Asia

• 27 April 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - The Church prays and helps earthquake victims Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - A requiem Mass for the earthquake victims was celebrated this morning by the Vicar Apostolic of Nepal, Catholic Bishop Paul Simick: as reported to Fides, the Bishop prayed for the victims. T ...
• 27 April 2015
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Israeli President commemorates Armenian victims of "mass murder" without using the word "Genocide" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Israeli President Reuven Rivlin hosted a commemorative event to commemorate the centenary of the planned extermination of the Armenians which took place a century ago in Anatolia, at the presi ...
• 24 April 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Islamic and Christian religious leaders: "Necessity to review the Bangasamoro Basic Law" Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - An additional reflection is necessary. In a recent statement, sent to Agenzia Fides, the Inter Faith Council of Leaders, IFCL of the city of Zamboanga, on the island of Mindanao, highlights "t ...
• 24 April 2015
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Forced removal of a cross: the government orders an investigation Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Malaysia has ordered an investigation after a group of Muslim protesters forced a small Protestant church in the neighborhood of Taman Medan, the capital Kuala Lumpur, to ...
• 22 April 2015
  ASIA/MACAU - A new musical piece dedicated to Fr. Matteo Ricci Macao (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, April 26, the "Missa in honorem Matthaei Ricci", will be performed in the church of St. Joseph's Seminary in Macao, where in the last two centuries many missionaries have studied. His M ...
• 22 April 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The state of human rights in the country worsens Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The human rights situation in Pakistan is strongly deteriorating: is what the latest Report of the "Human Rights Commission of Pakistan" (HRCP) says, one of the largest NGOs in Pakistani society, ...
• 22 April 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic schools are not "against Hindu culture" Goa (Fides) - "We are not here to promote any culture or to promote a religion" but "in the name of secularism guaranteed by the Constitution": this is what, in a note sent to Fides, the Conference of Religious of Goa sa ...
• 22 April 2015
  ASIA/SAUDI ARABIA - Video of the massacres of Ethiopian Christians: the jihadist that exposes the obligations of Christians is a Saudi terrorist Ryad (Agenzia Fides) - The militant of the Islamic State who in the macabre video with the execution of Ethiopian Christians launches threats against "the people of the cross" and recalls the obligations of Christians in ...
• 20 April 2015
  ASIA/TURKEY - Advisor of the Turkish prime minister who had spoken of the Armenian Genocide has resigned Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The writer and journalist of Turkish Armenian origin Etyen Mahcupyan, former advisor of Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutlogu, resigned a few days after releasing some statements in an interview ...
• 20 April 2015
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Thousands of "invisible" children: without access to education and healthcare Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Opportunities are few for those who live in Jakarta’s slums. That is especially true for children. Some collect plastic bottles and sort through trash, others play the banjo on local buses for ...
• 17 April 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Vandalizing acts against a Catholic church in Uttar Pradesh Agra (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic church in the city of Agra, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, has been the object of vandalizing acts. As reported to Fides, Fr. Eugene Lazarus, the pastor of the church of Santa Mar ...
• 17 April 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Syrian government dedicates a garden to the Martyrs of the Assyrian Genocide in the center of Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The Syrian government has offcially titled as "Garden of the Syrian martyrs" Qishleh garden, in the center of Damascus, to coincide with the centenary of the massacres of Christian Syrians, Ass ...
• 17 April 2015
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic communities towards the Jubilee of Mercy Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - Chinese Catholic communities have welcomed the publication of the "Misericordiae vultus" Bull that proclaims the special Jubilee of Mercy, and are already intensely living the preparation ...
• 17 April 2015
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Christian Cemeteries vandalized in Mosul and in Galilee Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The militiamen of the Islamic State (IS), who since last June have been controlling Mosul, have ravaged the oldest Christian cemetery of the city, publishing pictures of the destruction of the tom ...
• 17 April 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Shots fired against a Catholic school in Lahore, three injured Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, gunmen opened fire on a school in Lahore, the "St Francis High School", a Catholic high school located in the district of Bahar, in the Anarkali area. This was reported by sources i ...