Asia

• 19 August 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - "Day for Justice": the Bishops deplore the arms race New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – To re-launch a message of "Social Justice in India" and say "no" to the arms race, rediscovering the encyclical "Pacem in Terris" of Pope John XXIII, 50 years after its publication (1963): i ...
• 19 August 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Archbishop of Seoul: "Let us entrust to Mary the reconciliation between the Koreas" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Virgin Mary is the "Mother of reconciliation between North Korea and South Korea" and we entrust her "the promotion of peace on the Korean peninsula": So says an official message of the Archbi ...
• 19 August 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy: the imam who formulated false allegations against the Catholic girl Rimsha Masih has been aquitted Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Bewilderment and bitterness in the Christian community in Pakistan, when on Saturday a court in Islamabad acquitted Khalid Chishti, the imam who had made false accusations of blasphemy against ...
• 10 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Matta Alkhouri: stop the speculation regarding the bishops kidnapped Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "Every week some politician or some journalist pulls out some story on the two Metropolitan Bishops of Aleppo kidnapped. But so far they have always been unverifiable deductions. The reality is ...
• 9 August 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Groups of the Assyrian diaspora in the U.S.: the Kurdistan Regional Government recognizes the genocide of our people Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Some organizations operating in the Iraqi Diaspora in the U.S. have sent a letter to Masoud Barzani, President of the Autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan, to ask for such a political entity to re ...
• 9 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Minister Bonino on the kidnapping of Fr. Dall'Oglio "We grope in the dark" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - ''There is no news on the group that kidnapped Fr. Dall’Oglio. We are still groping in the dark''. This is how Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino expressed herself, on the morning of August 9, ...
• 8 August 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Bishops: The Country must remain neutral Dimane (Agenzia Fides) - Lebanon can avoid the many pitfalls that threaten its stability only if it remains out of the wars raging on its borders and maintain its "neutrality before the on-going conflicts at a regional a ...
• 7 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Abuse and forced marriages for refugee children Zaatari (Agenzia Fides) - People continue to be increasingly desperate and poor. The children who fled the war in Syria with their families continue to be exploited, abused and forced into early marriages, quite unusual ...
• 7 August 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Education and logistics of poor quality penalize the children of Bihar Patna (Agenzia Fides) - The poor quality of education that children receive in the Indian state of Bihar is a daily tragedy. In the village of Gandaman a school has just opened to help the most vulnerable community of Da ...
• 7 August 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - Syriac Christians will be able to build their own schools Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The Foundation of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Santa Maria has received from the Turkish courts the permission to build their own schools for children and young people in their community, ensuri ...
• 5 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Jesuits of the Middle East: "Deep concern" for Fr. Dall'Oglio and Fr. Frans van der Lugt Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuits of the Middle East, with a statement sent to Fides Agency and signed by the Provincial Fr. Victor Assouad SJ, expressed "deep worry" about the fate of some of their confreres in the S ...
• 5 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate remains in Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The See of the Patriarchate of Antioch of the Syriac Orthodox remains in Damascus, "and there is no intention to move it to another place". This hypothesis is rejected firmly by the Patriarch M ...
• 2 August 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Catholic Churches of Holy Land: appointment in Nazareth to conclude the Year of Faith Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - In Holy Land the Year of Faith will end on Sunday November 17 in Nazareth, with an "International Day of Faith" and with a solemn Mass presided over by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Tw ...
• 2 August 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - A small "WYD" in the city of Aleppo Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - On the day that Pope Francis celebrated the concluding Mass of World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, even Christian children in the martyred city of Aleppo came together to experience a day of praye ...
• 31 July 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Seminary opens to seminarians of other Catholic Churches BAGHDAD (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Patriarchal Seminary has decided to accept candidates for priesthood belonging to other Catholic Churches, starting from the Syrian Catholic Church. The news was given by the Patria ...