Asia

• 13 May 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - National Director of the PMS, Fr. Thomas Aquinas Kim Joon Chul Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 28, 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Fr. Thomas Aquinas Kim Joon Chul, of the archdiocesan clergy of ...
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  13 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Extremists threaten Christians after a blasphemy case in Punjab Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a case of abuse of the blasphemy law, where the Christian community risks collective punishment. We are concerned, we call on the authorities to guarantee peace and hope there are no viole ...
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  13 May 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Buddhist monk: replace churces with pagodas Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Buddhist monk Myaing Kyee Ngu Sayadaw invites his followers to destroy the country's churches and replace them with Buddhist temples. This is the alarm launched by the Christian community in Myan ...
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  13 May 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Christian refugees are forced to sign a document to support the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - A fair number of Christian Assyrians, Chaldean and Syrian displaced, who took refuge in the city of Dohuk after their villages were conquered by the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh), were f ...
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  13 May 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - "Garden of Mercy" inaugurated in Amman, humanitarian project for refugees Amman (Agenzia Fides) - A company dedicated to "sustainable" agriculture, with 600 olive trees planted on an area of 10 thousand square meters, which employs 15 workers, chosen among the Iraqi refugees but also among the ...
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  12 May 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Cardinal Yeom: "May the compassion of Buddha be granted to our society" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Our society is full of conflict and division. In this difficult moment, I pray that the mercy and compassion of Buddha can be granted in abundance to our society", said Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-j ...
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  12 May 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Armenian cemetery desecrated in Mus Mus (Agenzia Fides) - An historic Armenian cemetery dating back to the eighteenth century was desecrated in Mus, the capital of the Turkish eastern province. The news of the desecration was released yesterday from local ...
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  12 May 2016
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Christian school workers take to the streets again for the reform of the Palestine social security system Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - A qualified representation of Christian School staff took part yesterday, Wednesday, May 11, in a new public mobilization, organized in Ramallah, calling for the revision of the Social Security ...
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  12 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Protection of human rights: the government must put the National Plan into practice Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pakistani government must allocate the necessary funds and implement the National Action Plan on human rights in Pakistan, announced in February 2016". This is what Catholic Peter Jacob, Dir ...
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  11 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A two-year-old Christian child killed by a Muslim man Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - It is one of those cases where high social status and wealth turn into arrogance and arbitrariness towards the weakest and most vulnerable. A wealthy Muslim landowner owner, who has so many C ...
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  11 May 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Patriarchs of the Syriac-Antiochene Churches want their communities to have a representative in Parliament Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A seat in the Lebanese Parliament for a politician belonging to the Syriac Orthodox Church, and another guaranteed by regulation to a representative of the Syriac Catholic community: is the concr ...
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  11 May 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A missionary: the country wants a president who respects the dignity of all Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "It is the failure of the government in serving the citizens to give consent and popularity to extremists and violent people. For example, to obtain a registration document of a vehicle at the he ...
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  11 May 2016
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - The Patriarch of Moscow: "the fight against terrorism is a holy war" Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "Today the fight against terrorism is a holy war". This the strong formula used by Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, to support the need for a joint mobilization of the international co ...
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  10 May 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Rodrigo Duterte new President: "vigilant collaboration" from the Church Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Rodrigo Duterte is the new President of the Philippines, former mayor of Davao, called Digong, who won the presidential elections on May 9 with about 39% of the vote. Duterte succeeds Benigno Aqu ...
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  10 May 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch Rai: The international community has to recognize and proclaim the "neutrality" of Lebanon Paris (Agenzia Fides) - The neutrality of Lebanon with regards to the conflicts and contrasts between regional and global forces that disrupt the Middle East region of the opposing sides, must be officially recognized an ...