Asia

• 20 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops hope new government will uphold secularism Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope that the new government will uphold eternal values and secularism in making India a great nation ": This is what the Indian Bishops said in an official statement issued by the Catholic Bi ...
• 20 May 2014
  ASIA/THAILAND - Martial law declared: for the Church it is urgent "to open a channel between the parties" Bangkok ( Agenzia Fides ) - "We were in a situation of institutional stalemate for a long time. Because of uncertainty and insecurity, the population welcomed the intervention of the army which is not a coup but serves t ...
• 19 May 2014
  ASIA/SINGAPORE – A ten-year plan for the Church: God's Word at the center and New Evangelization Singapore ( Agenzia Fides) - Starting afresh from the Gospel and engage in the New Evangelization: is the approach that will characterize the Church in Singapore in the near future. This was outlined by Archbishop Willia ...
• 19 May 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - 1,400 children to receive first communion at Pope-led mass at the Amman Stadium Amman (Agenzia Fides) – About 1400 boys and girls from all over Jordan will receive the sacrament of communion for the first time during the Mass that Pope Francis will celbrate on Saturday, May 24 at the Amman Interna ...
• 19 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians, Ahmadis and a TV station: new victims of the blasphemy law Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The blasphemy law continues to claim victims in Pakistan. The last cases reported by Fides concern some Christians, Ahmadis, and a popular TV station - "Geo Tv". As Fides learns on 17 May a blas ...
• 19 May 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Armenian Catholic Archbishop Marayati: Christians flee from Aleppo, besieged city Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent weeks we have seen a new wave of the exodus of Christians from Aleppo. The families waited for high school to end, then they took their luggage, closed their homes and fled to the coas ...
• 17 May 2014
  ASIA/ISRAEL - A detention camp in the Negev desert. Full of Christians Holot (Agenzia Fides) In the Negev desert there is a detention center with more than two thousand prisoners, mostly of Christian faith. We are talking about the center of Holot, where Eritreans and Sudanese who arrive in ...
• 16 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians: for a prosperous future, the new government has to limit Hindu extremist groups New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - While the official outcome of the Indian elections marked the victory of the nationalist "Bharatiya Janata Party" (BJP), its leader Narendra Modi, likely to become the next Prime Minister, ann ...
• 16 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops: confidence in the new government and secular pluralism of India New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Official figures of the Indian elections, which sees the clear victory of the “Bharatiya Janata Party” (BJP), does not worry the Church in India, which is confident about the future. Afte ...
• 15 May 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Anti-Chinese protests and violence: civil society and the Catholics ask for non-violence Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) – To protest is legitimate, but has to be peaceful and non-violent. This is what civil society movements and Catholics in Vietnam ask for, after the serious riots and mass violence carried out yes ...
• 15 May 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - The relatives of the martyr, Archbishop Rahho write to the Pope on the eve of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land Amman (Agenzia Fides) - "Your Holiness, your tears on the memory of Christian martyrs give us as children of the Catholic Church also the strength to endure hardship and go towards others with faith and love for all. As ...
• 15 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 5 Christian families kidnapped and enslaved by employers have been released Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Five Christian families kidnapped and enslaved by their Muslim employers, owners of brick kilns, have been released thanks to the intervention of the bailiff and the police. As reported to Fides ...
• 15 May 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND – The Christians of Jerusalem write to the Nuncio: we want to see Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "On the eve of the visit to Jerusalem by His Holiness Pope Francis, and his meeting with His Holiness Bartholomew I, we seek our legitimate right to greet our spiritual leaders". This is what ...
• 14 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 68 Muslim lawyers denounced for blasphemy: for the Church "it is a patent abuse" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The police in the district of Jhang, the province of Punjab, has opened a blasphemy case against 68 Muslim lawyers, mostly Shiites, who on 7 May had staged a protest against a police officer. A ...
• 14 May 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Grand Mufti Qabbani proposes a new "pact" between Muslims and Christians in the Middle East Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani, the Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Republic and the highest authority of Sunni Islam in the Country of the cedars, elaborated a Christian-Muslim pact as a contributi ...