Asia

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  27 January 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Twenty new priests and thirty deacons will be ordained in Seoul Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Korea, which thrives in vocations to priesthood, will be enriched with 20 new priests: Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, Archbishop of Seoul, will ordain 20 priests on February 5. Given ...
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  27 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Lawyers threatened: they defend a Christian accused of blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Two lawyers who offer their professional services at the NGO Pakistani "Lead" (Legal Evangelical Association and Development) were stopped in the street and threatened by unknown people on their ...
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  27 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The alarm of Archbishop Hindo: Deir el Zor is starving Hassakè (Agenzia Fides) - In neighborhoods and suburbs of the Syrian city of Deir al Zor, under siege by the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh), at least 120 thousand Syrian civilians are starving. The alarm was lau ...
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  26 January 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Ecumenical prayer during the Week for Christian Unity Semerang (Agenzia Fides) - In the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the Archdiocese of Semarang (Central Java) invited the Pastors of different Protestant churches to an ecumenical celebration that brought together Cat ...
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  26 January 2016
  ASIA/KUWAIT - MPs reject building new churches Kuwait City (Agenzia Fides) - The Municipality has initially approved requests to build new churches in Kuwait, but faces opposition from lawmakers and councilors. Islamist lawmaker Ahmad Al-Azemi said he and other MPs ...
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  26 January 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Dialogue between the Church and Hindu fanatics? New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The news relaunched by some newspapers that the Hindu nationalist group "Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh" (RSS, "National Volunteer Corps") intends to initiate dialogue with the Catholic Church and ...
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  26 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: the "evil hand" of "external players" has brought chaos in the Middle East Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "It seems that the evil hand has put in place all that was planned to change the situation", causing untold suffering to the peoples of the Middle East. And "it is no secret" that "the interven ...
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  26 January 2016
  ASIA/THAILAND - Illegal fishing and slavery: a serious phenomenon which penalizes the Country Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - From informed sources we learn that: "in Thailand there are increasingly numerous testimonies of extreme slavery carried out on illegal fishing vessels that have not docked at a port for year ...
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  25 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Attack in the Christian area in Qamishli: 3 dead and 10 wounded Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - At least three people were killed and 10 others wounded in a bomb attack in Syria’s northeastern Kurdish city of Qamishli, on on the evening of Sunday, January 24. The attack took place in th ...
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  25 January 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Youth Seminar in Seoul: "God loves you just as you are" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "When you feel frustrated, think of the unconditional love of God and remember that God loves you just as you are. When we experience the power of God's love, the world will begin to change", is ...
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  25 January 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Justice and unity, the fruits of the Eucharist Cebu City (Agenzia Fides) - The Eucharist has a strong social dimension and requires a "fight against poverty and cruelty": this is what Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar said, who was sent as a re ...
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  25 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAN - National Director of the PMS: we thank President Rohani and Ayatollah Khamenei for the end of the embargo Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - The end of the embargo against Iran "is for all of us who belong to the Iranian people, a historic event. There is widespread happiness, that embraces all the people, both Muslims and Christians. ...
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  23 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Ankawa like Las Vegas? Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - In the city of Erbil, capital of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, the process of degradation is filling the suburbs inhabited by Christians with shops for the sale of alcohol, discos, cas ...
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  22 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian killed in Punjab Sialkot (Agenzia Fides) – A 50-year-old Christian, Nazir Masih, who worked at the municipal government council building in Sialkot, was busy cleaning the street 7 a.m. on 14 January when unknown gunmen shot him dead w ...
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  22 January 2016
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Works of charity and pilgrimage in the Year of Mercy Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Living the Year of Mercy in the name of charity work inspired by the Gospel of the Good Samaritan; and making at least one pilgrimage: is the exhortation that His Exc. Mgr. Olivier Schmitthae ...