Asia

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  29 September 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the arrival of the Gospel have been extended for another year Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the 500th anniversary of the arrival of the Gospel in the Philippines (1521-2021) has been extended for another year due to the coronavirus pandemic. As Agenzia Fides learns, a ...
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  28 September 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - "Hate speech" in the Turkish press is rampant. Greeks, Armenians and Syrians targeted Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Also in 2019 the so-called "hate speech", speeches that express denigration and incitement to contempt towards individuals and human groups identified on a national, ethnic or religious basis, ...
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  28 September 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Year of Youth in Pakistan: the Church presents the translation of the Bible in Urdu of the "Youcat" youth Multan (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we are happy to have put the Bible in the hands of our young people; I hope that this gift will help our young people to draw closer, in a relationship with Jesus Christ, who is the living ...
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  28 September 2020
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - The Catholic community on the front line to limit the spread of Covid-19 Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - With a project that will involve 6 thousand inhabitants of the town of Qubodiyon and 12 thousand people - including inmates and prison guards - in the penitentiary of the same district, the Taj ...
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  26 September 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Christians and Muslims deepen their faith: the initiative of the "Silsilah" movement Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - "We try not only to protect ourselves and to counter the spread of the virus, but also to make our experience and our service meaningful for the common good. This is the effort that the moveme ...
• 25 September 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of bishop of Sivagangai Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Sivagangai, India, presented by Bishop Jebamalai Susaimanickam. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 25/9/2020) ...
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  25 September 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - US funds to the charitable association for Christian refugees founded by Archbishop Warda Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The fund allocated by US foreign policy to a charitable organization promoted by the Chaldean Archbishop of Erbil, Bashar Warda, to assist Christian refugees displaced since 2014 in the capital ar ...
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  25 September 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops to young people: "Serve the Gospel with courage, as young missionaries" Multan (Agenzia Fides): "Pakistan is a Country that has more than 60 percent of young people of its total population, and we Catholic Bishops are working to support young Christians in Pakistan to be protagonists of the ...
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  25 September 2020
  ASIA/THAILAND - Parliament postpones the vote for change: the protest of young people does not stop Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Thailand is enveloped in social and political tensions that involve, in a special way, the world of young people and that could determine a new state structure and therefore the future of the co ...
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  24 September 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - The first church built in Turkish territory since 1923 erected in record time Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - In the year in which in Istanbul the Turkish authorities authorize the re-use for Islamic worship of the ancient Christian basilica of Hagia Sofia and of the ancient church of San Salvatore in ...
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  24 September 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Two statues of Jesus and Mary damaged and disfigured in Andra Pradesh Mandapeta (Agenzia Fides) - Two statues of Jesus and the Virgin Mary were disfigured and damaged in a Catholic parish of the archdiocese of Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh, a State of southern India. The two statues wer ...
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  24 September 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The first basilica in Kazakhstan: "Here the roots of the Church that went through Soviet repression" Karaganda (Agenzia Fides) - "The title of minor basilica granted to the church of St. Joseph in Karaganda is a very important recognition for the Catholics of Kazakhstan. It is a real Sanctuary: many go there on pilgrima ...
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  23 September 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic universities close amid Covid-19 second wave Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The second wave of the pandemic in Asia has also hit Southeast Asia with force, obliging all Countries to run for cover, reducing, among other public activities, those in the education sector. I ...
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  23 September 2020
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Orthodox Christian Michel Abs is the new Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The new Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) is Michel Abs, 65 years old and a member of the ethics Committee for research at the “Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrou ...
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  23 September 2020
  ASIA - The Bishops of Asia: live with hope in times of pandemic Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic communities scattered throughout Asia are called to "live with hope in times of pandemic": this is what is stated in a message released by the Federation of the Asian Bishops' Conferenc ...