Asia

• 18 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - "Peace is the supreme good to rebuild Syria": the Syrian people welcomes the Pope's new appeal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "To restore hope to the Syrian nation, to rebuild schools, infrastructure, hospitals, to allow the return of refugees, peace is the supreme good. For this reason we welcome with respect and ...
• 18 September 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Vigil for peace in Zamboanga: on September 21: government, Church, civil society will unite Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A massive event and a vigil for peace for Zamboanga and the southern Philippines will see, on September 21, in the capital Manila, the Philippine government, the Catholic Church and several civil ...
• 17 September 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian schools strike to protest against the acts of vandalism in an institute Calcutta ( Agenzia Fides) - Christian schools in the state of West Bengal will be closed on September 19 to protest against the acts of vandalism that hit a Christian school near Calcutta. As reported to Fides by the loc ...
• 17 September 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Narendra Modi Premier candidate: for the Church "it is political suicide of the BJP " New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The main opposition party in India, the "Bharatiya Janata Party" (BJP), a markedly nationalist formation that contends the government of the country and the Congress Party and was in power in ...
• 17 September 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Elections in Iraqi Kurdistan: Patriarch Sako's appeal to Christian politicians Baghdad ( Agenzia Fides) – With regards to the upcoming general elections for the Kurdistan region of Iraq - set for Saturday, September 21 - the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans Louis Raphael I Sako appealed to t ...
• 17 September 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A missionary: "Dangerous escalation in Zamboanga: the government has not explored all possible diplomatic channels" Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing conflict in Zamboanga between government troops and rebels of the "Moro National Liberation Front" (MNLF), which, in ten days has caused, according to latest figures sent to Fides, ...
• 16 September 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Korean Bishops' Pilgrimage on foot to martyrs' shrines Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - On September 10, 21 Korean Bishops made, for the first time, a pilgrimage on foot to martyrs' shrines in Seoul, to celebrate the Year of Faith and the Month of Martyrs. The Archdiocese of Seoul ...
• 16 September 2013
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Meeting of the Latin Bishops of the Arab world Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On September 17 the ordinary meeting of the representatives of the Conference of Latin Bishops in the Arab Regions (Conférence des Evêques latins dans les régions arabes, CELRA) begins in Rome, ...
• 16 September 2013
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - A new Greek-Catholic church, in memory of bishops and priests prisoners in the gulag Karaganda (Agenzia Fides) - "Bishop Aleksandr Khyra, other priests like Fr. Alexey Zarytskyi, Fr. Nikolay Shaban and Fr. Stepan Pryshliak, all prisoners in the gulag and many of whom are now blessed, are the spiritual fa ...
• 16 September 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako writes to Assyrian Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV: let us go back to full unity Baghdad ( Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans Louis Raphael I Sako sent a letter of congratulations to the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Mar Dinkha IV on the occasion of his 78th bir ...
• 16 September 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Air strikes on rebels in Zamboanga: Bishops of Mindanao ask for a cease-fire Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - While government forces have launched air strikes on rebels of the "Moro National Liberation Front" (MNLF), holed up with more than 100 hostages in a district of Zamboang , a city on the islan ...
• 12 September 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Violence in Zamboanga: Christians and Muslims in prayer with the displaced. A priest among the kidnapped Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - While the rebels of the "Moro National Liberation Front" (MNLF ) have been holed up for three days in an area of Zamboanga, on Mindanao island, with about 200 hostages, including Fr. Mich ...
• 12 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Battle for Maalula, under sniper fire Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Soldiers of the regular army have entered Maalula, the Christian village which was attacked and seized by Islamist groups in recent days. According to local sources contacted by Fides Agency, l ...
• 12 September 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Maalula, land of martyrs: death in odium fidei of the young Sarkis Damascus ( Agenzia Fides ) - For Syrian Christians, Maalula, the Christian village in the north of Damascus, attacked in recent days by armed Islamist groups, is already a "land of martyrs". Thanks to an eyewitness, a Ch ...
• 11 September 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Non-violence, reconciliation and peace: Operazione Colomba begins for Syrian refugees Beirut ( Agenzia Fides ) - "Provide support to Syrian refugees in Lebanese camps; meet and support the Syrian reality working for a peace that will not and cannot be obtained with the use of weapons": these are the decla ...