Asia

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  5 October 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Kashmir crisis: the Church launches a major national interfaith prayer New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "We announce a major national prayer to be held on Sunday, October 16, 2016: all the Bishops, all the priests, religious and laity, will animate Masses, liturgies, vigils and prayers for the g ...
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  4 October 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - A Christian politician killed in Tamil Nadu Chennai (Agenzia Fides) - A Pentecostal Christian, engaged in politics, was murdered near a church in the south of Chennai in Tamil Nadu (southern India). As Fides learns, Dhanasekharan was 34 years old and attended a Pe ...
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  4 October 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Franciscans: concrete steps to be taken to designate a "Safe Zone" in Aleppo under the control of UN peacekeepers Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The international Community must take concrete steps "to designate Aleppo a Safe Zone", to be placed under the direct control "of UN Peacekeeping", using lessons and solutions acquired in previou ...
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  4 October 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Kurdish Peshmerga bombard the jihadist militias that occupy a Christian town in the Nineveh Plain Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, October 3, the Kurdish Peshmerga army attacked positions of the Islamic State (Daesh) in the city of Bartala, also known as Bartella, located 20 kilometers east of Mosul, in the Ninev ...
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  4 October 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - More than two thousand young witnesses of the "joy of the gospel in a plural society" Manado (Agenzia Fides) - The second Indonesian Youth Day, a national event organized by the Episcopal Conference, on the model of World Youth Day, began today October 4, in the diocese of Manado, eastern Indonesia (North ...
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  3 October 2016
  ASIA/THAILAND - Zika, first babies born with microcephaly in Southeast Asiatnenen ste meme stnene sjne e Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - After the cases of zika in Brazil (that had denounced a tragic surge of malformations in fetuses) and in Africa, America and Europe, the alarm also grows in Southeast Asia. In particular in Thai ...
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  3 October 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Balaknama: street children publish a newspaper Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Sexual abuse, child labor, street violence sums up life of street children in India. Delhi’s Balaknama newspaper - the "Voice of Children", which is run by the street children has been working ...
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  3 October 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishop Travas: "Communion and dialogue in South Punjab, infested by Islamic militants" Multan (Agenzia Fides) - "The small Catholic community in the south of Punjab province lives communion and promotes dialogue in a society where the influence of Islamic militants and violent groups is felt": says Bishop ...
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  3 October 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Patriarchs of the Syro-Antiochene Churches ask for the "Syriac" ethnicity to be recognized and included in the Iraqi Constitution Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The two Primates of the Syro-Antiochene Churches - Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II and Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Youssif III - have signed and sent a letter to the highest r ...
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  30 September 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Camillians open the first novitiate on the island of Flores Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "July 14, 2016 marked a historic moment for the Indonesian Camillian Mission: the official opening of the novitiate in Maumere, island of Flores, with the first two novices". The is what Father ...
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  30 September 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Murderers of the three Christians in Malatya convicted, but no prison for now Malatya (Agenzia Fides) - Nine years after the killing of three Christians slaughtered in the southeastern Turkish city of Malatya, the Criminal Court sentenced five Turkish, accused of being the perpetrators of the trip ...
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  30 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Inclusion and quality in education policy: the proposals of religious minorities New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Religious minorities in India, in particular Christians and Muslims, invite the federal government not to "saffronize education", by imposing a new education policy with particular focus on cu ...
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  30 September 2016
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Eight Jesuits, new priests, at work in the sign of mercy Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - Eight new Vietnamese priests of the Society of Jesus have been ordained and have already been engaged in pastoral work in the country. The ordination celebration, held on August 25 in H ...
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  29 September 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: Palestinian refugees have the "natural right" to return to their homeland Bkerkè (Agenzia Fides) - The international recognition of the Palestinian State is an act which cannot be delayed if one really wants to favor the re-establishment of peace in the Middle East. And one must also support ...
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  29 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu extremists disrupt meetings among Christians Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - A meeting on the Gospel was interrupted with violence and a stand with Bibles and Christian material were destroyed: is the latest violence perpetrated by Hindu extremists against Christians i ...