Asia

• 30 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Formation and awareness on rights, health, prevention of women from violence Pune (Agenzia Fides) - In India, boys are taught to continue their family activities, while girls are trained to be "good wives and submissive." Forced to marry very soon, they have to leave their families and live with ...
• 30 April 2013
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - The Jesuits: apostolate in prisons in Dili, encouraged by Pope Francis Dili (Agenzia Fides) - The apostolate in prisons, especially with young prisoners, is one of the special ministries for the Jesuit community in Dili, capital of East Timor. As reported to Fides, the second Sunday of each ...
• 30 April 2013
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The case of the Buddhist "Taliban" explodes: Church re-launches the work for religious harmony Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The group of Buddhist fundamentalist monks, extremist and violent seriously concern civil society and religious minorities. This is 'the alarm sent to Fides Agency by His Exc. Mgr. Raymond Wickr ...
• 29 April 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The industrial complex of Kaesong closes but the "North-South cooperation is not completely interrupted," notes the Church Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - South Korea has begun to return home workers engaged in the industrial complex in Kaesong, an area of economic production on the border between the Koreas, the result of cooperation between the go ...
• 29 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Holy Week of the Eastern Churches begins in the sign of the bishops kidnapped Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian communities in Syria are working together to plead for the release of the two bishops of Aleppo kidnapped – the Syrian-Orthodox Metropolitan Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and the ...
• 29 April 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - A missionary: "The collapse of the factory brings together the elements of discontent: explosive situation" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The story of the collapse of the factory on the outskirts of Dhaka" has shocked the nation and has aggregated all the elements of discontent in society," says to Fides Agency Fr. Silvano Garello, ...
• 27 April 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Eight arrests for the collapse of the factory, three Christian girls missing Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - As one continues to dig under the rubble of the eight-storey building which collapsed last Wednesday on the outskirts of Dhaka, burying more than three thousand people, all workers from three text ...
• 27 April 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The "new Korean martyrs": an example in the Year of Faith Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Faith is even martyrdom. We wanted to express our spiritual closeness to all the faithful who bore witness to their faith in the distant past, in recent decades, and many still keep alight the fl ...
• 27 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Anxiety for the bishops kidnapped. New details on the dynamics of the seizure Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - While among the Christians of Syria and around the world anxiety increases for the fate of Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos al-Yazigi - Syrian Orthodox and Greek-Orthodox bishops of Alepp ...
• 26 April 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The ultimatum of the Islamists to the government: "Approve the law of blasphemy or we will siege Dhaka" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) – There is tension in Bangladesh between Islamist movements and the government. The group Hefazat-e-Islam (HeI) - which at the beginning of April had promoted a major demonstration - has launched ...
• 26 April 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Wall in the valley of Cremisan changes route, but does not stop Beit Jala (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli Special Appeals Committee for land seizure under emergency released its verdict on actions brought by a convent of the Salesian Sisters and many families of Palestinian farmers aga ...
• 25 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Every year, 87,000 children die from preventable diseases Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - In Pakistan, about 435,000 annual deaths of children under five years of age, 20% die of polio, pneumonia, tuberculosis, measles, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis and hepatitis B, all preventable ...
• 25 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Report on Religious Freedom: sectarian and confessional violence increases Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The recent destruction of the minaret of the Umayyad mosque in Aleppo and the kidnapping of two Orthodox bishops, note sources of Fides, symbolize "having crossed a red line" in the Syrian co ...
• 25 April 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops' Appeal: "Cherish the earth to save Mindanao" Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) – It is urgent to preserve the natural environment, and save the island of Mindanao: this is a joint urgent appeal by the Bishops of the four dioceses on the island of Mindanao, in southern Ph ...
• 25 April 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Candlelight procession in Jerusalem against the French law on same-sex marriages Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Even in Jerusalem, as in other cities in the world, spontaneous gatherings are taking place these days to express dissent with the law authorizing the so-called same-sex marriage, which was ap ...