Asia

• 19 February 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarch Twal: defending the Palestinians did not mean being against Israel Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The problems and conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians will end only when we recognize the crucial role of religion in the peace process, because "we cannot indeed claim to find a soluti ...
• 18 February 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Muslim leader of the opposition: immediately release all the Christians kidnapped Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - Sheikh Mohammad Abdel- Hady al- Yaaqubi, Islamic scholar and member of the Syrian opposition present at the Geneva 2 talks, called upon "all Islamic militants to immediately release all those who ...
• 18 February 2014
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Archbishop Goh: "Sanctify work with prayer" Singapore (Agenzia Fides) – It is prayer that makes every Christian an apostle and evangelist: with this conviction, the Archbishop of Singapore Mgr. William Goh, sent a message to all workers, employees, pastoral work ...
• 18 February 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - National Census: civil society say "No" to the obligation of declaring ethnicity and religion Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Burmese government is preparing a new national census which is expected to be launched on March 30. The last census of the population dates back to 1980. As reported to Fides Agency, several ...
• 17 February 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops' Pastoral Letter on the elections: "The leaders respond to the expectations of the people" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church strongly hopes that the general elections give the country leaders who understand the anxieties of the people and respond to their needs": is what is said in the Indian B ...
• 17 February 2014
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Jubilee of the mission in Pathorghata, "the port of stones" Pathorghata - (Agenzia Fides ) - More than 2,500 people participated in past days to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the mission in Pathorghata, in the diocese of Dinajpur. This is how Fr. Livio Prete, PIME, the local ...
• 15 February 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - New decree in Aceh imposes sharia law to non-Muslims Banda Aceh (Agenzia Fides) - The provincial administration of Aceh, in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, has approved a law called the "Qanun Jinayat" which imposes both Muslims and non-Muslims to observe th ...
• 15 February 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - The reduction of lands belonging to Christians continues Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - After the proclamation of independence of Lebanon, 8130 square km of land belonged to the Lebanese Christians. Today, however, Lebanese Christians have about 4 thousand km of land. These figures ...
• 14 February 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Who killed Sabir Masih?": Mysterious death of a Christian who was in police custody Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "Who killed the Christian Sabir Masih?": Is the cry that rises from the Church and civil society in Pakistan that ask for an independent investigation and thorough autopsy after the mysterious ...
• 14 February 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Campaign against the gifts between people in love on Valentine's Day. The Islamists: "it is a Christian feast" Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Some shopkeepers in Mosul who exposed gifts and gadgets to be sold on St. Valentine’s day were forced to obey the threats of armed groups who invited them to put their merchandise away, constitu ...
• 14 February 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - "To be truly a Church of the poor": the final message of the Assembly of Bishops Palai (Agenzia Fides) - The Church is called to become an example of simplicity, transparency, justice, mercy, in a society polluted by corruption and violence: This is what the final communiqué of the 31st Assembly of ...
• 14 February 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako: we need a "Chaldean League" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – Because of the difficult moment the Iraqi nation continues to live, we need to create a "Chaldean League": an association to coordinate and facilitate the contribution of the Chaldeans to civi ...
• 13 February 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Anglican Bishop of Karachi: "Christians in danger, police and judiciary in lethargy" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Religious minorities in Pakistan, and especially Christians, have become the constant target of masses of extremists": says Ijaz Inayat Masih, Anglican Bishop of Karachi in a note sent to Fides ...
• 13 February 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Masses for the release of all the hostages Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - A year after the kidnapping of the Armenian Catholic priest Mikael Kayal and the Syro-Orthodox priest Maher Mahfouz, which took place on February 9, 2013 on the road that from Aleppo leads to Dam ...
• 13 February 2014
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Doing good is no longer a "subversive activity": Caritas in Myanmar for the poor and the excluded Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas in Myanmar, "Karuna" in the local language (which means "compassion") "has been at the service of the poor and the excluded since the dark days of dictatorship and oppression, when doing ...