Asia

• 17 June 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Prayers to the Virgin of Fatima to invoke the election of a new President Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - With lawmakers failing to elect a president 24 times over the past year, Parliament chose another way on Tuesday, June 16 to help ease the deadlock: prayers. The prayers were held on the occasion ...
• 16 June 2015
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The diocesan process of beatification of Cambodian martyrs begins Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Cambodia has officially opened the diocesan phase of the beatification process of 35 martyrs, killed or left to die during the persecution suffered by the Church under the regim ...
• 16 June 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite and Greek-Melkite Synods have begun. Patriarch Grégoire: 60% of the Lebanese think of emigrating Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "According to a recent survey, 60% of the Lebanese are considering the idea of emigrating, and 35% of them are actually waiting for a visa". This was reported yesterday by the Greek-Melkite Patri ...
• 16 June 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - The central districts of Aleppo attacked by rebels Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, June 15, the central districts of Aleppo, currently under the control of the army, were attacked on several fronts by rebel militias with mortars, rockets and heavy machine guns, creat ...
• 15 June 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Patriarchs and Bishops of the Eastern Churches pray together for peace and commemorate the centenary of the "Assyrian Genocide" in Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II invited the Patriarchs of Antioch to participate in an ecumenical meeting held on Saturday, June 13, at the end of the Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church celebrate ...
• 13 June 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Thousands of Christian homes taken by deception Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - With the complicity of corrupt officials, individual impostors and organized groups of fraudsters have managed in recent years to acquire illegal possession of thousands of houses belonging to C ...
• 12 June 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - The Director of the PMS: "Farmers and religious minorities abandoned by the Indian government" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A year after its election, the Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi "has abandoned farmers, the backbone of the Indian economy, and granted a free hand to extremist groups who ...
• 12 June 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - President Assad meets the Patriarch and the Synod of Syrian-Orthodox Bishops Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad received members of the Holy Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church yesterday, Thursday, June 11, in Damascus, who in these days under the leadership of Patriarch ...
• 12 June 2015
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Cardinal Parolin inaugurates a new church for the Catholics of the United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - A new Catholic church dedicated to Saint Paul was inaugurated today, Friday, June 12, in Mussaffah, in the presence of Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of State. The day before, th ...
• 11 June 2015
  ASIA/CHINA - Five years of continuous Eucharistic adoration have strengthened faith and mission Liao Ning (Agenzia Fides) - For five years, 24 hours a day, without interruption, the faithful of the parish of Corpus Christi of Liao Ning, in mainland China, alternate with the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. For t ...
• 11 June 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Threats to a Christian community in Karachi Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church of Jerusalem" in Karachi is a Protestant Christian community which includes about 300 families. As Fides learns, community members have been receiving threats because they have to re ...
• 11 June 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Former property of a Presbyterian church becomes settlement of Jewish settlers. The Latin Patriarchate: dangerous operation Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - An impressive building complex owned by the Presbyterian Church located in the Palestinian territory was sold and, after several changes of ownership, is preparing to host a community of Jewis ...
• 11 June 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Jihadist militants of al Nusra Front massacre dozens of Druze civilians in Idlib Idlib (Agenzia Fides) - The jihadist militiamen linked to al-Nusra Front have massacred dozens of Druze civilians in Qalb Loza village, in the Mount Simmaq area, near the town of Idlib. Eyewitnesses of the massacre told ...
• 10 June 2015
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - National Director of the PMS: "Faith and youth walk together in East Timor" Dili (Agenzia Fides) - "In the young there is the seed of faith. People have trust in the Church and is attracted by the message of Christ. Today we have, in the two inter-diocesan seminaries, over 120 major seminarians ...
• 10 June 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: a year after the fall of Mosul, only national reconciliation can save the country Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - On the first anniversary of what is called "the tragedy of Mosul" when the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) conquered the second city of Iraq, the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Louis ...