Asia

• 20 October 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh city: prayer and hope for the Vatican-Vietnam diplomatic ties Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The meeting at the Vatican between Pope Francis and the Prime Minister of Vietnam, Nguyen Tan Dung, strengthens our hopes in the future to see full diplomatic relations between the Holy Se ...
• 20 October 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - Archbishop Laham: 4 thousand displaced Iraqi Christians all want to emigrate to the West Amman (Agenzia Fides) - There are already three thousand Iraqi Christian refugees from Mosul and the Nineveh Plain who have fled due to the offensive of the jihadists and have found refuge in Jordan, and in the next few ...
• 20 October 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY - Armenian community prays for ailing Patriarch Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Prayers continue to pour in for the recovery of Archbishop Mesrob II Matufyan, the Armenian Orthodox patriarch in Turkey who had to withdraw from the duties of the patriarchate due to his illne ...
• 17 October 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The murder of the missionary Fr. Fausto Tentorio remains unsolved Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) – After three years since the killing of the Italian priest Fausto Tentorio, a missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), killed by a gunman on October 17, 2011, on the ...
• 17 October 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Church: "Asia Bibi sentenced, but hope is alive" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We must continue to pray and hope for Asia Bibi", after the Lahore High Court upheld the death penalty for the Christian woman convicted of blasphemy in 2010. This was reported to Fides Agency b ...
• 17 October 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Torrential rains on refugees, the state of emergency worsens Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday afternoon, October 16 rains intensified in Erbil. Thunderstorms also hit Ankawa, the predominantly Christian suburb of the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, where thousands of refugees who ...
• 16 October 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - A church in Qaraqosh bombed by the anti-Caliphate coalition Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) - The bombings carried out in the Nineveh Plain by the US-led coalition against posts of the Islamic State (IS) have hit and devastated the church of the Resurrection, near the town of Qaraqosh, ...
• 16 October 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi’s death sentence confirmed by the Court of Appeal Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - This morning the Lahore High Court, the court of second instance, confirmed Asia Bibi's Death sentence, a Pakistani Christian woman accused of blasphemy and sentenced in 2010. This is confirmed t ...
• 15 October 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Monastery of Mar Behnam profaned by the militiamen of the Islamic State Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) - The militiamen of the self-proclaimed "Islamic Caliphate" have removed the crosses and burned ancient manuscripts in the ancient Monastery of Mar Behnam, ten minutes from the city of Qaraqosh, ...
• 15 October 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic extremists object to an interfaith marriage with violence Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A young couple from Lahore, the Christian Amin and the Muslim girl Sadia, both college students, were seized in Karachi by a group of Islamic extremists who intend to oppose to their marriage. T ...
• 15 October 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "The ideology and money of the IS arrive in Southern Philippines": the story of a missionary Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - The ideology and the violent proposal of the Islamic State (IS), the group that operates in Iraq, have arrived in the southern Philippines and is trying to attact converts, thanks to substanti ...
• 15 October 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - A center of excellence for technical formation regarding disadvantaged young people Maligaon (Agenzia Fides) - The first technical school was inaugurated in the North East region of India at the premises of Don Bosco Technical School in Maligaon, Guwahati to promote and encourage the economically weaker ...
• 14 October 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Two thousand prefabricated houses for Christian refugees who have sought refuge in Erbil Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The government in Baghdad has announced the launch of a project for the construction of at least two thousand prefabricated housing units for refugees - mostly Christians - who have found shelter ...
• 14 October 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "There is no justice without life": Asian conference against the death penalty Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The first Asian International Conference: "There is no justice without life" will be held in Manila on 27 and 28 October, and will focus on the campaign for the abolition of capital punishment. M ...
• 14 October 2014
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - New parish center inaugurated by the Minister of Culture Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development of the United Arab Emirates, took part in the recent inauguration of the new parish center of St. Jose ...