Asia

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  6 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian couple burned alive for blasphemy: impunity of perpetrators Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The trial regarding the culprits of the lynching of a Christian couple Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi, burned alive for alleged blasphemy on November 4, 2014 appears to be complicated. In yeste ...
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  6 May 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - European Award for the Armenian church in Diyarbakir, confiscated by the government Diyarbakir (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian Apostolic Church of St. Giragos (San Ciriaco) in Diyarbakır has been awarded for its recent restoration by the European Union, but the awards ceremony and the laying of the comm ...
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  4 May 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Peshmerga and the coalition raid reject the jihadists outside the village of Telskuf Telskuf (Agenzia Fides) - The offensive of about 150 jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) who yesterday, May 3, had attacked Telskuf, a town in the Nineveh Plain where before August 2014 about 12 thousand Christians li ...
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  4 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Boom of vocations to priesthood: a lively and vibrant Church in faith Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – That in Pakistan is a Church that lives faith in every day difficulties, in a country where 95% are Muslims and is "fervent in priestly vocations and consecrated life, a sign of God's blessing, ...
• 3 May 2016
  ASIA/THAILAND - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Peter Watchasin Kritjharoen Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 3, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Peter Watchasin Kritjharoen of the clergy of the diocese of Ratchabur ...
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  3 May 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The appeals of Christian communities against the expropriation of churches in Diyarbakir increase Diyarbakir (Agenzia Fides) - While in Diyarbakir the curfew ordered by the Turkish authorities continues, the appeals filed by the legal representatives of foundations linked to the Christian community against the order ...
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  3 May 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - Two months after the massacre in Aden, negotiations continue for the release of Father Tom Aden (Agenzia Fides) - Two months after the massacre perpetrated by a terrorist commando in the nursing home in Aden (see Fides 04/03/2016), where four Missionaries of Charity were killed along with 12 other people, ther ...
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  2 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Youth Ministry with the works of mercy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people need to be involved, to experience mercy and to give mercy. Thus the Jubilee makes sense for them": says to Fides Fr. Jahanzeb Iqbal, a priest from Lahore, pastor of St. Antony and ...
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  2 May 2016
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Formation for children on vulnerability and discrimination Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - A training session and reinforcement of the students, on the theme of support to the most vulnerable children and discriminated against, was recently held in the schools of Oh Cham Na (KSO ce ...
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  2 May 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Catholic Bishops of Aleppo: let us participate in the Passion of Christ, our suffering will not be in vain Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are children of the Resurrection, of Hope, and we firmly believe that this suffering will not be in vain: following the footsteps of the saints and martyrs, we add them to the Passion of Chri ...
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  2 May 2016
  ASIA/PALESTINE - President Abu Mazen: we have a mission and a duty to protect the presence of Christians in the Middle East Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - The protection of the Christian presence in Palestine and all the East "is for us a duty and a mission": this is how Palestinian President Abu Mazen reiterated his commitment to do everything h ...
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  28 April 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The first Camaldolese monastery in the Country under construction Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In these days father Alessandro Barban, Prior General of the Camaldolese Congregation of the Order of St. Benedict, met the Archbishop of Seoul, Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, who strongly support ...
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  27 April 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The commitment of "Silsilah" movement for dialogue Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - Formation and experience of dialogue: this is the proposal of the "Silsilah" Movement, founded in southern Philippines by missionary Fr. Sebastiano D'Ambra, of the Pontifical Institute fo ...
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  27 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal: Christian couple sentenced to death for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal has been filed to the Court of Appeal and the first hearing will take place in May regarding a Christian couple Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kausar. This was reported to Fides by the ...
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  27 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians in Baghdad on a pilgrimage to Ur of the Chaldeans Bassora (Agenzia Fides) - It was the biggest pilgrimage made by Iraqi Christians in recent years: about 200 Chaldeans from Baghdad went to Ur, the historical site of lower Mesopotamia, now in the Iraqi governorate in Dhi ...