Asia

• 27 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Syrian Catholic Archbishop Moshe’s appeal to the international community: Save us! Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) - Qaraqosh is almost a ghost town. More than ninety percent of the more than 40 thousand inhabitants, nearly all Christians of the Syrian Catholic Church, have fled in the past two days due to th ...
• 27 June 2014
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The Society of Jesus welcomes the second cambodian Jesuit Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Chour Damo, 29, is the second cambodian Jesuit: professing the solemn religious vows of poverty, chastity and obedience in the Society of Jesus, the young man made his entrance in the order f ...
• 26 June 2014
  ASIA/LAOS - False accusations of murder regarding five Christian leaders Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - Five Christian leaders of the province of Savannakhet have been accused of murder and risk being held in prison for a long time. The allegations are completely false and instrumental and aim ...
• 26 June 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Brutal police repression on Christians Mennonites Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - The Vietnamese police raided and arrested 76 Christians, including students and teachers of a Mennonite Church in Binh Duong province, north of Ho Chi Minh City. As reported to Fides, i ...
• 26 June 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - Caritas distributes aid to poor Muslim families before the start of Ramadan Amman (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday 25th of June, on the eve of the start of Ramadan - the holy month of fasting for Muslims - Caritas Jordan participated in the distribution of vouchers for the purchase of livelihood i ...
• 26 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Clashes between Kurds and Islamists, Christians fleeing Qaraqosh Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday June 25, Sunni militiamen led by the jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISIL) attacked the city of Qaraqosh, situated in the Nineveh Plain, 28 kilometers from Mosul. The cente ...
• 25 June 2014
  ASIA/MACAO - Macao pays tribute to the two Saint Popes, John XXIII and John Paul II Macao (Agenzia Fides) - With the celebration of the Eucharist, Eucharistic adoration, a photo exhibition, film screenings dedicated to two Saint Popes and their teachings, Macau paid tribute to Pope John XXIII and Pope J ...
• 25 June 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Petition filed at the High Court: fix a trial date for Asia Bibi ASIA/PAKISTAN - Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – It is necessary to immediately fix the first hearing for Asia Bibi: is what is said in a petition filed at the Lahore High Court yesterday, June 24, by lawyers S.K. Chaudry and ...
• 25 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Synod of the Chaldean Church begins with a Mass to ask for the gift of peace Ankawa (Agenzia Fides) - The annual Synod of the Chaldean Church, housed in the town of Ankawa, a few miles from Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, began on Tuesday, June 24, with the celebration of the Mass presided by Patriarc ...
• 24 June 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Historic decision: the birth of the "National Council for the rights of minorities" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There is a glimmer of hope for minorities in Pakistan with a historic decision, the Supreme Court has ordered the government to establish the "National Council for the rights of minorities", an i ...
• 24 June 2014
  ASIA/NEPAL - 40 Christian leaders arrested for "forced conversions": religious freedom at risk Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - More than 40 Christian leaders were arrested, and then released, accused of alleged "forced conversions of Hindus". As Fides learns, the Nepalese police executed the wave of arrests, all leade ...
• 24 June 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - A thousand children born in the refugee camp in Zaatari. The director of Caritas: we give them a future Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Little Aisha, born on May 27, is the thousandth among infants born in the clinic in the Zaatari refugee camp, 80 kilometers northeast of Amman, where there are at least 85 thousand Syrian refugees ...
• 24 June 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY - The restoration of the cave church of St. Peter in Antioch is almost complete Antakya (Agenzia Fides) - The cave church of St. Peter in Antioch is still closed and restoration work is not yet complete. But the prefecture authority has granted permission, however, to the Christians of Antioch, Iske ...
• 23 June 2014
  ASIA/MALAYSIA – Confirmed: Christians are banned to use the name "Allah": for the Bishops "judges are not impartial" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Federal Court of Malaysia has confirmed the ban imposed on the Catholic weekly "Herald" to use the term "Allah" in its publications to refer to God. Thus the third degree of judgment co ...
• 23 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Archbishop Nona: statue of the Virgin Mary destroyed by Islamists, but the suffering of Christians must not become a pretext for propaganda Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, His Excellency Amel Shamon Nona, confirmed to Fides Agency the destruction of a statue of the Virgin Mary by the Sunni insurgents who have taken control of the ci ...