Asia

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  9 March 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Msgr. Dal Toso: "the primacy of the mission consists in listening to the Word of God" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "We cannot proclaim the Word of God if we do not first receive it with an open heart. For this reason, even for us today, the first commandment is, “Listen Israel”, as we heard in the Gosp ...
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  8 March 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Acts of vandalism on a newly inaugurated Catholic chapel in Sumatra Palembang (Agenzia Fides) - The chapel dedicated to St. Zaccaria, recently inaugurated in the diocese of Palembang, in the South of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, was attacked on the night between 7 and 8 March by som ...
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  8 March 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Msgr. Dal Toso: India offers many promises for the future of the Church Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "I thank you for this invitation that brings me for the first time in my life in India, in a country that offers many promises for the future of the Church. It has been my desire to come here ...
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  8 March 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Bishops: no interference of security services in political elections Bkerke (Agenzia Fides) - The electoral process that will lead Lebanon to vote on 6 May to renew the composition of the national parliamentary assembly must guarantee free and independent elections, and must be defended a ...
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  8 March 2018
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Christians: a renewed commitment to peace in the Korean peninsula Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Religious leaders, social workers, human rights activists, leaders of civil society organizations renew their commitment to peace in the Korean peninsula: this is one of the messages underlined at ...
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  7 March 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY - The State Council overturns decision on expropriation of Armenian church in Diyarbakir Diyarbakir (Agenzia Fides) - The decree of the Turkish government, which two years ago had ordered the expropriation of St Giragos church, in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir, was repealed by the State Council. The pronoun ...
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  7 March 2018
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Msgr. Paul Bui Van Doc was a Pastor who "brought the joy of the Gospel to all" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The sudden and tragic death of Msgr. Paul Bui Van Doc, Archbishop of Hochiminh Ville (formerly Saigon), during the course of the ad limina visit trip in Rome, has deeply struck us. The pro ...
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  7 March 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Sexual abuse on minors: it is urgent to break the taboo and adopt preventive measures Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There is an alarming increase in sexual abuse on minors in Pakistan: with this awareness the "Cecil & Iris Chaudhry Foundation" (CICF), led by the Catholic Michelle Chaudhry, has launched a progr ...
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  7 March 2018
  ASIA/CHINA - The Catholic community devoted to Saint Joseph, Patron of China Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The fervent devotion to St. Joseph, Patron of China, which has been handed down for several generations among Chinese Catholics, is rediscovered every year with further enthusiasm in March, the ...
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  6 March 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - The new evangelization in the Indian context, between secularization and communalism Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The new evangelization in the Indian context: this will be the theme which Bishops, experts, theologians, delegates from India and the Vatican will discuss, in the national symposium organized ...
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  6 March 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Record of blasphemy cases in Punjab: it is urgent to listen to the cry of the innocent Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Punjab and Lahore district are areas in which there has been an extraordinary incidence of blasphemy cases in Pakistan in the last three decades: this is what the NGO "Center for Social Justice", ...
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  5 March 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A new History of the Catholic Church translated into Urdu Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The edition of the "New Short History of the Catholic Church, 2011", written by English Jesuit, Fr. Norman Tanner SJ, has been completed and published in Urdu. The text, already translated i ...
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  5 March 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - A statue dedicated to the Virgin Mary destroyed: the faithful forgive the vandals Bhubaneswar (India) - The grotto dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, in the complex of the homonymous church in the town of Aligonda, of the diocese of Berhampur (Indian state of Orissa), was destroyed by unidentifie ...
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  5 March 2018
  ASIA/SYRIA - Violence started from Goutha, the rebel district: appeal by the Trappist nuns for the end of the war Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "When will weapons be silent? We, who live in Syria, are sickened by the general indignation that arises to condemn those who defend their lives and their land. We went to Damascus several time ...
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  3 March 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - New violence and harassment against Christians in Orissa Cuttack (Agenzia Fides) - New violence and atrocious harassment are recorded against Indian Christians in Orissa, a state of central-eastern India. As Agenzia Fides learns, in the village of Tangaguda, which is located i ...