Asia

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  23 February 2017
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Diocesan Yearbook: 591 thousand Catholics in Hong Kong, 5 thousand more than last year Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – At the end of August 2016, there were 591,000 Catholics out of a population of 7,346,700 inhabitants in Hong Kong. The Catholic figure is contained in the new Yearbook of the Church of Hong ...
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  23 February 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Peace Center: "The answer to terrorism is unity" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Our response to terrorism is unity. We will continue to promote peace, justice, harmony with all men and women of good will in Pakistan, in the face of the terrorist threat that has bloodied the ...
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  22 February 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Health education seminars for students and a medical mission for over 600 sick people Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - Since their arrival in the diocese of Maumere on the island of Flores, Indonesia, in 2009, the religious Camillians have promoted the celebration of World Day of the Sick with various initiative ...
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  22 February 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Israeli army begins the demolition of Bedouin villages. Even the "School" at risk Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli army bulldozers have already taken action to implement the announced demolition of Bedouin villages situated within the territories of the occupied West Bank, east of Jerusalem, in ...
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  22 February 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Lynching in Lahore: 42 Christians convicted of terrorism Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Lahore anti-terrorist court sentenced 42 Christians for terrorism. As Fides learns, the Court pronounced the sentence for Christian citizens accused of lynching which occurred after the terroris ...
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  22 February 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - One more seat reserved for Christians in the new bill on parliament Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - A bill to review the distribution of seats in the House of Representatives among the different Iraqi electoral districts, published by the relevant parliamentary institutions on Monday, February ...
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  21 February 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Thousands of victims due to air pollution: for the Church "conscience and action" are needed New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Eighteen thousand Indians die every day from direct or indirect causes of air pollution. And the progressive air poisoning is often linked to climate change. This is what a new study published ...
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  21 February 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Marine Le Pen in Lebanon: even Middle Eastern Christians must be helped. Meeting with the Grand Mufti canceled, meeting with Maronite Patriarch Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The best way to protect Christians in the Middle East consists in the "eradication of radical Islam", while we must avoid policies that encourage the exodus of Middle Eastern Christians from thei ...
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  21 February 2017
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - New priest ordained in Mongolia in the Jubilee year Ulaan Baatar (Agenzia Fides) - While the Catholic Church in Mongolia in 2017 celebrates its silver Jubilee, the community is celebrating the ordination of Bernard Kambala, a member of the Congregation of the Immaculate H ...
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  20 February 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - "Televita", the first Catholic TV Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesia has its first Catholic television in streaming and will soon broadcast via satellite frequency. As Fides learns from the Commission for Social Communications of the Archdiocese of Jaka ...
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  20 February 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - Armenian Catholicos Karekin II convenes a summit to face the internal problems of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople Erevan (Agenzia Fides) - Patriarch Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, convened at the Patriarchal See of Echmiadzin Catholicosate, in Yerevan, some of the protagonists of the dispute in place with regards to the n ...
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  20 February 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Marine Le Pen visits Lebanon. Meeting with the Maronite Patriarch on the agenda Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - If she becomes the President of France, Marine Le Pen will reconnect official diplomatic relations with Assad’s Syria and will reopen the French embassy in Damascus. On the occasion of her 48-h ...
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  18 February 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - An extraordinary session of the Holy Synod to address the "divisions" of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The internal crisis within the Syriac Orthodox Church, after charges of "betrayal of faith" on behalf of six metropolitans against Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, could be addressed during an e ...
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  18 February 2017
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Catholics committed to ecumenism and education Dili (East Timor) - "There is great hope for the future of evangelization in East Timor, but it is always necessary to strengthen the faith of our community": says to Agenzia Fides Salesian Bishop Virgilio do Carmo da Si ...
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  18 February 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - National Census: an opportunity for the future of religious minorities Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – The pastoral workers of Christian churches will be crucial to promote awareness on the importance of the census which will begin in Pakistan in March. "It is necessary to take a step forward t ...