Asia

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  23 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Intolerance and violence against Pentecostal Christians New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "There is growing intolerance and hostility toward small Pentecostal Christian communities, that are not allowed to do what is guaranteed by constitutional guarantees": says to Agenzia Fides ...
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  23 August 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Peace Conference "inclusive of minority ethnic groups", asks Cardinal. Bo Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - A long series of conflicts between the army and ethnic minority groups living in the country are among the issues to be addressed after half a century of military rule in Myanmar. "It is very imp ...
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  22 August 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Peace talks with communist guerrillas: the Church hopes Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the Philippines expresses "hope and confidence" for the upcoming peace talks between the Philippine government and the "National Democratic Front" (NDF) which will be held ...
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  10 August 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - "Trojan Horse of the Crusaders", "Cardinal in pectore": the fanciful accusations of the Turkish press against Fethullah Gulen Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - In recent days, the Turkish press highlighted the participation of prominent members of the local Christian communities in demonstrations "in defense of democracy", convened in the Country to con ...
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  9 August 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Catholics and Orthodox together engaged in humanitarian emergencies. Caritas Jordan launches PEER project Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The humanitarian emergencies affecting the Middle East, including conflicts and mass emigration due to wartime scenarios, solicit responses shared by Christians of different denominations. Caritas ...
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  8 August 2016
  ASIA/JAPAN - Ten days for Peace, Message from Bishops of Japan Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - In response to the strong "Appeal for Peace" at Hiroshima by Saint Pope John Paul II on February 25, 1981, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan designated the days from August 6 to 15 as "Ten ...
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  8 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - First intervention of the Camillian Disaster Service International in the area of Bihar Patna (Agenzia Fides) - "A tragedy foretold, this is how a journalist of News 18, defined the floods that hit in particular the Bihar region bordering Nepal. There is very little reliable news". Marco Iazzolino, internat ...
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  5 August 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Caritas Lebanon reopens a Centre for refugee women Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A place to welcome, care for and accompany foreign women, who have often taken refuge in Lebanon and have been left alone or marginalized, with the risk of being victims of violence: this is the ...
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  5 August 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Do not kill": the Church's campaign against extrajudicial executions Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not kill" is the title of the campaign launched by the Catholic Church in the Philippines to promote respect for human life and deplore the long trail of extrajudicial executions in the count ...
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  4 August 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girl converted to Islam by force escapes captors Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A deaf-mute Pakistani Christian girl was able to escape from a Muslim man who had kidnapped and forced her to convert to Islam and to Islamic marriage. Now, after the courageous act, the girl and ...
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  4 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Bible studies teach forgiveness to believers of all religions in the Year of Mercy Nagpur (Agenzia Fides) – By attending and following the biblical study Course promoted during the Year of Mercy by "the Catholic Information Center" (CIC) in Nagpur (in central India) gave Sushma Suryawanshi, a Buddhis ...
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  3 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - More compensation for Christians, victims of the massacres Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Legal victory for the victims of anti-Christian massacres in Orissa: as Fides learns, the Supreme Court of India, that believe the compensation paid so far is "inadequate", ordered the gover ...
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  3 August 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Christians threatened in Jolo: it is urgent to start from "mercy" Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - One Christian was killed and others are threatened by radical Islamic groups in Jolo, a small island in the southern Philippines. This is what the missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Fo ...
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  2 August 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - New cases of "blasphemy" against Christians and Hindus Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - New cases of "blasphemy" against religious minorities in Pakistan: as Agenzia Fides learns, at least four Christians were charged for alleged blasphemy against Islam in Punjab province last month ...
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  1 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian pastor brutally murdered by Maoist rebels Godavari (Agenzia Fides) - India’s Christians have denounced the brutal murder of an innocent Christian pastor: on 29 July Pastor Yohan Maraiah was mercilessly beaten to death in the east Godavari district, of Ind ...