Asia

• 13 March 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Patriarchate: Church-related institutions are to be fair and transparent in the management of financial resources Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Tuesday, March 12, the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans - led by the new Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, who celebrated his inaugural Mass on Wednesday, March 6 - issued a statem ...
• 13 March 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Real estate interest behind the attacks on Christians: looking for the perpetrators Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There seems to be real estate interests and the attempt to expel Christians from Joseph's Colony, in the center of Lahore (in Punjab), behind the attack on behalf of the Muslim mob, which took pl ...
• 11 March 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians Protest in Lahore, hundreds arrested by the police: the Bishops at the sit-in Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - High social and religious tension in Lahore, after the episode on Saturday, March 9, when 178Christians houses in "Joseph colony", in the district of Badami Bagh, were set on fire, in a case of a ...
• 11 March 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Attack on Christians: a move of the Supreme Court, solidarity from political and religious leaders Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, March 11, the Supreme Court of Pakistan began the hearings to shed light on the attack at the Christian area of Joseph Colony, which took place on Saturday in Lahore, where 178 C ...
• 11 March 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Commission "Justice and Peace": "Government and police are the perpetrators of violence against Christians" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Government and police are the perpetrators of violence against Christians": This is what the Commission "Justice and Peace" of Catholic Pakistani Bishops strongly says, speaking after the seriou ...
• 11 March 2013
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Youth Pastoral Commission of the Diocese of Tai Chung accompanies the young people’s spiritual journey of Lent Tai Chung (Agenzia Fides) - A spiritual retreat, the via crucis, Taize prayer, the sacrament of reconciliation, Eucharist celebration ...: is the two-day program organized by the Youth Pastoral Commission of the Diocese ...
• 9 March 2013
  ASIA/IRAN - False News with regards to the execution of an evangelical pastor Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is still alive. The news about his execution circulated last week have been discredited by reputable sources contacted by the association Christian Solidarity Worldwi ...
• 9 March 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Alleged blasphemy: over one hundred Christian homes burned in Lahore and a Bishop wounded Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A crowd of about 3,000 Muslims attacked and set fire this morning, Saturday, March 9, to about a hundred homes of Christians in the district of Badami Bagh in Lahore, for a case of alleged blasph ...
• 8 March 2013
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Radical Islamic groups: stop to the churches in West Java Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Protestant community "Banua Niha Keriso Protestant" in the city of Bandung (West Java province) received threats and orders to stop the assemblies of worship. A local Muslim leader ...
• 8 March 2013
  ASIA - Civil and religious leaders united against nuclear weapons Oslo (Agenzia Fides) - In front of dangerous wings of nuclear escalation and provocations launched recently by countries such as North Korea, religious leaders and civil society in the world raise a cry to stop nuclear w ...
• 8 March 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - Block the election bodies that administer the Foundations linked to religious minorities Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The General Directorate of Foundations in Turkey in recent days sent a letter to the Foundation for Religious minorities with a request to suspend the election of their respective Boards of admin ...
• 8 March 2013
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Cardinal John Tong encourages catechumens to participate actively in evangelization HongKong (Agenzia Fides) - Before leaving for Rome for the Conclave, Cardinal John Tong, Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong, encouraged the catechumens to participate actively in evangelization to bear witness to Christ. ...
• 7 March 2013
  ASIA/CHINA – Itinerant priest in remote communities Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Several Catholic communities in mainland China have created the figure of the itinerant priest during Lent. According to what Faith of He Bei said, the priests of the diocese of Bayanur Meng (Sh ...
• 7 March 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - New Chaldean Patriarch Sako takes possession of the See of Baghdad: "The storm will have to pass" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The new Chaldean Patriarch of the Church Louis Raphael I Sako yesterday Wednesday, March 6 celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Joseph the mass of enthronement of the Patriarchal See in Baghdad. T ...
• 7 March 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Petition to remove the death penalty under the law of blasphemy Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – To eliminate the death penalty under the law of blasphemy and withdraw the charges against Sherry Rehman: this is what the petition launched by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), non- ...