Asia

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  5 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Jesuit Refugee Service: it is urgent to address the "educational emergency" of Syrian children Jbeil (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 2.8 million Syrian children are out of school as a result of the war, 550,000 of whom are in Lebanon. The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) center in Jbeil serves nearly 500 Syrian refuge ...
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  4 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A new church dedicated to St. Peter in the Year of Mercy Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - A new church dedicated to St. Peter the Apostle is the gift that the Year of Mercy brings to the faithful of a small village near the town of Okara in the diocese of Faisalabad. As reported t ...
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  4 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Lebanese PMS Director: Saudi execution of Imam al-Nimr has catastrophic consequences for Lebanon and the Middle East Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The sentencing to death of Shiite Imam Nimr Bakr al-Nimr, commissioned by the Saudi government on January 2, "has as immediate effect the worsening of the Lebanese institutional crisis, but its c ...
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  4 January 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Martyrs in Orissa: Cardinal Gracias says "yes" Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) and President of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC), wants the Churc ...
• 29 December 2015
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Erection of the Diocese of Barisal and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 29, 2015 the Holy Father erected the new diocese of Barisal, Bangladesh, with territory taken from the Diocese of Chittagong, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Dh ...
• 23 December 2015
  VATICAN - Fides for a fairer world Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas brings the desired coming of God, the One who can establish a kingdom of universal peace based on justice. The situation in the world does not seem to go in this direction. Agenz ...
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  23 December 2015
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - During Advent, young people experience God's forgiveness Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Advent is a time of mercy: with this awareness the Archdiocese of Seoul promoted the celebration of the sacrament of Confession for young people placing 30 "Tents of reconciliation" outside Myeong ...
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  23 December 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "A Christmas of good will, for national reconciliation" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - In Myanmar there is "every reason to celebrate with the angel who sung: Joy to the world! at Christmas. Christmas is an invitation to come out of our darkness and live in the light, to receive th ...
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  23 December 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - King Abdullah II: Arab Christians are an integral part of our civilization Amman (Agenzia Fides) – Arab Christians "are an integral part of our past, present and future" and right from the beginning "have been an essential partner in building our culture and civilization and in defending Isla ...
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  23 December 2015
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Catholic Bishops react to shocking statements of a Rabbi against "Christian vampires" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Assembly of Catholic Ordinary Bishops of the Holy Land has learned "with dismay" and immediately condemned the recent anti-Christian statements disseminated by Rabbi Benzi Gopstein, in the ...
• 22 December 2015
  ASIA/CHINA - The 641 newly baptized of the year open the door of Mercy of Xi Kai Cathedral Tian Jin (Agenzia Fides) - 641 newly baptized in 2015, together with the parish community of Xi Kai Cathedral of the Diocese of Tian Jin, opened the door of Mercy on December 13. According to information sent to Agenzia ...
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  22 December 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: we do not accept Christmas greetings from those who have abandoned us Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - During the pre-Christmas retreat for priests and deacons of the Chaldean Archieparchy in Baghdad, held on Monday, December 21 in Baghdad in the presence of Chaldean Patriarch Raphael Louis I, th ...
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  22 December 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Ecumenical Christmas: Christians called to be "leaven for peace" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Jesus Christ was born during the reign of King Herod who ordered to kill all newborn babies. Today there are many 'Herods' who hate and kill: it is our task to spread the message of life, becaus ...
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  22 December 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Two Christian villages bombarded by jihadists Hama (Agenzia Fides) - At least two civilians were killed and another twenty injured by grenades on Monday, December 21 by anti-regime jihadist fighters against the villages of Maharda and Sqelbyia, in the province of Ha ...
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  22 December 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - New church among the ruins in Damascus: "a Christmas of Resurrection" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - In the midst of ruins and destruction, after three years of war, a new Maronite church will rise in Damascus. It will be inaugurated on January 8, in the district of Kachkoul, on the east outsk ...