Asia

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  6 April 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Caritas helps immigrants and migrants Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The work of aid of Caritas Sri Lanka reaches immigrant workers and those who migrate abroad in search of work. Caritas works with economic aid, education, professional training programs, in a ne ...
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  6 April 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - 6 children die or are injured every three days Sana'a (Agenzia Fides) - The toll after a year of war in Yemen is that 6 children are killed or maimed every three days. For them it is also dangerous and difficult to play or sleep. With the intensification of the war ...
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  5 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Intrusion during a Christian assembly: faithful threatened, Bibles confiscated New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A group of about 40 Hindu extremists in a Pentecostal Christian Assembly stormed during a prayer meeting, interrupting the worship, threatening the faithful and seizing Bibles: as reported to ...
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  5 April 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: "Vote politicians with a high vision and dedicated to service" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Choose political leaders animated by a high "vision" of common good and dedicated to the service of citizenship: is the exhortation Filipino Bishops propose to the faithful in view of the politic ...
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  5 April 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The relics of Mar Elian have been recovered in the sanctuary devastated by Jihadists. Father Jacques Mourad: rebirth of the monastery Qaryatayn (Agenzia Fides) – In Quaryatayn, the Syrian city recently returned under Syrian military control, the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) have gone, leaving rubble and devastation in Mar Elian sanctuary, w ...
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  5 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Bishops: may Christians be involved in the new government Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The request to include even Christian politicians in the government, the invitation to the faithful not to be persuaded by those who promote their escape from Iraq, and a clear statement of suppor ...
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  4 April 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Farmers killed by the police: the Church condemns violence Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "A death is always tragic, especially when it is a violent death. Let us pray for our farmers in Kidapawan: may they find peace and happiness in heaven. The police have the mandate to preserve pe ...
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  4 April 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Syrian Orthodox Bishop stopped and released by the Palestinian police Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - The Palestinian Police stopped Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan Swerios Malki Murad, the Patriarchal Vicar who leads the Syrian Orthodox Christian community present in Holy Land. The arrest took p ...
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  4 April 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Hospital patients want the return of the missionary wounded Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) – The sick of Dinajpur hope Fr. Piero Parolari, the Italian missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, wounded in an ambush with attempted murder, will soon return to Bangladesh. ...
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  4 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Priest who gambled funds for refugees has been suspended Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Chaldean priest Amer Saka, who claimed he had gambled away hundreds of thousands of dollars earmarked for refugees fleeing violence and persecution in Iraq, has been temporarily suspended from t ...
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  2 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - NGOs: "The government has given in to pressure from extremists" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Pakistan has given in to seven out of ten requests presented by Islamic radical groups, supporters of Mumtaz Qadri, the confessed criminal of the governor of Punjab, Salman T ...
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  2 April 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Caritas Korea: Solidarity Campaign for Syrian refugees Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Five years after civil war in Syria - Let's wipe out their tears": is the new fundraising and solidarity campaign launched by "Caritas Korea" to give support to Syria. The funds, reported a state ...
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  1 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Against terrorism, mentality must change through the work of education Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Today many young people in Pakistan are brainwashed and then kill or become suicide bombers in the name of God. These heinous attacks will continue unless a change of mentality and culture take ...
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  1 April 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - Bishop Hinder: still no news of the Salesian kidnapped in Aden Aden (Agenzia Fides) – There is still no news of Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil, the Salesian priest kidnapped after the massacre perpetrated by a terrorist commando in the nursing home of Aden almost a month ago (see Fides 04/03/ ...
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  1 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - "Mission Sonshine ": Jesus Christ the Son of God is the light of the world Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - It is a very old church, older than the Taj Mahal in Agra, and one of the oldest churches in Mumbai: the church of St. Andrew in Bandra celebrates its 400th anniversary in 2016. The church was bu ...