Asia

• 11 November 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Displaced persons remain isolated and without support due to violence Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - According to official data, the increase in violence in Iraq has caused about 1.8 million displaced since January 2014. Almost half have found shelter in schools, camps or in abandoned buildings ...
• 11 November 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Indonesian Catholics are inspired by the martyrdom of Mgr. Johannes Aerts Ambon (Agenzia Fides) – The Dutch missionary Johannes Aerts, of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Apostolic Vicar of Langgur, killed by Japanese troops with five other priests and eight confreres on July 30, 1942 i ...
• 11 November 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - A Mass celebrated again in the Nineveh Plain Tel Isqof (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean church of St. George in the village of Tel Isqof, in an area of the Nineveh Plain disputed between jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) and Pershmerga Kurdish troops, was reopened ...
• 11 November 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES – To cancel foreign debt in order to contribute to the reconstruction after Typhoon Haiyan Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A year after the disaster caused by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), which hit the central Philippines in November 2013, religious organizations, environmental groups, human rights organizations have su ...
• 10 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians protest: "Punish the muggers of Kasur and repeal the blasphemy law" Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - Bring to justice the muggers who killed the Christian couple in Kasur on November 4; take immediate action to repeal the blasphemy law: are the requests made by hundreds of Christians who demonstr ...
• 10 November 2014
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Two other US citizens released Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Kenneth Bae and Matthew Miller, two American citizens who were detained in North Korea for religious reasons, were released and arrived in the United States. Bae thanked the North Korean gove ...
• 10 November 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai accuses the Lebanese politicians: "You have betrayed the Constitution" Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rai, launched accusations against Lebanese politicians, accusing them of betraying the Constitution and aiming for the power v ...
• 7 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The families of the married coupe burned ask for justice, while investigations continue Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The families of the Christian married couple burned alive on November 4, in the District Of Kasur ask for justice and hope for a better future. As reported to Agenzia Fides by lawyer Sardar Mus ...
• 7 November 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Heads of Churches: no one must violate the "status quo" on the Holy Sites of Jerusalem Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – Faced with the worsening of the situation in the Holy City, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem issued a statement to express their concern about the outbreak of violence and t ...
• 7 November 2014
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - An American arrested for a Bible has been released Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The US citizen Jeffrey Fowle is back home in the United States, after being held in North Korea for six months for leaving a copy of the Bible in a bar. "I had heard about the severe persecution o ...
• 7 November 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The furniture of Christian homes put up for sale in the markets of Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - In the markets of Mosul entire areas are now occupied by the furniture and the tools looted in the houses abandoned by the Christians. The looted goods are put on sale at bargain prices. This is r ...
• 6 November 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Bishops: "A Church which 'goes forth' to meet the man of our time" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "A Church in communion with God and proclaims the Good News; a Church that goes forth to meet people, to give love and happiness, peace and justice, unity and brotherhood; a Church which is sens ...
• 6 November 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Justice and Peace Commission: "The government has failed in protecting its citizens" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pakistani government has failed in protecting the right to life of its citizens". This was reported in a statement from the "Justice and Peace" Commission of the Catholic Bishops of Pakistan ...
• 6 November 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Two future Saints for the Holy Land Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the Holy Land is preparing for the upcoming canonization of two Blessed: Blessed Mariam Bawardi, known as Mary of Jesus Crucified, and Blessed Maria Alphonsina Ghattas. ...
• 6 November 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean diocese of Erbil conducts a census of the refugees who fled from the Nineveh Plain Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - There are more than 10 thousand Christian families who fled Mosul and the cities of the Nineveh Plain who have found refuge in the suburbs of Erbil and in other parts of Iraqi Kurdistan. Some stat ...