Asia

• 10 June 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A country under terrorist attack: civil society calls for the commitment of the government Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Terrorism in Pakistan has become a very serious problem in recent years. The death toll of terrorist attacks has risen to about 60,000 over the past 13 years. The government is protecting instit ...
• 10 June 2014
  ASIA/INDIA – Poor or non-existent sanitation facilities in the state schools of Madurai district Madurai (Agenzia Fides) - In Madurai district, the oldest city in Tamil, there are 1,226 public schools. Last year the Ministry of Education identified 210 schools in the district with no bathrooms. According to the Righ ...
• 10 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - ISIL rebels seize Mosul. Christians flee to the Nineveh Plain Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Insurgents of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), conquered in the late evening of Monday, June 9th the seat of the provincial government in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. The g ...
• 10 June 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Three years of war and abuse on ethnic minorities: appeal for peace by civil society Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The end of the war with the Kachin minority, stop to violence and abuse of human rights, the start of a serious negotiating table: is what a forum of more than 55 Burmese and international organi ...
• 9 June 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Attack against the airport in Karachi: Christians pray for peace invoking St. Anthony Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "In moments of tension and violence, while a symbolic attack is taking place at the heart of the state, as Catholics we turn to St. Anthony, whose feast is approaching, June 13: to the saint of ...
• 9 June 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - Baptisms and confirmations on the Solemnity of Pentecost, a new impetus to mission Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in mainland China celebrated the Solemnity of Pentecost with the administration of the sacraments of Christian initiation, the profession of the vows of the Sisters ...
• 6 June 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Protestant pastor kidnapped and robbed, saved by the faithful Okara (Agenzia Fides) - On June 3, five armed men entered the home of Rev. David Hanook, Protestant Pastor of the Church of Pakistan (Anglican), in a village near Okara, in the diocese of Lahore, taking the Pastor and hi ...
• 6 June 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Religious intolerance is a problem in Central Java Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Religious intolerance remains a serious problem in the province of Central Java, marred by serious incidents of religious violence in 2014: is what is stated in a note sent to Fides Agency by th ...
• 6 June 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Even at the Wall of Bethlehem, the Pope, Abbas and Peres join in prayer for peace Beit Jala (Agenzia Fides) - The event is scheduled for this afternoon at 4.30p.m. in the Cremisan valley, the "green lung" of Bethlehem, which is on the planned route of the separation wall erected on the orders of the I ...
• 6 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian political acronyms relaunch the project of an autonomous province for the "Nineveh Plain" Dohuk (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi political parties of Christian origin are trying to relaunch the project of creating an autonomous province in the Nineveh Plain, the area in the north of the Country with a heavy concen ...
• 5 June 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi’s appeal process does not start because of "orders" received Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The case of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, is "a very sensitive case and of high profile: the administration of the Lahore High Court - where the appeal process sh ...
• 5 June 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Aleppo again without water, other missiles on the areas inhabited by the Armenians Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - In Aleppo the presidential vote with which Assad seeks to perpetuate his power was held with the central districts subjected to intense missile launch and the whole city without water again. "For ...
• 5 June 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Peace is living together": international conference for reconciliation in Mindanao Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - Emphasizing the crucial role that religions and cultures can have to build peace and reconciliation in Mindanao: is the aim of the international conference to be held on 6 and 7 June in Cotabat ...
• 5 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Christians on pilgrimage to the house of Abraham, calling for national reconciliation Basra (Agenzia Fides) - A group of Christians in Bassora and Baghdad, led by the Chaldean Archbishop of Basra, Habib al-Naufali, on Wednesday June 4th made a pilgrimage to the house of Abraham, in the archaeological site ...
• 4 June 2014
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Priest kidnapped, the JRS: "We trust in local communities" Herat (Agenzia Fides) - Every effort has been put in place to try to save the life of Fr. Alexis Prem Kumar, the Jesuit kidnapped on June 2 in a village in Herat by a group of six unidentified armed men. This is confirme ...