Asia

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  27 February 2021
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Farewell to Msgr. Ramousse, the Bishop who led the rebirth of the Cambodian Church Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - The Cambodian Church loses one of its most appreciated and loved apostles: French Bishop and missionary Yves Ramousse, Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh from 1962 to 1976 and then, in a second pe ...
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  27 February 2021
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarch Theophilos III to the Primates of the Orthodox Churches: "the unity of Orthodoxy is our daily prayer" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "I pray daily remembering each of you, offering praise, thanksgiving and intercessions, and knowing that 'his grace is sufficient for us, whose power is made perfect in our weakness' ". Thus T ...
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  27 February 2021
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Social media and mission: "We need to face a culture of selfishness" Astana (Agenzia Fides) - "The digital revolution has led us to live in a new, distant world that we have not been able to make better: the problems of 'normal' everyday life have been transported into the digital world a ...
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  27 February 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Another Christian student kidnapped: The number of cases is increasing in Punjab Gujranwala (Agenzia Fides) - The Pakistani police have registered a complaint about the kidnapping of another Christian student from Lahore in order to force her into an Islamic marriage. Mehwish Bibi, a student at the W ...
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  26 February 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Civil disobedience puts government authorities in trouble: Christians pray for a peaceful solution Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "There is determination but also concern among the people during these hours. The State is in crisis because of the actions of the Civil Disobedience Movement. State offices are closed or not wor ...
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  26 February 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate: a prayer to entrust Pope Francis' trip "in the hands of the Lord" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Patriarchate has just released through its official channels a prayer to place Pope Francis' next trip to Iraq (5-8 March) in the hands of the Lord, with the supplication that the H ...
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  25 February 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Parties divided before the proposal for a UN Conference on the Lebanese crisis launched by the Maronite Patriarch Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Lebanese political forces are beginning to manifest different and sometimes conflicting interpretations and positions in the face of the proposal - formulated in recent weeks by the Maronite ...
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  25 February 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh approves the anti-religious conversion law Lucknow (Agenzia Fides) - Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in northern India with a population of 204 million, approved yesterday, February 24, the bill which bans religious conversion by fraudulent means or relate ...
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  25 February 2021
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Call of churches to government against forced repatriation of Burmese immigrants Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - We must not participate in the "refoulement of refugees", by repatriating Myanmar nationals who have taken refuge in Malaysia in a coordinated manner with the armed forces of Myanmar. This ...
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  25 February 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - Missionaries and small Catholic communities in the village of Papae, a bath of humanity and spirituality Lamphun (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholics in this area are only a few dozen - writes to Agenzia Fides Father Ferdinando Pistore, one of the Fidei donum priests of Trivénétie who serve in a territory coinciding with the ...
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  24 February 2021
  ASIA/TURKEY - Arrest of a crook who tried to sell the Basilica of St. Anthony Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua, located in the very central Istiklal Caddesi, one of the most famous avenues in Istanbul, is currently in no danger of ending up on the real estat ...
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  24 February 2021
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Reopening of churches in Sarawak state during Lent Kuching (Agenzia Fides) - Churches in Kuching, capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak in Malaysia (located on the island of Borneo), have reopened their doors for Lent. As communicated to Agenzia Fides by the Archbish ...
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  23 February 2021
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Joseph Zong Huaide died at the age of 100: he devoted himself to prayer and charitable works Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 5, 2021 at 8 p.m., His. Exc. Mgr. Joseph Zong Huaide, Bishop emeritus of Sanyuan, in the province of Shaanxi (Mainland China) died. He was born on June 16, 1920 in a village in ...
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  23 February 2021
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Seven of 132 seats reserved for Christian candidates in next Palestinian parliament Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - In the next Palestinian legislative elections, scheduled for May 22, at least 7 of the 132 seats will be reserved for Christian candidates. This is established by a decree signed in recent days ...
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  23 February 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Religious leaders ready for mediation: ASEAN intervention is requested Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Burmese religious leaders of all faith communities, united in the "Religions for Peace-Myanmar" organization, declare themselves "ready to continue the Consultative Forum on Peace and Reconciliat ...