30 January 2018
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  • 30/01/2018 - JAPAN

    This is the first suit against the state over its Eugene Protection Act. The authorities have not apologised nor provided relief for the 25,000 people involved in the sterilisation programme between 1948 and 1996. Records show that more than half of the victims were minors. The case could be the first of many.




    30/01/2018 - CHINA

    Human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng detained on subversion charges


    Yu has lost his license to practice. He was moved Jiangxi. His wife has been told not to speak with foreign media. The crime of "opinion" has become a crime of "subversion". Yu wants an end to the Communist Party's monopoly of power over the military and society.


    30/01/2018 - IRAN

    After four years, Mousavi’s house arrest lifted


    The reformist leader had been under restrictive measures without a trial since 2011 after leading a protest against Ahmadinejad’s sham re-election. Rouhani, who succeeded the latter, said he wants to put an end to the restrictive measures.


    30/01/2018 - VATICAN

    Pope: like Jesus, the true shepherd 'throws himself into people’s midst' with tenderness


    The pastor who, like Jesus, "ends his weary day", tired of "doing good" will make the people feel the presence of God. "The pastor must be anointed with oil, the day of his ordination: priestly and episcopal . But the real oil, the inner oil, is the oil of closeness and tenderness ".


    30/01/2018 - SAUDI ARABIA

    Riyadh releases (after billion dollar payment) prisoners of anti-corruption campaign


    The authorities announced the release of all those arrested and held for three months in the Ritz-Carlton hotel. The detainees have reached an economic agreement and charges have been dropped. Contrasting voices about the liberation of the businessman Al-Walid bin Talal. He reportedly paid six billion dollars, but is still be under house arrest.


    30/01/2018 - INDIA

    India has 21 million unwanted girls and 63 million “never born”


    Indian parents have a "preference for a male child" and will continue bringing girls into the world until they generate the male. Although banned, tests for determining the sex of the unborn child are still widespread. Every year two million girls "disappear" through abortion, diseases and malnutrition.


    30/01/2018 - VIETNAM

    Like Beijing, Hanoi had only 38 days of clean air in 2017


    Heavy industries, construction works, vehicles and agriculture burning contributed to air pollution. The city is more polluted than Indonesia’s capital Jakarta. Vietnam plans to build more coal power plants.


    30/01/2018 - TURKEY - SYRIA

    Ankara arrests over 300 people for protests against the Kurdish offensive


    According to the government, the demonstrators promote "terrorist propaganda". In reality, they led demonstrations and online protests against the military operation.  Eight representatives of the medical union among the arrested. They had denounced the risk of a "public health problem" linked to the offensive.


    29/01/2018 - VIETNAM

    Mass declared illegal in Nghệ An under a new law that hinders religious activities

    by Joseph Huy

    Religious organisations are required to provide a list of annual activities in advance. Local authorities turned on Song Ngọc parish for failing to inform them of a Mass. The state paid no heed to the opinions expressed by religious institutions on its controversial religious law.


    29/01/2018 - INDONESIA

    Thirty-eight deacons and three priests ordained in Java and West Kalimantan in a one-week period

    by Mathias Hariyadi

    Seventeen seminarians underwent the diaconate ceremony in Yogyakarta. The diocese of Purwokerto (Central Java) celebrated two priestly and two diaconal ordinations. In Sintang (West Kalimantan province), a local diocesan priest was ordained.


    29/01/2018 - SRI LANKA

    Environmentalist calls for the elimination and recycling of plastics to reduce pollution

    by Melani Manel Perera

    In Sri Lanka, 20 million lunch sheets, 15 million plastic bags and 10 million empty bottles end up in the environment every day. The only two companies that make plastic bottles earn huge profits. Hemantha Vithanage, founder and executive director of the Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ), talks about the problem.


    29/01/2018 - VATICAN

    Pope: 'there is no true humility without humiliation', as Jesus shows


    "Humility is not justifying oneself immediately in the face of an offense, trying to look good:" if you cannot bear a humiliation, you are not humble ". "This is the golden rule". And "if someone is brave, he can ask, as St. Ignatius teaches us, he can ask the Lord to send him humiliations, to more closely resemble the Lord ".


    29/01/2018 - PAKISTAN

    Punjab, killer of Christian student freed. The pain of the family

    by Kamran Chaudhry

    Catholics denounce "evidence tampered with by security agencies". Medical investigations on the Christian's body do not reveal signs of torture. Sharoon Masih, 17 years old, was beaten to death out of religious racism. Similar atrocities ruin the image of Islam in the eyes of the rest of the world.


    29/01/2018 - YEMEN

    Yemen, new battle front: pro-emirate separatists against Aden government


    15 people died in the weekend clashes, at least 30 were wounded. The rebels from the south are demanding the resignation of the prime minister and the government, accused of corruption. In the temporary capital schools, universities and the airport closed. Red Cross sound alarm for civilian victims.


    29/01/2018 - VATICAN

    Pope: Responsibility and common memory against indifference and anti-Semitism


    Two days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope Francis met with the participants in the International Conference on the responsibility of states, institutions and individuals in the fight against anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic hate crimes. Representatives of Italy’s Jewish communities were also present. Cain, the pope noted, is not interested in his brother: “here is the root of perversity, the root of death that produces desperation and silence.” For him, “we need a common memory, living and faithful, that should not remain imprisoned in resentment.” Young people need to be informed and educated in the matter.


