Asia

• 27 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Anxiety for the bishops kidnapped. New details on the dynamics of the seizure Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - While among the Christians of Syria and around the world anxiety increases for the fate of Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos al-Yazigi - Syrian Orthodox and Greek-Orthodox bishops of Alepp ...
• 26 April 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The ultimatum of the Islamists to the government: "Approve the law of blasphemy or we will siege Dhaka" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) – There is tension in Bangladesh between Islamist movements and the government. The group Hefazat-e-Islam (HeI) - which at the beginning of April had promoted a major demonstration - has launched ...
• 26 April 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Wall in the valley of Cremisan changes route, but does not stop Beit Jala (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli Special Appeals Committee for land seizure under emergency released its verdict on actions brought by a convent of the Salesian Sisters and many families of Palestinian farmers aga ...
• 25 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Every year, 87,000 children die from preventable diseases Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - In Pakistan, about 435,000 annual deaths of children under five years of age, 20% die of polio, pneumonia, tuberculosis, measles, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis and hepatitis B, all preventable ...
• 25 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Report on Religious Freedom: sectarian and confessional violence increases Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The recent destruction of the minaret of the Umayyad mosque in Aleppo and the kidnapping of two Orthodox bishops, note sources of Fides, symbolize "having crossed a red line" in the Syrian co ...
• 25 April 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops' Appeal: "Cherish the earth to save Mindanao" Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) – It is urgent to preserve the natural environment, and save the island of Mindanao: this is a joint urgent appeal by the Bishops of the four dioceses on the island of Mindanao, in southern Ph ...
• 25 April 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Candlelight procession in Jerusalem against the French law on same-sex marriages Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Even in Jerusalem, as in other cities in the world, spontaneous gatherings are taking place these days to express dissent with the law authorizing the so-called same-sex marriage, which was ap ...
• 24 April 2013
  ASIA/VIETNAM - New project for 2000 children at the National Hospital for Pediatrics in Hanoi Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The National Hospital for Pediatrics in Hanoi (NHP) and Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù, in Rome (OPBG) have just launched a new project born from the need for special assistance to children wit ...
• 24 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Audo: "Kidnappings are a plague: the aim is money" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - More than religion, the reason is money. In an interview with Fides, the Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo, Msg. Antoine Audo, argues that "the scourge of kidnapping," that plagues the nation, has the ai ...
• 24 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishops kidnapped: yesterday's news on their release proved wrong Aleppo (Agenzia Fides). The news spread yesterday on the release of the two bishops in Aleppo kidnapped the night before have no certain and definite confirmation. The Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch confirms to ...
• 24 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Patriarchs of the bishops kidnapped: may God put an end to the tragedy of our people Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - A plea to the kidnappers so that they respect the life of the hostages, "refrain from any violence which is useful only to the enemies of our country" An appeal to abandon "all that allows or p ...
• 24 April 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The religious: " Government insufficient on ecology, human rights, corruption, land reform" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Benigno Aquino Jr. has not given satisfactory results to the population on important issues such as human rights, corruption, impunity, land reform, ecology. This was stated in ...
• 22 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Caritas in Quetta to help the earthquake victims in Baluchistan Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas in Quetta, charitable arm of the Apostolic Vicariate of Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province, has sent a team of volunteers in the district of Mashkail, an area hard hit by the earthqu ...
• 22 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Sexual abuse concerning 50 thousand children in 10 years: "What is the value of life?" Asks the Church Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "What is the value of human life? What meaning does it have?: "From this question of meaning one must start, at a cultural, anthropological and religious level, to seek answers to the sad phenomen ...
• 22 April 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - "Temporary" occupation of a Christian hermitage by Jewish settlers Taybeh (Agenzia Fides) - A small hermitage with a chapel, built on a plot of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, near the town of Taybeh (30 kilometers north-east of Jerusalem), has been the scene in recent days of a br ...