Asia

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  8 August 2018
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Korean Youth Day is approaching Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Seoul will host the fourth Korean Youth Day, which is celebrated from 11 to 15 August on the theme "It is me; do not be afraid" (Jn 6:20) ). "The experience will see almost 2,00 ...
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  8 August 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A priest: "After the earthquake, the displaced are desperate: humanitarian aid is urgently needed" Mataram (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a need for humanitarian aid for the thousands of people affected by the recent earthquake on the tourist island of Lombok": says to Agenzia Fides Catholic Catholic priest Fr. Laurenciu ...
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  7 August 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Four years after the jihadist invasion, Christians from Karamles celebrate the return home with a procession Karamles (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of Iraqi Christians took part, on the evening of Monday August 6th, in a procession that took place along the streets of Karamles, a town of the Nineveh Plain traditionally inhabited b ...
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  7 August 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Ten years ago the greatest anti-Christian violence in the history of India Kandhamal (Agenzia Fides) - The anti-Christian massacre campaign in Orissa in 2008 is ten years old: it is the biggest wave of violence against believers in the history of the nation. Today the population of Kandhamal di ...
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  6 August 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The hopes of religious minorities are growing with the next government of Imran Khan Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Imran Khan, political leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), winner of the recent general elections in Pakistan, has publicly announced that he wants to follow the legacy of Mohammad Ali J ...
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  3 August 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Stop to the settlement of 450 Sunni families in the Nineveh Plain, to protect the demographic balance Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Nineveh provincial Council, with a resolution announced Tuesday, July 31, suspended the transfer of 450 Sunni Arab families in the areas of the Nineveh Plain, already authorized by the federal gov ...
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  2 August 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY - US sanctions against two Turkish ministries for the "Brunson case" Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The US Treasury Department will implement "targeted" sanctions against two senior Turkish ministries, that of Justice - led by Abdulhamit Gul - and that of Interior - led by Minister Suleyman Soy ...
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  2 August 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Astana's first 20 years, the smart city attentive to the coexistence of religions Astana (Agenzia Fides) - Religious tolerance, nuclear disarmament and environmental sustainability are the three cornerstones that forged the economic-social strategy implemented by Nazarbaev and also the city of Astana. ...
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  1 August 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - The cave monastery of Saint Marone re-opens for liturgies and pilgrimages Baalbek (Agenzia Fides) - The cave monastery of Saint Marone, a place dear to the historical and spiritual memory of the Maronite Christians, re-opens to liturgical celebrations, devotional practices and pilgrimages, aft ...
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  31 July 2018
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Camillians in Lotung to "look after and evangelize" Lotung (Agenzia Fides) - In 1952, when the Camillians who worked in China since 1946 were expelled, a group of them decided to head for Thailand, another group to Taiwan. Already in China they had adopted this motto to d ...
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  31 July 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean patriarch to politicians: a "strong coalition government" to remove weapons from sectarian militias is needed Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The disastrous situation that Iraq is facing makes the formation of a "strong coalition government" urgent, before "it is too late". And the future rulers will have to immediately face the emerg ...
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  28 July 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY - Pastor Brunson moved to house arrest. But on his case the US-Turkey clash reignites Izmir (Agenzia Fides) - US evangelical Christian pastor Andrew Craig Brunson, arrested and tried in Turkey for alleged complicity with forces accused of terrorist acts and anti-Turkish subversive plots (see Fides 9/5/201 ...
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  27 July 2018
  ASIA/KOREA - The support of the Korean Church to the victims of the dam collapse in Laos Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Following the sudden collapse of dam in southernmost Attapeu province in Laos, Cardinal Andrew Soo-jung YEOM, Archbishop of Seoul, sent a message of condolence to the victims of the tragic disaste ...
• 26 July 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Asif John Khokhar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On May 24, 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Asif John Khokhar as National Director of the Pontifical Mi ...
• 25 July 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the Saint Joseph Interdiocesan Seminary in Alwaye Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 12 April 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Chacko Puthenpuracka, of the clergy of the diocese of Vijayapuram as ...