Asia

• 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 ...
• 19 November 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian houses looted also by the Kurdish Peshmerga militias Tel Isqof (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Tel Isqof, a village in the Nineveh plains 15 kilometers from Tilkaif denounce the looting in their homes carried out by the Kurdish Peshmerga militia, who have been controlling ...
• 19 November 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Representatives of all religions visit the synagogue attacked. Patriarch Twal: No more violence in places of worship Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders and representatives of the religious communities in the Holy Land went to visit the synagogue in Jerusalem, which yesterday was the scene of a bloody terrorist attack, to express s ...
• 18 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian and Muslim leaders: it is urgent to amend the blasphemy law Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to correct and improve the blasphemy law, to prevent the abuse and exploitation: is what leaders and Muslim scholars, Christians, Hindus and Sikhs state, who met recently in Lahore. ...
• 18 November 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Latin Patriarch Twal after the attack against the synagogue in Jerusalem: stop the endless spiral of revenge Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "I extend my condolences to the relatives of the victims of the assault against the Synagogue of Jerusalem and all the violence that bloody the Holy Land. In our churches, convents and monaste ...
• 18 November 2014
  ASIA/MALAYSIA – Appeal to the Federal Court on January 21 regarding the use of the word "Allah" (Agenzia Fides) - The Federal Court of Malaysia has set the first hearing of the appeal (the third instance) for January 21, 2015, presented by the Catholic Church regarding the prohibition of the use of the word "Allah" ...
• 17 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian arrested for blasphemy; investigation into the murder of Kasur continues Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Qaiser Ayub, 40, was arrested for an alleged case of blasphemy by the police in Lahore. The complaint was registered pursuant to art 295-C of the Penal Code (insulting the Prophet), ...