Asia

• 10 December 2013
  ASIA/THAILAND - New elections on February 2, but "the situation changes day by day", says the Director of the PMS Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "The King has announced that the new general elections will be held on February 2, but the situation remains fluid and unstable. Everything can still change. We hope that this wave of protest is ...
• 10 December 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Sharia Court to the government: for the crime of blasphemy, death is the only and right punishment Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Federal Court for the Sharia, the Islamic court in Pakistan, has issued an order calling on the Government to amend the penalties for the crime of blasphemy, currently punishable with impr ...
• 9 December 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Among social and political unrest, missionary activity continues Dinajpur (Agenzia Fides) - "For months, strikes, riots, killings, attacks against party headquarters and Hindu villages have multiplied. The opposition wants to paralyze the country to force the government to amend the e ...
• 9 December 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The monastic Community in Deir Mar Musa works for reconciliation Nabek (Agenzia Fides) - The monks and nuns of the monastic Community of Khalil Allah in Deir Mar Musa - founded by the Roman Jesuit Dall'Oglio Paolo, who was abducted by unknown kidnappers at the end of July - have issue ...
• 7 December 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The nuns of Maalula, the Lebanese security chief in Qatar to try and find a solution Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - General Abbas Ibrahim, leader of the Lebanese security apparatuses, on behalf of the Lebanese President Michel Sleiman visited Qatar on Saturday, December 7 in an attempt to find a solution to th ...
• 6 December 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - In view of the general elections, Christians in prayer for the country's future New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The power of prayer as an antidote to the social and political evils that plague the country: with this awareness Christians in India lived an ecumenical prayer vigil simultaneously all over t ...
• 6 December 2013
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Indifference on behalf of the government with regards to the increasing number of attacks against Christians Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Hatred and violence increase against religious minorities in Sri Lanka, who make up 30% of the total population: is the worrying trend reported by churches and civil society organizations in the ...
• 6 December 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The U.S. Bishops to Israel: say no to illegal demolitions. Respect the property of the Church Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The U.S. bishops took the field to protest the demolition of a house owned by the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem which took place on 28 October. The intervention took the form of an officia ...
• 5 December 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - St. Teresa of Avila speaks to Asia Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The Carmel of the future is called to offer tools that correspond to the thirst for God that is present today in Asia. Carmelite spirituality has immense possibilities to respond to this thirs ...
• 5 December 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Bishops: national sovereignty is under attack Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Some Countries behave towards Lebanon "as if it were a sovereign State", and claim to pursue a "right to protection". In this way, "in fact, Lebanon becomes a hostage of the confrontation regard ...
• 5 December 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Conflicting statements on the issue of the Sisters of Maalula Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The story of the nuns of Santa Tecla taken from the convent after the occupation of the city of Maalula by anti-Assad militias remains unclear. According to sources in Damascus confirmed to a ...
• 4 December 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Intellectual and political campaign against the exodus of Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) –Non-stop interventions on behalf of intellectuals, journalists and Iraqi politicians mostly of Muslim faith have been launched on the www.ankawa.com website as a contribution to counteract the ...
• 4 December 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Solidarity with Muslims: Advent message on behalf of the movement "Silsilah" Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - Among the many disasters and conflicts in the Philippines and around the world, adding divisions and prejudices, and have re-opened old wounds, the movement for dialogue "Silsilah", active for ...
• 4 December 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Faithful mobilization after the murder of a Christian child New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Bring to justice the killers of Anugrag Gemethi, a 7-year-old Christian boy, also called Anmol, tortured and killed in a village in Rajasthan (northwestern India): this is what a mobilization ...
• 3 December 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Patriarch Gregory III: "True martyrs in Maalula" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "We are determined to remain in this blessed land even at the cost of martyrdom and martyrdom of blood. This has already happened to some of our faithful, such as the three men from Maalula, Mi ...