Asia

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  18 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Bishops: "The attack on Quetta is inhumane; let us pray for peace" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The massacres of innocent lives increase in Pakistan. Let us pray to our Lord Jesus Christ so that, as a nation, he can give us strength, wisdom, tolerance and peace. May God give the victims ...
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  15 December 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian refugees are "the undesirables", says Maronite Archbishop Nassar Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Refugees of the Syrian conflict "are crushed between two walls: they cannot go home, because the streets are blocked and their houses are in ruins, on the other hand the world despises them and ...
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  14 December 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Summit in Bkerké: Christian and Muslim leaders united in "no" to US choices on Jerusalem Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Every unilateral attempt to impose Jerusalem as the exclusive capital of the State of Israel represents an "unjust" act and contrary to all international pronouncements concerning the profile of ...
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  14 December 2017
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Evangelical presence of the Barnabites and silent witness Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The mission of Catholics in Afghanistan is based on a particularity: it is almost exclusively made of silent testimony. When one is active in faith, there is no need for words. But let us ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï: the US move on Jerusalem "slap in the face of the Christians of the East". Islam-Christian summit tomorrow in Bkerkè Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The US Administration’s decision to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem "is a slap in the face of Palestinians, Christians, Muslims and all the Arabs". President Donald Trump' ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - A Muslim Prime Minister in a nation with a Catholic majority Dili (Agenzia Fides) - Although it is going through a turbulent political phase and its newborn government is in difficulty, Mari Bin Amudi Alkatiri is a Muslim Prime Minister who leads a country with a large Catholic ma ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Violation of human rights on the indigenous of Papua Manokwari (Agenzia Fides) - A pastoral delegation composed of three members of the Asian Christian Conference (ACC) recently concluded a visit to the Indonesian province of West Papua, listening to stories about serious ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - The Indian government praises the service of the Church to the poor New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian government has praised the service rendered by the Catholic Church towards the poor, the marginalized and the needy in India. As Fides learns, on December 12 Indian Vice President V ...
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  12 December 2017
  ASIA/JORDAN - The Heads of Churches: "silent procession" against the US decision on Jerusalem Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Bishops and Heads of Churches present in the Hascemite Kingdom of Jordan have invited their fellow citizens to take part in a silent procession with candles to publicly express the common disappro ...
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  12 December 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Christian leaders: "Indonesia risks division" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment we are worried. Our unity as an Indonesian nation is in danger of breaking. Restlessness and worry have been felt more and more in recent years. There are those who, vaguely or sh ...
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  12 December 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - After the war years, the monastery of Deir Mar Musa flourishes again Nebek (Fides Agency) - There is still no news about the fate of the Roman Jesuit Paolo Dall'Oglio, kidnapped at the end of July 2013 while he was in Raqqa. But the monks and nuns of the monastic community of Khalil Allah ...
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  12 December 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Violence against Christians in Tamil Nadu Chennai (Agenzia Fides) - Four people, including the local leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), are in custody in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, after the violence and vandalism committed in a Christian prayer hall on De ...
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  11 December 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Armenian Catholicos Aram I also deplores Trump's decisions on Jerusalem Antelias (Agenzia Fides) - The choice of the US Administration to transfer the US embassy to Jerusalem in Israel has "negative repercussions" on the already unstable Middle Eastern scenario, and risks jeopardizing the en ...
• 11 December 2017
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Resignation of the Auxiliary of Hwalien Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today the Holy Father accepted the resignation of His Exc. Mgr. John Baptist Tseng Chien-Tsi, titular Bishop of Sululi, from the office of auxiliary Bishop of the diocese of Hwalien (Taiwan ...
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  11 December 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Christians celebrate the feast of Mar Behnam, in the shrine devastated by jihadists Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday 10 December hundreds of Iraqi Christians were able to take part in the celebrations for the feast of Mar Behnam (San Behnam) at the Shrine-Monastery where the relics of the Saint ar ...