Asia

• 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 ...
• 10 March 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA – Maaloula kidnapped nuns released Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - In the late evening of Sunday, March 9 about 13 Greek-Orthodox nuns were released. They went missing in December after Islamist fighters took the ancient quarter of the Christian town of Maalou ...
• 10 March 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Church in aid of displaced people of Fallujah and Ramadi Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of senior officials and volunteers of the Chaldean Church, led by Patriarch Raphael Louis Sako, visited areas of the Iraqi capital where the displaced have found refuge in the citie ...
• 7 March 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - The women of Zi Gong: active in the Church and in society, following the example of Mary Zi Gong (Agenzia Fides) – In view of International Women's Day, March 8, the women of the parish of the Zi Gong of the Diocese of Yi Bin, in the province of Si Chuan, met to reflect on how to be more active protagonist ...
• 7 March 2014
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - "Time of compassion": Archbishop Goh’s message for Lent Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - "Lent teaches us how to live the love and compassion of Christ. In his ministry on earth, Jesus expressed God's love to the needy, the sick, the lepers. His mercy culminated on the cross, when ...
• 7 March 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Caritas Jerusalem resolves water emergencies in two Palestinian cities Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - The problems in the management of water resources in the Palestinian Territories in different forms penalize the lives of the local population. The general scarcity of water is accompanied by p ...
• 7 March 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Where to be born female is considered "a disaster " Anantapur (Agenzia Fides) - Women living in India suffer abuse eight times higher than any other place in the world. Physical abuse in the country is seen as a "right of the husband" and almost half of the violence affec ...