    29/01/2018 - CHINA - VATICAN - HONG KONG

    Card. Zen on the bishops of Shantou and Mindong

    by Card. Joseph Zen

    The bishop emeritus of Hong Kong confirms the information published in recent days by AsiaNews and reveals details of his conversation with Pope Francis on these topics: "Do not create another Mindszenty case", the primate of Hungary whom the Vatican forced to leave the country, appointing a successor in Budapest, at the will of the communist government of the time. 


    29/01/2018 - SYRIA - TURKEY - RUSSIA

    Syrian conflict: Russian peace talks in Sochi overshadowed by Turkish anti-Kurdish offensive


    Kurdish leaders threaten to boycott peace talks on the Black Sea in response to the offensive launched by the Turks in the autonomous region of Afrin. The main anti-Assad group also abandons talks. The Turkish fighters damaged a 3 thousand year old Hittite temple.


    29/01/2018 - AFGHANISTAN

    Kabul, Isis attacks military outpost


    There were five militants, armed with rifles and rocket launchers. Five soldiers were killed and 10 wounded.


    28/01/2018 - VATICAN

    Pope: How long will the Afghan people have to endure this inhumane violence?


    During the Angelus, Pope Francis made an appeal for Afghanistan, which was hit by terrorist attacks in recent days. He also mentioned World Leprosy Day. Two young people from Azione Cattolica read a Message of Peace. "Jesus is our Teacher, powerful in words and deeds."


    27/01/2018 - RUSSIA

    Christmas readings on moral commitment among young people and in society


    A series of conferences held from 23 to 26 January brought together researchers, teachers, students and politicians from Russia and around the world. For Metropolitan Mercurius, “it is rare to find those who are willing to have Christian justice as the foundation of their professional activity”.


    27/01/2018 - VATICAN – ISLAM

    The seven monks of Tibhirine to be beatified


    The Vatican issued the decree of martyrdom for the slain monks, Oran Bishop Mgr Pierre Claverie, and other 11 men and women religious killed between 1994 and 1996 during the Algerian civil war. Doubts about responsibility in the murders persist.


    27/01/2018 - RUSSIA – SYRIA – UNITED NATIONS

    As UN-sponsored talks fail, Syrian opposition to boycott Sochi meeting


    "I share the immense frustration of millions of Syrians inside and outside the country at the lack of a political settlement to date," said UN’s Staffan De Mistura. United States and Saudi Arabia boycott meeting.


    27/01/2018 - SRI LANKA

    Some 200 girls start school at Holy Family Convent in Colombo (photos)

    by Melani Manel Perera

    The older students give the new pupils welcome tags and lotus flowers to offer to Our Lady. The Catholic school’s task "is to create an environment that takes care” of students. Its “educational method stimulates curiosity, self-discipline, positive attitudes and compassion.”


    27/01/2018 - JAPAN

    Japan ‘enjoys’ a week of flu, snow and ice


    the country’s weather agency has reported the coldest temperatures in 48 years. On Wednesday, 2,826 emergency calls were made, the highest ever. Health Ministry reported 2.83 flu cases in a week.


    27/01/2018 - CAMBODIA – CHINA

    Governor warns that Chinese investments bring organised crime and instability


    A steady flow of capital has led to a boom in Sihanoukville with new hotels, casinos and housing. Although the authorities have tried to allay fears and concerns, Cambodia is ranked ninth out of 146 in terms of risk on the money-laundering index.


    26/01/2018 - VATICAN

    For pope, preaching is like a slap, bearing witness to transmit the faith


    "Faith is transmitted in a mother’s womb, the womb of the Church, because the Church is a mother, the Church is female". A nun was in prison in Albania during the dictatorship, but the guards allowed her out a little and she used to go to the riverbank. What could the poor thing do, they thought. Instead, other women, knowing when she came out, brought their children to her and she secretly baptised them with the river water.


    26/01/2018 - PAKISTAN

    Pakistani student kills school principal over alleged blasphemy

    by Kamran Chaudhry

    Sareer Ahmed was killed by a student on Monday. The latter had been marked as "absent" after taking part in protests by Islamic radicals in Islamabad. "People are seeking refuge in religion to escape economic woes but sadly they are being radicalised".


    26/01/2018 - VATICAN

    Pope says euthanasia not a civilized choice, but the result viewing life as a 'product'


    In his audience with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Francis reiterated the Church's no to the voluntary interruption of human existence, the fruit of the absolutization of the concepts of self-determination and autonomy. The need for respect for ethics also in the economic field.


    26/01/2018 - EAST TIMOR

    After parliament dissolved, new elections to solve constitutional crisis


    The date for the vote will be set within 30 days. Last July’s election left the country without a working majority. Party leaders are slammed for turning “their backs to each other.”






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    VATICAN – ISLAM
    The seven monks of Tibhirine to be beatified



    The Vatican issued the decree of martyrdom for the slain monks, Oran Bishop Mgr Pierre Claverie, and other 11 men and women religious killed between 1994 and 1996 during the Algerian civil war. Doubts about responsibility in the murders persist.


    CHINA – VATICAN
    The Vatican asks legitimate bishops to step aside in favour of illegitimate ones

    John Baptist Lin

    Last December, Mgr Peter Zhuang Jianjian of Shantou (Guangdong) was forced to go to Beijing where "a foreign prelate" from the Vatican asked him to leave his see to illicit bishop Joseph Huang Bingzhang. He had received the same request last October. Mgr Joseph Guo Xijin, ordinary bishop of Mindong, is expected to become the auxiliary or coadjutor of illicit Bishop Vincent Zhan Silu. Sinicizing the Chinese Church means supporting the principle of independence and follow the leadership of the Communist Party.


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