Asia

• 22 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Caritas in Quetta to help the earthquake victims in Baluchistan Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas in Quetta, charitable arm of the Apostolic Vicariate of Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province, has sent a team of volunteers in the district of Mashkail, an area hard hit by the earthqu ...
• 22 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Sexual abuse concerning 50 thousand children in 10 years: "What is the value of life?" Asks the Church Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "What is the value of human life? What meaning does it have?: "From this question of meaning one must start, at a cultural, anthropological and religious level, to seek answers to the sad phenomen ...
• 22 April 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - "Temporary" occupation of a Christian hermitage by Jewish settlers Taybeh (Agenzia Fides) - A small hermitage with a chapel, built on a plot of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, near the town of Taybeh (30 kilometers north-east of Jerusalem), has been the scene in recent days of a br ...
• 19 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - In Mesopotamia the church of the Franciscans in Deir Ezzor has been destroyed Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A violent explosion destroyed the church and convent of the Capuchin Franciscan Friars in Deir Ezzor, in Mesopotamia. The information sent to Fides by Fr. Tony Haddad, Vice-Provincial of the Fria ...
• 19 April 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - A Bishop: "Society does not want a new blasphemy law" Chittagong (Agenzia Fides) - "Many different organizations in civil society have launched public initiatives to say no to the new proposed law on blasphemy. In general people are not favorable, but only some radical grou ...
• 19 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako: Iraqi Christians cannot live in a ghetto Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Christians and other people of Iraq cannot live in enclaves drawn on the basis of ethnicity and religion. And the "militarization of the Arab Spring" represents "a loss for everyone." This is wh ...
• 18 April 2013
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The local Church wonders about faith and evangelization Kaoshiung (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of Faith has been called as "time of particular reflection" to foster "a more complete conversion to God, to strengthen our faith in Him and to proclaim Him with joy to the people of ...
• 18 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Terrorist attacks against candidates and political parties: Christians' appeal for democracy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The political violence is ravaging Pakistan. As the general elections approach on May 11, terrorist attacks against candidates and political parties continue. "We are very concerned about this wa ...
• 18 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian youth killed by a Muslim after a fight: the police is covering the murderer Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – A fight that degenerates on the difference of religion, then the homocide with a gun in his face. This is how Allah Ditta died, a twenty-year-old Christian, domestic worker in a small village i ...
• 17 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAN - Earthquake in the Southeast: the Church expresses solidarity, Caritas ready for intervention Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - "We express our solidarity and closeness to the affected families. As Catholic Church we are close to those who suffer," says to Fides Msg. Thomas Meram, Bishop of the Chaldean community of Urmia ...
• 17 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Provincial elections: 3 seats out of 447 reserved for Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - At the upcoming provincial elections, scheduled for April 20, the seats up for grabs in the different provinces are 447, and only nine of them are reserved to all the ethnic and religious minori ...
• 17 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - In Kashmir false accusations against Christians for "conversions of children" Srinagar (Agenzia Fides) - Police in Srinagar, capital of Indian Kashmir, rejected as "false and misleading", a complaint by some mullahs (Islamic leaders) who accused the Christians of "conversion of children." As sourc ...
• 16 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Patriarch: Christians are encouraged to participate in the next election, but politics is the responsibility of the laity Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - An encouragement to participate in the upcoming provincial election, and to make serious and positive proposals to contribute to the common good has been addressed to all the Christians of Iraq ...
• 16 April 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - General Elections: the Church traces the identikit of the "good candidate" Lingayen (Agenzia Fides) – To face the next general elections, scheduled for next May 13, "with the eyes of faith" and "the mind enlightened by the values of the Gospel." This is what a Pastoral Letter by His Exc. Mgr. ...
• 16 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - A church burnt down: violence carried out by Hindu fundamentalist in Chhattisgarh Kondagaon (Agenzia Fides) - There is no peace for Christians in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, in central India. The state, on the border with the states of Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, is emerging as one of those in wh ...