Asia

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  9 May 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Luis Raphael I writes to the Chaldean diocese in the US: the priests who have emigrated without permission have to reflect on their vocation Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – To divide the ecclesial body in separate groups is a "serious sin", in a time when the Chaldean Church is also prompted by the dramatic historical circumstances which guards unity with speci ...
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  9 May 2016
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Catholicos Aram I inaugurates the school and the Armenian Cultural Center in Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of Armenian immigrants working in the United Arab Emirates took part, on Saturday, May 7, in the official inauguartion of the new Armenian cultural center, in the area of Musaffah, in ...
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  9 May 2016
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - In the Year of Jubilee 111 baptisms and 80 catechumens Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - There are 111 new baptized that enrich the Cambodian Church in the Year of Mercy, and 80 catechumens were admitted, during Lent, to prepare themselves for the Sacrament of Baptism: refers to ...
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  7 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Church of Punjab united, beyond the Indo-Pakistani border Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – To overcome divisions, differences, political tensions that exist between India and Pakistan and rediscover the common roots, in the sign of culture, faith, fraternity: with this spirit the Dio ...
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  7 May 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch Rai again meets political leaders to discuss the institutional crisis Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Almost two years after the end of the mandate of Michel Sleiman, the office of President of the Lebanese Republic remains vacant due to the vetoes among different political blocs. In the face of ...
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  6 May 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops: Lebanon looks like a ship without a helm Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The Arab world is threatened in its very existence by "murderous identities", and crises and wars which upset the whole region have their deep roots in "regional conflicts" and "international po ...
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  6 May 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop kidnapped: three priests arrested New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian police arrested 14 people, accusing them of having organized and participated in the kidnapping of Mgr. Prasad Gallela, Bishop of the diocese of Cuddapah, in Andhra Pradesh, kidnapp ...
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  6 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian couple burned alive for blasphemy: impunity of perpetrators Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The trial regarding the culprits of the lynching of a Christian couple Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi, burned alive for alleged blasphemy on November 4, 2014 appears to be complicated. In yeste ...
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  6 May 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - European Award for the Armenian church in Diyarbakir, confiscated by the government Diyarbakir (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian Apostolic Church of St. Giragos (San Ciriaco) in Diyarbakır has been awarded for its recent restoration by the European Union, but the awards ceremony and the laying of the comm ...
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  4 May 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Peshmerga and the coalition raid reject the jihadists outside the village of Telskuf Telskuf (Agenzia Fides) - The offensive of about 150 jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) who yesterday, May 3, had attacked Telskuf, a town in the Nineveh Plain where before August 2014 about 12 thousand Christians li ...
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  4 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Boom of vocations to priesthood: a lively and vibrant Church in faith Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – That in Pakistan is a Church that lives faith in every day difficulties, in a country where 95% are Muslims and is "fervent in priestly vocations and consecrated life, a sign of God's blessing, ...
• 3 May 2016
  ASIA/THAILAND - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Peter Watchasin Kritjharoen Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 3, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Peter Watchasin Kritjharoen of the clergy of the diocese of Ratchabur ...
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  3 May 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The appeals of Christian communities against the expropriation of churches in Diyarbakir increase Diyarbakir (Agenzia Fides) - While in Diyarbakir the curfew ordered by the Turkish authorities continues, the appeals filed by the legal representatives of foundations linked to the Christian community against the order ...
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  3 May 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - Two months after the massacre in Aden, negotiations continue for the release of Father Tom Aden (Agenzia Fides) - Two months after the massacre perpetrated by a terrorist commando in the nursing home in Aden (see Fides 04/03/2016), where four Missionaries of Charity were killed along with 12 other people, ther ...
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  2 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Youth Ministry with the works of mercy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people need to be involved, to experience mercy and to give mercy. Thus the Jubilee makes sense for them": says to Fides Fr. Jahanzeb Iqbal, a priest from Lahore, pastor of St. Antony and ...