Asia

• 4 March 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Health activities that the government had stopped resumes only in some centers Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - After a confrontation with the government in Naypyitaw, the Minister of Health and Minister of the Interior allowed the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Holland to resume part of the health act ...
• 4 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Threats to judges and lawyers: two Christians accused of blasphemy remain in jail Gojra (Agenzia Fides) - Two innocent Christians, Shafaqat Emmanuel, paralyzed, and his wife, Shagufta Kausar, accused of "blasphemy via sms" remain in the prison in Toba Tek Singh: The High Court in Lahore has in fact re ...
• 3 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – A young Christian girl killed by the Taliban for helping a Muslim converted to Christianity Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - A young Christian girl was killed by the Pakistani Taliban in the northern region of Pakistan. The girl had spent a few months on the run and in hiding with her cousin, a Muslim who converted ...
• 3 March 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Political leader denounces: the lands of Christians who emigrated plundered with the complicity of corrupt officials Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian politician Imad Youkhana, a member of the Assyrian Democratic Movement (Zowaa) and member of the Iraqi parliament, denounced some officials of the Nineveh province after collecting ...
• 3 March 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Two men accused of having participated in the murder of the missionary Graham Staines have been acquitted Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - A court in Orissa acquitted Ghanashyam Mohanta and Ranjan Mohanta, two men who were accused of having participated, along with 16 other extremists, in the killing of the Australian Christian ...
• 3 March 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - No medical care for: thirty thousand people with HIV/AIDS and over 3000 with tuberculosis Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Union of Burma ordered the cessation of all activities of the Dutch section of the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) underway in the Country despite the fact that tens of tho ...
• 1 March 2014
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Dubai has a parish with 400,000 faithful Dubai (Agenzia Fides) – The largest Catholic parish community in the world may be in Dubai. Some 400,000 Catholic faithful are registered in the area assigned to the parish of Santa Maria, in the most populous city o ...
• 1 March 2014
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN – Prison for Christian pastor “a threat to the mental health of the people” Astana (Agenzia Fides) – Christian preaching is “extremely harmful to mental health of the people”: this is the conviction of the judges in an Astana law court where on these grounds the Kazak Christian pastor Ba ...
• 28 February 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND – Attack on Catholic parish in Gaza Gaza (Agenzia Fides) – During the night of 26 to 27 February unidentified assailants caused a bomb explosion in the courtyard of the Latin Catholic parish church in Gaza, in the southern district of Zeitun. The blast ...
• 28 February 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Attack on Assyrian Democratic Organization head offices Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) – In the evening of 27 February a gang of men armed with machine guns and hand grenades attacked the head offices of the Assyrian Democratic Organization (ADO), at Qamishli, in the north easter ...
• 28 February 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA – Where to be a child is impossible Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - All over the world there are countries where children live in continual danger and for many different reasons it is impossible to be a child. Among these countries Syria, Afghanistan and Congo ...
• 27 February 2014
  ASIA/CHINA – Eucharistic adoration and sobriety: message from Han Dan diocese for the new year Han Dan (Agenzia Fides) – Eucharistic Adoration in community and individual form, to practice with devotion, and the adoption of a life stile of sobriety, above all in certain circumstances of ecclesial life, concentra ...
• 27 February 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY – Restitution of lands to Syrian Orthodox Mor Gabriel Monastery completed Mardin (Agenzia Fides) – The lands belonging to the ancient Monastery of Mor Gabriel, situated in the south-eastern Turkish province of Mardin, have at last been returned to the Syrian-Orthodox community to which the ...
• 27 February 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - Tension with Israel over Holy Places, Archbishop Lahham: enough defiant acts Amman (Agenzia Fides) – The majority of the members of the Jordanian parliament voted in favour of a motion to expel the Israeli ambassador from the country and to recall the ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom to Isra ...
• 26 February 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Leading politicians reassure new Archbishop: “government will respect the rights of Pakistan’s Churches” Lahore (Agenzia Fides) –Political leaders in Pakistan say the state will respect the rights, property and status of Pakistan’s Christian Churches, according to a report sent to Fides. The promise was made to the new ...