Asia

• 25 November 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - In the process of reforms underway, even the release of child soldiers Naypyidaw (Agenzia Fides) - According to the independent Burmese newspaper Irrawaddy, a total of 553 child soldiers were released from the Armed Forces in 2014. Recently, the Army has released 80 others, recruited illega ...
• 25 November 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu extremists: Catholic missionaries in schools are not to be called "father" Raipur (Agenzia Fides) - The missionaries of the Catholic schools of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh who are engaged in teaching, as principals or teachers, will no longer be called "father" but only "Sir". As Fides lea ...
• 24 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian couple burned alive: the Supreme Court intervenes Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Supreme Court of Pakistan has asked the government to urgently submit a report on the investigation regarding the brutal killing which took place on 4 November in Kasur district, where the ...
• 24 November 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - Conference on Christians and "Arab Springs". Father Bader: a historical phase which was followed only by negative effects Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The final document approved at the conclusion of the Conference on Christians and "Arab Springs", organized on 22 and 23 November in Amman, by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Al-Quds Center ...
• 24 November 2014
  ASIA/NEPAL - The poor are forced to carry out illegal traficking in organs Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Illegal trafficking in human organs continues to be widespread throughout the world. The kidney is the most sold organ. There are those who sell their organs to buy a house and provide a decen ...
• 24 November 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Bishops' Message for the Jubilee: "A new season of hope" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - A "Rainbow Church", which brings together different ethnicities and cultures in "a new Pentecost": is the image used by His Exc. Mgr. Charles Bo, SDB, Archbishop of Yangon, in describing the Burm ...
• 21 November 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - 30 years since its foundation, the commitment of "Silsilah" movement for dialogue reinforces Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - After thirty years of work in Christian-Muslim dialogue, the "Silsilah" movement, which was launched in the Philippines in 1984 thanks to the work of the PIME missionary Sebastiano D'Ambr ...
• 21 November 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - The Franciscans at the forefront for "food security" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Franciscans in India are engaged in the fight against hunger and contribute to food security of the population at a national level. The concept of "food security", elaborated at the UN, im ...
• 21 November 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Children without citizenship: the question of Palestinian children not registered reopens Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Many Palestinian children in East Jerusalem continue not to have an ID card or proof of permanent residency. Their condition was analyzed during a conference hosted on November 19 in Jerusalem ...
• 20 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence against minorities: the governor of Punjab meets religious leaders Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - After the tragedy in Kasur - where a Christian married couple was burned to death for alleged blasphemy - the governor of Punjab, Muhammad Sarwar, met with a delegation of Christian and Muslim re ...
• 20 November 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Thousands of children from Gaza are disabled because of wars Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - The military conflict in the Gaza Strip has had serious consequences on the lives of Palestinian children and their families. There are about a thousand young children who are handicapped because o ...
• 20 November 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch to Muslims: The barbarous acts committed in the name of Islam recalls Nazism. And your reactions are weak Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - Unlike "Nazis and other deadly ideologies of the twentieth century", the jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) carry out their barbaric acts "in the name of Islam". This is ...
• 20 November 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - New jihadist blackmail for Christians in Mosul: If you do not pay, your houses will be blown up Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Several Christian refugees from the city of Mosul reveal that they have been blackmailed by self-styled militants of the Islamic State, who have threatened to blow up their houses from which they ...
• 19 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – From the Bishops a "Magna Charta" to the government: to curb religious intolerance Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The increase in violence and religious intolerance threatens social and civil life in Pakistan" and highlights "the failure of the civil and the judiciary administration". Therefore urgent "m ...
• 19 November 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Attacks and arrests in a Mennonite Christian Center Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Gunmen and police officers raided a Christian Mennonite center in Binh Duong Province. Militants and police raided the center armed with iron bars and hammers during the night of 12 November, terr ...