Asia

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  17 February 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Human Rights Watch report: Christian villages looted and burned in the Nineveh Plain by anti-jihadist militias Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) - "Spontaneous" armed militias and paramilitary groups involved in the fight against the jihadists of the self-proclaimed Islamic state (Daesh) are responsible for looting, destruction and burnin ...
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  17 February 2017
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Gym only for women, founded by a woman Kabul (Agenzia Fides) – A gym only for women is having big success in Afghanistan. The experiment not only represents a commercial opportunity for the owner of the facility, but also an opportunity for girls, in a coun ...
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  17 February 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A week of terrorist violence: "We are vulnerable", says a priest Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We condemn this senseless violence against innocent human beings. Before any ethnic, cultural or religious connotation, the victims are human beings. People in Pakistan are above all sad; they ...
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  16 February 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Marian Congress in Cebu: "Faith affects life" Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - The Marian Congress dedicated to the Jubilee of the Mother of Perpetual Help, which opens in Cebu city in the sanctuary run by the Redemptorist Fathers, will not only be dedicated to spiritual them ...
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  16 February 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate disowns Christian members of paramilitary groups threatening revenge against Sunnis Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Mr. Ryan Salem who yesterday appeared in a television program to assert that Iraqi Christians are also present in Mosul to fight and take revenge on Sunni Muslims, "has nothing to do with the Chri ...
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  15 February 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Attack in Lahore, the Bishops: immediately an action plan against terrorism Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – It is urgent to implement a national action plan against terrorism, that has to be "the top priority of the government if one wants to eradicate terrorism and extremism from the country": is wh ...
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  15 February 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Young Muslim volunteers clean up the church of the Virgin Mary in Mosul, former base of jihadists Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - About thirty young people, belonging to an organization of civilian volunteers, mostly Muslims, cleaned and tidied the Chaldean church dedicated to the Virgin Mary, in Drakziliya, in Mosul on the ...
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  15 February 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Regional elections: Catholics ask for an honest, fair and transparent vote Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "May the elections be honest, fair and transparent; voting is a necessity and an obligation for all citizens": say the five Catholic organizations in a joint appeal titled "Our vote is for the n ...
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  14 February 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Demonstration of Christian Iraqi refugees: we do not want to go back to our Country Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – On February 13, a small procession of about two hundred Christian Iraqi refugees staged a symbolic demonstration outside the local UN headquarters in downtown Beirut to demand their requests to ...
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  14 February 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Ban to celebrate St. Valentine’s: Catholics oppose Bandung (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocesan Commission for the laity in the Diocese of Bandung contests a circular banning students to celebrate Valentine's Day. West Java Education Agency head Ahmad Hadadi signed the measu ...
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  14 February 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - US Group to Trump: To create "protected areas" for Iraqi Christians is part of our "national security interests" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The new US administration is called upon to designate a "Safe Zone" for Iraqi Christians in the Nineveh Plain, and other "safe zones" including Yazidis and Turkmen. And that is because Christ ...
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  13 February 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - President Aoun: militias of Hezbollah are "complementary" to the Lebanese Army Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Shiite militias of Hezbollah do not represent a danger for the stability of Lebanon but, on the contrary, are "necessary" for the Lebanese State security and represent a "complementary" force ...
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  13 February 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - The demand for Christian literature increases New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – There is demand for Christian literature in India and the market is expanding: says to Fides, Fr. Saju Chackalackal, Carmelite of Mary Immaculate (CMI) and director for the evangelization an ...
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  13 February 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian families are returning to Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The first Christian families are beginning to return to the eastern districts of Mosul. As reported by ankawa.com site, at least three Armenian families have already returned to their houses, desp ...
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  10 February 2017
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Water crisis, a risk to public health: warning of the Church Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The water crisis and the lack of safe drinking water causes a high risk to public health in Sri Lanka. Many situations of poverty, suffering, disease of the population are linked to the issue of ...