Asia

• 7 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim leaders remember and appreciate John Paul II Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Important Muslim leaders of Pakistan have visited an exhibition in Lahore to commemorate John Paul II, appreciating his figure. After seeing the photos of St. John Paul II, Syed Abdul Khabeer Aza ...
• 5 May 2014
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - First nuclear power plant in the country? Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The plan to build the first nuclear power plant in Banglasdesh - so far passed almost unnoticed - is generating a national debate that sees civil society groups, farmers and environmentalists oppo ...
• 5 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The campaign against the blasphemy law awakens Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – There are signs of awakening with regards to the awareness campaign and protest against the blasphemy law in Pakistan. The controversial "black law" (which consists of three articles of the Cri ...
• 5 May 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Mayor of Baghdad: we will distribute houses and lands to Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The mayor of Baghdad, Abub Naim al-Kaabi, has made known his intention to distribute building land and houses built according to the plans of public housing also for the benefit of Christians in ...
• 3 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - New hearing for Asia Bibi on May 27 Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The first hearing of the appeal process for Asia Bibi, a Catholic woman sentenced to death in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy has been scheduled for May 27. As reported to Fides from the pool of ...
• 3 May 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - A special prayer for the Pope's pilgrimage to the Holy Land Amman (Agenzia Fides) - "Heavenly Father, you never tire of being compassionate and loving. The successor of St. Peter plans to visit the Holy Land sanctified by your Son’s birth, baptism, teaching, death and resurrect ...
• 2 May 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Even a Christian tries to candidate himself in the presidential election in June Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Shamih Mikhael Moussa, born in Btaiha in 1963, is the first Christian who is trying to run for President of the Arab Republic of Syria. The presidential elections, fatally destined to confirm i ...
• 2 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal to the Government: protect female workers from violence and exploitation Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The government must protect women workers from exploitation, violence and slavery, especially paying attention to how many are engaged in agricultural work, domestic work and or in other meni ...
• 2 May 2014
  ASIA/NEPAL - A vigil to announce the new Bishop and pray for reconciliation Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - With a solemn prayer vigil and an intense and shared adoration of the Eucharist, the Catholic Church in Nepal presented yesterday, May 1st, the new Bishop Paul Simick, former pastor of the Cat ...
• 30 April 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Intimidation and abuse of Christians in Orissa: homes destroyed, faithful thrown out Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – The Christians who survived the violence in 2008 cannot find peace and are still today victims of abuse and intimidation: this is what was said by Fr. Ajay Kumar Singh, a Catholic priest i ...
• 30 April 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Elections among violence and attacks. Patriarch Sako: The policies of the West are due to the diaspora of Middle Eastern Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The attacks of terrorism that bloodied the weeks leading up to the elections in Iraq, currently being held today Wednesday, April 30, did not stop even in open seats, despite the strict security ...
• 29 April 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Lawyers and Islamic activists contest the application of the Sharia law to non-Muslims Banda Aceh (Agenzia Fides) - A clause in Aceh's new Islamic criminal procedural codes, finally approved in February could see non-Muslims tried in Sharia Court (see Fides 15/02/2014 ), but lawyers, legal experts and huma ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – A 7-year-old Christian Girl raped on Easter Sunday Sialkot (Agenzia Fides) - It is one of those brutal acts, the emblem of the abuses suffered by Christians in Pakistan: on Easter Day, Saira, a 7-year-old Christian girl was raped by a Muslim man, Mohammad Alam Fakhar, in ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - An exhibition on John Paul II, example of dialogue appreciated by Muslims Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Mass of thanksgiving for the canonization of St. John Paul II and St. John XXIII; an exhibition dedicated to Pope Wojtyla: two events organized by the Catholic community in Pakistan was also at ...
• 28 April 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Armenian Catholic Archbishop Marayati: Aleppo again in the grip of war Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - In recent days attacks, incursions by rebels and operations of military retaliation in the Syrian city of Aleppo have intensified. An escalation which on Sunday 27 April devastated again even the ...