Asia

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  12 January 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - New Year begins in the sign of unity between Catholics and Muslims Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - A new year marked by an atmosphere of unity and brotherhood between Christians and Muslims in which the experiences of cooperation and coexistence between them has increased in Indonesia. In man ...
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  12 January 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops of Kerala give their support to farmers Kottayam (Agenzia Fides) - The Council of Bishops of Kerala - which brings together the Bishops of various rites present in the state, support farmers in their needs and calls on the government not to neglect their probl ...
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  11 January 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - MSF supported Hospital bombed: dead, injured and collapsed buildings Sana'a (Agenzia Fides) - Shiara hospital, in Razeh district in northern Yemen, was hit yesterday, 10 January 2016. A serious accident that caused at least four dead and 10 injured and the collapse of several buildings of ...
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  11 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girl kidnapped with the aim of conversion and forced marriage Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - An eighteen year old Christian of Kasur district, Punjab Pakistan, was kidnapped by a Muslim man with his accomplices while she was alone in the house. The parents have filed a complaint against t ...
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  11 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian and Muslim representatives visit the Christian cemetery desecrated in Kirkuk Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of Christian and Muslim representatives visited yesterday, Sunday, January 10, the Christian cemetery in Kirkuk, desecrated on December 23, with damage to several tombs and graveston ...
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  11 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian Protestant Church burned in Punjab Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - After a dispute between a group of Christians and Muslims, in the village of Bath, between Multan and Lahore, in Pakistani Punjab, the chapel of the Protestant Christian congregation called "Apos ...
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  9 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Scientific report: it was not the Syrian army to use chemical weapons in ghouta Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - An official report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, OPCW has confirmed that traces of sarin gas used in the Syrian conflict, and that caused the so-called massacre i ...
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  9 January 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christian cemetery in Beit Gemal desecrated Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The cemetery adjacent to the Salesian monastery in Beit Gemal, in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, was desecrated and the wooden and concrete crosses placed on many tombs w ...
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  8 January 2016
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - 14 soldiers arrested due to 558 forced disappearances that occurred in Guatemala Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Guatemalan authorities on Wednesday, January 6 arrested fourteen retired military linked to the forced disappearances of at least 558 people that took place in Guatemala between 1981 and ...
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  7 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Teachers in the Nineveh province rebel against school programs imposed by jihadists Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - More than thirty teachers working in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh, currently under the control of the jihadist Islamic State (Daesh), were stopped and arrested in the last hours for refu ...
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  5 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Franciscan Dhiya Azziz released Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of Monday, January 4 the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land released a short statement confirming Fr. Dhiya Azziz OFM, a Franciscan friar, who disappeared on 23 December, has no ...
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  5 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians and Muslims: Christmas as a "seed of peace" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An interreligious meeting where to talk, celebrate, confront oneself on the theme of christmas starting from the Bible and the Koran: was the successful event organized by the Council for Interre ...
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  5 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Jesuit Refugee Service: it is urgent to address the "educational emergency" of Syrian children Jbeil (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 2.8 million Syrian children are out of school as a result of the war, 550,000 of whom are in Lebanon. The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) center in Jbeil serves nearly 500 Syrian refuge ...
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  4 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A new church dedicated to St. Peter in the Year of Mercy Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - A new church dedicated to St. Peter the Apostle is the gift that the Year of Mercy brings to the faithful of a small village near the town of Okara in the diocese of Faisalabad. As reported t ...
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  4 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Lebanese PMS Director: Saudi execution of Imam al-Nimr has catastrophic consequences for Lebanon and the Middle East Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The sentencing to death of Shiite Imam Nimr Bakr al-Nimr, commissioned by the Saudi government on January 2, "has as immediate effect the worsening of the Lebanese institutional crisis, but its c ...