Asia

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  9 October 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Tentorio's murder is "a blood stain on justice" Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) - Four years after the killing of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, PIME missionary who was shot dead on October 17, 2011 in Kidapawan on the island of Mindanao, the case remains unsolved and investigations ...
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  9 October 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Two Iraqi sisters go and live among the Christian refugees camped in Erbil Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The two Little Sisters of Charles de Foucauld are called Afnan and Alice and have chosen to live in a camp in Ankawa, on the outskirts of Erbil, where thousands of Christians of the Nineveh Plain, ...
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  8 October 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - The jihadists release the video of the execution of three Assyrian hostages Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - Three of the Assyrian Christians in the valley of Khabur held hostage by jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) were subjected to capital punishment by their kidnappers. The video of the execut ...
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  8 October 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A missionary: "The Italian Del Torchio kidnapped for money" Zamboanaga (Agenzia Fides) - "The news is very vague and nothing is known about the perpetrators of the kidnapping of Rolando Del Torchio, today a restaurant owner and former missionary of PIME (Pontifical Institute for ...
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  8 October 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Child malnutrition in Gaza: Caritas Jerusalem intervenes Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - Most of the one million and 800 thousand inhabitants of the Gaza Strip cannot afford adequate food, partly because of higher food prices following the latest Israeli military action. Children and y ...
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  7 October 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Video released on the Christians in Qaryatayn who sign a "protection pact" Qaryatayn (Agenzia Fides) - "Fight until they pay the jizya pledging subservience to Muslim rule" is the title of the video released in recent days by jihadist websites (available at: https://archive.org/details/Jizia_Q) ...
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  7 October 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Equal opportunities and citizenship to build peace Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Peace, equal opportunities and citizenship: are the keywords of a program launched by "Christian Study Center" in Rawalpindi in collaboration with the "Cecil Chaudhry & Iris Foundation" in Lahore ...
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  7 October 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - The government of Maharashtra suspends a play considered offensive towards Catholics Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Indian state of Maharashtra has temporarily suspended the representation of a play entitled "Agnes of God", considered by local Catholics offensive towards their religion. A ...
• 7 October 2015
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of the Bishop of Vinh Long Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 7 October 2015, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Kontum (Vietnam), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Michael Hoàng Duc Oanh, in accordance with ...
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  7 October 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Latin Patriarchate: Israel and Palestine have to restart the negotiations Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The new wave of violence that is rampant in Jerusalem and the Holy Land urgently requires "Israelis and Palestinians to act with courage and return to the negotiating table", which must be car ...
• 7 October 2015
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Resignation of the Bishop of Kontum and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 7 October 2015, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Kontum (Vietnam), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Michael Hoàng Duc Oanh, in accordance with ...
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  6 October 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Ministry of Justice: Christian property will be protected Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi government will adopt measures to protect the real estate property of Christians who have left the Country, and to prevent that their homes and their land illegally change owner during ...
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  6 October 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Catholic beaten by Muslim teachers: "He cannot be a headmaster" Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - Saddique Azam, a Catholic teacher appointed headmaster at a primary school in a small village, was beaten and tortured by a group of Muslim extremist teachers who rejected his authority. Muslim te ...
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  6 October 2015
  ASIA - Religious freedom and human rights in ASEAN Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Defend and promote freedom of belief or religion as a universal, inalienable and non-derogable human right for all persons, for individuals and communities of ASEAN, the Association of nations o ...
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  5 October 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girls kidnapped and raped by Muslims Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Two Christian girls were kidnapped and raped by a group of Muslim men. Two of the criminals were arrested, three are still at large in the city of Jaranwala, in Punjab. The victims are defended ...