Asia

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  3 March 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Priesthood in Pakistan: challenges to proclaim and live the Gospel Lent and Easter Season a busy season for Catholic Priests in Pakistan. Presence of the Priest is highly demanded in all the programs, gathering and festivals besides the Eucharistic Celebration, the main service of the P ...
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  3 March 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians protest against the abuse of blasphemy laws in Lahore Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – To condemn vitiated inquiry, torture and inhumane treatment against young Christians Patras Masih and Sajid Masih; ask for concrete measures to stop the abuse of the blasphemy law, especially a ...
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  2 March 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The educational system promotes intolerance and discrimination: the new "Faith and a Future" Report Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Textbooks, educational programs and the education system in Pakistan fuel the promotion of intolerance and discrimination against religious minorities. The State, with a Muslim majority, has c ...
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  2 March 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi religious leaders: a law is needed to punish fanaticism that instigates hatred Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Heads of religious communities in Iraq will ask the Iraqi parliament to pass a law to punish forms of religious propaganda that instigate hatred and violence. This is what was reported by the Pa ...
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  2 March 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A missionary: "It is time for a new law for the common good in Mindanao" Marawi (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace in Mindanao is possible only if we educate everyone to consider themselves as brothers and sisters": says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Sebastiano D'Ambra, missionary of the Pontifical Institute fo ...
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  1 March 2018
  ASIA/CHINA - "Year of the Youth" in the Archdiocese of TaiYuan: the young Chinese people towards the Synod Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of the Youth opened in the Archdiocese of Tai Yuan, in the province of Shanxi, in the northern part of the People's Republic of China. As Agenzia Fides learns from "Faith", over two tho ...
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  1 March 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian priest, Rector of a shrine, stabbed to death in Kerala Kochy (Agenzia Fides) - A priest from Kerala, South India, was stabbed to death while he was going to the Kurisumudi pilgrim center in Malayattoor in Ernakulam-Ankamaly Archdiocese today, 1 March. As confirmed to Agenzia ...
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  1 March 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: democracy must be guarded Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Filipinos should "celebrate, guard and cherish the gift of democracy", gained after overthrowing dictator Ferdinand Marcos on February 25, 1986: say the Bishops of the Philippines recalling the 3 ...
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  1 March 2018
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Young Catholics: learning leadership from Jesus Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Jesus Christ is the model and the best example from whom to learn the style of leadership: as Fides learns, this is what young Catholics of Vietnam think gathered in the Catholic youth group "Nhom ...
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  28 February 2018
  ASIA/ISRAEL - The re-opening of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. A government commission will address disputes over church properties Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of the Holy Sepulcher opened its doors on February 28th, 2018 at 4.00 AM. The protest, which started last Sunday due to the decision of the leaders of the three ecclesial realities ...
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  28 February 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Young people promote interreligious peace and harmony, for a future of justice Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people are aware of their role and their contribution to strengthening communion, peace and harmony among young people of different religions in the nation": this is what Vishal Anand tel ...
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  27 February 2018
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Church of the Holy Sepulchre shuttered for the third day in a row. Even the Arab League against taxes on ecclesiastical assets Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Even today, Tuesday, February 27, for the third day in a row, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City remains shuttered in a tax standoff with the city's municipality and in p ...
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  27 February 2018
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - "Year of the Mission" in Chittagong, for the 500th anniversary since the arrival of the Gospel Chittagong (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Chittagong, Archdiocese in Southeast Bangladesh, will live a special "Year of the Mission" in 2018, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the arrival of the Gospel ...
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  27 February 2018
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - The Catholic community on its way to Easter between prayer and charity Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - "Prayer and charity are the key words that encompass the spirit with which the Uzbek Catholics live the Lenten period". This is what the Apostolic Administrator of Uzbekistan, Fr. Jerzy Maculew ...
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  26 February 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian is dying from police violence Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There is outrage, concern and protest in the Christian community in Pakistan after the treatment given by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) agents on 24-year-old Christian Sajid Masih, during th ...