Asia

• 15 March 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Tamil clergy to the UN: "human rights abuses, international intervention is urgent" Mannar (Agenzia Fides) – The Tamil Christian clergy submitted a letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council for an international investigation into the country’s alleged war crimes and human rights violation. T ...
• 15 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi’s trial begins Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, March 17, the hearing before the High Court of Lahore - second instance –regarding Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman and mother of 5 children, reopens. She was arrested on June ...
• 14 March 2014
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Church and government engaged in the Pope's visit; boom of participants at the Asian Youth Day Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Korean Church has welcomed with joy Pope Francis’ visit to the country and has set up a special Commission, composed of Bishops, religious and laity, who are responsible for organizing the v ...
• 14 March 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Three convicted and six acquitted for the rape of a nun in the massacres of Christians in Orissa New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – There is shock and dismay among the Christians in India after this morning’s ruling, March 14, in which a court of first instance in the district of Kandhamal, in Orissa, condemned three p ...
• 14 March 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Nassar: signs of hope in our Lent spent in war Damascus ( Agenzia Fides) - A new Lent spent in war "will mean pain and violence", but "from this abyss of suffering" one can also see "miraculous signs of light and hope". This is described by the Maronite Archbishop of ...
• 12 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - On a mission in the land of the Taliban with Pope Francis Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - The mission in Quetta in the Baluchistan region, inaccessible land where Taliban militants groups are hiding, continues "in the company of Pope Francis". This is what Fr. Renald Lawrence, of the ...
• 12 March 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - "A just peace! "Church's solidarity with the people of Syria New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "Three years of conflict in Syria have literally devastated and destroyed your life and your dreams. More than 100,000 lives have been lost, thousands of maimed and wounded are dying of hunger ...
• 12 March 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA – In Aleppo, the Order of Malta inaugurates three new mobile clinics for refugees Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Three years after the beginning of the civil war in Syria, Malteser International - the international relief agency of the Sovereign Order of Malta – inaugurates three new mobile clinics in cam ...
• 11 March 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Christian Pastor attacked by Buddhist extremists Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - In a social and political tense situation, in which sectors of civil society ask the government to stop the discrimination of ethnic Tamils in Sri Lanka, even the violence against religious mino ...
• 11 March 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian Catholic bishops gather in Lebanon Raboueh (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday, March 12th the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Syria will meet in Raboueh, Lebanon, at the seat of the Greek-Melkite Patriarchate. This is confirmed to Fides Agency by the Armenian ...
• 11 March 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON-Maronite Church: to encourage organ donation Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Maronite Church is in favor of organ donation and called on the Lebanese medical staff to encourage the spread of this practice, calling at the same time to monitor abuses that may compromise ...
• 11 March 2014
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Bishops: "Korea, rise up in splendor!", the Pope is coming Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - " Korea, rise up in splendor! Your light has come, the glory of the Lord shines upon you" (Is 60:1), with this quote of the prophet Isaiah, the Bishops of South Korea have welcomed with great joy, ...
• 11 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – A church building destroyed by extremists, the demolition of Christian homes in the capital is at risk Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Pakistan see their right to have places of worship and even a house violated. As reported to Fides, the faithful Christians of the area identified by the initials "Chak 3-4 -L" i ...
• 10 March 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Attack in a prayer hall in Orissa, two people arrested Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Two people were arrested after the attack carried out in a Christian prayer hall in Orissa. Following this attack, the government in Orissa deployed 70 police officers in the village of Prad ...
• 10 March 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians in Goa ask: To postpone the elections scheduled on Holy Thursday Goa (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Goa is opposed to the decision to hold general elections in the state on April 17, which coincides with Holy Thursday. The request for a postponement was expressed publicly by the Arch ...