Asia

• 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 ...
• 4 June 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY - 779 people have converted to Islam so far this year, mostly from Christianity Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - According to the information reported in the Turkish press and from the General Secretariat of Religious Affairs in Turkey, 779 people residing in the Country have converted to Islam since the be ...
• 3 June 2014
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Jesuit kidnapped: Fr. Moretti asks for "prayer and silence" Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us live this moment, after the kidnapping of a Jesuit priest, in profound, silent prayer and full of hope. It is a sad moment which we hope will soon evolve positively. We ask the media stric ...
• 3 June 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Orthodox Patriarch Yohanna X announces the Conference of the Church of Antioch Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - In a public letter addressed to all the members of his Church, the Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, Yohanna X al-Yazigi, announced a General ecclesial Conference which will be held at the Monaste ...
• 2 June 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA – The jiahdists of ISIL in Raqqa confiscate the property of Christians Raqqa (Agenzia Fides) - The militiamen of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a Sunni jiahdist formation acting on the scenario of the Syrian conflict, confiscated houses and land belonging to Christian fami ...
• 2 June 2014
  ASIA/NEPAL - The new Apostolic Vicar walks "in the light of the Word of God" Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - On June 29, the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the episcopal ordination of Mgr. Paul Simick, former pastor of the Cathedral of Darjeeling, appointed by the Pope as new Apostolic Vicar of Nepa ...
• 2 June 2014
  ASIA/LAOS – A Christian arrested and mocked by the police because refuses to renounce his faith Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - Five security officers in the village of Loynam, in Nong district in the province of Savannakhet, arrested a Christian man named Sort, they tied him to a pole and then they laughed and kept ...