Asia

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  9 June 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Vincentians: the anti-terrorism law will bring suffering, violence, impunity Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "We, the Vincentian Family in the Philippines, call on our government to face the poverty and suffering of our people, exacerbated by a health crisis caused by a feared COVID-19 virus. We must ta ...
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  9 June 2020
  ASIA - Migrants in the grip of Covid-19 Bangok (Agenzia Fides) - The suffering condition of migrants has multiplied throughout Eastern Asia, South and North during the Coronavirus period and paradoxically above all in more advanced countries, such as Singapore ...
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  8 June 2020
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Covid-19 emergency: churches reopen for worship, but with some exceptions Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - After a lockdown in force since mid-March, given the ascertained spread of coronavirus in all states of the Malaysian Federation, the Malaysian government has decreed the possibility of reo ...
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  8 June 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Christian Evan Jabro at the head of the Ministry for refugees and migrants Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian professor belonging to the Chaldean Church will manage the policies of the Iraqi government regarding the migratory emergency and the relocation of internally displaced persons. Her ...
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  8 June 2020
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Catholic community is mobilizing for assistance to the poor and economic recovery, in the midst of the Covid-19 emergency Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Sri Lanka has mobilized for assistance to poor families and the most vulnerable people, affected by the socio-economic impact of the Covid-19 health emergency. As repor ...
• 8 June 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Kuzhithurai Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 6, 2020 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Kuzhithurai, India, presented by Bishop Jerome Dhas Varuvel, S.D.B. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 8/ ...
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  6 June 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish press: Erdogan seeks "a formula" to reopen St. Sophia to Islamic worship Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given instructions to change the statute of the monumental complex of Agyasofya, the ancient Byzantine Basilica currently open to the public as a simp ...
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  5 June 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Covid-19, side effects: Catholic schools (already in crisis) risk collapsing Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - With a circular letter published Monday 3 June, Maronite Archbishop of Beirut, Boulos Abdel Sater, ordered the cancellation of the third installment of the fee to be paid by students of the schoo ...
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  5 June 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Coronavirus increases poverty New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In India there is a fight, more than against the coronavirus, against the specter of hunger and poverty. Human rights activists and Christian volunteers made an appeal to the government to ens ...
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  4 June 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - "I love Turkey". Ten years ago the murder of Bishop Luigi Padovese, "man of communion" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Even Luigi Padovese, just like St. John XXIII loved Turkey and loved the Turks". This was underlined by Br. Luca Bianchi ofmCap, Dean of the Franciscan Institute of Spirituality of the Pontifical ...
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  4 June 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Civil society and Catholic leaders campaign: "No" to new Anti-Terrorism Law Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A large part of civil society in the Philippines has launched a campaign to oppose the controversial new Anti-Terrorism Law approved in Parliament. Human rights activists, Catholic leaders, lawye ...
• 4 June 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Rouphael Zgheib Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 March 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Rev. Rouphael Zgheib, of the Maronite clergy, as National Director ...
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  3 June 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Economic crisis, the Maronite Patriarchate and the Jesuit University promote agricultural training projects Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The serious economic crisis that Lebanon has gone through, further aggravated by the Coronavirus pandemic, has seen the spontaneous initiatives of people multiply, who for the first time start to ...
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  3 June 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Interreligious coexistence and solidarity: the songs of Catholics are viral on social media Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Two songs sung by Catholic nuns, priests and lay people, in the most densely inhabited Muslim country on the planet, have got the audience of social media heated on two very topical matters: the ...
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  2 June 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - Covid-19, ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: governments cannot impose rules on the celebration of the Eucharist Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Orthodox Churches have followed the dispositions imposed by the civil authorities of their respective Countries to combat the coronavirus pandemic, closing the churches and celebrating the ...