Asia

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  17 September 2015
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Forcible return for the Vietnamese "Montagnards" Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Cambodia has asked hundreds of Vietnamese Christian refugees to return home. According to the UN, in August only 13 out of more than 200 "Montagnards" (as the indigenous people who inhabit th ...
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  16 September 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - The Constitution confirms the secular state, extremist groups attack three churches Kathmandhu (Agenzia Fides) - The new Constitution of Nepal, which will be officially promulgated on September 20, confirms the secular nature of the state. The Constituent Assembly rejected the amendment to introduce an ...
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  16 September 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - The Jordanian proposal: let us set aside the term "minority" Amman (Agenzia Fides) - In order to find effective and lasting solutions to conflicts and sectarian rifts that disrupt the Middle East, it is necessary to break free from the language and the logic that interpret the soc ...
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  16 September 2015
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni at the tomb of Mother Teresa, "a model of love for God and for the poor" Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - Mother Teresa "will continue to be an inspiration and model of love for God and for the poor; a beacon of light and hope; a friend and intercessor to all; and, as she always was, a caring Mothe ...
• 15 September 2015
  ASIA/LAOS - A Protestant Pastor killed in a cold-blooded manner by the police Luang Prabang (Agenzia Fides) - There is confusion among Christians in Laos: Christian Protestant Laotian Pastor Singkeaw Wongkongpheng was killed in a cold-blooded manner by the police in the province of Luang Prabang. ...
• 15 September 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic activist threatened with death by Hindu radicals New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The well-known Catholic intellectual and human rights activist John Dayal has received death threats by radical Hindu groups. This is what Fides learns from sources in the Indian Catholic comm ...
• 14 September 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians to the President of India: "Justice for the victims of the massacres in Orissa" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – To do justice for Christian refugees in Orissa, displaced from the district of Khandamal, after the anti-Christian massacres of 2008: is what Rashtrapathi Bhavan, President of India says to ...
• 14 September 2015
  ASIA/ISRAEL - The request for compensation for the burning of the church in Tabgha has been rejected Tabgha (Agenzia Fides) - The administrative offices of the tax authority in Israel has rejected in recent days the claim for compensation presented by the Catholic Church for the damage of the arsonist attack which last ...
• 14 September 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Nineveh Plain, Christians in Alqosh in procession for the feast of the Holy Cross Alqosh (Agenzia Fides) - In the Nineveh Plain, still largely subject to the control of the self-proclaimed jihadist Islamic Caliphate, about a thousand Christians moved in procession among fields and barren hills to reac ...
• 12 September 2015
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Bishop Marcuzzo with regards to Christian Schools on strike: there will be no "closure" of Holy Sites Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - "There is nothing serious and reliable in the rumors of a possible closure of Holy Sites as an initiative to be taken in the support of the strike regarding Christian Schools". This is what Bis ...
• 11 September 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Bombay Archdiocese to hold National Eucharistic Congress in November Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - "The event is meant to affirm our belief in God and learn from the sacrifice Jesus Christ made. By participation, Catholics learn to sacrifice, share and nourish", said Cardinal Oswald Gracias, A ...
• 11 September 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - From the crisis of Zamboanga, a hope for Muslim-Christian relations Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - From the crisis of Zamboanga, the city of the Philippines "destroyed" by Islamic rebels in September 2013, can and must be a hope to improve and develop the Muslim-Christian relations in ...
• 10 September 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Lebanese crisis, a delegation of Hezbollah meets with Maronite Patriarch Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, September 9, a delegation of the Shiite Party of Hezbollah, led by the President of the Political Council Ibrahim Amin el-Sayyed met the Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai in Bkerk ...
• 10 September 2015
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Bishop of Rajshahi welcomes Cardinal Filoni: "Communities in jubilation during the Jubilee" Rajshahi (Agenzia Fides) - "Our people live today in jubilation, what we celebrate is a true Jubilee. We thank the Lord for the gifts he has given to our church, we thank the Holy Father for sending us Cardinal Fernando ...
• 10 September 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Inauguaration of the Diocesan Museum in Bassora Bassora (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic archeparchy in Bassora opened the first Christian museum in southern Iraq. The new institution, is housed at the archeparchy seat where there is a collection of over 200 documents, ...