Asia

• 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 ...
• 26 February 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ – Iraq’s Catholic Bishops insist: we must react to the violence destroying our nation Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – The dramatic situation which Iraq is experiencing has prompted the country’s Catholic Bishops, yesterday in assembly, to urge the nation’s Christians and all Iraqis to react against sect ...
• 26 February 2014
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN – Humanitarian aid and videogames for orphans in Herat Herat (Agenzia Fides) – Rice, oil, winter clothes, trainers, toys, various hand-craft kits and videogames, were recently delivered, with the help of the Spanish Airforce, Ejército del Aire, and sent by several Spanish ...
• 26 February 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “Pluralism endangered” government inertia NGO report Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – The historical and traditional religious pluralism which has always marked Indonesia is at risk due to inertia on the part of the government which leaves space for Islamic extremists: this war ...
• 25 February 2014
  ASIA/INDIA – The UN takes closer look at massacres in 2002 and the present situation of freedom of religion in Gujarat Ahmedabad (Agenzia Fides) – The United Nations Organisation intends to act to guarantee that the human right of ‘freedom of religion’, ratified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is fully respected in t ...
• 25 February 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Syria, Gaza, Egypt: Holy Land Custodians launch initiatives to face emergency Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – Ongoing violence and social and political crisis rocking the Middle East has prompted the religious communities in the region rethink forms of presence in order to meet the urgent needs of ...