Asia

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  27 September 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistani Bishops' appeal: everyone is actively called to participate in the synodal process Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "We Church in Pakistan express our feelings of joy for the Synod announced by the Pope in 2023. As Bishops of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Pakistan (PCBC) we invite all the faithful to ...
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  27 September 2021
  ASIA/JORDAN - Christians and Muslims together seek antidotes to the traps of "media hatred" Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The two-day conference dedicated to the theme "Media against hatred", organized by the Muslim Council of the Elderly and the Catholic Center for Studies and Media, begins today in Amman, establish ...
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  27 September 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Catholics in Rajshahi celebrate the centenary of migration and the arrival of the Gospel Rajshahi (Agenzia Fides) - The faithful of the diocese of Rajshahi, in northwestern Bangladesh, celebrate the centenary of the arrival of the faith in their territory, which took place thanks to the migration of the Chri ...
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  25 September 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - No to the polarization between 'us' and 'them': "Migrants are the others among us" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "In today's India, division and polarization, chauvinism and xenophobia have gripped different parts of society, especially because of the poisonous hate speech by politicians. A large part of ...
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  25 September 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The government recognizes the extraordinary services of Catholic schools Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Education today is one of the most virtuous acts. We know the challenges that Catholic schools and teachers are facing, we recognize your ingenuity, extraordinary efforts and hard work for our ...
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  24 September 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian is the new Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian Catholic Synod of Bishops, convened by the Holy Father in Rome on September 22nd, 2021, elected the new Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians on Thursday, September 23rd. It is Raphaë ...
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  24 September 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops oppose the anti-conversion law in Karnataka Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The ten Catholic Bishops of the state of Karnataka, in southern India, met Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to voice their opinion over a proposed law to ban forcible religious conversions in t ...
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  23 September 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako: abortion is Cain-style murder Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The practice of induced abortion repeats what happened in the story of Cain, who committed the first "premeditated murder" told in the Bible. And for the Church "all human life, including that o ...
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  23 September 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - In the pandemic, the path is compassion Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The path indicated by Christ is compassion, and it is the path that Christians are called to follow. This is the appeal released by Msgr. Marlo Mendoza Peralta, Archbishop of Nueva Segovia (in th ...
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  23 September 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Violence and intimidation against a Catholic journalist investigating a case of corruption Tangail (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic journalist of the Garo ethnic group, Prince Edward Mangsang, was attacked and severely beaten on charges of having destroyed assets worth 45 thousand Bangladeshi taka (about 450 euros ...
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  22 September 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Violence of the Burmese army against civilians: Baptist pastor killed Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - The violence and revenge of the Bimano army are hitting innocent civilians all over the nation. As Fides learned, on September 18, the town of Thang Tlang, one of the nine towns of the Burmese Sta ...
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  22 September 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Pope's visit and his meeting with Ayatollah al Sistani celebrated by a series of postage stamps from the Iraqi Postal Service Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The General Company for Post and Savings in Iraq, directed by Idris Khaled Abdel Rahman, has issued a special series of stamps dedicated to Pope Francis' visit to Iraq, which took place from Mar ...
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  21 September 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Raped Christian minor escapes the torturer: the culprit arrested Sahiwal (Agenzia Fides) - After an investigation conducted with raids in several villages in the area of Sahiwal (a city in the Pakistani province of Punjab), the Pakistani police arrested a Muslim man for kidnapping and ...
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  20 September 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - 11 Christians, 10 Muslims and 2 Druze (but only one woman) in the new government of Mikati Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The new government of Lebanon, led by the Sunni Muslim Najib Mikati, is preparing to obtain the vote of trust from the Lebanese Parliament today, Monday, September 20. All the main political forc ...
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  18 September 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The commitment of Salesian missionaries to help families impoverished by the pandemic Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "How will families without work, without economic activity survive? This was the general concern of people when the Coronavirus pandemic began. This is what motivated us to act: to experien ...