Asia

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  4 August 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - ‘Babylon Brigades’: Christians in Nineveh Plains should on no account be included in the upcoming Referendum for the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – The region of the Nineveh Plains and in particular the areas in which the country’s Christian communities are concentrated should on no account be included in the territories for the upcoming ...
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  3 August 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops' appeal: a global plan for the repatriation of Syrian refugees is needed Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Lebanese civilian institutions are urged to adopt a "global plan" in a hurry to arrange for the return of Syrian refugees to their homeland, who found shelter in Lebanon. This is what Maronite Bi ...
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  2 August 2017
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Child labor in Gaza, a scourge that continues to increase Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - Over the past five years, with the worsening of the economic crisis in the Gaza Strip, the phenomenon of child labor continues to increase. The news comes from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Sta ...
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  1 August 2017
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - War widows are the most affected by the conflict which lasted over 30 years Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Tamil women suffer most from the consequences of the civil war that shook Sri Lanka for at least 30 years. This is what a report, sent to Agenzia Fides, by the International Crisis Group cla ...
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  ASIA/HONG KONG - Resignation of the Bishop of Hong Kong and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today Pope Francis accepted the renunciation of the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Hong Kong in continental China presented by His Exc. Mgr. John Tong Hon. A new Bishop, His Exc. M ...
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  31 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Ministry for Migration: more than 250,000 refugees have already returned to towns and villages in the province of Nineveh Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi Ministry for Migration and Internal Mobility reported that more than 250,000 people have returned to their respective areas of origin in the Nineveh Province, who had to leave when those ...
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  31 July 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Hassaké, the Kurds reject the accusations of having killed a Christian professor. The victim's nephew arrested for murder Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) – The People's Protection Units (YPG), Kurdish militiamen linked to the Kurdish Democratic Party (PYD PKK Syrian Armed Forces) have firmly rejected allegations and suspicions against them regar ...
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  29 July 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - August summit of the Catholic Patriarchs of the East Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Council of Eastern Catholic Patriarchs will meet before August 15th in Dimane, Lebanon, at the patriarchal summer home of the Maronite Patriarch, to focus on the complex situation of indigeno ...
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  29 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Church launches the "Youth Festival" in Alqosh. Further controversy over the appointment of Mayor Lara Zara Alqosh (Agenzia Fides) - More than 550 boys and girls from various parts of Iraq have fled to Alqosh, a town of the Nineveh Plain, to attend the "Youth Festival", organized under the patronage of the Patriarchate of Bab ...
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  28 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldian Catholic Lara Zara elected mayor of Alqosh Alqosh (Agenzia Fides) - Chaldian Catholic Lara Yussif Zara is the new mayor of Alqosh, the small town of Nineveh Plain, inhabited mostly by Christians, which for three years was the residential area near the border line ...
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  27 July 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - After tensions on the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Al Azhar convenes an "International Conference" on Jerusalem Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The University of Al Azhar, the most prominent academic-theological center of Sunni Islam, announced the decision to convene an International Conference on Jerusalem by September next year to disc ...
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  26 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Pressure continues to involve Christians in the referendum on independence in Kurdistan Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Political leaders of the autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan continue to manifest in various ways the intention to involve Christians in support of the referendum convened for next September 25 i ...
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  25 July 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Still tensions at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Fr.Neuhaus: when sacred things are touched, rage always explodes Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli government has ordered the removal of installed metal detectors to control the entry at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. But it is still early to understand whether this m ...
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  24 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - 15 statues of Our Lady of Lourdes put in the villages of the Nineveh Plain instead of those destroyed by jihadists Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) – On July 20-25, in many villages and towns of the Nineveh Plain once inhabited mostly by Christians, 15 statues of the Virgin of Lourdres will be put in place of those removed and destroyed by ...
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  24 July 2017
  ASIA/SIRIA - Christian professor killed in Hassakè, Syrian city controlled by Kurdish militias of the PYD Hassakè (Agenzia Fides) - The lifeless body of Basil Isaac, a Christian professor from the Khabur valley, who was killed with a bullet to his head, was found in a village eight kilometers east of the Syrian city of Hass ...