Asia

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  9 January 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christian cemetery in Beit Gemal desecrated Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The cemetery adjacent to the Salesian monastery in Beit Gemal, in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, was desecrated and the wooden and concrete crosses placed on many tombs w ...
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  8 January 2016
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - 14 soldiers arrested due to 558 forced disappearances that occurred in Guatemala Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Guatemalan authorities on Wednesday, January 6 arrested fourteen retired military linked to the forced disappearances of at least 558 people that took place in Guatemala between 1981 and ...
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  7 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Teachers in the Nineveh province rebel against school programs imposed by jihadists Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - More than thirty teachers working in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh, currently under the control of the jihadist Islamic State (Daesh), were stopped and arrested in the last hours for refu ...
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  5 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Franciscan Dhiya Azziz released Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of Monday, January 4 the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land released a short statement confirming Fr. Dhiya Azziz OFM, a Franciscan friar, who disappeared on 23 December, has no ...
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  5 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians and Muslims: Christmas as a "seed of peace" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An interreligious meeting where to talk, celebrate, confront oneself on the theme of christmas starting from the Bible and the Koran: was the successful event organized by the Council for Interre ...
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  5 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Jesuit Refugee Service: it is urgent to address the "educational emergency" of Syrian children Jbeil (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 2.8 million Syrian children are out of school as a result of the war, 550,000 of whom are in Lebanon. The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) center in Jbeil serves nearly 500 Syrian refuge ...
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  4 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A new church dedicated to St. Peter in the Year of Mercy Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - A new church dedicated to St. Peter the Apostle is the gift that the Year of Mercy brings to the faithful of a small village near the town of Okara in the diocese of Faisalabad. As reported t ...
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  4 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Lebanese PMS Director: Saudi execution of Imam al-Nimr has catastrophic consequences for Lebanon and the Middle East Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The sentencing to death of Shiite Imam Nimr Bakr al-Nimr, commissioned by the Saudi government on January 2, "has as immediate effect the worsening of the Lebanese institutional crisis, but its c ...
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  4 January 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Martyrs in Orissa: Cardinal Gracias says "yes" Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) and President of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC), wants the Churc ...
• 29 December 2015
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Erection of the Diocese of Barisal and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 29, 2015 the Holy Father erected the new diocese of Barisal, Bangladesh, with territory taken from the Diocese of Chittagong, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Dh ...
• 23 December 2015
  VATICAN - Fides for a fairer world Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas brings the desired coming of God, the One who can establish a kingdom of universal peace based on justice. The situation in the world does not seem to go in this direction. Agenz ...
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  23 December 2015
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - During Advent, young people experience God's forgiveness Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Advent is a time of mercy: with this awareness the Archdiocese of Seoul promoted the celebration of the sacrament of Confession for young people placing 30 "Tents of reconciliation" outside Myeong ...
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  23 December 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "A Christmas of good will, for national reconciliation" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - In Myanmar there is "every reason to celebrate with the angel who sung: Joy to the world! at Christmas. Christmas is an invitation to come out of our darkness and live in the light, to receive th ...
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  23 December 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - King Abdullah II: Arab Christians are an integral part of our civilization Amman (Agenzia Fides) – Arab Christians "are an integral part of our past, present and future" and right from the beginning "have been an essential partner in building our culture and civilization and in defending Isla ...
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  23 December 2015
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Catholic Bishops react to shocking statements of a Rabbi against "Christian vampires" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Assembly of Catholic Ordinary Bishops of the Holy Land has learned "with dismay" and immediately condemned the recent anti-Christian statements disseminated by Rabbi Benzi Gopstein, in the ...