Asia

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  8 March 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Promotion of lay Catholics and commitment to dialogue, priorities for the Catholic Church in India Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – “There is need for on-going formation for the laity to enable them to understand and to live their role in the Church. In today’s socio-political scenario, it is fundamental to recog ...
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  7 March 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Bishops of India and Missionaries of Charity: “will not abandon Yemen” Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - “Concern, anger and grief, a cowardly attack”: this was how the Catholic Bishops of India, in plenary assembly in Bangalore until 9 March, reacted to the massacre on 4 March in Aden, Y ...
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  7 March 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - Bishop Hinder: the martyred Sisters were loved by the Yemenite people. Still no news of abducted priest Aden (Agenzia Fides) – The local people “loved the Mother Teresa Sisters killed in Aden, and admired their way of serving others regardless of religious belonging , putting first the most in need. This earned ...
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  7 March 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Completed and available the Catechism of the Catholic Church in Urdu "A Work of Mercy ” Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – “At the end of 13 years of intense work , the entire Catechism of the Catholic Church translated into Urdu, approved by the Holy See and sent to press, has been just published in Pakistan. ...
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  5 March 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - Massacre of Sisters, Bishop Ballin: the closer the Church is to Jesus the closer she shares in his passion Aden (Agenzia Fides) – “The closer the Church is to Jesus the more closelyshe shares in his passion”. The massacre by a group of armed men committed inside a Home for elderly and disabled persons entrusted to the c ...
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  4 March 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - Terrorist attack kills 4 Mother Teresa Sisters, together with helpers and elderly patients in care Aden (Agenzia Fides) Four Missionary Sisters of Charity, the community founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, were shot dead by gunmen early this morning in an attack on the structure in the Yemenite city of Aden where ...
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  4 March 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Five new Korean missionaries “ad gentes” Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Five new Korean missionaries are charged to carry the good news of the Gospel to distant lands: with a special Mass celebrated in Seoul Cathedral on 3 March, Cardinal Yeom Soo-jung, Catholic ...
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  4 March 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - International Seminar : how Christians and other non-Muslim social groups are portrayed in official school programmes in Arab countries Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – A two day international seminar opened today in Beirut to discuss how Christians and other non-Muslim social groups are portrayed in official school programmes in Arab countries. The initiati ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - The Word of God and Mercy accompany Chinese Catholics along the path of Lent ASIA/CHINA – The Word of God and Mercy accompany Chinese Catholics along the path of Lent Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Misericordiae Vultus, the Bull of Indiction for this extraordinary Holy Year, the word of God a ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A Centre for suppying information on the situation of human rights in N. Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) –While the United Nations Security Council has unanimously established harsh sanctions on North Korea following Pyongyang's recent nuclear experiment – compulsory inspections, ban on arms sale, ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Bethlehem calling Lourdes: partnership between towns supports Palestinian Christians Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) – Lourdes and Bethlehem share a “common destiny”, because "without pilgrimages, Bethlehem, like Lourdes, would be a small forgotten village”. With these words charged with realism the m ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops call embrace between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill “an ecumenical and prophetic step” Bkerkè (Agenzia Fides) – The recent embrace on 12 February in Cuba between Pope Francis and the Orthodox Patriarch Moscow Kirill, and their Joint Declaration represent “an ecumenical and prophetic step” taken by t ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishop of Malolos says steelworks project must be stopped Malolos City (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop José F. Oliveros of the diocese of Malolos calls for the immediate cancellation of a steelworks project which would irreversibly ruin the life of the local people and the natural e ...
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  2 March 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Politics as a service”: a testimony by the spiritual father of Shahbaz Bhatti ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Politics as a service”: a testimony by the spiritual father of Shahbaz Bhatti Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – “Recognising his gifs of leadership and concern for the good of the Catholic Church in ...
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  2 March 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Petition for rights of displaced Christians amidst preparations for battle to take back Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – While US military sources confirm that the next objective in the fight against Islamic State jihadists (Daesh) will be to take back Mosul, a petition has been forwarded by Iraqi Chaldean Rae ...