Asia

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  19 January 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Aleppo awaits the arrival of Cardinal Zenari. Bishop Khazen: "he will visit hospitals, refugee camps and devastated churches" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Mario Zenari, Apostolic Nuncio in Syria, is expected to arrive in Aleppo in the early afternoon today, Thursday, January 19, for a visit full of commitments and meetings that will contin ...
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  16 January 2017
  ASIA/THAILAND - Children's Day "playing with army weaponry" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - In Thailand, since 1955, Children's Day is celebrated on the second Saturday of January. During this day children visit the seat of government, Parliament, they go to natural parks, participate ...
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  16 January 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - The Jesuits committed to social harmony Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) – To overcome ignorance and prejudice and above all to educate young people to promote peace and social harmony, peace which is an urgent need today: this is what the Indian Jesuit theologian M ...
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  16 January 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - Deputy cites the Armenian Genocide in the Turkish Parliament: Suspended for 3 sessions Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian deputy of the Turkish Parliament Garo Paylan, representative of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP, opposition party that unites pro-Kurdish forces and leftist forces) on January 13 w ...
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  14 January 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Prime Minister defends religious minorities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not far off when Pakistan will be recognized as a friendly country of minorities; the government is taking measures to improve the lives of religious minority groups": said Prime Minister ...
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  14 January 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Patriarch of Moscow Kirill invited in Syria Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - Scholars and official representatives of Syrian Islam, together with the Syrian Ministry officials for endowments and religious affairs (waqf), sent an invitation to the Patriarch of Moscow Kiril ...
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  13 January 2017
  ASIA/PALESTINE - President Abbas will inaugurate the Palestinian Embassy to the Holy See Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, January 14 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), is scheduled to meet with Pope Francis in the Vatican and inaugurate the new Palestinian embassy to the Holy See, situated ...
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  13 January 2017
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh: "The time of mercy for Cambodia starts now" Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - "How many times this year, in our Vicariate, I saw God in the faces of children and in your faces! Once again, these days, I have seen God in our midst many times: I saw him in the few faithf ...
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  12 January 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Catholics know the plight of the Rohingya, but cannot help them Pyay (Agenzia Fides) - While Korean Yanghee Lee, Special United Nations Rapporteur on the situation of human rights is in Myanmar, for a visit from 9 to 20 January, the serious humanitarian situation of the Muslim minori ...
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  12 January 2017
  ASIA/YEMEN - The death toll among children due to armed conflict worsens Naham (Agenzia Fides) - The war in Yemen began in 2014 and has intensified since the military coalition led by Riad in favor of the president, Abdo Rabu Mansur Hadi intervened. Since March 2015, the Country has recorded ...
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  11 January 2017
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - All children, including stateless children, must have access to education Petaling Jaya (Agenzia Fides) - No child, whether or not in possession of a birth certificate, should be denied access to education. The complaint comes from a Malaysian lawyer, a human rights advocate. Stateless childre ...
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  11 January 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Lebanese President Aoun, Maronite Christian, mends relations with Saudi Arabia Riyadh (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Lebanon Michel Aoun, a Maronite Christian, began his first trip in the Arabian Peninsula with the first result of mending relations with Saudi Arabia, which last year had experie ...
• 11 January 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi communists to Chaldean Patriarch: thanks for your contribution to national reconciliation Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Iraqi communists pay tribute to Chaldean Patriarch Raphael Louis Sako I, and thank him for his contribution to national reconciliation and for his continuous efforts to encourage the involvement ...
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  10 January 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic Students denounce an Islamic leader for "blasphemy" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Union of University Students in Indonesia (Perhimpunan Mahasiswa Katolik Republik Indonesia, PMKRI) filed a complaint for blasphemy regarding a Muslim religious Habib Rizieq Shihab, ...
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  10 January 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Official of Iraqi Kurdistan: at least 100 places of worship destroyed or damaged by jihadists in the Nineveh Plain Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - At least 100 places of worship have been vandalized or completely demolished in the territories of Mosul and Nineveh Province since June 2014, when the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) impos ...