Asia

• 2 October 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY - Documents of the Turkish Institute of History on the Armenian question online Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The research and documentary material of the Turkish Institute of History (Türk Tarih Kurumu, TTK) regarding the "Armenian question" will soon be accessible via the internet on the website www.e ...
• 2 October 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Exposition of the relics of St. Francis Xavier New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Preparations are underway in the Archdiocese of Goa for the exposition of the relics of St. Francis Xavier, who will be exposed for the veneration of the faithful from 22 November 2014 to 4 Ja ...
• 2 October 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Massacre of children in Homs; three Christians kidnapped in the province of Hassaké Homs (Agenzia Fides) - At least 41 children were killed due to the double attack carried out yesterday that devastated the area surrounding a school in Homs, in the urban area controlled by government forces. The massacr ...
• 2 October 2014
  ASIA/NEPAL - The Apostolic Vicar: "With the Rosary, we will overcome the difficulties" Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Pray the Rosary incessantly and with faith: is what the Apostolic Vicar of Nepal, His Exc. Mgr. Paul Simick, said to the faithful at the beginning of October, in his message for the month of M ...
• 1 October 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A Jesuit: "A network of solidarity against the network of terror" Davao (Agenzia Fides) - "The network of Islamic jihadism and its international implications should be kept under strict control in the southern Philippines" says to Fides Agency the Jesuit Fr. Albert Alejo, SJ, Director ...
• 1 October 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Closure of the professorship named after Mother Teresa New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The academic authorities in India have announced the closure of the chair of teaching in "Health, education and social work", named after Mother Teresa of Calcutta, in the "Indira Gandhi Natio ...
• 1 October 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - The President of Caritas Lebanon: hostility toward the Syrian refugees increases Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "The effects of uncontrolled influx of Syrian refugees in Lebanon open a disturbing scenario. The concern has reached the warning level. Among the local population hostility towards refugees cont ...
• 1 October 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Armenian Catholicos announces it will file an appeal to retrieve the properties of the ancient Sis Athens (Agenzia Fides) - Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church, has made public his intention to appeal to the Constitutional Court of Turkey within the month of October for th ...
• 30 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pastor Zafar Bhatti is alive, another inmate wounded Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) - Protestant Pastor Zafar Bhatti, in prison in Rawalpindi since 2012 for alleged blasphemy, was not killed or hurt, as erroneously reported in Pakistan in recent days (see Fides 26/09/2014). In ...
• 30 September 2014
  ASIA/THAILAND - The armed conflicts, which so far have caused 6000 deaths, also involve minors Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Southern Thailand has become caught up in an escalating cycle of violence. It is easy to come across children who clean firearms and fight in the ranks of Islamist rebels. It is a reality that h ...
• 30 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Louis Raphael I to "Muslim brothers": condemn violent extremism that exploits religion Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope you openly express your rejection and your condemnation of violent religious extremism, because it distorts religion". This is the appeal that the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, ...
• 30 September 2014
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - The Latin Bishops of the region discuss the pastoral care of immigrants in the Arabian Peninsula Ras Al Khaimah (Agenzia Fides) - The Assembly of the Conference of Latin Bishops in the Arab Regions (CELRA) began yesterday, September 29, and will continue until Thursday, October 2. This year the meeting will be held ...
• 29 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - The High Court: It is legitimate to declare that one does not belong to any religion Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - The Bombay High Court has ruled that the State cannot "compel any citizen to disclose his religion while submitting forms or declarations": the decision reaffirms the secular character of Indian ...
• 29 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girl raped, the perpetrators film the violence Sialkot (Agenzia Fides) - Four young Muslims from Sialkot raped a 15-year-old Christian girl Monaza Bibi, and filmed the gang rape. As Fides learns by Christian lawyer Mushtaq Gill, who is dealing with the case, the vict ...
• 27 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Pastor killed in prison is "a new martyr" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Zafar Bhatti, an innocent man killed "is a new martyr", says in an interview with Fides Agency, prof. Shahid Mobeen, Pakistani professor of Islamic mysticism at the Pontifical Lateran University an ...