Asia

• 17 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Provincial elections: 3 seats out of 447 reserved for Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - At the upcoming provincial elections, scheduled for April 20, the seats up for grabs in the different provinces are 447, and only nine of them are reserved to all the ethnic and religious minori ...
• 17 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - In Kashmir false accusations against Christians for "conversions of children" Srinagar (Agenzia Fides) - Police in Srinagar, capital of Indian Kashmir, rejected as "false and misleading", a complaint by some mullahs (Islamic leaders) who accused the Christians of "conversion of children." As sourc ...
• 16 April 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Patriarch: Christians are encouraged to participate in the next election, but politics is the responsibility of the laity Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - An encouragement to participate in the upcoming provincial election, and to make serious and positive proposals to contribute to the common good has been addressed to all the Christians of Iraq ...
• 16 April 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - General Elections: the Church traces the identikit of the "good candidate" Lingayen (Agenzia Fides) – To face the next general elections, scheduled for next May 13, "with the eyes of faith" and "the mind enlightened by the values of the Gospel." This is what a Pastoral Letter by His Exc. Mgr. ...
• 16 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - A church burnt down: violence carried out by Hindu fundamentalist in Chhattisgarh Kondagaon (Agenzia Fides) - There is no peace for Christians in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, in central India. The state, on the border with the states of Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, is emerging as one of those in wh ...
• 16 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Education for poor children in the indian slums of Allahabad Allahabad (Agenzia Fides) - The International Day of street children who in the world are about 250 million was recently celebrated. We are talking about vulnerable young children, forced to beg and steal to survive with ...
• 15 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - India, the world's largest importer of weapons, must learn from Pacem in Terris New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "India, the biggest importer of weapons in the world, and one of the 24 countries that abstained in the UN vote in favor of the Treaty on the limitation of the arms trade needs to learn the ri ...
• 13 April 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Commission for National Harmony: death penalty for the false accusations of blasphemy Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - False accusations of blasphemy should be punished with death penalty: is the conclusion reached by the Senate Standing Committee on National Harmony. As reported to Fides Agency, in a meeting ...
• 13 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - To die or leave? The Maronite Archbishop of Damascus talks about the unanswered dilemma of Syrian Christians Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Syria "must choose between two bitter chalices: to die or leave." A dilemma that involves the whole ecclesial reality in this battered Country, and is told by the Maronite archbis ...
• 12 April 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The percentage of Christians in the Palestinian territories has halved over the last 13 years Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The percentage of Christians in the population of the Palestinian territories has halved since the year two thousand, from 2% to 1% over the last 13 years. And in Jerusalem, where in 1948, 27, ...
• 11 April 2013
  ASIA/VIET NAM - Christian leader who died in prison: a victim of beatings, the faithful do not believe in suicide Dak Nong (Agenzia Fides) – There are suspicions concerning the death of the Christian leader of the Vietnamese Evangelical Church Hoang Van Ngai (also known as Vam Ngaij Vaj), who died on March 17 while he was in polic ...
• 10 April 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Chaldean Bishop Audo: Aleppo is starving Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "One lives day by day. I have the impression that people are more and more exhausted. They have all become poor and everyone is always looking for something to eat for himself and his family. In ...
• 10 April 2013
  ASIA/INDIA – Church insulted and defamed in a newspaper of Hindu fundamentalists Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church is hell and nuns live a life of hell, abused and battered": are among the statements published yesterday by the newspaper "Charaiveti" (which in Hindi means "Go ahead") published in t ...
• 10 April 2013
  ASIA/JAPAN - "Peaceful relations between North Korea and neighboring countries": the hope of the Church Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - Peace is the key word to be pursued by all means, and actions at local and regional level, but also internationally. The support expressed by Pope Francis in talks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki ...
• 9 April 2013
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - In the country there are more than 8 million students, 39% of whom are girls Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - Despite the economic problems and obstacles caused by the folk traditions, Afghan girls are returning to school in their villages to guarantee themselves a future. One of these structures is in Qa ...