Asia

• 25 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Every year a thousand Christian and Hindu girls suffer forced conversion to Islam and abuse Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – In Pakistan every year at least a thousand girls, from local Christian and Hindu communities are forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men. This was affirmed in a recent report produced ...
• 25 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Young Christian woman abducted and forced into Islamic marriage Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Fouzia, 25 year old Christian woman, married and mother of three children, was abducted on July 23 by Muhammad Nazir a Muslim aged 55, father of eight children. The man forced Fouzia to convert ...
• 24 July 2015
  ASIA/KOREA – Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Suwon ASIA/KOREA – Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Suwon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Pope Francis, on 23 July 2015, appointed Auxiliary of the diocese of Suwon (Korea) Rev. John Moon Hee Jong, paris ...
• 24 July 2015
  ASIA/THAILAND – Jesuits provide assistance for women refugees victims of violence and human trafficking Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) –Women refugees from Asian and African countries such as Pakistan or Somalia, reach Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. They have experienced situations of war, sexual abuse and systematic oppress ...
• 23 July 2015
  ASIA/CHINA – China’s six major seminaries offer 79 new workers for the Lord’s vineyard Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – The six major seminaries in mainland China authorised by the authorities recently ended the academic year with the conferral of the baccalaureate upon 79 seminarians at the end of a first cyc ...
• 23 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Minor Christian girl sold and abused Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Tarfa Younis a twelve year old Christian orphan girl was sold to 55 year old Bashir a Muslim and repeatedly raped. Fides heard from “The Voice”, organisation, founded and directed by lawyer ...
• 23 July 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Also in Kirkuk expropriation of Christian homes Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) – Now also in Kirkuk in the province of which it is the principal city, many properties and homes belonging to Christian citizens are being taken from the legitimate owners by means of falsified ...
• 23 July 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR – Blasphemy laws undermine the rule of law ASIA/MYANMAR – Blasphemy laws undermine the rule of law Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – Anti blasphemy laws and legal actions are undermining the rule of law in Myanmar. The laws, stated in the country’s Criminal Code, ...
• 22 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi's case before the Supreme Court: sentence suspended and review of the case Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Sentence suspended and review of the case: these are the provisions of the Supreme Court of Pakistan after the first judgment of the appeal process, in the third and final level of jurisdiction r ...
• 22 July 2015
  ASIA/THAILAND - Trafficking of women and child prostitution continue Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Trafficking of women, the majority from neighboring Countries such as Burma, Cambodia or Laos, continue to crowd the Thai brothels where these poor victims, often minors, are kept as slaves. In ...
• 22 July 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - The government orders the transfer of the military of the Nineveh Plain to Baghdad; Christian politicians protest Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi central government has ordered to transfer to Baghdad 4 thousand soldiers and police who previously worked in the north provinces of Iraq - including the province of Nineveh – and th ...
• 22 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Dominican Channan: "Dialogue with Islam to change the blasphemy law" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians in Pakistan are suffering because of the abuse of the blasphemy law. Also, when a Christian is accused, the entire community suffers serious consequences": says to Fides Dominican Fat ...
• 21 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two Christian brothers arrested on charges of blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Two Christian brothers were arrested on charges of blasphemy after one of them was accused of having published offensive material on his website. As Fides learns, already in 2012 an official comp ...
• 21 July 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops' Message: "Climate change, a matter of social justice" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Philippine bishops' conference called climate change a “matter of social justice” and cited "Laudato Sì", Pope Francis' recent encyclical on the climate change, as a call for Catholics a ...
• 21 July 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Hindo becomes "almost-mayor" of Hassaké Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - In the Syrian city of Hassake, where the counter-offensive of the Kurdish forces and the Syrian army has put the outlying suburbs under siege still occupied by jihadi militias of the Islamic St ...