Asia

• 24 June 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Archbishop of Yangon: "The Church architect of the dialogue to stop religious conflicts" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "In the country there is tension and fear. Buddhist extremist groups feed hatred and communal violence against Muslims, but they are few. Some Buddhist monks have offered shelter to the victims a ...
• 24 June 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA – A Catholic priest killed. Bishop Hindo: he offered his martyrdom for peace Gassanieh (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, June 23 the Syrian priest François Murad was killed in Gassanieh, in northern Syria, in the convent of the Custody of the Holy Land where he had taken refuge. This is confirmed b ...
• 22 June 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Year of Faith: "Small Christian Communities" to revitalize the people of God Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - One of the ways and places to revitalize and give new impetus to the faith of God's people in Korea are the "Small Christian Communities". For this reason the Bishops' Conference of Korea has prom ...
• 21 June 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The new "Church of Repentance and Redemption" symbol of reconciliation between the Koreas Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The consecration of the new "Church of Repentance and Redemption" and the construction of a new "Centre of Reconciliation of the Korea People": is the initiative launched by the Korean Church as a ...
• 21 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – A young Christian boy converted from Islam reported missing Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - A 16-year-old boy, who converted to Christianity from Islam, has been reported missing since May 25 in Peshawar, capital of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to local sources of Fid ...
• 21 June 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Prayers for the bishops of Aleppo kidnapped two months ago Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The Churches of the Middle East unite in prayer to invoke the release of the two Metropolitan Bishops of Aleppo - the Syrian Orthodox Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and the Greek Orthodox Boulos ...
• 20 June 2013
  ASIA/INDIA – Blasphemous poses: the Indian model apologizes to Christians Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian actress and model Kavitta Verma made an an official apology because in a film and a video she appeared in seductive poses with a rosary around her neck, causing the protest of Indian C ...
• 20 June 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako in Syria, the only solution is political Rome (Agenzia Fides) - To come out of the conflict affecting Syria, "the only solution to look for is political," while the prospect of supplying arms to the rebels - favored by some Western Countries - leads to a dead e ...
• 20 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Progress in justice for the case of a Christian girl raped Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The High Court in Lahore rejected the bail application for the Muslim man accused of having beaten and raped Fouzia Bibi, a 15-year-old Christian girl in the district of Kasur in Punjab. The youn ...
• 20 June 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Bishops: education, federalism, interfaith harmony are the challenges for the nation Pathein (Agenzia Fides) - In order to progress in freedom, fraternity and democracy, Myanmar has to face some major challenges: the situation of indigenous peoples; the peace in conflicts with ethnic minorities; the prot ...
• 19 June 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Appeal for Christian schools in Gaza Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "It is high time that Parliaments, educational institutions around the world raise their voice on what might happen soon in Gaza, making themselves be heard even by Palestinian political leade ...
• 18 June 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Dominican Monge: the EU on the Turkish dossier got it all wrong Istanbul (Agenzia Fides - The authoritarian involution of the Turkish leadership was "favored by European politics, or better by the European polical immobility with respect to the integration of Turkey to the Union." Th ...
• 17 June 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai consecrates Lebanon to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Harissa (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites Boutros Bechara Rai consecrated Lebanon and the entire Middle East to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, praying that all the peoples of the region are freed ...
• 14 June 2013
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Christian graves vandalised in the cemetery in Jaffa Jaffa (Agenzia Fides) - Attackers desecrated graves in an Arab Christian cemetery in Jaffa and the headstones were sprayed with Hebrew graffiti, apparently the incident took place probably in the night between Wednesday ...
• 14 June 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians oppressed by abuse and usury in Punjab Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian, victim of violent Muslim moneylenders, another kidnapped and tortured for a whole night: are the two lastest "ordinary stories of abuse" reported to Fides by the Christians of Punjab ...