Asia

• 3 July 2014
  ASIA/LAOS - Pressures on behalf of the authorities over a Christian woman to abjure faith Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - The head of the village of Saisomboon, in the province of Savannakhet, and a government official have warned a Christian woman named Varn to abjure faith, otherwise she will be expelled from ...
• 3 July 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ – Bombings and raids against churches in Mosul for the release of the nuns and orphans Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - "A few days ago the Iraqi air force began bombing in Mosul, and the air raids are increasing each day in intensity. Yesterday the roads that cross the Nineveh Plain were full of convoys of cars wi ...
• 2 July 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: No to the restoration of the death penalty Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines on Wednesday July 2, reiterated its opposition to restore the death penalty. In the note sent to Fides, the Bishops recall the Gospel passage ...
• 2 July 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - "Christian family, the cradle of vocations to priesthood" for the Church in Vietnam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A careful family pastoral, prayer, and the quality of faith in families, are the secrets to keeping the vocations to priesthood alive in Vietnam: "If a family is holy, there are vocations", ...
• 2 July 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - A young Palestinian kidnapped and killed. Patriarch Twal: Stop human sacrifice Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not worthy of political and religious leaders to support, feed, foment revenge. Revenge calls for revenge, blood calls for blood. And innocent people who are killed, all the children ki ...
• 1 July 2014
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Half a century at the service of the Church and of society, and religious institutes look to the future Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Union of Superiors of Religious Women Institutes in Taiwan was the occasion to better look at the biggest problems that religious institutes active ...
• 1 July 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Helping indigenous women and promoting their social and economic development Chintapalli (Agenzia Fides) - Helping Indigenous women to start units of “Mutual Aided Cooperative Societies” (MACS) among them in order to promote their socio-economic development is a new project by the Salesians i ...
• 1 July 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Solidarity towards the orphans of the massacre in the church of Peshawar Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - They have had their lives turned upside down by the terrorism that crept into the very walls of the church: there are visible signs of the hundreds of orphans and widows who are still suffering ...
• 1 July 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako’s appeal for the release of the abducted nuns and orphans Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Louis Raphael I Sako, has made a public appeal to "those who are holding the nuns and orphans kidnapped in Mosul three days ago". According to Fides Ag ...
• 1 July 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Father David Neuhaus SJ: sorrow and grief over the killing of the three teens, it is necessary to put an end to the cycle of violence Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "There is immense sadness for what happened yesterday with regards to the killing of the three teens. We are close to their families and friends, let us pray that the Lord will help them to li ...
• 30 June 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Archbishop of Lahore: "A new springtime for the Church in our country" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very grateful to the Holy Father. He has appointed the new Bishop Joseph Arshad in Faisalabad, the new Archbishop of Lahore, the new Apostolic Administrator in Multan. They are very ...
• 30 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Two nuns and three young Chaldeans arrested in Mosul by jihadists of the ISIL Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – Since Saturday 28th June we have no news regarding Sisters Atur and Miskinta, two Chaldean religious women of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, who had returned to Mosul by c ...
• 28 June 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Discrimination and violence against a Christian businessman, threatened by Islamic extremists Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Jabar Masih, from the district of Nahla in Lahore, has been threatened by extremists, "If you do not convert to Islam, you cannot continue your business", they ordered. Jabar, who l ...
• 28 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Head of UNICEF: In northern Iraq, a plan of "ethnic and religious cleansing" that affects minorities Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The wave of displaced people who fled from Qaraqosh and other Christian villages in the Nineveh Plain under the military pressure of Sunni insurgents led by Islamists of the Islamic State of Iraq ...
• 27 June 2014
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Asian Bishops: "The Pope with our young people: an event of grace" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "It is the first time a Pope participates in the Asian Youth Day (AYD, Asian Youth Day): the event will to be held from 10-17 August in Daejeon, South Korea. The Pope's presence will certainly be ...