Asia

• 27 June 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Anti-Christian Violence in Kerala New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in India continue to face attacks by Hindu extremist groups. As reported to Fides by the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI), a new episode of anti-Christian violence took place o ...
• 27 June 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - "New" jihadist acronym threatens Christians in Jerusalem Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Some leaflets containing threats to Christians in Jerusalem and signed by an unknown organization calling itself "Islamic state in Palestine" - with the clear intention of showing their affili ...
• 26 June 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Visas denied to missionary nuns: the Church of Islamabad files lawsuit Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "We do not know why we were denied the renewal of our visas. Our work is always the same, that of education, for the benefit of the youth in Pakistan, of all religions. But we cannot stay in a ...
• 26 June 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA – Mass escape from Hassaké, attacked by the jihadists of Daesh. Bishop Audo: "the agenda" of the forces is not clear Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - The last attack on the city of Hassake in the night between Wednesday 24 and Thursday, June 25 by militants of the jihadists of Daesh (the acronym used to define the Islamic State in Arabic) is ...
• 26 June 2015
  ASIA - Education is the driving force of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific Macao (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuits of Asia will continue to have service education as a main focus of their activities and presence: is what emerged from a recent meeting of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP) ...
• 25 June 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Laudati Sì" a source of inspiration for dialogue and for the care of creation Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - "Pope Francis' encyclical, Laudati Sì, is a new source of inspiration and encouragement for the work of interreligious dialogue and for the care of the environment": says a statement sent to ...
• 25 June 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Government's plan for the security of religious minorities Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - To improve the protection of religious minorities: with this objective, the Interior Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Nisar, asked the provincial government to carry out an internal investigatio ...
• 25 June 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Armenian Catholic Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX dies in Lebanon Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Armenian Catholic Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX passed away today, Thursday, June 25, at Jeetawi hospital in Beirut, where he had been taken following a cardiac arrest. He was 75 years old. Boutro ...
• 24 June 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - "Solidarity generates new hope after the earthquake", says a Jesuit Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - "Nepal is shaken and unstable, but citizens have survived and look to the future with hope, after the tragic earthquake", says, in a note sent to Fides, Fr. Louis Prakash, SJ, Director of prog ...
• 24 June 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Threats to the president of the "Pakistan Youth Alliance" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Maryam Kanwer, president of the "Pakistan Youth Alliance", who works in the building of peace, conflict resolution and social welfare, is under threat. This is denounced by the "Asian Human Ri ...
• 24 June 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Jihadist attacks in Hassaké. Archbishop Hindo: "they are a sign of weakness and desperation" Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday evening, June 23 the city of Hassaké in the northeast of Syria was hit by a series of attacks carried out by militant jihadists of the Islamic State (IS), causing deaths and injurie ...
• 23 June 2015
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A new United Nations Office for Human Rights focused on North Korea, opens in Seoul Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Focusing on the human rights situation in North Korea: is the aim of the new United Nations Office for Human Rights, which opened in Seoul. In accordance with one of the recommendations of the g ...
• 23 June 2015
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Bishops: "The representation of minorities in Parliament has to be ensured" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Every authentic and healthy democracy must ensure the representation of linguistic, ethnic and religious minorities in Parliament: with this belief the Catholic Bishops of Sri Lanka officially e ...
• 23 June 2015
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Tensions between Druze and Israeli government for medical aid provided to the anti-Assad militiamen Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Tensions between the Israeli army and the Druze residents of the Golan Heights continue after a group of them attacked an Israeli ambulance on Monday, June 22 which was carrying two militants ...
• 22 June 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Cardinal Quevedo: "The disarmament of Islamic guerrillas is an important step for peace" Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - The beginning of the disarmament process of the Islamic militants of the "Moro Islamic Liberation Front" (MILF) is "a step that may seem small, but its importance should not be ignored": says C ...