Asia

• 7 January 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - International Delegation of Bishops to visit Gaza Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian community of Gaza is again the focal point of this year’s visit to the Holy Land by Bishops from across Europe, North America and South Africa in support of the local Christian comm ...
• 7 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Hundreds of children are starving to death because of the drought in the south of the Country Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The civil hospital’s team of paramedics in Mithi, Tharparkar district in the south of Pakistan, for the last two months have witnessed dozens of people, mostly infants under two years of age ...
• 5 January 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - Christian Schools welcome the Iraqis children who fled from Mosul and Nineveh Plain Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Among the 7 thousand Christian refugees who fled from Mosul and Nineveh Plain that have found refuge in Jordan, more than 1,400 are school age children. Now, thanks to the involvement of Caritas J ...
• 2 January 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - The Grand Mufti of Jordan: the pronouncement of the "Fatwa" is reserved for authorized experts Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Legal opinions and religious edicts pronounced on the basis of the Sharia and Islamic jurisprudence are regulated and cannot be pronounced indiscriminately by unauthorized persons. This is what th ...
• 30 December 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Hypothesis of a meeting Aoun-Geagea to overcome divisions among political Christian forces Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – Rumors are circulating in Lebanon about an upcoming meeting between General Michel Aoun and former Falangist Samir Geagea, the leaders of the two main Christian political forces - the Free Patr ...
• 29 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Anti-terrorism Committee: no religious minority representatives Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Religious minorities are targeted by terrorist groups, but there is not even a member belonging to minority religious communities (Christian or Hindu) in the Committee formed by the Prime Mini ...
• 29 December 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Presidential election campaign, while the Catholic Church is preparing itself for the Pope's visit Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa has promised to reform the presidency and introduce a new constitution if he is re-elected for a third term in the presidential election to be held o ...
• 29 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAN - Iranian aid convoys for Iraqi Christians ready to leave Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - Iranian aid convoys await the entry permit from the government in Baghdad to enter Iraqi territory and to be distributed among the Christian communities that have suffered ethnic-religious cleans ...
• 23 December 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - At Christmas, the "Day of good governance": Christians approve New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian government has proclaimed December 25 "Day of good governance": it will be celebrated at a national level as a time when institutions, citizens, associations and believers of all re ...
• 23 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - In the autonomous region of Kurdistan, Christmas will be a holiday, in solidarity with Christians Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan has proclaimed December 25 a holiday in order to express the solidarity of the institutions and the whole society towards Christians, on ...
• 23 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Share of government jobs reserved for minorities: still an illusion Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Many state offices in Pakistan do not comply with the requirement to reserve a share of 5% of government jobs to religious minorities: is the complaint made by lawyer Mushtaq Gill, claiming of ha ...
• 22 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christmas: solidarity with the victims of the massacre in Peshawar Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - For Christians in Pakistan, Christmas 2014 will be marked by prayers and moments of solidarity for the victims of the massacre in Peshawar, where the Taliban killed more than 130 children in an a ...
• 22 December 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarch Twal visits Gaza: "today for many refugee children it would be a luxury to live in the grotto where Jesus was born" Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - 700 Christians in Gaza this year have received permission from Israel to reach Bethlehem and celebrate the Solemnity of Christmas in the place where Jesus was born. But not many will actually be ab ...
• 19 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - False accusations of blasphemy towards 11 Christians Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Eleven Christians in Islamabad, including a Protestant Pastor, have been accused of blasphemy by a woman, Naseem Bibi, for revenge after a private dispute. The woman in fact had been denounced ...
• 19 December 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian leaders: "Christmas with a heavy heart because of the violence against Churches" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "In view of Christmas we have a heavy heart because of the violence against our Churches in various parts of the country, especially in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and ...