Asia

• 25 November 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The village of Deir Atieh invaded by Islamists: Christians identified and detained Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Militants of Islamist factions have invaded the town of Deir Atieh, north of Damascus, spreading terror, death and destruction. As Fides sources in the Greek Orthodox Church report, the attack ...
• 25 November 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - Protestant Christian Pastor arrested on false charges of human trafficking Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish Protestant Christian Pastor Orhan Picaklar, 42, of the "Agape Church" was arrested by the police in the town of Samsun, on the Black Sea, on charges of organizing human trafficking ...
• 25 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Updates on the interventions to the people affected by the typhoon Bohol (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest updates which Fides received by the coordinator of the CTF, Fr. Aris Miranda, MI, aid and food were distributed in several villages of Bohol affected by the typhoon and mar ...
• 23 November 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Birth of the Islamic Front. Patriarch Gregorios III: they certainly do not fight for democracy Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Seven inspired Islamist anti-regime formations announced, in a statement made public on Friday, November 22, their fusion and the creation of an Islamic Front aimed at building an 'Islamic Stat ...
• 22 November 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - Armenian courses for «crypto-Armenians» Diyarbakir (Agenzia Fides) - The city of the southern province of Dyiarbakir in south-east Turkey, has decided to continue programming Armenian courses aimed in particular at the so-called «crypto-Armenians» to enable ...
• 22 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The "Jesuit Refugee Service" to the rescue of the Filipino people hit by Haiyan Manila (Agenzia Fides) – To assess the needs, develop projects and action plans, provide reports to donors, to ensure that resources are used as efficiently as possible: with these criteria and these operating lines th ...
• 22 November 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - Minister of Tourism to the Heads of Churches: promote pilgrimages to the Holy Places Amman (Agenzia Fides) - A strong appeal to promote and concretely support pilgrimages to Places of Christian memory in Jordan was addressed on Thursday, November 21 by the Jordanian Minister for Labour and Tourism Nidal ...
• 21 November 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Course on faith formation for 90 catechists of Si Chuan province Cheng Du (Agenzia Fides) - There were 90 catechists from 5 dioceses of the south-western Chinese province of Si Chuan and the Diocese of Wan Zhou who participated in an intensive course on faith formation which was held ...
• 21 November 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON – NourKids is born: the Christian Arab TV channel for children Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The new Arab channel online NourKids, fully dedicated for children and young people aged 3 to 15 was "launched" from Beirut on 20 November, on the occasion of International children’s Day. The ...
• 21 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Typhoon Hayian: humanitarian aid from the Community of St. Egidio to the victims not reached by the government Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - The operation is of those who show how, in cases of major natural disasters, aid on behalf of NGOs may be complementary to the action of governments: the Community of St. Egidio has chosen two remo ...
• 21 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Enhance the network of religious congregations for aid to the population: a testimony from Cebu Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest figures released by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), typhoon Hayan in the Philippines has affected at least 10 million people, of whom 4 ...
• 21 November 2013
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Bogor and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, on 21 November 2013, accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Bogor (Indonesia), by His Exc. Mgr. Cosmas Michael Angkur, O.F.M., in accordanc ...
• 21 November 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Ecumenical and simultaneous prayer across India, for justice and reconciliation New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A great ecumenical and simultaneous prayer, in over 6,000 Christian churches across India: the initiative is scheduled for November 30 by the Union. As reported in a note sent to Fides by the ...
• 20 November 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - Deputy Premier Arinc: Ayasofya could once again soon become a mosque Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arinc again hinted at the imminent possibility of reopening the Islamic worship, the Ayasofya Museum in Istanbul. This was announced by Turkish press sourc ...
• 20 November 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The army arrest two Christian activists of the Assyrian Democratic Organization Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - A team of National Defence Forces - the army loyal to the regime of President Assad - raided the headquarters of the Assyrian Democratic Organization of Hassaké, in the northeastern Syrian pro ...