Asia

• 12 January 2013
  ASIA/LAOS - Christians disappeared: open letter to the President of the country Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - Christian families who have suddenly "disappeared into thin air": the problem regarding, among other cases, the Boontheong family, in the province of Luang Namtha, or Khamsone Baccam, in the p ...
• 12 January 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - Archbishop Maroun Lahham: we open our churches to the Syrian refugees of the camp of Zaatari Amman (Agenzia Fides) - In front of the humanitarian catastrophe that looms over the refugee camp of Zaatari - where snowstorms and freezing rain in recent days have swept away hundreds of tents - Archbishop Maroun Laham ...
• 12 January 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence and murder, the Taliban have arrived in Karachi: the Church launches the alarm Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A generalized violence grips by fear Karachi, South Pakistan's port city: ways and strategies to stop it are urgently required, also because in the city "the Taliban are actively working," repor ...
• 12 January 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Christian leaders debate over the electoral law Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The debate on the electoral law with which the legislative elections will be celebrated scheduled for next spring, sees distinctions and second thoughts emerge even among Christian leaders. As le ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Extreme poverty forces children to leave school in order to find a job Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Education penalized by poverty. This is the situation for almost 50% of elementary school students in Bangladesh who are forced by the overwhelming poverty to leave school before completing fifth ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Three Christians among those killed in the attacks in Baluchistan Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - Dismay, grief, fear, prayer: These are the feelings lived by the small Christian community in the province of Quetta, after the wave of terrorist attacks which yesterday, only in the city of Que ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/YEMEN - The tragedy of women bought, sold, sexually abused Aden (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of human trafficking continues to rise and poverty causes the sexual exploitation of women who are the most vulnerable group in Yemen. They are bought and sold throughout the country ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - A small community of the Diocese of Feng Xiang becomes a point of reference for evangelization Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) - The parish of Nan Guan of the deanery of Bao Ji, in the diocese of Feng Xiang of Shaan Xi province, is a small community of about 200 faithful, but shows remarkable capacity for evangelizatio ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The new government is preparing the "tax hike" on religious communities Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The government of South Korea, led by the new President Park Geun-hye, of the Conservative Party Saenuri, is preparing to introduce, in the new tax law, which will be enacted at the end of January ...
• 10 January 2013
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Commitment of the Regional Episcopal Conference for the formation of priests and seminarians of the continent and for the Year of Faith Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The commitment to support the training of priests and seminarians of the continent, the celebration of the Year of Faith and the examination of pastoral projects of 2013 were the main themes of ...
• 10 January 2013
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The Churches: "We will exercise our constitutional right on the use of the name of Allah" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Malaysia will not observe the ban on using the word "Allah", imposed yesterday by the decree of the Sultan of Selangor state. The Churches in Malaysia are united with a common ...
• 10 January 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Bishops: the influx of refugees from Syria threatens to destabilize the country Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The hospitality towards refugees fleeing from the war-torn Syria is a meritorious act that must be encouraged. But with the relentless rise in the number of refugees, the dangers of political sta ...
• 10 January 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - A Christian community trapped and completely worn out in the north of Aleppo Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - About a thousand Christians among Greek-Orthodoxs and Roman Catholics are trapped in the small village of Yaakoubieh, all Christian, in the north of Aleppo. They are completely worn out, with no ...
• 9 January 2013
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The Oratory: testimony of the commitment of the children of Don Bosco in the formation of the youth Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Salesian Oratory Cheung Chau Don Bosco Oratory, which celebrated half a century of foundation in Hong Kong, is the testimony of the continuous and renewed commitment in the formative servi ...
• 9 January 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - A group of children at school under a bridge, despite the severe temperatures New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In this period climatic temperatures are more severe than usual in India. In the north of the country 100 people have died from the cold. In this cold climate, with freezing temperatures, a gr ...