Asia
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27 October 2011
ASIA/CHINA - The Fourth Forum on Catholic Studies for Chinese scholars to be held in December
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - According to information provided by Sapientia Press House of the diocese of Beijing, the Fourth Forum on Catholic Studies for Young Chinese Scholars, 2011, organized by the "Beijing Institute f ...
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27 October 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Paul Bhatti: "May the spirit of Assisi blow in Pakistan: religious leaders united for peace"
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "I am convinced that the meeting in Assisi between religious leaders of the world is very useful as a symbolic and concrete experience: it is the witness that religious leaders can unite and ...
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27 October 2011
ASIA/TURKEY - "A testimony of Christian love towards the earthquake victims of Van", said Archbishop Franceschini
Smyrna (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a terrible human tragedy. The population of Van is devastated, especially because there are hundreds of children and mothers in need and at risk of survival. Caritas Turkey has moved swift ...
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27 October 2011
ASIA/ INDONESIA - The path of "triple dialogue": Christians and Muslims in communion with the meeting in Assisi
Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - Interfaith meetings between Christians and Muslims are taking place today and will take place in different parts of Indonesia to celebrate and live the "spirit of Assisi" This is what Fides lea ...
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26 October 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Silsilah" movement: "After Fr. Fausto’s death, we need peace in Mindanao "
Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - The tragic death of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, PIME, raises "the urgency of peace on the island of Mindanao" and to repudiate the "total war on the island", this is what is said in a statement ...
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26 October 2011
ASIA/CHINA - A school for orphaned children due to AIDS, thanks to "Jinde Charities"
Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) -18 children who have lost their parents due to AIDS are back at school, thanks to the scholarship of the Office of the Prevention of AIDS "Jinde Charities", the largest charitable Catholic ...
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26 October 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Fr. Tentorio's legacy: "The non-violence Gospel, resistance to evil, the word to the tribal people"
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Fausto Tentorio's legacy, the PIME missionary killed 10 days ago and buried yesterday in Mindanao, "is the ability to withstand suffering with the strength of spirit, to overcome evil with good ...
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26 October 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Paul Bhatti’s appeal: "News blackout for Asia Bibi’s salvation"
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "I appeal for news blackout from now on, with regards to Asia Bibi's case. It is necessary not because one wants to hide the truth or silence the media, but to really be able to act for the sa ...
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26 October 2011
ASIA/YEMEN - Humanitarian Disaster: One child out of 3 is malnourished, hospitals are overcrowded or closed, access to water is difficult
Sa'dah (Agenzia Fides) - Yemen is on the verge of a real and serious humanitarian disaster. In some areas of the country vaccination for children has decreased by 40%, fueling the rapid spread of polio and measles epidem ...
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25 October 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Identikit for two of Tentorio’s killers; two other missionaries in the crosshairs
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Special Task Force is investigating the death of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, killed on October 17 in Arakan (Mindanao) and the identikit of two killers has been traced, say local sources of Fides. A ...
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25 October 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops and 15 thousand tribal people from Mindanao for the last farewell to Fr. Fausto Tentorio
Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) - In a climate of prayer and emotion, the communities of Mindanao and the entire Church in the Philippines said farewell to Fr. Fausto Tentorio, the missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Fo ...
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25 October 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "He died like Jesus on the cross, the missionary who showed mercy to the tribal people, abandoned by the government", says the Bishop during the funeral
Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) - Father Fausto "did not like ceremonies" and "worked in relative obscurity". "He was a missionary who showed mercy, especially to the little children of God among his parishioners, the Lumad (t ...
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25 October 2011
ASIA/CAMBODIA - The nutrition of the population affected by severe flooding is at risk
Kratie (Agenzia Fides) - The severe floods in Cambodia have put at serious risk the nutrition of the country’s population. In 17 of the 24 provinces, about 300 people have been killed and other 34 000 have been forced ...
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25 October 2011
ASIA/CHINA - World Mission Day: new beginning of evangelization for the continental Catholic community
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - World Mission Day marks a "new beginning of evangelization" for mainland Catholic community. This is what priests of various continental Catholic communties report to Fides. As reported in Faith ...
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24 October 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The death of Fr.Tentorio will give more courage to the tribal people in the South of the Philippines
Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Death of Father Fausto Tentorio during the month dedicated to the tribal people, will give courage to many within the Church and Philippine society, to be more aware of, and identify ...
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