Asia

• 26 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Prayer and fasting for Fr. Dall'Oglio and for peace in Syria at the monastery of Deir Mar Musa Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - At the monastery of Deir Mar Musa, that is the Monastery of Saint Moses the Ethiopian in Syria, on August 27, on the eve of the liturgical feast of Saint Moses (which falls on August 28), one p ...
• 24 August 2013
  ASIA/INDONESIA - President Yudhoyono: more commitment against intolerance and for religious freedom Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he was concerned about the growing religious intolerance in Indonesia and promised that the country, champion of pluralism, will defend religio ...
• 24 August 2013
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Use of the word "Allah" for Christians: on September 10 the hearing for the government’s appeal Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The legal dispute on the use of the word "Allah" in Christian publications will be examined in the appeal hearing on September 10. As reported to Fides, this is the result of the decision o ...
• 23 August 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - "Faith grows among the persecuted Christians in Orissa": Archbishop Barwa five years after the pogroms Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - "Tertullian's observation: 'the blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians' has become a reality in the Church of Orissa": says His Exc. Mgr. John Barwa SVD, Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswa ...
• 23 August 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appeal of the Church and civil society: "In ethnic and religious diversity, the path is dialogue" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Authentic peace in Myanmar passes through "respect for ethnic and religious diversity". "A real peace process with ethnic minorities" is necessary which involves "national political dialogue," an ...
• 22 August 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Coutts to the leaders of society: "All eyes are on Pope Francis’ humility" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - For professionals, managers, social and political leaders, "Pope Francis’ humility can be a valuable source of inspiration. If you really want to become agents of transformation and social cha ...
• 22 August 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Kidnappings, forced conversions and violence against Christians New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Several incidents of violence, harmful to religious freedom, have troubled the Christian communities in India in the last few days. Police in Chennai, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, are lo ...
• 20 August 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Caritas Pakistan in aid of flood victims Multan (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Pakistan has launched massive humanitarian aid for flood victims, mostly Muslims, which in past days hit Pakistan. Heavy monsoon rains have hit the country in the last two weeks, especial ...
• 20 August 2013
  ASIA/IRAN - A Christian sentenced to ten years in prison for spreading copies of the Gospel Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - An Iranian man, converted from Islam to Christianity, was sentenced to ten years in prison for "crimes against state security": the defendant is guilty of distributing copies of the Gospel in the ...
• 20 August 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Mission to rescue and start a rehabilitation program for the people of Uttarakhand hit by the devastating floods Dehradun (Agenzia Fides) - The torrential rains that have hit the Indian Himalayan region of Uttarakhand are a national tragedy that has touched thousands of people. The Religious Camilliani, together with the whole Chur ...
• 19 August 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - "Day for Justice": the Bishops deplore the arms race New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – To re-launch a message of "Social Justice in India" and say "no" to the arms race, rediscovering the encyclical "Pacem in Terris" of Pope John XXIII, 50 years after its publication (1963): i ...
• 19 August 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Archbishop of Seoul: "Let us entrust to Mary the reconciliation between the Koreas" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Virgin Mary is the "Mother of reconciliation between North Korea and South Korea" and we entrust her "the promotion of peace on the Korean peninsula": So says an official message of the Archbi ...
• 19 August 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy: the imam who formulated false allegations against the Catholic girl Rimsha Masih has been aquitted Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Bewilderment and bitterness in the Christian community in Pakistan, when on Saturday a court in Islamabad acquitted Khalid Chishti, the imam who had made false accusations of blasphemy against ...
• 10 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Matta Alkhouri: stop the speculation regarding the bishops kidnapped Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "Every week some politician or some journalist pulls out some story on the two Metropolitan Bishops of Aleppo kidnapped. But so far they have always been unverifiable deductions. The reality is ...
• 9 August 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Groups of the Assyrian diaspora in the U.S.: the Kurdistan Regional Government recognizes the genocide of our people Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Some organizations operating in the Iraqi Diaspora in the U.S. have sent a letter to Masoud Barzani, President of the Autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan, to ask for such a political entity to re ...