence, the murder of French Catholic priest Fr. Jacques Hamel Amman (Agenzia Fides) – The assassination of Fr Jacques Hamel, the French Catholic priest brutally murdered by two pro-Islamic state fanatics while he was celebrating mass, was an act of blind violence which “sh ...
• 29 July 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of new Rector at St. Joseph’s Regional Seminary in Allahabad Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 30 April 2016, appointed Rector of St. Joseph’s Regional Seminary in Allahabad, India, Rev. ...
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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 ...