Asia

• 16 September 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Air strikes on rebels in Zamboanga: Bishops of Mindanao ask for a cease-fire Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - While government forces have launched air strikes on rebels of the "Moro National Liberation Front" (MNLF), holed up with more than 100 hostages in a district of Zamboang , a city on the islan ...
• 12 September 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Violence in Zamboanga: Christians and Muslims in prayer with the displaced. A priest among the kidnapped Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - While the rebels of the "Moro National Liberation Front" (MNLF ) have been holed up for three days in an area of Zamboanga, on Mindanao island, with about 200 hostages, including Fr. Mich ...
• 12 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Battle for Maalula, under sniper fire Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Soldiers of the regular army have entered Maalula, the Christian village which was attacked and seized by Islamist groups in recent days. According to local sources contacted by Fides Agency, l ...
• 12 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Maalula, land of martyrs: death in odium fidei of the young Sarkis Damascus ( Agenzia Fides ) - For Syrian Christians, Maalula, the Christian village in the north of Damascus, attacked in recent days by armed Islamist groups, is already a "land of martyrs". Thanks to an eyewitness, a Ch ...
• 11 September 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Non-violence, reconciliation and peace: Operazione Colomba begins for Syrian refugees Beirut ( Agenzia Fides ) - "Provide support to Syrian refugees in Lebanese camps; meet and support the Syrian reality working for a peace that will not and cannot be obtained with the use of weapons": these are the decla ...
• 11 September 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - The Franciscans of India: the Pope has rekindled in us the spirit of peace and harmony New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "As Franciscans, we are called to unite our communities and all our institutions in order to offer our solidarity to the people of Syria and build peace in Syria, the Middle East and throughou ...
• 11 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Patriarch Gregory III to Obama: "Great leaders are those who know how to make peace" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "The greatness of a leader is to seek peace and make peace, not to wage war and create destruction. A superpower is such if it is a power of peace": with these words, the Melkite Patriarch (Gre ...
• 10 September 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Pilgrimage of the relics of Don Bosco. Bishop Somali: he also intercedes for Peace Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - As of today, 10 September to Thursday, September 19, the relics of St. John Bosco will make a long pilgrimage in many places of Holy Land, before returning to Italy at the end of the tour that ...
• 10 September 2013
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - The youngest Church in the world towards World Mission Day 2013 Ulan Bator (Agenzia Fides) - Many are not aware of the great progress made ​​to date by the Catholic Church in Mongolia, the world's youngest established about 20 years ago after the fall of communism. The appeal o ...
• 9 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Hindo writes to Obama: the world does not want war Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) : "It is for peace that I write to you, our peace. It is against war that I write to you, your war". This is what Monsignor Behnam Hindo, Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Hassaké - Nisibis, says t ...
• 9 September 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistani Bishops: "We are close to Pope Francis for peace in Syria" Lahore ( Agenzia Fides ) - "We pray for peace in Syria, together with Pope Francis. As Christians, who wish and work for peace, we hope that there is no more violence in Syria and in the world. We want peace in in the wo ...
• 9 September 2013
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - "To execute the converts to Christianity": shock-appeal in Parliament Kabul ( Agenzia Fides) - A member of the Afghan Parliament suggested that those who convert from Islam to Christianity are to be executed, according to the sharia (Islamic law), in order to stop the rapid growth of Chris ...
• 6 September 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I: let us pray for peace in Syria, together with Pope Francis Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople welcomes the appeal of the "brother in Christ, Francis Pope" to pray and fast for peace in Syria, asking also international leaders gathered ...
• 6 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Melkite Patriarch: appeal to save Maaloula, a holy place for the Syrians Damascus ( Agenzia Fides) - The cross that towered on the dome of the monastery of Saints Sergius and Bacchus does not exist any more. Armed groups of the jihadist Galaxy removed it, who on Wednesday attacked and invaded ...
• 6 September 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians and Hindus united in fasting and prayer for peace in Syria Vasai (Agenzia Fides) - Fasting and prayer for peace in Syria sees Christians and Hindus in India united. This is what was said to Fides Agency by His Exc. Mgr. Felix Machado, Bishop of Vasai and President of the Commiss ...