Asia

• 19 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - In Mesopotamia the church of the Franciscans in Deir Ezzor has been destroyed Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A violent explosion destroyed the church and convent of the Capuchin Franciscan Friars in Deir Ezzor, in Mesopotamia. The information sent to Fides by Fr. Tony Haddad, Vice-Provincial of the Fria ...
• 19 April 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - A Bishop: "Society does not want a new blasphemy law" Chittagong (Agenzia Fides) - "Many different organizations in civil society have launched public initiatives to say no to the new proposed law on blasphemy. In general people are not favorable, but only some radical grou ...
• 19 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako: Iraqi Christians cannot live in a ghetto Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Christians and other people of Iraq cannot live in enclaves drawn on the basis of ethnicity and religion. And the "militarization of the Arab Spring" represents "a loss for everyone." This is wh ...
• 18 April 2013
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The local Church wonders about faith and evangelization Kaoshiung (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of Faith has been called as "time of particular reflection" to foster "a more complete conversion to God, to strengthen our faith in Him and to proclaim Him with joy to the people of ...
• 18 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Terrorist attacks against candidates and political parties: Christians' appeal for democracy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The political violence is ravaging Pakistan. As the general elections approach on May 11, terrorist attacks against candidates and political parties continue. "We are very concerned about this wa ...
• 18 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian youth killed by a Muslim after a fight: the police is covering the murderer Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – A fight that degenerates on the difference of religion, then the homocide with a gun in his face. This is how Allah Ditta died, a twenty-year-old Christian, domestic worker in a small village i ...
• 17 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAN - Earthquake in the Southeast: the Church expresses solidarity, Caritas ready for intervention Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - "We express our solidarity and closeness to the affected families. As Catholic Church we are close to those who suffer," says to Fides Msg. Thomas Meram, Bishop of the Chaldean community of Urmia ...
• 17 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Provincial elections: 3 seats out of 447 reserved for Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - At the upcoming provincial elections, scheduled for April 20, the seats up for grabs in the different provinces are 447, and only nine of them are reserved to all the ethnic and religious minori ...
• 17 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - In Kashmir false accusations against Christians for "conversions of children" Srinagar (Agenzia Fides) - Police in Srinagar, capital of Indian Kashmir, rejected as "false and misleading", a complaint by some mullahs (Islamic leaders) who accused the Christians of "conversion of children." As sourc ...
• 16 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Patriarch: Christians are encouraged to participate in the next election, but politics is the responsibility of the laity Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - An encouragement to participate in the upcoming provincial election, and to make serious and positive proposals to contribute to the common good has been addressed to all the Christians of Iraq ...
• 16 April 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - General Elections: the Church traces the identikit of the "good candidate" Lingayen (Agenzia Fides) – To face the next general elections, scheduled for next May 13, "with the eyes of faith" and "the mind enlightened by the values of the Gospel." This is what a Pastoral Letter by His Exc. Mgr. ...
• 16 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - A church burnt down: violence carried out by Hindu fundamentalist in Chhattisgarh Kondagaon (Agenzia Fides) - There is no peace for Christians in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, in central India. The state, on the border with the states of Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, is emerging as one of those in wh ...
• 16 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Education for poor children in the indian slums of Allahabad Allahabad (Agenzia Fides) - The International Day of street children who in the world are about 250 million was recently celebrated. We are talking about vulnerable young children, forced to beg and steal to survive with ...
• 15 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - India, the world's largest importer of weapons, must learn from Pacem in Terris New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "India, the biggest importer of weapons in the world, and one of the 24 countries that abstained in the UN vote in favor of the Treaty on the limitation of the arms trade needs to learn the ri ...
• 13 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Commission for National Harmony: death penalty for the false accusations of blasphemy Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - False accusations of blasphemy should be punished with death penalty: is the conclusion reached by the Senate Standing Committee on National Harmony. As reported to Fides Agency, in a meeting ...