Asia

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  25 September 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - The self-defense "Sotoro" militias shoot each other Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Thursday, 24 September, violent armed clashes broke out between two brigades belonging to the self-defense "Sotoro" militias, often credited by the media as "Christian" militias, thi ...
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  25 September 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Bishops: "No" to discrimination on the status of religious minorities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Reversing the trend on discrimination against non-Muslims in government jobs: is what the "National Commission for Justice and Peace", within the Bishops' Conference of Pakistan ask for in a note ...
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  25 September 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "free and transparent elections" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - A free and transparent vote, a harbinger of genuine democracy; aimed at candidates who are building peace, reconciliation, the common good: is what Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon ...
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  24 September 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Church alongside the tribal victims of violence and persecution Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in the Philippines is alongside the Lumad (tribal) communities who today are victims of abuse, persecution, extrajudicial killings: reaffirmed the Auxiliary Bishop of Manila, His Exc. ...
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  24 September 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Five new Franciscan friars to bring the Gospel in the "land of the Taliban" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - In an area marked by violence and intolerance and by those groups of "Pakistani Taliban" known for terrorist acts that target religious minorities, five new followers of St. Francis of Assisi wil ...
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  23 September 2015
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Young people on a mission with a smartphone Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The mission of youth in Seoul proceeds thanks to a basic tool: the smartphone. As reported to Fides by the Communications Office of the Archdiocese, since 20 September, the local Church has organi ...
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  23 September 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Catechesis and evangelization, a task entrusted to all the baptized Chennai (Agenzia Fides) - "A Christian has a big heart, ready to bring the message of salvation to every corner of the world. We ask God to transform our hearts in order to accomplish the mission of catechesis and evange ...
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  22 September 2015
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Compensation for the burning of the church in Tabgha Tabgha (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 21 September, Israel's Attorney General announced that the State of Israel will offer compensation to the Sanctuary of the Miracle of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes, in Tabgha, ...
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  22 September 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - The Andhra Pradesh government assures support to Churches Secunderabad (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Indian state of Andra Pradesh assures services and rights to Christian minorities, and the protection of church properties: is what emerged from the recent meeting in ...
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  22 September 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A Fatwa to allow the Copts on the electoral Salafist lists Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The use of an old Fatwa helped leaders of the Salafist al-Nour Party, issued by Sheikh Mohammed Nasreddin Albanian al Albani, to justify in the eyes of the more rigid leaders and activists, the re ...
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  21 September 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence against a Christian family to steal the house and land Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian family risked being burned alive due to the attack of a group of Muslims who wanted to steal their home and their land. As reported to Fides by Christian lawyer Sardar Mushtaq Gill ...
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  21 September 2015
  ASIA/LAOS - One of the Christians condemned for praying for a sick woman has died in prison Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - Tiang, a Christian from the village of Huey, in the district of Atsaphangthong, part of the territory of the province of Savannakhet died in prison, because of a serious complication of diab ...
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  21 September 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - New Assyrian Patriarch elected. And the patriarchal seat could return to Iraq Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – The new Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East will be called Mar Gewargis Sliwa III, and the liturgical ceremony for his inauguration will be held in Erbil on 27 September. He succeeds Ma ...
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  21 September 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Heads of Churches in Jerusalem condemn the violence at the Temple Mount Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Heads of Churches in Jerusalem express "serious concern" about the recent violence carried out on the Temple Mount in the clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian Muslims, and expres ...
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  18 September 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Marists in Aleppo: there is a risk of getting used to horror Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "The reason why we do not write to you on a regular basis from Aleppo, although you continue to ask news about us, is because we think that the repetition of the denunciation of the crimes commit ...