Asia

• 15 September 2014
  ASIA/JAPAN – Two members of a religious sect kidnapped in view of forced conversion A Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) – Two members of the Church of Unification in Japan were abducted in view of forceful conversion to return to the “true religion”: the abduction was carried out by family members with the c ...
• 13 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The school year in the Islamic Caliphate: the teaching of Syriac and Christian names of schools have been abolished Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Schools in Mosul and the Nineveh Plain which bore Christian names will have to be changed. Also the teaching of the Syriac language and culture and Christian religious education will be abolished. ...
• 12 September 2014
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The first church in China dedicated to Saint John Paul II has been consecrated Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) - The first church dedicated to St. John Paul II in the Chinese Catholic world was blessed and inaugurated on September 6 in Laiyi, in the Diocese of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. His Exc. Mgr. Peter Che ...
• 12 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - The Franciscan leadership? Creative and aimed at the poor Cochin (Agenzia Fides) - To be a leader and a Franciscan is not a contradiction: the important thing is that leadership is lived in the spirit of service, is Christ-centered, creative, oriented towards the good of the ma ...
• 12 September 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Catholic Episcopal Commission: pilgrims are messengers of peace between Palestinians and Israelis Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Pilgrimages to the Holy Land should be encouraged by the Episcopal Conferences around the world also because they represent a form of concrete support for the local Christian communities and b ...
• 12 September 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church: let's get ready and join the Pope in the Mass on the centenary of the Genocide thenesteesntjeenstjnejestjieest n Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The annual meeting of the Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church, presided over by Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX, which was held in the patriarchal seat of the convent of Our Lady of Bzommar, a few ...
• 12 September 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Peace agreement arrives in Congress, but "the road is still long" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The peace agreement between the government in Manila and Muslim rebels of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which traces the new "Bangsamoro" administrative entity on the island of Mindan ...
• 12 September 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Land is a source of livelihood for 14% of the indigenous people living in the Country Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - In Vietnam, the indigenous people represent 14% of the population and the Mong is the largest and poorest ethnic group. The Catholic NGO Manos Unidas, along with other local organizations, has lau ...
• 11 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian family flees to save their daughters from forced conversion to Islam Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – To escape to save two Christian girls from being converted to Islam: this is the tragic solution adopted by Nadeem Maqbol (45 years old) and by his wife, Nabeela Nadeem, a Christian couple from ...
• 11 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ – Air raids hit areas adjacent to two churches in Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Air raids carried out to attack the positions of the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS), who have settled in Mosul, have heavily damaged buildings adjacent to two churches in the eastern area of ...
• 10 September 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND – US Catholic Bishops make Holy Land pilgrimage to 'pray for peace' Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – On Thursday 11 September a group of 18 Catholic Bishops from the United States of America will begin a pilgrimage to visit the places where Jesus lived his earthly life with the specific in ...
• 10 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Severe floods, Caritas sends volunteers Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – With severe floods affecting the life of the people in the Pakistan provinces of Punjab, Sindh and Jammu and Kashmir, Caritas Pakistan has mobilised its volunteers to respond to the emergency. ...
• 10 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Syrian Catholic priest says: Christians will return to the Plain of Ninive only when and if Mosul is freed Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – With the uncertain prospects in the region of north Iraq the Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Yohanna Petros Moshe, and the faithful of his diocese have decided to try to return to Qaraqosh ...
• 10 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA – Catholics in southern India: urgent instruction Christian families Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) – “Challenges facing family life: a Catholic response”: this was the theme discussed recently in view of the Synod of Bishops for the Family due to be held in Rome in October. The Catholic ...
• 9 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - A Christian MP in Iraq’s new government Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – A Christian MP is among the Ministers in a new government of Iraq approved yesterday by Parliament with a majority of 177 out of 289. The new minister is Chaldean Christian Faris Yusef Jajo, f ...