Asia

• 26 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Fatwa of Ulema of Damascus: "It is legal to confiscate goods belonging to Christians, Alawites and Druze in order to buy weapons" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Life for Syrian religious minorities gets more and more difficult and in the conflict they are the most vulnerable sectors of society. As Fides learns, 36 ulemas (Muslim religious leaders) of D ...
• 26 September 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies: "The situation is critical for Christians" Lahore ( Agenzia Fides ) - "It is a very sad moment for the Church of Pakistan. The situation is very critical. The faithful Christians who died in the attack at the church of Peshawar are the innocent martyrs of faith, ...
• 25 September 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Coutts : "The government has to seriously address the issue of sectarian violence " Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "The government has to seriously address the growing religious and sectarian violence that has reached alarming proportions, as evidenced by the incident in the Church of Peshawar": says, in a n ...
• 25 September 2013
  ASIA/LAOS - Christians expelled from a district because of their faith Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - The civil authorities of the district of Atsaphangthong, in the province of Savannakhet, have determined that the Christian Lao citizens in the various villages in the district, must renounce ...
• 25 September 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - A library for the University of Madaba Madaba (Agenzia Fides) - Among the projects that the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem has decided to support in the near future, according to the program already foreshadowed for the second half of 2013, there is also the ...
• 25 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA – Greek-Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo: here are the figures of the Syrian disaster Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The figures of the Syrian catastrophe do not stop the devastating number of people who die and are wounded. In a note sent to Fides Agency, Archbishop Jean-Clément Jeanbart, Metropolitan of Ale ...
• 24 September 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Sacrifice and dedication up to martyrdom: six priests ordained on the feast of St. Matthew Han Dan (Agenzia Fides) – To be willing to sacrifice and dedication up to martyrdom to defend the Church: with these wishes the community of the Diocese of Han Dan (Yong Nian) has welcomed 6 new priests who were ordain ...
• 24 September 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY – There are 22 religious minority schools. At the time of the Ottoman Empire there were more than 6 thousand Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The schools belonging to minority communities in the Turkish territory are now only 22, while in the last years of the Ottoman Empire there were more than six thousand. The striking numerical dif ...
• 24 September 2013
  ASIA/THAILAND - A quarter of the Country's provinces are flooded: flood alert Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – Since July, over 600,000 Thais have been affected by severe floods and more than a quarter of the provinces have been flooded. Local authorities have launched an alert for landslides and initi ...
• 24 September 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – Christians: Prayer and protest after the bombs in the church of Peshawar Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - Prayer vigils in churches, protest in the streets, closure of schools and shops in mourning. This is how Pakistani Christians have expressed bitterness and shock after the explosion of two bomb ...
• 24 September 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Missionaries: "Do not exploit the attacks on Christians " Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - There is a political game in Pakistan that tries to exploit the attacks suffered by Christians: this is denounced by the missionaries contacted by Fides Agency, in the aftermath of the massacr ...
• 23 September 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ – Car bombing against the home of a Christian politician. 50 wounded Kirkuk ( Agenzia Fides) – At least 50 people were wounded in the attack against the home of a well-known Christian politician on Sunday morning 22 September in Kirkuk. As reported by local sources to Fides Agency, a ca ...
• 23 September 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Measles and other diseases infect children in centers for displaced people in Zamboanga Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - As fighting continues between government forces and a faction of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), local health authorities have reported cases of transmission of infectious diseases ...
• 23 September 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops and Christians condemn the suicide attack: "shameful act of cowardice" Karachi ( Agenzia Fides) - "On behalf of the Pakistan Catholic Bishops' Conference (PCBC) and the Christians of Pakistan we condemn this act in strongest terms", said the Archbishop of Karachi, His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Coutt ...
• 23 September 2013
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Minors abducted and exploited for the practice of "Bacha Bazi" Nangarhar (Agenzia Fides) - The sexual exploitation of children, in particular , the practice of "Bacha Bazi" ( literally playing with boys), in which boys are "bought" to make them dance and have sex, remains one of the ...