Asia

• 19 July 2013
  ASIA/IRAN - Eight Christians sentenced for "actions against the national security" Shiraz (Agenzia Fides) - Eight evangelical Christians in Shiraz were sentenced to jail after being found guilty of "action against the national security" and "propaganda against the order of the system". The news was giv ...
• 19 July 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - New Report: deterioration of religious freedom and increasing violence in the country Washington (Agenzia Fides) - In the past 18 months we have witnessed a gradual deterioration of respect for religious freedom in Pakistan. Religious minorities such as Shia Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Ahmadis are ...
• 18 July 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA – March for peace on the border between the Koreas: Prayer for Reconciliation Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Faithful Korean Catholics will march and pray for peace in the demilitarized area on the border between North and South Korea: As reported to Fides, it is one of the initiatives that characterize ...
• 18 July 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Protests against the anti-conversion law increase in Madhya Pradesh Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) - In the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh protests of religious minorities against the amendments to the anti-conversion law increase. The changes exacerbate the punishment on the prohibition of conv ...
• 18 July 2013
  ASIA/MALAYSIA – Legal comparison Church-government on the use of the word "Allah"; the Nuncio promotes the line of dialogue Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The comparison between the Catholic Church and the Malaysian government on the use of the word "Allah" to refer to God in the Bible and in Christian publications is enriched by a new chapte ...
• 17 July 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Three Christian women stripped naked and humiliated: Justice is moving Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - In the case of three Christian women stripped naked, humiliated and mocked by Muslims in Kasur – more than a month after the incident, which occurred on June 3, which caused outrage in Pakistan ...
• 17 July 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The President of Caritas Jerusalem: Gaza continues to be an open-air prison Gaza (Agenzia Fides): "I was shocked by the level of poverty that I saw in Gaza. The Strip continues to be an open-air prison, closed by the sea, the embargo of Israel and now Egypt". This is how Father Raed Abusahlia, D ...
• 17 July 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Children poisoned in a school in Bihar: the Church relaunches food safety New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The case of the 22 children who died from food poisoning in a school in the Indian state of Bihar "strongly raises the issue of food safety and food quality and the urgency with which India ha ...
• 16 July 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Greek-Orthodox monastery under attack. The nuns are appealing to President Abbas Bethany (Agenzia Fides) – The nuns of the Greek-Orthodox monastery in Bethany have sent a letter to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to urge the leaders of the Palestinian Authority to take charge, with appropriate ...
• 16 July 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Shang Chuan of the Cathedral of the Diocese of Jiang Men for prayer and evangelization Jiang Men (Agenzia Fides) - Pray for the church in China and for the Universal Church so that the mission of evangelization in the world and China take its course and strengthens faith, especially in the Year of Faith: a ...
• 16 July 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Two Christian children affected in the bombings in Aleppo Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The civilian population of Aleppo pay the highest price of the clashes that inflame the city. Over the past three days, more than 150 mortar shells have hit residential areas killing 15 people an ...
• 16 July 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Violence against Christians in Orissa: for the Bishop "the government should act" Balasore (Agenzia Fides) - "Violence still strikes Christians in Orissa. Very often those responsible are Hindu fundamentalist groups who do not look kindly upon Christians. As a Church we are insisting with the governme ...
• 15 July 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai: sectarian militias will lead the country to ruin Harissa (Agenzia Fides) - Any non-state army should be considered "illegitimate" and will result in the return of the country to the "law of the jungle and an increase in crime, a phenomenon that unfortunately we are alr ...
• 15 July 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian sentenced to life imprisonment for a blasphemous SMS Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The controversial blasphemy law continues to claim victims in Pakistan: Sajjad Masih Gill, a 28-year-old Christian, residing in the district of Pakpatan, in the province of Punjab, was sentenced ...
• 15 July 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Urbanization, Immigration and Pastoral Care: Seminar of the local Church to respond to the social evolution Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Urbanization and internal immigration have become the most pressing challenges for the pastoral care of the Catholic Church in mainland China. With this awareness and sensitivity, the local chur ...