Asia

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  13 July 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Civilians killed in Orissa, the Church in alarm Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Orissa is on alert after the killing of five civilians, including two Christians in the district of Kandhamal in the Indian state of Orissa. As Fides learns, the five ...
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  13 July 2016
  ASIA/THAILAND - 45 million Thais invited to vote for the draft of the new Constitution Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - On August 7, about 45 million Thai people will be invited to express their consent on the draft of the new Constitution approved in January 2016. "Everywhere you see huge posters, billboards, an ...
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  13 July 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic schools, the beating heart of the nation Naga City (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic schools are essential to the mission of the Church in the Philippines and represent the beating heart of the nation: is what was stated by the general assembly of the Association of C ...
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  13 July 2016
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Palestinian President Abu Mazen gives the Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal the "Medal of Jerusalem" Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the end of his mission at the head of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, emeritus Patriarch Fouad Twal was honoured by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with the "Medal of ...
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  12 July 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - At World Youth Day in Krakow young Iraqis will pray the 'Our Father' in Aramaic before the Pope Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - There will be more than two hundred young Iraqi Christians who from all the dioceses of the Country will participate in the forthcoming World Youth Day (WYD), to be held in Krakow in late July. ...
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  12 July 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - "Forgive us" say the Bengali people after the massacre in Dhaka Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - In the place in Dhaka, where terrorists on July 1 killed 22 people, someone brought flowers, including an unnamed wreath, with two words on the ribbon: "Forgive us". "I think that it expresses the ...
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  12 July 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy via WhatsApp: Christian arrested, risk of "collective punishment" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Digital blasphemy" is gaining ground in Pakistan. According to Fides sources complaints of blasphemy that record the alleged crime of insulting Islam or Prophet Muhammad committed on the web or ...
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  11 July 2016
  ASIA - Female Infanticide: China and India still at the top of the list New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - China and India are among the countries at the top of the world rankings for female infanticide: says the latest report released by the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), the first global s ...
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  11 July 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Abdul Sattar Edhi, charity without borders: example for humanity Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Abdul Sattar Edhi showed the human face of Pakistan. He was a Muslim who devoted his whole life to charity and to the next, without any discrimination. He taught us that charity has no boundary, ...
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  11 July 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Aleppo still under bombs. Bishop Audo: we live among the desolation of war and the consolation of God Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are again under bombs. We do not know what is about to happen. Even last night we could not sleep, and this morning an artillery shell also fell in the street of our cathedral, resulting in o ...
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  6 July 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Bishop of Rajshahi: "Behind the radicalization of young people there is the failure of the family" Rajshahi (Agenzia Fides) - "Parents do not care about children: there is a failure of the family. They have given them only money and good life without taking care of their education, ideas, mentality. They have exposed ...
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  6 July 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - A fundraiser for the demining of the site of Christ’s Baptism has been launched Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The demining project of Qasr al-Yahud area, which extends around the west bank of the Jordan River, the site where many Christian traditions believe Jesus was baptized, will last two years and ...
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  6 July 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - NGOs to the government: "Protecting religious minorities from attacks by Buddhist nationalists" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – Need to take urgent measures to protect the most vulnerable religious minorities in the country: is the appeal launched by a forum of eleven NGOs working for the protection of human rights in M ...
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  5 July 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - In the Year of Mercy, the Sisters of St. Paul bring the Gospel to the suburbs Nagpur (Agenzia Fides) - "Reach out to the less privileged, to tell them that we recognize them as our brothers and sisters in Christ": in this spirit the Daughters of St. Paul in Nagpur in the Indian state of Maharashtr ...
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  5 July 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal: "My mission continues" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "I have reached the end of my mission as Patriarch, however my mission as a priest, friend and citizen continues": says the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Exc. Mgr. Fouad Twal, who has reac ...