Asia

• 9 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Minister Bonino on the kidnapping of Fr. Dall'Oglio "We grope in the dark" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - ''There is no news on the group that kidnapped Fr. Dall’Oglio. We are still groping in the dark''. This is how Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino expressed herself, on the morning of August 9, ...
• 8 August 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Bishops: The Country must remain neutral Dimane (Agenzia Fides) - Lebanon can avoid the many pitfalls that threaten its stability only if it remains out of the wars raging on its borders and maintain its "neutrality before the on-going conflicts at a regional a ...
• 7 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Abuse and forced marriages for refugee children Zaatari (Agenzia Fides) - People continue to be increasingly desperate and poor. The children who fled the war in Syria with their families continue to be exploited, abused and forced into early marriages, quite unusual ...
• 7 August 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Education and logistics of poor quality penalize the children of Bihar Patna (Agenzia Fides) - The poor quality of education that children receive in the Indian state of Bihar is a daily tragedy. In the village of Gandaman a school has just opened to help the most vulnerable community of Da ...
• 7 August 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - Syriac Christians will be able to build their own schools Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The Foundation of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Santa Maria has received from the Turkish courts the permission to build their own schools for children and young people in their community, ensuri ...
• 5 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Jesuits of the Middle East: "Deep concern" for Fr. Dall'Oglio and Fr. Frans van der Lugt Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuits of the Middle East, with a statement sent to Fides Agency and signed by the Provincial Fr. Victor Assouad SJ, expressed "deep worry" about the fate of some of their confreres in the S ...
• 5 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate remains in Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The See of the Patriarchate of Antioch of the Syriac Orthodox remains in Damascus, "and there is no intention to move it to another place". This hypothesis is rejected firmly by the Patriarch M ...
• 2 August 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Catholic Churches of Holy Land: appointment in Nazareth to conclude the Year of Faith Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - In Holy Land the Year of Faith will end on Sunday November 17 in Nazareth, with an "International Day of Faith" and with a solemn Mass presided over by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Tw ...
• 2 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - A small "WYD" in the city of Aleppo Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - On the day that Pope Francis celebrated the concluding Mass of World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, even Christian children in the martyred city of Aleppo came together to experience a day of praye ...
• 31 July 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Seminary opens to seminarians of other Catholic Churches BAGHDAD (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Patriarchal Seminary has decided to accept candidates for priesthood belonging to other Catholic Churches, starting from the Syrian Catholic Church. The news was given by the Patria ...
• 31 July 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Director of Caritas Jerusalem: the settlements and the Wall are mines on the peace process Ramallah (Fides) - The resumption of the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians "is a positive thing, because the only way to solve problems is to negotiate". But the conditions in which it occurs are not open t ...
• 31 July 2013
  ASIA/JAPAN - More than 66,000 cases of child abuse in 2012 Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - Since 1990, Japan has started recording cases of child abuse and, since then, the phenomenon has never decreased, over 60 thousand a year. With social awareness and the increase of complaints, ...
• 30 July 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - 45 thousand people displaced due to the torrential rains in the province of Maguindanao Maguindanao (Agenzia Fides) - Floods and incessant torrential rains have flooded 18 cities in the province of Maguindanao, situated in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. In addition to 45.594 people forced to ev ...
• 30 July 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - Religious proselytism in refugee camps: the Catholic Church stands off Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The initiative of Christians linked to evangelical groups that were filmed while distributing gospels and leaflets concerning spiritual reflection in the refugee camp in Zaatari, the main camp for ...
• 26 July 2013
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - The "social WYD" Christian Baptists, in communion with the Pope in Rio Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - As the Pope is in Rio de Janeiro with young Catholics from around the world for "World Youth Day", on the other side of the globe, the young Christians of the Baptist Church gather in Singapor ...