Asia

• 24 April 2013
  ASIA/VIETNAM - New project for 2000 children at the National Hospital for Pediatrics in Hanoi Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The National Hospital for Pediatrics in Hanoi (NHP) and Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù, in Rome (OPBG) have just launched a new project born from the need for special assistance to children wit ...
• 24 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Audo: "Kidnappings are a plague: the aim is money" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - More than religion, the reason is money. In an interview with Fides, the Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo, Msg. Antoine Audo, argues that "the scourge of kidnapping," that plagues the nation, has the ai ...
• 24 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishops kidnapped: yesterday's news on their release proved wrong Aleppo (Agenzia Fides). The news spread yesterday on the release of the two bishops in Aleppo kidnapped the night before have no certain and definite confirmation. The Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch confirms to ...
• 24 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Patriarchs of the bishops kidnapped: may God put an end to the tragedy of our people Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - A plea to the kidnappers so that they respect the life of the hostages, "refrain from any violence which is useful only to the enemies of our country" An appeal to abandon "all that allows or p ...
• 24 April 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The religious: " Government insufficient on ecology, human rights, corruption, land reform" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Benigno Aquino Jr. has not given satisfactory results to the population on important issues such as human rights, corruption, impunity, land reform, ecology. This was stated in ...
• 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 ...