Asia

• 11 October 2014
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The Church of Phnom Penh launches the Year of Charity Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Vicariate of Phnom Penh announced the opening of a special "Year of Charity": this is the first visible fruit of the Diocesan Synod, which was held from September 25 to 28. As r ...
• 11 October 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Festival of young Christians in Ankawa. To keep hope alive Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Church organized a three-day festival for young people in Ankawa - Erbil suburb inhabited by Christians - with a program characterized by moments of celebration, singing, prayer and r ...
• 10 October 2014
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Asia-Pacific Congress: "As a Church, we cannot remain silent witnesses of the conditions of migrants and their families" Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "Migration and Family in the Work of Mission Towards a Better World" was the theme of the Congress held in Tai Pei, which in recent days gathered eighty participants, including Bishops, priests, ...
• 10 October 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Five Christians of the Orontes Valley still held by Islamic jihadists Knayeh (Agenzia Fides) - After the release of Father Hanna Jallouf OFM, parish priest in the Syrian village of Knayeh, about five men of the twenty parishioners who with him had been kidnapped by a brigade of jihadists, ...
• 10 October 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Bosco Tea Project for more than 700 tea laborers Dimapur (Agenzia Fides) - India is one of the largest tea producers in the world. The districts of Golaghat, Sibsagar, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia in the Indian state of Assam, in the northeastern region of the country, have ...
• 10 October 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians to the government: "We are not terrorists" Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have sent a letter reminding the government that they are "not terrorists and are not involved in criminal or anti-social activities" As Fides lea ...
• 10 October 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Nobel Peace Prize to Malala "recalls women's rights and the right to education" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 awarded to Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl, victim of an Taliban attack when she was only 12 years old, "is good news for all of Pakistan and puts the issue of women ...
• 9 October 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA – The four women abducted along with Father Hanna have been released; no message from the kidnappers Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday the 4 women who were part of the group of about twenty hostages kidnapped by an armed gang along with Father Hanna Jallouf, parish priest of the Syrian village of Knayeh, in the night b ...
• 9 October 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Father Jallouf Hanna has been released Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Father Hanna Jallouf OFM, the Franciscan parish priest kidnapped on the night of Sunday 5and Monday, 6 October by a group of armed militants of the jihadist faction Jabhat al-Nusra has been relea ...
• 9 October 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - The Jesuits denounce: "600 attacks against religious minorities: stop to violence" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A strong appeal has been launched to the central government and the governments of several Indian states in order to adopt "urgent measures to put an end to the orchestrated campaign, motivate ...
• 8 October 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Church launches 100 days of preparation for the Pope's visit Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - There will be 100 days of deep spiritual preparation, with Masses, vigils, works of charity, during which every believer is invited to make a gesture of "repentance": is an initiative launched b ...
• 8 October 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - Msg. Giovanni Battista Wang Jin’s particular commitment to priestly vocations Yuci (Agenzia Fides) - On September 23, His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Battista Wang Jin, Bishop of Yuci (Yütze) in Shanxi province (Mainland China) died at the age of 90, after a long illness. The Prelate was born on April 22, ...
• 8 October 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - Mgr. Giovanni Chrysostom Lan Shi, an apostle of the youth Xiushidu (Agenzia Fides) - On September 21, His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Chrysostom Lan Shi, Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Sanyuan, Shaanxi Province (Mainland China) died at the age of 89. He was born in 1925 in ...
• 8 October 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Franciscan priest kidnapped after he had appealed to the Islamic Court Knayeh (Agenzia Fides) - Father Hanna Jallouf OFM was kidnapped along with his parishioners after his recent visit to the Islamic Court, where he had gone to report harassment and abuse suffered in recent weeks from the ...
• 7 October 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Khazen confirms: a priest and twenty Christians of the village of Knayeh have been kidnapped Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "Unfortunately I have to confirm the news of the kidnapping of Father Hanna Jallouf OFM, Syrian parish priest in the village of Knayeh, who was kidnapped along with about twenty Christians". This ...