Asia

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  6 December 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Nineveh Plain Protection Units promote a recruitment campaign among Christians Alqosh (Agenzia Fides) - The Nineveh Plain Protection Units (PNU), a paramilitary organization established in Iraq in 2014, consisting mainly of Assyrian Christians, Syrians and Chaldeans, has announced the opening of a ...
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  6 December 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Armenian Church appeals to the European Court for Human Rights against Turkey for the failure to return some properties of Sis Antelias (Agenzia Fides) - Aram I, Armenian Apostolic Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, in Antelias, Lebanon, announced that today, December 6, the request for the return of the ancient residences and properties ...
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  3 December 2016
  ASIA - Cardinal Alencherry: help families meet Christ Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Asia has the mission to help families discover Christ: said Cardinal George Alencherry, major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly, in Kerala, president of the Syro-Malabar Bishops' Co ...
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  3 December 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christian cemetery of Kfar Yassif desecrated Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, in communion with all the Churches of the Holy Land, expressed firm condemnation for the act of vandalism perpetrated against the Christian cemetery of Kfar ...
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  2 December 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians to Prime Minister Modi: "work for inclusive growth" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – May the Indian government take action to ensure inclusive economic growth, which does not cut off the broad masses of socially excluded populations. This is the appeal launched to Prime Mini ...
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  2 December 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Abou Khazen: five "representatives" of east Aleppo chosen to negotiate an agreement with the army Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "In the neighborhoods of Aleppo, still in rebel hands and jihadist groups, five representatives have been appointed who should negotiate a kind of agreement with the Syrian army. We hope and pray ...
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  1 December 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Prayer for peace all over the country on the eve of the protest of extremist groups Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – To reaffirm peacefully the principles of tolerance, love, unity in diversity, acceptance of others, legality, peace: with this spirit, wearing red and white bands (Indonesia's national colors) ...
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  1 December 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Iraqi army involves sectarian militias in the protection of areas reclaimed from the jihadists of the Islamic State Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The areas in the Nineveh Plain, freed from the control of the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) by the Iraqi National Army, are subjected to a system of security and self-defense that also in ...
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  30 November 2016
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Cardinal Tong’s pastoral letter for Advent - Family and marriage: foundation of society Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us together ensure that family and Christian marriage is the starting point for charity" urges Cardinal John Tong Hon, Bishop of Hong Kong, in his Pastoral letter for Advent 2016 signed o ...
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  30 November 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Armenian Parliament presents an interrogation on the expulsions of evangelical pastors Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The parliamentary of Armenian origin Selina Ozuzun Dogan, member of the Republican People's Party, addressed to Turkish minister of the interior Süleyman Soylu a Parliamentary interrogation on a ...
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  30 November 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The trial for the murder of Shahbaz Bhatti is moving slowly Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The anti-terrorism Military Court in Islamabad issued a forced subpoena for seven witnesses who did not present themselves in the trial for the murder of Catholic minister Shahbaz Bhatti, kill ...
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  29 November 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Catholic church of Santa Chiara under construction: threats by Islamic radicals Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "We will burn the church if the shipyard continues the work": with this threat more than 500 Muslims protested in Bekasi, a vast suburb of the metrolpolis Jakarta, to prevent the construction of ...
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  29 November 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - No trial for the authors of the threats to the Armenian newspaper Agos Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The two militants of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organization responsible for threats and intimidation regarding the newspaper Agos, the bilingual Armenian weekly published in Istanbul, were ...
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  28 November 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The apostolate is oriented towards national reconciliation Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka supports the "steps of reconciliation" initiated by the national government after the civil war: is what was said to Fides by Bishop Harold Anthony Perera, who h ...
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  25 November 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Bishops: population census is urgently needed Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – A population census in Pakistan is urgently needed, to also update the data related to religious minorities: is the request raised by the Pakistani Bishops gathered in recent days in Lahore in ...