Asia

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  2 June 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Unemployment and new poverty: lockdown due to the pandemic has a serious economic and social impact Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The pandemic and the lockdown imposed to contain Covid-19 have a serious impact on millions of destitute, marginalized or people who survive thanks to a daily wage in the Philippines. According t ...
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  1 June 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Neither monolithism nor indifferentism. Maronite patriarch defends the Lebanese institutional model Bkerkè (Agenzia Fides) - The Lebanese political model, in its historical singularity, represents a heritage to be protected and applied, and not a negative remnant of the past from which to emancipate. This is what Mar ...
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  1 June 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Ecumenical prayer for Pentecost: to bring new hope for India New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "In these difficult times, while we are fighting Covid-19, we pray for the healing of the sick and for the recovery of our land. As a family of God, we are united in one accord and united in f ...
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  1 June 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence against religious minorities: the emergency continues Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Episodes of violence against Christian and Hindu religious minorities continue to cause concern in Pakistan and to arouse indignation in civil society. Ironically, violence takes place while t ...
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  30 May 2020
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Churches help migrants during the time of the pandemic Kuching (Agenzia Fides) - While the national lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19 is still in force, many churches in Malaysia are offering aid and services for migrants. The Movement Control Order (MCO), a national ...
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  30 May 2020
  ASIA/JAPAN - A missionary: "In times of a pandemic, we rediscover the centrality of the word of God" Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - "Isolation is not a new situation for Japanese Christians, it was like that even at the time of persecutions: even then they could not meet in churches, but they carried on faith in families. Toda ...
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  30 May 2020
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Contagions increase: the only Catholic church and school for disabled children are still closed Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "In Afghanistan we are still in full lockdown. The Italian Embassy in Kabul continues to be closed and consequently access to the church continues to be blocked, which is situated within the diplo ...
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  29 May 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Prayer, empathy, solidarity of the Church with victims of Cyclone Amphan New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Prayer, empathy, closeness and concrete solidarity: this is how the Catholic Church in India shows its proximity to the victims of Cyclone Amphan which in recent days hit parts of the Indian s ...
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  29 May 2020
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - The pandemic slows down the registration of a new parish, but the life of the Church continues thanks to technology Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - "The lockdown has had the effect of blocking the construction process and registration of a new parish in the city of Angren. At the beginning of the year we had started to collect the necessar ...
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  28 May 2020
  ASIA/LAOS - Zero deaths from Covid-19, but a negative impact on economy and tourism Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - In the small and isolated Laos, a country with seven million inhabitants in the northern heart of Southeast Asia and with a socialist type government, with a single party in power, coronavirus ...
• 28 May 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Leopold Kropfreiter, SJM Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 13, 2020 the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Leopold Kropfreiter, SJM as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) ...
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  28 May 2020
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Release of detainees to contain the coronavirus: it is "a right step" according to the Church Dhaka (Agenza Fides) - "We welcome the government's decision to release three thousand prisoners. It is a timely initiative. Many people, imprisoned for minor crimes, can be released in this pandemic situation". This is ...
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  27 May 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Covid-19: young Christians create a "Food bank" in solidarity with the poorest of the poor Sahiwal (Agenzia Fides) - Young Catholics in Sahiwal, a town in Pakistani Punjab, offer evening meals to a hundred destitute people every day, in a solidarity activity that will continue until the crisis linked to Covid- ...
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  27 May 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic volunteers at work to fight the "infodemic" Lampung (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic volunteers on the island of Sumatra are at the forefront to provide correct information, awareness and concrete support to local populations, to defend themselves from the spread of the ...
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  26 May 2020
  ASIA/THAILAND - The Catholic community of Bangkok close to the poorest, affected by the pandemic: "Whoever wants can leave, whoever wants can take" Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - Many parishes of the Archdiocese of Bangkok, Thailand, are at the forefront in helping and assisting the poor, severely affected by the social and economic effects of the pandemic. The Church ...