Asia

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  21 December 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians celebrate the Prophet’s birthday, the Muslims celebrate Christmas Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Dialogue and good Muslim-Christian relations are also built with the mutual participation in the major holidays of the respective religions. It so happens that the Lahore Franciscans celebrated P ...
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  20 December 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Archbishop Pizzaballa: the law to 'silence' mosques would represent a "dangerous precedent" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM, Apostolic Administrator of the vacant see of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, expressed his disapproval regarding the project supported by the Israe ...
• 20 December 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishops of Bombay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 December 2016 the Holy Father appointed rev. Allwyn D'Silva, Episcopal Vicar of Bombay, and rev. Barthol Barretto, of the clergy of Mumbai, parish priest and Vicar Forane as auxiliary ...
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  19 December 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - UN to vote on sending observers to Aleppo. Father Murad: Muslims first victims of the jihadists Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "The victims of violence in Syria are all Syrians, Muslims and Christians. And the poor are those who suffer most, those who have not had a chance to escape". While the evacuation of the populat ...
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  19 December 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - A new law will change the access to information in the Country Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Sri Lanka’s upcoming 69th independence commemorations, which will be celebrated on February 4, will be of special value to the island’s media, if the new law on the Right to Information (RTI ...
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  19 December 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - Immaculate Mary and St. Ambrose: models of authenticity of the Catholic academic research Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Mary Immaculate and St. Ambrose, Doctor of the Church, are the two models of authentic inner purity, of the search for truth and of the Catholic academic research without prejudices or personal ...
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  17 December 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The tribal become entrepreneurs thanks to a nun Kohima (Agenzia Fides) - Farmers, artisans, merchants: Garo tribals in the Indian state of Nagaland in northeast India, have become entrepreneurs and have improved their standard of life dealing with cultivation, process ...
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  17 December 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch to other Churches: let us not proceed in a random order. Let us be united as "Christian member" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The emergency situation that the entire Iraqi nation is facing also calls Christians not to proceed in a random order, emphasizing in an exasperated manner the identity factors of each ecclesial ...
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  16 December 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Christmas without the Muslims in Mindanao: a step back Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - "In some parts of the Philippines, especially in Mindanao, some Muslim leaders have discouraged their followers to join the Christians for the Christmas celebrations. This is an alarming sign. ...
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  16 December 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Fasting and prayer: may 2017 be the Year of Peace Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "It is time to join - all religions, all ethnic groups - to truly make 2017 the Year of Peace. Peace is possible through justice. Peace is possible through negotiations. We urge all religions to ...
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  16 December 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - East Aleppo, a cease-fire deal to allow evacuation of rebels. The Catholic hospital director: we welcome the wounded and the sick of neighborhoods that were under the rebels Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - A cease-fire deal to allow evacuation of rebels and tens of thousands of civilians from eastern Aleppo up to the harvesting areas located near the border with Turkey is back on. Syrian official s ...
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  15 December 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Violence and abuse of Christians in view of Christmas New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - New violence against Christians, carried out in view of Christmas, cause concern in the Indian Christian community. According to information gathered by Fides, on December 14 a group of about ...
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  15 December 2016
  ASIA/THAILAND - May Jesus be visible even in our home, today! The hope of a missionary for Christmas Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - In Thailand every home, office, factory, farm and public space exposes a giant poster of the King or the royal family, especially in this period of national mourning for the death of the 'Greate ...
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  15 December 2016
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - The Kyrgyz government announced a program to combat Islamist extremism Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - Kyrgyzstan is preparing to create an anti-terrorism state program that will in particular aim to increase both preventive and repressive measures to fight the expansion of religious extremism in ...
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  14 December 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Evangelical pastor arrested on charges of belonging to Gulen’s "terrorist" network Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelical pastor Andrew Craig Brunson, former head of the Evangelical Church of the Resurrection in Izmir (Smyrna Diriliş Kilisesi), was arrested last week on suspicion of being part of the Hi ...