Asia

• 1 July 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Helping indigenous women and promoting their social and economic development Chintapalli (Agenzia Fides) - Helping Indigenous women to start units of “Mutual Aided Cooperative Societies” (MACS) among them in order to promote their socio-economic development is a new project by the Salesians i ...
• 1 July 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Solidarity towards the orphans of the massacre in the church of Peshawar Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - They have had their lives turned upside down by the terrorism that crept into the very walls of the church: there are visible signs of the hundreds of orphans and widows who are still suffering ...
• 1 July 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako’s appeal for the release of the abducted nuns and orphans Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Louis Raphael I Sako, has made a public appeal to "those who are holding the nuns and orphans kidnapped in Mosul three days ago". According to Fides Ag ...
• 1 July 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Father David Neuhaus SJ: sorrow and grief over the killing of the three teens, it is necessary to put an end to the cycle of violence Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "There is immense sadness for what happened yesterday with regards to the killing of the three teens. We are close to their families and friends, let us pray that the Lord will help them to li ...
• 30 June 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Archbishop of Lahore: "A new springtime for the Church in our country" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very grateful to the Holy Father. He has appointed the new Bishop Joseph Arshad in Faisalabad, the new Archbishop of Lahore, the new Apostolic Administrator in Multan. They are very ...
• 30 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Two nuns and three young Chaldeans arrested in Mosul by jihadists of the ISIL Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – Since Saturday 28th June we have no news regarding Sisters Atur and Miskinta, two Chaldean religious women of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, who had returned to Mosul by c ...
• 28 June 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Discrimination and violence against a Christian businessman, threatened by Islamic extremists Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Jabar Masih, from the district of Nahla in Lahore, has been threatened by extremists, "If you do not convert to Islam, you cannot continue your business", they ordered. Jabar, who l ...
• 28 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Head of UNICEF: In northern Iraq, a plan of "ethnic and religious cleansing" that affects minorities Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The wave of displaced people who fled from Qaraqosh and other Christian villages in the Nineveh Plain under the military pressure of Sunni insurgents led by Islamists of the Islamic State of Iraq ...
• 27 June 2014
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Asian Bishops: "The Pope with our young people: an event of grace" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "It is the first time a Pope participates in the Asian Youth Day (AYD, Asian Youth Day): the event will to be held from 10-17 August in Daejeon, South Korea. The Pope's presence will certainly be ...
• 27 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Syrian Catholic Archbishop Moshe’s appeal to the international community: Save us! Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) - Qaraqosh is almost a ghost town. More than ninety percent of the more than 40 thousand inhabitants, nearly all Christians of the Syrian Catholic Church, have fled in the past two days due to th ...
• 27 June 2014
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The Society of Jesus welcomes the second cambodian Jesuit Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Chour Damo, 29, is the second cambodian Jesuit: professing the solemn religious vows of poverty, chastity and obedience in the Society of Jesus, the young man made his entrance in the order f ...
• 26 June 2014
  ASIA/LAOS - False accusations of murder regarding five Christian leaders Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - Five Christian leaders of the province of Savannakhet have been accused of murder and risk being held in prison for a long time. The allegations are completely false and instrumental and aim ...
• 26 June 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Brutal police repression on Christians Mennonites Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - The Vietnamese police raided and arrested 76 Christians, including students and teachers of a Mennonite Church in Binh Duong province, north of Ho Chi Minh City. As reported to Fides, i ...
• 26 June 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - Caritas distributes aid to poor Muslim families before the start of Ramadan Amman (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday 25th of June, on the eve of the start of Ramadan - the holy month of fasting for Muslims - Caritas Jordan participated in the distribution of vouchers for the purchase of livelihood i ...
• 26 June 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Clashes between Kurds and Islamists, Christians fleeing Qaraqosh Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday June 25, Sunni militiamen led by the jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISIL) attacked the city of Qaraqosh, situated in the Nineveh Plain, 28 kilometers from Mosul. The cente ...