Asia

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  22 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Five Christians acquitted from charges of blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An anti-terrorism court in Lahore acquitted five Christians accused of blasphemy. The case was registered on August 16, 2015 against sixteen persons accused of having published material considere ...
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  21 June 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic priest victim of an attempted murder Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest was attacked in the state of Assam (in Northeast India) by an unidentified person and was hospitalized with serious injuries caused by machetes. Fr. Sushil John Soren, parish ...
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  21 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Catholic minister: "Stop to honor killing in Pakistan" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Honor killing is the worst form of example of brutality and bestiality in Pakistani society. The killing of a child by the mother or father is the desecration of the sacred bond of motherhood an ...
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  21 June 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops: No to sectarian partition plans in the Middle East Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - It is necessary to stop the dismemberment sectarian plans with which some international circles think they can resolve conflicts, redrawing the boundaries of the Middle Eastern Countries, beginn ...
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  21 June 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Reconciliation meeting in Zarqa in the church damaged during a fight Zarqa (Agenzia Fides) - A reconciliation meeting among the inhabitants of the neighborhood and the effective work done by many of them to repair the damage, put an end to the story of the Greek Catholic church in Zarqa, ...
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  20 June 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Three people killed in a suicide attack, Patriarch Ignatius Ephraim II escapes the bombing Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - Three people were killed by a suicide attack yesterday during a religious meeting organized in Qamishli in northern Syria, to commemorate the "Assyrian genocideof 1915, by the Ottoman army. Acc ...
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  20 June 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Caritas: poverty, development and climate justice on the political agenda Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Work towards development and put the poor "at the center of the political agenda": is the appeal of Caritas Philippines and of a group of about 30 religious and civil organizations to newly ele ...
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  18 June 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Claretians engaged in solidarity with flood victims Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Religious Claretians in Sri Lanka are actively engaged in helping victims of the floods that hit the country last May, leaving massive damage to persons, houses, facilities. The Major Superior o ...
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  18 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Police Violence against Christians Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Pakistan are abused also by the police. On Sunday, June 12 police officer Amir Abdullah raided the Protestant Christian Church in Fazalia district, Lahore, and hit and humiliated Pa ...
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  17 June 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Assad receives the Patriarch and six Syrian Catholic Bishops: "the President is planning a totally new secular Constitution" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Syrian President Bashar Assad is planning a new Constitution for the nation led by him, to ensure equal rights for all citizens and eliminate discrimination toward religious minorities. These a ...
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  17 June 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians join the fasting of Ramadan. Chaldean Patriarch: weapons kill, prayer and fasting for peace work miracles Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Today, many Christians in Iraq at the invitation of the Chaldean Patriarchate, join the fasting observed by their Muslim fellow citizens during the holy month of Ramadan. The initiative, propo ...
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  16 June 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic communities in the footsteps of the Apostle Barnabas Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The liturgical feasts of the Apostles are in particular felt by the Chinese Catholics, who choose such occasions for many initiatives related to evangelization and pastoral commitment, th ...
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  16 June 2016
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - A new mission in Erdenet entitled to the Divine Mercy Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - In the year of the Jubilee of Mercy a new local Catholic mission, dedicated to the Divine Mercy opens in Erdenet, the second largest city in Mongolia: confirms the Catholic Church in Mongoli ...
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  16 June 2016
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Mercy at the center of the Malaysian Youth Day Kota Kinabalu (Agenzia Fides) - It was a pilgrimage and an experience centered on the theme of mercy - this is what more than two thousand young Catholics from Malaysia, gathered in the Sabah province (in Malaysian Borne ...
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  16 June 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Militants attack civilians fleeing, displaying Christian symbols. Chaldean Patriarch: they have nothing to do with Christianity Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - In the war scenarios around Fallujah, where an offensive is taking place to liberate the city from the control of the jihadists of the Islamic State, also paramilitary groups are operating and a ...