Asia

• 5 February 2015
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Vietnamese NGO Report on human rights and religious freedom Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - A forum of 24 independent organizations has prepared and distributed a Report that draws attention regarding the human rights violations that occurred in Vietnam in 2014. The document includes abu ...
• 5 February 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Interfaith harmony, a journey towards peace in the world Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - World interfaith harmony week, announced by the UN and scheduled in the first week of February each year, is being celebrated with various initiatives: Muslim-Christian dialogue and with the p ...
• 5 February 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Patriarchate: reports on the execution of a priest in Mosul are unfounded Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Patriarchate "strongly denies recent news stories that report a priest being executed by Islamic State militants in Mosul". In recent days, the Chaldean Archbishop Amel Shamon Nona ...
• 4 February 2015
  ASIA/CHINA - The ancient church of the diocese of Ning Bo will soon return to being the symbol of the city Ning Bo (Agenzia Fides) - By the end of 2015 the old church of the diocese of Ning Bo, in the province of Zhe Jiang, originally dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows and then to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, will return to its f ...
• 4 February 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - Today masses and prayers in churches for the pilot burned alive by jihadists Amman (Agenzia Fides) - At midday today, Wednesday, February 4, the bells of all the Catholic churches scattered throughout the Hashemite Kingdom will ring in sign of mourning for the gruesome killing of Muath al-Kaseasb ...
• 3 February 2015
  ASIA/JORDAN - Jordanian Minister: satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have nothing to do with Christianity Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The activities of the terrorist Islamic State (IS) "have nothing to do with Islam, and the satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have nothing to do with Christianity, while the Zionist polici ...
• 3 February 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Pope's letter to the Archbishop of Palo: "I will never forget Tacloban" Palo (Agenzia Fides) - " I thank you too, wholeheartedly, for the witness of faith and endurance which your people showed me in the midst of their trials. I will never forget this and I will keep them in my prayers" says ...
• 31 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Ensuring security and justice for minorities": New Report by Human Rights Watch Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Pakistan’s government should ensure the security of the country’s religious minorities from judicial injustice and attacks by militants: is what is written in the new international Report ...
• 31 January 2015
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - First fruits of the commitment of the Jesuits in the field of education Dili (Agenzia Fides) – There are hundreds of young Timorese who are eager to study and have a higher education: the Education Project of the Jesuits in East Timor, including two education institutions are valuable reso ...
• 30 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters storm Christian school Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - 300 Muslim students armed with iron bars and sticks protesting against the French satirical newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" for publishing blasphemous cartoons of the prophet Mohammed stormed a Chri ...
• 30 January 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops to the government: "To support a secular India and respectful of the rights" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – It is important to support the secularism of the Indian nation and together build a nation in which the rights and freedoms of every person are respected: is what the Bishops write to the In ...
• 30 January 2015
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish Court orders the return of land to a Christian Foundation Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Istanbul Administrative Court ordered the restitution of property rights of a large plot of land to the sira Kadim Meryemana Foundation, linked to the Syrian Orthodox Church, land which had bee ...
• 29 January 2015
  ASIA/TAIWAN - X Congress of the Word of God in Chinese Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "Witnessing the Word of God, a new Evangelization - Pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved (Mt 9:17)": was the theme of the X world Congress of the Word of God in Chinese, he ...
• 29 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Legal battle for the custody of the children of the Christian couple burned alive Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Five different applications have been lodged at the Court of Lahore demanding custody of the three children of Shama and Shahzad Masih, the Christian couple accused of blasphemy and burned alive ...
• 29 January 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR - "Remove a cross in the state of Chin": the order worries Christians Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Burmese state of Chin (in western Myanmar) has ordered the removal, by 30 January, of a 16-meter-high cross, located on a hill in the city of Hakha. As Fides learns, the ordi ...