Asia
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20 July 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - "The Church becomes the home of people who suffer": Cardinal Tong to the new permanent deacons
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Open the door of the domestic Church and of the big family of the Church, so that nobody in the world is without a family and the Church is the family for everyone. You must take charge of th ...
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20 July 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - Appeal from Damascus: "Keep out the civilians from the fighting, No to sectarian revenge"
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "We urgently need to protect civilians. There is a danger that the season of revenge begins and that the civilians of Damascus are treated as 'traitors' because they have not taken an active pa ...
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19 July 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - The War "at home" in the chaos in Damascus Christians are "strong in faith"
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - These are hours of high tension in Damascus: "We hear bombs and gunfire, people are terrified and do not leave the house. We thank God we are alive," says a Catholic priest from Damascus, reach ...
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19 July 2012
ASIA/TAIWAN - Caritas Volunteers receive the missionary mandate "to bring Christ to the people"
Tai Nan (Agenzia Fides) - "Make Love and Life grow": this was the message that the two groups of volunteers of Caritas in Taiwan, which started on 4 and 5 July, want to bring to people, especially young people, of the mo ...
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19 July 2012
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Ramadan is an opportunity for dialogue and friendship": message from the interfaith movement "Silsilah"
Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - "Ramadan is an opportunity for everyone to reflect, to find spiritual meaning of life. For the Muslim it is an obligation, for others it is a challenge. The Movement 'Silsilah' has alway ...
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19 July 2012
ASIA/INDONESIA - Revival of Jihad: Islamic extremist groups join to regain strength
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – After Ten years since the terrorist attack in Bali in 2002, the Indonesian Islamic extremist groups, weakened and divided, intend to join together to regain strength. This is what the latest r ...
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18 July 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - Apostolate of the Sea: the ecumenical and interfaith dimension gets more and more important
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Father Valan Arasu Arockiaswarmy, Divine Word Missionary (SVD) of Indian origin, is the chaplain of the seamen in the diocese of Hong Kong.
Considering that every year more than 6 thousand s ...
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18 July 2012
ASIA/INDIA - Hundreds of deaths and over 400 000 people homeless due to heavy floods in the country
Pazarbhanga (Agenzia Fides) - Since last June the heavy rainfalls in India have caused 109 deaths and at least 400,000homeless in the northeastern State of Assam. According to experts, the tragedy
was compounded by cor ...
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18 July 2012
ASIA/SIRIA - The Maronite Archbishop: "In Damascus people flee, pray and hope, and turn their gaze to the martyrs"
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Bombs, shootings, violence, screaming, deaths rage in the city of Damascus in these hours. People "suffer, hope, escape, pray and, in these tragic hours, turn their gaze to the Blessed Martyrs ...
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18 July 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - George Sabra, Christian spokesman of the opposition: "It will be a new democratic Syria, guarantees for everyone"
Milan (Agenzia Fides) – We are "at the beginning of the end for the Syrian regime." "A new page of national history is about to open." And the new Syria will be democratic, potentially lay, reconciled and free from opp ...
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17 July 2012
ASIA/CHINA -Children’s summer pastoral: formation and experience of faith as well as fun
Tian Jin (Agenzia Fides) - As every year the Catholic community in mainland China is intensifying the children’s summer pastoral with the organization of summer camps, meetings and catechism with many other initiatives ...
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17 July 2012
ASIA/INDONESIA - 150 000 children die every year due to preventable diseases
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 150 000 children under five years of age die every year in Indonesia due to preventable diseases and more than 10 000 women die from postpartum complications. The latest research p ...
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17 July 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The sister of a Christian Pastor: kidnapped, raped and forcibly converted to Islam
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The sister of a Christian Protestant pastor was kidnapped, repeatedly raped and forced to convert to Islam. This is what happened in the town of Chunian, in the south of Lahore, in the province o ...
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17 July 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - "The dangers are anarchy, weapons, interference; dialogue and reconciliation are necessary": Patriarch Gregory III Laham’s appeal
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - As the Syrian crisis deepens, in front of what is now called a "civil war"; while "the language of violence prevails and the voice of moderation weakens" "efforts for dialogue and reconciliatio ...
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16 July 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - Transform lunch break in a moment of permanent formation of faith
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - In response to the current pastoral needs, the Cathedral of the Diocese of Hong Kong offers employees of numerous offices in the area, to turn the lunch break into opportunities for permanent ...
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