Asia

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  13 November 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian activist shot in the legs Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Christian activist Aslam Masih, a volunteer and collaborator of the NGO "Legal Evangelical Association Development" (LEAD), committed to the free legal assistance to poor Pakistani Christians, wa ...
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  12 November 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian students are prohibited to use the toilets used by Muslims at school Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – She was threatened, beaten, insulted and locked in a bathroom for three hours for using a toilet used by Muslim students: this is the story of Sara Bibi, a student who attends a primary sch ...
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  12 November 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Appeal to Prime Minister Modi: "Protect religious minorities" London (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal to the government of Narendra Modi to protect the rights of minorities in India was launched by the NGO Minority Rights Group International (MRG), on the first day of the visit of the I ...
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  12 November 2015
  ASIA/IRAN - Religious minorities in Iran: there are those who exploit religious freedom to attack our Country Tehran (Agenzia Fides) – In view of the upcoming visit of Iranian President Hassan Rohani at the Vatican, where the Iranian leader will be received by Pope Francis, a meeting to reflect on the status of religious minor ...
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  11 November 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Aung San Suu Kyi’s party wins: now national reconciliation Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "National League for Democracy", the party of the leader Aung San Suu Kyi announces that it has obtained over 70% of the vote in the elections held on November 8 in Myanmar, gaining at least 78 s ...
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  11 November 2015
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - An inter-religious delegation visits North Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of 150 religious leaders of different communities paid a visit to North Korea: during the short trip on 10 and 11 November, the leaders of seven major religions in South Korea, gather ...
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  11 November 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Assyrian associations denounce the violence and abuse of Kurdish forces Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - Six associations operating within the Assyrian community in diaspora scattered in the West launched an appeal to denounce violence and systematic human rights violations committed against the c ...
• 11 November 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Large participation in the protest against the law on the Islamization of minors Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The protest against the law on the Islamization of minors, held yesterday, Tuesday, November 10, in Baghdad at the Chaldean Church of Saint George, saw the massive participation of Christians an ...
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  10 November 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Depression, mental and emotional disorders for orphans, victims of armed conflict Siringar (Agenzia Fides) - The armed uprising which broke out in the state of Jammu and Kashmir in 1989 continues to have devastating consequences in the daily life of the local people. The massive presence of the army f ...
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  10 November 2015
  ASIA/TURKEY - The institutional impasse for religious minority Foundations Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The 168 Foundations linked to ethnic and religious minorities in Turkey - including those animated by Jews and Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, Chaldeans, Bulgarian and Georgian Christians - operate ac ...
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  10 November 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Church: "After the elections, new hope for a future of unity in the nation" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We have high hopes. This opens a new era for our country, which we hope will be marked by unity. People are happy and it seems there are no risks of a military coup": is what Mgr. John Hsane Hgy ...
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  10 November 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Discrimination in the education system: a petition to the Supreme Court Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – It is necessary to inform the Supreme Court of hate speech against religious minorities in Pakistan present in textbooks and highlight the discrimination in the education system: with this ...
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  9 November 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch convenes a protest against the law on the Islamization of minors Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The demonstration convened by Chaldean Patriarch Raphael I Louis to protest against the law on the Islamization of minors will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, November 10, in front of the Chaldean ...
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  9 November 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians: there is "selection", not "election" of minorities in the local vote Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - In the recent elections held in Punjab and Sindh, the two main provinces in Pakistan, according to the current system, religious minorities have been deprived of the right to choose their represe ...
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  9 November 2015
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Archbishop Goh: "There is no evangelization without prayer" Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians cannot proclaim Christ to the world if they are not converted to Christ. The heart of the new evangelization is prayer and spiritual renewal": This is what the Archbishop of Singap ...