Asia

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  5 October 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Food security, a right for all Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - Ensuring food security for every citizen: is what the "Right to Food and Work Network" demands and in West Bengal has launched a campaign calling on the government to comply with the national l ...
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  5 October 2015
  ASIA/TURKEY - Minority schools are likely to close due to lack of pupils Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the school year, at least 24 schools belonging to foundations and organizations linked to Christian communities and other religious minorities in Turkey are in difficulty and ...
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  2 October 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Hindo " McCain’s disturbing words on anti-Assad rebels armed by the CIA" Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - "US Senator John McCain protested saying that the Russians are not bombing the positions of the Islamic State, but rather the anti-Assad rebels trained by the CIA. I find these words are distur ...
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  2 October 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Prince Hassan of Jordan: "human safekeeping" for Christians in the Middle East is needed Acre (Agenzia Fides) - Christianity began in the Middle East, it is not a "product of western import", and has given a major contribution to the development of Arab culture and the Arab-Islamic civilization. Even for thi ...
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  1 October 2015
  ASIA - Asian Bishops sign a petition on climate Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Asian Bishops have approved and signed the petition promoted by the Global Climate Catholic Movement, a network that connects a number of organizations in view of the World Conference of Paris ...
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  1 October 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians imprisoned for blasphemy fear an extrajudicial murder Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Four Christians accused and arrested for alleged blasphemy are in danger of being killed in an extrajudicial killing. As Fides learns, Protestant Pastor Aftab Gill, Unatan Gill and two other Chri ...
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  1 October 2015
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Parents involved in preparing meals in school canteens Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - The non-profit Center for Development Cooperation, CCS Italy is committed to the welfare of children in the kindergartens of the islands and remote areas of Cambodia. Parents are involved in ...
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  1 October 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Synod of the Chaldean Church convened in Rome at the end of October Baghdad (Agenzia Fides Service) - The Synodal Assembly of the Chaldean Church will be held in Rome, from 24 to 29 October. 21 Bishops at the head of the Chaldean dioceses present in Iraq, in the Middle East and in the Ch ...
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  1 October 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Monastery of Bethlehem set on fire, Palestinian President calls the Maronite Patriarch Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Lebanese media reported that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas phoned Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai - currently in Rome - to express solidarity after the fire vandalism damaged a part of ...
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  30 September 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Thousands of children risk their lives in the gold mines Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Filipino children, some as young as 9, work illegally in mines financed mainly by local businessmen. Children are exploited in precarious pits 25 meters deep or submerged under water ...
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  30 September 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic cemetery vandalized and violence against the faithful Belgaum (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic cemetery was vandalized in Belgaum, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The vandals destroyed the tombs and crosses, and also damaged some buildings in the local cemetery. As reported t ...
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  30 September 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Priest stabbed to death in central Philippines Tanjay (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic priest Antonio Magalso, 44, was stabbed to death yesterday morning, 29 September, in the city of Tanjay, Negros Island, central Philippines. This was confirmed to Agenzia Fides by Fr. Na ...
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  30 September 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Fire at the Maronite monastery of Bethlehem: there is fear of retaliation for personal reasons Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - The Palestinian police force are carrying out "at a fast pace and with great commitment" the investigation on the fire which broke out in the early hours of Saturday, September 26 in the Monas ...
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  29 September 2015
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Murder of an Italian aid worker: the Church asks the government to protect security Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We have learned of the news of the murder of an Italian aid worker. We are shocked and saddened. As Catholic Church we express condemnation for the execrable gesture and solidarity to the family ...
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  29 September 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Abou Khazen: the choices of the West on the Syrian conflict continue to be inconsiderate Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The unilateral military initiative of France, which in recent days has begun air strikes against the bases of the Islamic State in Syria, is "another episode in the series of inconsiderate action ...