Asia

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  14 December 2022
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Catholic bishops set up new legal Offices Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - On December 13th, 2022, the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land (ACOHL) organized a conference for the launching of two new offices: the Safeguarding Office & the Professional ...
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  14 December 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Hackers put ‘evidence’ on Indian Jesuit Stan Swamy’s computer New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - An American digital forensics firm released a report, which shows that a hacker planted multiple “incriminating documents” in the computer of activist-priest Father Stan Swamy’s computer ...
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  13 December 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate: three days of "special fast" before Christmas, to ask for the gift of peace Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the third week of Advent, the Chaldean Patriarchate invites all baptized Chaldeans around the world in the days leading up to Christmas to a three-day fast for peace in Iraq ...
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  13 December 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Caritas Vietnam: “Charity is our mission” Hai Phong (Agenzia Fides) - In the parish of Phú Xuân, in Ho Chi Minh city, Father Dominic Ngô Quang Tuyên has always been committed to evangelization and charity. He sought gestures of concrete closeness and help to ...
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  12 December 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - The former seminary will welcome Christian refugees "evicted" from the "refugee camp of the Virgin Mary" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The structures of the former Chaldean seminary located in Dora, a suburb of Baghdad, were renovated in a short time to house displaced Christians from Mosul and the Nineveh Plain who had so far ...
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  12 December 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Conversion without consent": a plague for Pakistani society Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Conversion without Consent": this is the title of the report presented yesterday, December 11, by the Pakistani NGO "Voice for Justice" in collaboration with the international NGO "Jubilee Camp ...
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  10 December 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian-Shiite dialogue Conference scheduled for March 2023, two years after the Pope's visit Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - In March 2023, two years after the apostolic visit to Iraqi land, Iraq will host a Christian-Shiite dialogue Conference. The initiative will involve high Christian and Shiite representatives and ...
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  9 December 2022
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - The school in the village of Zuunmod educates the little ones with Don Bosco's "Preventive System" Zuunmod (Agenzia Fides) - This year, 30 children are attending the "St Paul" school, run by the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, in the Mongolian village of Zuunmod, capital of the province of Tov. A school that is ...
• 9 December 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appointment of the Bishop of Multan, Yousaf Sohan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Yousaf Sohan of the clergy of the diocese of Multan, Pakistan, until now parish priest of the Cathedral of the Most Holy Redeemer, as bishop of th ...
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  7 December 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - A new Center for children with Down syndrome in Almaty, the result of "constructive dialogue" between the Church and civil institutions Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "The new Center for children with Down syndrome in Almaty, inaugurated with the support of the municipal administration and the Samruk-Kazyna Trust Fund for the development of social projects, ha ...
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  6 December 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Humanitarian crisis: New laws affect the work of non-governmental organizations Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - More than 1.4 million people are displaced in Myanmar due to the ongoing civil war across the country. Armed clashes, related to the enforcement of strict security measures, restrictions on acces ...
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  5 December 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The "Silsilah" movement: Advent, a season of reconciliation and peace between Christians and Muslims Zamboanga city (Agenzia Fides) - May the time of preparation for Christmas, which the Catholic Church calls "Advent", "be a time of reconciliation and peace in the Philippines and throughout the world": this is the messa ...
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  5 December 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Walking together in the faith of the Apostles. Interview with Mar Awa III, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East by Gianni Valente Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - A synodal ecclesial program is fruitful if «it helps everyone to walk in the faith of the Apostles cherished by Tradition». For this reason, references to synodal dynamics «c ...
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  3 December 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Extraordinary exposition of the remains of St. Francis Xavier: a message of faith, simplicity, hope Goa (Agenzia Fides) - The figure of the holy man who goes around the villages with a little bell and, draws the attention of children and adults, teaches the simplest prayers, the Our Father, the Hail Mary, the Confiteor ...
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  2 December 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Government and courts crackdown on blasphemy through social media Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - An anti-terrorism court in Peshawar has sentenced Sana Ullah, a Pakistani citizen living in the northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to death for committing blasphemy on social media. The c ...