Asia

• 11 October 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Ruteng and appointment of the apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today Pope Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Ruteng (Indonesia), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Hubertus Leteng, and appointed His Exc. Mgr. Sylveste ...
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  11 October 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Condemnation of the Bishops: Hindu leader offends Mother Teresa New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – It is necessary to condemn and take legal measures regarding the false accusations and derogatory words against Mother Teresa of Calcutta by Hindu leader Swami Parpoornanda Saraswathi: says ...
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  10 October 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian student tortured and killed by the police Sheikhupura (Agenzia Fides) - A 17-year-old Christian student was beaten and tortured to death by a group of six Pakistani police officers in the village of Jhubhran, near the city of Sheikhupura, in Pakistani Punjab. Th ...
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  10 October 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Caritas alarm: Child trafficking in northeast India Dispur (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian State of Assam has been the hub of human trafficking in the country; politics must act urgently to stop the trafficking involving in particular children: is the alarm launched to Fides ...
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  10 October 2017
  ASIA/TERRASANTA - 800 years of Franciscan presence in the Middle East Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "As Franciscans, we see these eight centuries as a manifestation of God’s Providence, fidelity and goodness towards us, because he chose a simple, poor, colorful ecclesial instrument that is ...
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  10 October 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Kurdistan in difficulty: After the vote for independence, people are fleeing Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is constantly evolving. Baghdad is putting into practice what the Iraqi Parliament, already in the first hours after the Referendum on independence on September 25, had established ...
• 9 October 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Oriens Theological College" Interdiocesan Seminary in Shillong Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 9, 2017, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Kuriakose Poovathumkudy, of the diocesan clergy of Dibrugarh (Indi ...
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  9 October 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - To contribute to coexistence: Archbishop of Jakarta meets the leader of Parliament Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - To contribute to social and religious coexistence and to work together - politics and religious communities - for brotherhood among the different people and components of Indonesian pluralist so ...
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  7 October 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - The "small communities", the heart of the Church's mission in Kerala Cochin (Agenzia Fides) - The "Basic ecclesial communities" are at the heart of the Church's mission today and are "the new way of being a Church": according to the Latin Church of Kerala (state in the south of India) tha ...
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  6 October 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Discrimination against religious minorities is "institutionalized" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Pakistani region of Sindh, in the south of Pakistan, issued a public competition announcement at the end of September for some jobs in the police administration. Among the p ...
• 6 October 2017
  ASIA/CHINA - Msgr. Paolo Xie Tingzhe, a passionate evangeliser and formator of future priests Urumqi (Agenzia Fides) - On August 14, at 8:25 am, at the age of 86, His Exc. Msgr. Paolo Xie Tingzhe, Bishop/Apostolic Prefect of Xinjiang-Urumqi, in Xinjiang (Mainland China), passed away in the town of Urumqi. He was ...
• 6 October 2017
  ASIA/CHINA - The testimony of Msgr. Silvestro Li Jiantang: 14 years of forced labor for his faith Taiyuan (Agenzia Fides) - On 13 August, at 5:50 pm, His Exc. Msgr. Silvestro Li Jiantang, Archbishop Emeritus of Taiyuan, in Shanxi Province (Mainland China) passed away. He was almost 93 years old and died in the home, ...
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  6 October 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops deplore "the ingratitude" of Syrian refugees who commit crimes Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The growing involvement of refugees in the escalation of crimes committed in Lebanon is fueling intolerance among the Lebanese population towards refugees. And the crimes committed by the Syrian ...
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  5 October 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Young people in view of the Synod, the Bishops: "Be Modern prophets" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Be modern prophets, taking the proclamation of the Gospel seriously, to all those young people who are far from God, who pursue a wrong path and find themselves doing wrong": as Fides learns, t ...
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  5 October 2017
  ASIA/JAPAN - Cardinal Filoni: The future of the mission is "the Gospel from Japanese to Japanese" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The future of the Christian faith in Japan is linked to the proclamation of the Gospel from Japanese to Japanese. It is important that the Japanese, 500 years after the first evangelizatio ...