Asia

• 4 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pressures of the police to save the rapists of a young Christian Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Sectors of the police have moved to save the rapists of a Christian girl, Fouzia Bibi, a 15-year-old in the district of Kasur in Punjab, brutally raped by two Muslim men Shabir Ali and Sher Moham ...
• 3 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - What does the future hold for Christians after the election? The problem concerning blasphemy Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - What future do Christians have in Pakistan? After the recent elections that brought to power the "Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz" (PML-N) party and decreed new Premier Nawaz Sharif, many Christi ...
• 3 June 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Melkite Archbishop of Aleppo: "Chaos and rubble in Syria. United with the Pope we call for dialogue " Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "We see only chaos and destruction in a conflict that is against everything and everyone. In a country disfigured, with the civilian population led to the slaughter, Pope Francis’ appeal calls ...
• 3 June 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - Bishop Pelatre with regards to the riots: the prospect of compromise seems to have the upper hand Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The riots which broke out in Turkey are a "warning sign" that the Turkish government might want to consider if it is to protect the stability that in the past 10 years has favored the country's ...
• 29 May 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops to the government: no to religious discrimination in textbooks Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The education and formation of the mentality of young people are one of the key points on which to intervene to change Pakistan, to reduce religious intolerance and to promote harmony and peac ...
• 29 May 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Vera López’ humanitarian mission Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The Mexican Bishop Raul Vera Lopez OP will be part of a delegation of 12 observers who in the first half of June will try to enter Syria to collect data and information on the atrocities and hu ...
• 29 May 2013
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Politics: "Yudhoyono has to act more to put an end to religious intolerance" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Presidential Adviser for Human Rights, Albert Hasibuan, asked the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, to be more decisive with his subordinates, including local and regional lead ...
• 28 May 2013
  ASIA/LAOS - The government encourages women to sterilization, Christians defend life Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - A family planning campaign launched by the Department for Health Care in the province of Huaphan (eastern Laos) encourages women to undergo surgical sterilization (tubal ligation). As reporte ...
• 28 May 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA – Worldwide Eucharistic Adoration with the Pope: to pray for peace with North Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Worldwide Eucharistic Adoration, will be broadcast from St. Peter’s Basilica next Sunday, 2 June, in communion with Pope Francis. The Archdiocese of Seoul will pray with a particular intenti ...
• 28 May 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - King Abdullah II and Cardinal Sandri at the solemn inauguration of the American University of Madaba Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The official opening of the American University of Madaba, AUM, affiliated to the University of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem is scheduled for Thursday afternoon, May 30. King Abdullah II of ...
• 24 May 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - North Korea proposes a summit with the South: "hope re-opens", say the Bishops Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - North Korea has formally proposed to South Korea to host a joint event to commemorate the inter-Korean summit of 2000, which marked the beginning of a detente and rapprochement phase (the so-calle ...
• 24 May 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem: the Palestinian problem is the focus of all conflict in the Middle East for the last one hundred years Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no doubt that the Palestinian problem is the focus of all conflict in the Middle East for the last one hundred years. This is the truth that we cannot circumvent". This is what the Patr ...
• 24 May 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - A new future for Christians in Karnataka Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - There may be a different future: made of respect for human rights, dialogue, justice and harmony for Christians in Karnataka, one of the major Indian States. After the local elections on May 5 ...
• 23 May 2013
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A Jesuit: President Yudhoyono is an accomplice of religious intolerance Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is in fact, an accomplice and creator of the climate of religious intolerance and violence against minorities that exists in Indonesia. The st ...
• 23 May 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Syriac Orthodox Metropolitan Roham: the people suffer even when there is no fighting Monaco (Agenzia Fides) - The suburban areas of northern Syria "are mostly controlled by various insurgent groups." The military government has abandoned the rural areas to concentrate its presence on the city of Hassaké ...