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Fr Monge: Syrian refugees, Kurds, and Turkey dual game in post-Assad Syria
by Dario Salvi
From Istanbul, the director of the Dominican Study Institute spoke to AsiaNews with a mixture of "exaltation" and "surprise” at the fall of the Assad regime. Turkey has denied rumours that it was directly involved in the regime’s overthrow, ...
| 11/12/2024
| TURKEY – SYRIA
 
Nobel Peace Prize to Hibakusha: ‘not a single nuclear weapon’
In his address at the ceremony in Oslo, 92-year-old Terumi Tanaka warned: “[T]here are 4,000 nuclear warheads, ready to be launched immediately.” This means that, “Any one of you could become either a victim or a perpetrator, at any ...
| 10/12/2024
| JAPAN
 
Arakan Army controls Rakhine’s border with Bangladesh, Rohingya still victims
After six months, the township of Maungdaw has fallen to the AA, while fighting continues in the south of the state. The ethnic Buddhist militia seems set to establish its own state and many fear that it might take revenge against Rohingya after some ...
| 10/12/2024
| MYANMAR
 
S Korean bishops tell President Yoon to apologise, take responsibility
The opposition has tabled a motion to impeach the head of state to be voted in the coming days. Interior and Defence ministers, who allegedly played a role in imposing martial law, are also accused. Civil society groups take to the streets calling for ...
| 04/12/2024
| SOUTH KOREA
 
Telling Jesus to Chinese tourists visiting Europe
by Gianni Criveller
At the conference ‘Youth and Faith in Greater China’ that AsiaNews is promoting for 3 December in Milan, the Chinese translation of theologian Severino Dianich's book ‘Jesus. A tale for those who know nothing ... or has ...
| 02/12/2024
| CHINA - ITALY
 
Rodrigues after Gracias: new coadjutor archbishop for Mumbai
by Nirmala Carvalho
A native of the same Indian metropolis, 57 year-old Msgr. John Rodrigues has led the diocese of Pune since last year after serving for ten years as auxiliary bishop to Card. Oswald Gracias, who will turn eighty on 20 December next. As of 25 ...
| 30/11/2024
| VATICAN - INDIA
 
Beirut, from truce to presidential election: the real crux of the Lebanese crisis
by Fady Noun
On 9 January, a new session for the election of the head of state. ‘The moment of truth has arrived for the Lebanese, especially for the Shia community,’ says Speaker Berry. After the cease-fire it will be the decisive test for ...
| 28/11/2024
| LEBANON
 
Fr Diệp, the first Vietnamese martyr of the 20th century, to become a Blessed
Pope Francis has authorised the promulgation of the decree for the beatification of the priest from Bạc Liêu killed in hatred of the faith in 1946, during the First Indochina War. He offered his life to save his community; his grave is venerated ...
| 25/11/2024
| VIETNAM – VATICAN

 

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