The prelate urges Chaldean bishops and priests to act this way as the gather for their annual retreat in Ankawa from 8 to 12 July. The task, he warns, is not a source of "dignity and prestige". In his view, it is necessary to operate through “love, service and being a giver,” and revive the missionary commitment “spiritually, socially and ecclesiastically”.

| 09/07/2019
| IRAQ
by Melani Manel Perera

The National Peoples’ Movement was created in December 2018 to, among other things, fight corruption, develop inter-religious harmony, and increase women’s representation. The group wants “give the country a real leadership,” says priest.

| 09/07/2019
| SRI LANKA

A group of professors and experts, members of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ask the executive to think about new and more incisive reforms: "We need transparency, freedom of speech and worship.  This will reduce the tensions that also affect international markets ".

 

 

| 09/07/2019
| CHINA
by Vladimir Rozanskij

The exarchy of European Russians was born because of emigration to the Old Continent after the 1917 revolution. Moscow claims the return of these Churches under its authority, even if the jurisdiction was entrusted to Constantinople.

 

 

| 09/07/2019
| RUSSIA - EUROPE

Sunny Waqas is studying health sciences at a high school in Bahawalnagar. A few days before his arrest he had had an argument with a Muslim neighbour. The mother says that her son has “many Muslim friends”, that “He can never do anything to hurt the feelings of anyone.”

| 09/07/2019
| PAKISTAN
by Mathias Hariyadi

Baiq Nuril Maknun, 38, has become the face of the #MeToo movement in Indonesia. Next week, she will start to serve a six-month prison sentence and will have to pay a fine of 500 million Indonesian rupiahs. The Supreme Court confirmed her conviction for recording and making public the sexual harassment by the headmaster of her school.

| 09/07/2019
| INDONESIA
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by Dario Salvi
Layan Nasir, a 23-year-old native of Birzeit, is the only Christian woman under "administrative detention". She was taken, blindfolded and handcuffed, overnight by a military patrol without an arrest warrant or charges against her. The Bethlehem ...
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| 15/04/2024
| ISRAEL – GAZA - IRAN
 
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| 12/04/2024
| JORDAN
 
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| 12/04/2024
| VATICAN
 
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| 11/04/2024
| INDIA
 
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| 11/04/2024
| VIETNAM
 
The Custody, a Jewish group and Tag Meir activists offered gifts to Muslims leaving al-Aqsa every Thursday at the Damascus Gate. Fr. Pari: An initiative that has been  carried out  for some time, but this year takes on special value in the context ...
| 06/04/2024
| HOLY LAND
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