Asia

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  22 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Jihadist leaders fleeing the Nineveh Province Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - While US-led air strikes against the positions of the Islamic State (Daesh) intensify in the area of Mosul and Nineveh Plain, a growing number of military jihadist leaders leave the region, aimed ...
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  22 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Tour of the Patriarchs of the Syro Churches among Lebanese political leaders Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, the two Patriarchs of the Syro-Antiochene Churches - Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Mar Ignatius Aphrem II and Syrian Catholic Patriarch Ignace Youssif III - wanted to achieve together a ro ...
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  21 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The "Justice and Peace" Commission: "The government has to protect educational institutions" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The attack on the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda has been strongly condemned. The attack, claimed by the Taliban organization "Tehrik-i- Pakistan" caused the death of 21 people and 60 others ...
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  21 January 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Two suspects for acts of sectarian vandalism against the Dormition church have been arrested Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Two days after the discovery of anti-Christian writtings on the walls of the Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion (see Fides 18/01/2016), the Israeli police have announced that it has stopped two sus ...
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  21 January 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Violence against the indigenous: a boy killed, the Bishops call for "a serious investigation" Davao (Agenzia Fides) - Pain and closeness to the family; a serious investigation to establish the facts; the end of abuses on indigenous peoples: it what the "Commission for Indigenous Peoples" of the Episcopal Conferen ...
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  21 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - The President of Caritas Lebanon: the Maronite Church supports any serious attempt to get out of the institutional crisis Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Maronite Church "does not support a presidential candidate over another, but is in favor of any serious solution to enable the Country to emerge from the institutional paralysis and finally e ...
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  20 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Syrian Orthodox Patriarch organizes a meeting with diplomats in Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – His Beatitude Mar Ignatius Aphrem II, Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, organized a reception to mark the start of the new year where all the diplomats accredited to the Arab Republic of ...
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  20 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Assault on a university: churches and civil society against terrorism Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) – A group of Islamist Taliban militants stormed a university in northwestern Pakistan this morning, killing indiscriminately students and professors, in classrooms and hostels. After the interv ...
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  20 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The coalition raid on Mosul devastates a church Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - On the night between Monday 18 and Tuesday, January 19, the air strikes carried out by the international coalition of Mosul - conquered in June 2014 by jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) - hit ...
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  20 January 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - The "Soup kitchens of Charity" at the service of thousands of poor people in Xian Xi An (Agenzia Fides) - "They have brought warmth to the homeless" was the headline on the front page of the Chinese Business View (500,000 copies daily and 17 million visitors for the internet edition) of the Chinese pr ...
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  19 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Special "Year of Education" in the Year of Mercy Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The greatest mercy is the service of education that one can give to a child and a person": with this awareness, the Church of Faisalabad, diocese in Punjab province, will open on February 6 ...
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  19 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Much to one’s surprise, Geagea has decided to support former "enemy" Aoun in the presidential election Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Much to one’s surprise, the leader of the Lebanese Forces party Samir Geagea has announced the availability of his political formation to support the candidacy of former General Michel Aoun to ...
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  19 January 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Report on anti-Christian violence: more than 200 episodes in 2015 New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In 2015 over 200 anti-Christian violence occurred. Seven Protestant pastors and one lay person were killed, while the victims of violence as a whole are about 8,000, including women and childr ...
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  18 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian village bombed by the Turkish army; the condemnation of the Chaldean Patriarchate Dohuk (Agenzia Fides) - Between 16-17 January Turkish troops bombed the Iraqi village of Sharanish, located on the border with Turkey, in the governorate of Dohuk, inhabited by Christians, Chaldeans and Assyrians. The bo ...
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  18 January 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The lack of water and sanitation cause preventable diseases in children Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Coupled with the so called El Nino of 2015 that washed out the critical southwest monsoons in the southwest of the Country, the resultant deficit in water supply caused water borne diseases to ...