Asia

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  29 January 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - Souraya Bechealany appointed Acting Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Executive Committee of the Middle East Council of Churches has appointed Professor Souraya Bechealany as Acting Secretary General of the ecumenical body. Souraya Bechealany takes the place of ...
• 29 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Ahmedabad Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father has appointed the rev. Athanasius Rethna Swamy Swamiadian, of the clergy of Ahmedabad, currently Rector of the Interdiocesan Major Seminary Vianney Vihar, in Baroda, ...
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  29 January 2018
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - A school for Rohingya refugee children Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The Rohingya live in small shelters in refugee camps made of bamboo canes and pieces of plastic; drinking water and food are still scarce. There are more than 500,000 children, who yearn for a fu ...
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  26 January 2018
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - Fr. Madej: "Ecumenism is our daily life" Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) - "The ecumenical dimension of our Catholic presence is a constant that accompanies us every day. For example, throughout the year we live the experience of interfaith hospitality: in our chapel ...
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  26 January 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Peace between India and Pakistan: Christians united in prayer Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A prayer addressed to God, a prayerful silence, a common song to invoke the gift of peace, calling for "mutual respect and the promotion of harmony and development between Pakistan and India": is ...
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  25 January 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Child sexual abuse: Pakistan breaks the silence Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Pakistan has finally broken a taboo, at least for now. This comes after the denunciation of sexual abuse, violence, rape and murder against thousands of minors. Here there is a culture of silenc ...
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  25 January 2018
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Barnabite in Kabul: "There are no glimmers of light in Afghanistan" Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "The latest attacks are terrible. Being locked up in the Embassy, I do not have first-hand news, I know what is said through mass media. I believe that Afghanistan is at the center of power games ...
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  24 January 2018
  ASIA/ISRAEL - A nun: "Israel pays Rwanda to welcome African immigrants" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "Israel has found a drastic way to solve the problem of African immigrants: it will pay Rwanda to welcome them. Some use the verb 'sell' to describe the policy launched by Benjamin Netanyahu� ...
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  24 January 2018
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Archbishop Goh to catechists: "The important thing is your encounter with Christ" Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - Catechumens, children, students of a catechism class "should see Christ in their catechists. The important thing is your encounter with Christ": as Agenzia Fides learns, this was a message Arc ...
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  24 January 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - President Widodo to Catholic students: "Be agents of peace and unity" Palembang (Agenzia Fides) - Working for peace, helping to maintain the unity of Indonesia, working together with all other citizens for national development and the common good: this is what Indonesian President Joko Wid ...
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  24 January 2018
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian Orthodox Patriarch to diplomats in Damascus: help Syria regain peace Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the beginning of the new year Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, Mar Ignatius Aphrem II, organized a reception to which all the diplomats accredited to the Arab Republic o ...
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  23 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Church leaders withdraw their complaint against Hindu extremists New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Church leaders in Madhya Pradesh, central India, have withdrawn a legal appeal filed in recent days at Madhya Pradesh High Court against a group of radical Hindu groups who had tried to enter ...
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  23 January 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Tentorio’s murder, the missionaries: "We hope the truth will come to light" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "We are still in a preliminary phase, it is already the third time that the results of an investigation into the murder of Father Fausto Tentorio are presented, but in the past they were not enou ...
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  22 January 2018
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Christians are discriminated against in society but play a valuable role Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Bangladesh, a small minority in a country with a Muslim majority, often face discrimination: says to Agenzia Fides Catholic priest Fr. David Bipul Das, of the Church of Our Lady of G ...
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  22 January 2018
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Catholic Bishops to Israeli authorities: expulsion exposes Eritrean and Sudanese refugees to dangers and wars Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli authorities are imposing on Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers to choose between prison or exodus in other Countries, and this political choice risks exposing "so many lives to d ...