Asia

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  26 April 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Long trail of targeted killings: "Christians continue their pastoral and social activities" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We are aware, concerned but not alarmed. Fanatical groups are spreading death, but we hope that the government can control them. The pastoral and social activities of the Church continues": says ...
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  25 April 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Ecumenical Patriarch wants to meet Erdogan to talk about the Theological Institute of Halki Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, wants to meet President Tayyip Erdogan to talk about the status of the Patriarchate, and above all would like clarification on the rece ...
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  25 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girl kidnapped and victim of forced marriage and conversion to Islam: the phenomenon does not stop Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - Help his daughter, victim of abduction, forced marriage and conversion to Islam: is the appeal launched by Sarwar Masih, a Pakistani Christian who asked the help of lawyer Sardar Mushtaq Gill, hea ...
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  25 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Mass explained to young people, for the 400th anniversary of the Church of St. Andrew Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - The Jubilee of the 400th anniversary of the founding of St. Andrew's Church in Bandra, in Mumbai, was the occasion for a special celebration dedicated to the young: it was a Holy Mass animated wi ...
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  25 April 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - A predominantly Christian city bombed by Islamist rebels. Armed truce in Qamishli between the Kurdish militias and pro-Assad army Hama (Agenzia Fides) - Islamist militias linked to Al Qaeda Jabhat al Nusra Front group launched an attack with mortars on the Syrian city of Sqelbiya, a predominantly Christian city, in the central province of Hama on S ...
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  22 April 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - NGOs appeal to the government: need to face the crisis of the Rohingya Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – Need to face the crisis of the ethnic minority of Rohingya Muslims, who in the past five years have seen a dramatic escalation of human rights violations, marked by repression, discrimination a ...
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  22 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - St. Elisabeth Catholic hospital at the forefront in the country for the care of cancer patients Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - A special unit that provides home palliative care to cancer patients, with pain control therapy, has recently opened, and this is the first experience at a national level: the St. Elisabeth Ca ...
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  22 April 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Patriarchs of Antioch remember the two Bishops kidnapped: "We do not have the support of the 'giants'. Our only hope is in the Lord" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Three years since the disappearance of 2 Metropolitan Bishops of Aleppo - Syrian Orthodox Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and Greek Orthodox Boulos Yazigi – the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antio ...
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  22 April 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - The death of Mgr. Thomas Zeng Jingmu, courageous witness of fidelity to the Church Yujiang (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, April 2, 2016, His Exc. Mgr. Thomas Zeng Jingmu emeritus and unofficial Bishop of the diocese of Yujiang, in Jiangxi Province (Mainland China) died at the age of almost 96. On Mar ...
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  21 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian couple lynched: the trial gets serious Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - It will not be easy to get justice for the death of the Christian couple Shahzaz Masih and Shama Bibi, lynched and burned alive in November 2014 by a crowd of Muslims in Kasur, for alleged blasph ...
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  21 April 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Young missionaries of mercy Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - With a mission to help their peers in every circumstance of life, for study, human, material and spiritual difficulties, a group of students in middle and high schools in Seoul have been named "yo ...
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  21 April 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Hindo: Armed clashes between the Syrian army and Kurdish militias in Qamishli Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - The city of Qamishli, in the northeastern Syrian region of Jazira, has been since yesterday the scene of intense armed clashes between Kurdish militias and army forces loyal to the regime of Ba ...
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  21 April 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Turkish State opens a case to recover the lands returned to the Ecumenical Patriarchate in recent years Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - Turkey has opened a case against the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, to cancel the legal acts with which some land were returned to the Orthodox Patriarchal See, in compliance with the ...
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  20 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - A thousand young Indians at WYD in Krakow New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - There will be over a thousand young Indians who will attend World Youth Day (WYD) in Krakow, Poland, and about two million young people are expected. This is what the Indian Bishops' Conferenc ...
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  20 April 2016
  ASIA/NEPAL - One year after the earthquake, Caritas is committed to ensuring a future for the affected families Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - A year after the earthquake that on April 25, 2015 devastated Nepal, followed by that of the equally strong earthquake on May 12, about 2.8 million (more than 10% of the population) people are ...