Asia

• 2 July 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Stop violence against women Nagpur (Agenzia Fides) - A silent march and a prayer vigil to express solidarity with the Salesian Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate (SMMI) and to ask for justice: with this spirit more than 2,000 people gathered nea ...
• 2 July 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - "Terra Sancta Museum" ceremony of laying the foundation stone Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – The ceremony of laying the foundation stone for the creation of the "Terra Sancta Museum", a profound desire of the Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land, took place at The Franciscan ...
• 2 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The police save a Christian accused of blasphemy from being lynched Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - New case of blasphemy charges against a Christian in Pakistan. As Fides learns, in the town of Farooqabad, in Punjab, the young Awais Qamar, son of Saraj Masih, was denounced when neighbors saw h ...
• 1 July 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - An international conference in Erbil to found the "League of the Chaldeans" Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The International Conference of the founding of the "League of the Chaldeans", an organization strongly backed by Chaldean Patriarch Raphael Louis I as a tool to address the political and social p ...
• 1 July 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Three missionary nuns forced to leave Pakistan Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Three Filipino missionary nuns of the Congregation of the "Religious of the Virgin Mary" will have to leave Pakistan. The High Court in Islamabad has in fact confirmed the decision of the Mini ...
• 1 July 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - A radio station to help farmers in Bundelkhand Tikamgarh (Agenzia Fides) - Radio Bundelkhand has about 250,000 listeners, of whom 99% are farmers, distributed in ten villages that form Bundelkhand, agricultural region of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. This vast re ...
• 1 July 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - New jihadist threats to the Christians in Jerusalem. Palestinian leaders: suspicious operations Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - A new leaflet signed by the "Emirate of Jerusalem" containing threats to the Christians of the Holy City was found in the neighborhood of Jerusalem of Beit Hanina. The text of the paper found ...
• 30 June 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - The aid of Caritas after the earthquake has begun to bear fruit Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - In the two months following the earthquake on 25 April, Caritas Nepal has reached over 269,000 people in need of assistance and provided accommodation to 54 thousand families. People have rece ...
• 30 June 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Thousands of Christian families fleeing Hassakè. Archbishop Hindo: jihadists have found support in the local population Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) – Fighting takes place in the Syrian city of Hassakè, the largest town in the northeastern province of Jazira, after the jihadist militants of the Islamic State (Daesh) managed last Thursday, ...
• 30 June 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian accused of blasphemy mocked by his lawyers Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Humayun Faisal, mentally disabled accused of blasphemy in Lahore, will remain in prison as his lawyers have withdrawn their request for bail. As reported to Fides by the pool of Chr ...
• 30 June 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A thousand victims in five days due to heatwave Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Following the wave of scorching heat that is hitting Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan where there are 23 million people, 950 people have died in just five days. The morgues are not enough t ...
• 27 June 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - Debt relief for Nepal: the IMF says "no" Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The "Jubilee Network" campaign which unites 75 organizations and 400 religious communities around the world, has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) advocated for debt relief for Nepal ...
• 27 June 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Anti-Christian Violence in Kerala New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in India continue to face attacks by Hindu extremist groups. As reported to Fides by the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI), a new episode of anti-Christian violence took place o ...
• 27 June 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - "New" jihadist acronym threatens Christians in Jerusalem Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Some leaflets containing threats to Christians in Jerusalem and signed by an unknown organization calling itself "Islamic state in Palestine" - with the clear intention of showing their affili ...
• 26 June 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Visas denied to missionary nuns: the Church of Islamabad files lawsuit Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "We do not know why we were denied the renewal of our visas. Our work is always the same, that of education, for the benefit of the youth in Pakistan, of all religions. But we cannot stay in a ...