Asia

• 9 September 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND – New equipe for missionary animation in the land of Jesus Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – Two intense days of prayer, reflection and listening to testimony, held 5 and 6 September, involved some forty participants in a “missionary animation” session convoked by Carmelite pri ...
• 9 September 2014
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - JRS: optimistic about release of Jesuit priest taken hostage in June Kabul (Agenzia Fides) – “Moderate optimism” has been voiced by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) regarding the wellbeing and release of Fr. Alexis Prem Kumar, 47 year old Jesuit kidnapped in the area of Herat last ...
• 9 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Postponed until October 16 next hearing for the Asia Bibi appeal Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – In a hearing this morning lasting only a few minutes, the High Court of Lahore, Judge Anwar Ul Haq adjourned the Asia Bibi appeal, postponing it 16 October, Fides was informed by the lawyers of ...
• 8 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - False accusations of blasphemy, later withdrawn, against 31 Christians in a Punjab village Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – A typical case of abuse of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law, which would appear now to have been resolved thanks to intervention by the local police – a rare event – happened reportedly in th ...
• 8 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 9 September, date for next hearing in the trial of Asia Bibi Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow 9 September, has been set as the date for the next hearing in an appeal by Asia Bibi, a Pakistani woman facing a death sentence for blasphemy. Fides was informed by the High Court in L ...
• 6 September 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - Celebration of the sacraments and missionary mandate after Summer catechism courses Pechino (Agenzia Fides) – A group of 108 catechumens, mostly aged between 5 and 16 years but also a few in their sixties, members of the Xi Kai Cathedral parish in the diocese of Tian Jin, recently received the thre ...
• 6 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAN - Converts to Christianity still risk capital charges Teheran (Agenzia Fides) – Two Iranian Christians, members of the protestant Church of Iran community have been accused of “spreading corruption in the world”. Two other Christians, Iranian Pastor Matthias Haghnej ...
• 6 September 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Silsilah Dialogue Centre advocates harmony in the Year of the Laity Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) – Christians and Muslims must work together to promote a spirit of harmony especially in the difficult world of today faced with a new explosion of sectarian violence and radical Islamism in ...
• 5 September 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two Christian women abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Recently light was shed on yet another case of women abducted from their families, forced to convert to Islam and to marry Muslim men: Fides was informed of the case by lawyer Sardar Mushtaq G ...
• 5 September 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Head of Caritas Lebanon: we welcome Iraqi Christian refugees, but they are determined to leave the Middle East Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – Already some 350 families of Christians who fled Mosul and the villages in the Plain of Ninive have found shelter in Lebanon, “but the numbers continue to rise every day”. Fides learned fro ...
• 5 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA – Teachers Day: Mother Teresa, teacher ‘par excellence’ ASIA/INDIA – Teachers Day: Mother Teresa, teacher ‘par excellence’ New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – “As India marks today, 5 September, Teachers Day, by happy coincidence the Church celebrates the feast day of Bles ...
• 5 September 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Armenian Catholic Synod: in agenda Genocide centenary, martyrs’ beatification, situation of Middle East Christians Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – The annual meeting of the Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church has begun at the patriarchal See at the Convent of Our Lady of Bzommar, just outside Beirut. The synodal assembly chaired by Patr ...
• 4 September 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Catholic Patriarch: to free Ninive province we need a peacekeeping operation and Christians enrolled in local police force ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Catholic Patriarch: to free Ninive province we need a peacekeeping operation and Christians enrolled in local police force Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – One month after the attack by Jihadists of Isl ...
• 4 September 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Caritas Jerusalem: in Gaza 400,000 children need psychological care Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – In Gaza, where still in place is the ceasefire which ended operation Protective Edge launched by the Israeli government and the rocket firing by Hamas militants, now 400,000 children and you ...
• 4 September 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - May the Year of Consecrated Life become a ‘lived reality’ Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – Religious men and women in India are working to prepare and organise the Year of Consecrated Life – announced by Pope Francis, which is to open on 30 November 2014,– that it may truly be ...