Asia

• 15 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 5 Christian families kidnapped and enslaved by employers have been released Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Five Christian families kidnapped and enslaved by their Muslim employers, owners of brick kilns, have been released thanks to the intervention of the bailiff and the police. As reported to Fides ...
• 15 May 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND – The Christians of Jerusalem write to the Nuncio: we want to see Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "On the eve of the visit to Jerusalem by His Holiness Pope Francis, and his meeting with His Holiness Bartholomew I, we seek our legitimate right to greet our spiritual leaders". This is what ...
• 14 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 68 Muslim lawyers denounced for blasphemy: for the Church "it is a patent abuse" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The police in the district of Jhang, the province of Punjab, has opened a blasphemy case against 68 Muslim lawyers, mostly Shiites, who on 7 May had staged a protest against a police officer. A ...
• 14 May 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Grand Mufti Qabbani proposes a new "pact" between Muslims and Christians in the Middle East Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani, the Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Republic and the highest authority of Sunni Islam in the Country of the cedars, elaborated a Christian-Muslim pact as a contributi ...
• 14 May 2014
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Knesset discusses the Armenian Genocide Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli parliament discussed the issue of the Armenian Genocide during the plenary session on Tuesday, May 13. "This discussion" stressed the Chairman of the Israeli parliament, Yuli Edels ...
• 13 May 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Hunger, malnutrition and debts for the population of the "dry zone" Bagan (Agenzia Fides) - The people who live in the so called "dry zone" of Myanmar, which covers 13% of the Country, home to a quarter of the 58 million inhabitants, are experiencing shortage of food and are dying from h ...
• 12 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The blasphemy law needs to be amended: demonstration in Punjab Faisalabad ( Agenzia Fides) - The government needs to urgently amend the blasphemy law, which has become "a deadly weapon" for human right defenders, journalists, moderate Muslims, members of religious minorities and oth ...
• 12 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - A Capuchin friar: "More schools in rural areas to ensure the right to education" Trichy (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian Church, very active in the field of education, "has a duty to launch and manage educational institutes not only in cities but also in rural areas, to serve the poor and the marginalize ...
• 12 May 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai on the presidential elections: a power vacuum would erase the role of Christians Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Bechara Boutros Rai, has relaunched the alarm about the destabilizing effects the power vacuum, caused by the failure to elect a president before May 25 ...
• 12 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Disabled children deprived of medical care and schooling New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In India there are between 40 and 80 million disabled people, about 2.1% of the population. Among these, 60% are children and the most affected are children under 14 years of age. There are no ...
• 9 May 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - A priest : "Development and education, priorities for the future of India" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As we approach May 16, when the results of the general election will be made known, Fr. Faustine Lobo, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in India, in an interview ...
• 8 May 2014
  ASIA/VIETNAM - A Vietnamese priest in the list of the top “100 information heroes” Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Anton Ngoc Thanh, a Vietnamese Redemptorist is listed in the “100 information heroes” by the Reporters Without Borders for the forthcoming World Press Freedom Day, 3 May. As Fides learns, the ...
• 7 May 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Bishop of Jaffna: "Our ministry is reconciliation" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "In Sri Lanka, our ministry as Bishops and Christians is essentially that of reconciliation, which is the main urgency that the country lives": says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Thomas Emm ...
• 7 May 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim leaders remember and appreciate John Paul II Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Important Muslim leaders of Pakistan have visited an exhibition in Lahore to commemorate John Paul II, appreciating his figure. After seeing the photos of St. John Paul II, Syed Abdul Khabeer Aza ...
• 5 May 2014
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - First nuclear power plant in the country? Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The plan to build the first nuclear power plant in Banglasdesh - so far passed almost unnoticed - is generating a national debate that sees civil society groups, farmers and environmentalists oppo ...