Asia

• 28 June 2016
  ASIA/JAPAN - Appointment of the Bishop of Hiroshima Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 June 2016 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. Alexis Mitsuru Shirahama, P.S.S., rector of the National Catholic Seminary of Fukuoka as Bishop of the vacant Diocese of Hiroshima (Japan) ...
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  27 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The commitment of the Dominicans of Lahore for poor children Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Dominican Sisters in Pakistan have completed the construction of a new school building in Lahore with 12 classrooms, a teachers room and a playroom for all the children. The school has been o ...
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  27 June 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Christians in Antioch celebrate the feast of Saints Peter and Paul together in the "Cave Church of Peter " Antakia (Agenzia Fides) - This year in Antakya, Turkey, Catholics and Orthodox will celebrate together the feast of Saints Peter and Paul at the "Cave Church of Peter", the ancient cave church on Mt. Silpius, reopened to ...
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  27 June 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Archbishop of Vasai: "The laity is protagonist in the Church" Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "The laity have a very important role in the Church. In India we want to build a Church where the laity is the protagonist": is what His Exc. Mgr. Felix Machado, Archbishop of Vasai said, presidi ...
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  24 June 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian Archbishop: the Pope is right, the definition of 'genocide' applied to the plight of Christians in the Middle East is misleading Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - "What the Pope said on the definition of the 'genocide' applied to the sufferings of Christians in the Middle East is beautiful and useful, because it brings us back to reality and helps us not ...
• 24 June 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the Archbishop of Taunggyi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 June 2016 the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Basilio Athai as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Taunggyi (Myanmar). The newly-elected Archbishop was born on July 22, 1956 in Kyek ...
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  24 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Sufi singer killed: pain and condemnation of the \Bishops Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Deep sorrow and condemnation for yet another murder that has shaken the nation": in a statement sent to Fides, the "Justice and Peace" Commission of the Episcopal Conference of Pakistan, said i ...
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  24 June 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Armenians demonstrate to demand the election of a new Patriarch Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - A group of Turkish Christians of the Armenian Apostolic Church organized a protest demonstration yesterday, Thursday, June 23, in Istanbul, outside the headquarters of their Patriarchate, to as ...
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  23 June 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - The orphans of Da Ming celebrate Father's Day for priests who take care of them Han Dan (Agenzia Fides) - The disabled children, abandoned by their parents, and the orphans welcomed at the Don Bosco Institute of Da Ming, in the Diocese of Han Dan, celebrated "Father's Day", celebrating the priests w ...
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  23 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Targeted killings against the Ahmadis: third victim Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A homeopathic doctor belonging to the Ahmadiyya community was killed in his clinic in Karachi on June 20. Chaudhry Khaliq Ahmad was killed by unknown assailants while he was on his way to visit ...
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  23 June 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Militant Christian politician released by the Syrian apparatus after 30 months of detention Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - Christian political activist of Syriac-Orthodox confession Gabriel Moshe Kourieh, head of the political bureau of the Assyrian Democratic Organization, arrested by Syrian security forces in Qam ...
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  23 June 2016
  ASIA - Death penalty in Indonesia and the Philippines: need to become promoters of an abolitionist culture Oslo (Agenzia Fides) - "The campaign for the abolition of the death penalty is a big challenge in order to protect life, to promote justice and to humanize our societies. However, the campaign can be successful when citi ...
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  23 June 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The legal battle over the ownership of the Armenian Catholicosate continues. Waiting for the pronouncement of the Constitutional Court Antelias (Agenzia Fides) - A lawsuit filed last year by His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of seeking the return of the historic Sis Catholicosate was not taken into consideration by Turkey’s Justice Mi ...
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  22 June 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Bishops divided, Synod of the Melkite Greek Church postponed Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Synod of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, after being opened on Monday 20 June in Ain Traz in a climate of internal tension, was interrupted and postponed until further notice due to the no ...
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  22 June 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Death penalty: the Church to oppose President Duterte Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the Philippines will do everything possible to discourage political action likely to reintroduce the death penalty in the country. As Fides learns, the President of the Epi ...