Asia

• 11 April 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - New law on religious freedom? The Church disagrees Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Myanmar, Thein Sein, has asked Parliament to review the draft of a new law on religious freedom: the measure - which should serve to protect the Muslim minority, victims of viole ...
• 11 April 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Neither Geagea, nor Aoun. For Patriarch Rai the new President must be a "figure of consensus" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Bechara Boutros Rai, forsees that the next President of Lebanon will not be Michel Aoun or Samir Geagea, the two most well-known Christian leaders linke ...
• 11 April 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The government also puts a priest in the list of "terrorist" because he defends the Tamil Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - In response to the decision of the UN Human Rights Council to start an investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka - after thousands of complaints from individuals, local organizations, churches, ...
• 10 April 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - The president of Caritas Lebanon: the international community has to open refugee camps in Syria Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has reached an unsustainable threshold for Lebanon, equal to 25/30 per cent of the population present on the national territory. The global and regional ...
• 10 April 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Democrats win: high hopes for Christians after the general election Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "The elections will give us the hope of a better country, in all its aspects: for democracy, for human rights, religious tolerance, for the socio-economic development. In the Catholic Church and ...
• 9 April 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Death of the Chaldean Patriarch emeritus Emmanuel III Delly. Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, Patriarch emeritus of Babylon of the Chaldeans died in a hospital in San Diego (California). He was 87 years old. The news was given by sources of the Chaldean Churc ...
• 9 April 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal for Christians sentenced to death for "blasphemy via sms" has been filed at the High Court Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The lawyers of Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kasuar, the Christian married couple sentenced to death for "blasphemy via sms" with a verdict issued on April 4 by a court of first instance (see Fid ...
• 9 April 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Games, movies, songs and prayers to prepare Catholic school students for Easter Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - There are more than 3,200 children and young Catholic school students in Galilee who will take part in the meetings in preparation for Easter organized during Lent at the International Mary of ...
• 9 April 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Every year, thousands of Hindu and Christian girls kidnapped and forced into Islamic marriage: new Report Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Each year about a thousand girls belonging to Christian and Hindu religious minorities are kidnapped, converted and forced into Islamic marriage: this is the disconcerting phenomenon that occurs ...
• 8 April 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Supreme Court: Reproductive Health law is valid, but yes to conscientious objection Manila ( Agenzia Fides) - The controversial 'Reproductive Health Law' has just been backed by the Philippine's Supreme Court, saying it's constitutional except for key provisions on family planning. The selected provisio ...
• 8 April 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Only 28 % of women are in physical condition to breastfeed their infants Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The Health and Nutrition Development Society (HANDS) noted a change regarding the breastfeeding of babies among the women in the Tharparkar district of Sindh. A study carried out by the organiza ...
• 8 April 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - "Difficult times will come". After the assassination of Father Van der Lugt, Christians continue to pray and reflect on martyrdom Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - " In Aleppo, we have put at the center of our pastoral care the condition in which we find ourselves. We are experiencing every day what it means to go through times of suffering. Now also father ...
• 8 April 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: "We respect the Supreme Court, we defend life with the right to conscientious objection" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Church respects the decision of the Supreme Court and will continue to defend life and the family, thanks to the possibility of conscientious objection: is what the Bishops of the Philippines ...
• 7 April 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean League: debate on the statutes and internal organization has begun Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - It will be a secular international aggregation, will deal with the political and social problems that affect the Chaldean Christian communities around the world and will gather in particular "pr ...
• 7 April 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Legal battle after the death sentence of a Christian couple for blasphemous SMS Lahore ( Agenzia Fides) - New death sentences for blasphemy and new legal battles affect the Christian community in Pakistan: a Christian couple, he is disabled, she is a waitress, both illiterate, have been sentenced to ...