Asia

• 14 December 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Russian-American joint ultimatum to Assad? We urgently need a "political solution" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Russia and the United States are getting ready to order a joint ultimatum to President Bashar Assad through the special envoy of the UN and the Arab League, Lakhdar Brahimi, in order for him to ...
• 14 December 2012
  ASIA/NEPAL - Christians contest the census of the government Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Nepal have rejected the latest figures released by the Government of Nepal on the religious composition of the population in the Himalayan country. The 2011 Census Report, publis ...
• 14 December 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The Christmas charitable activities of the Catholic Youth: to make experience of the encounter with Jesus and strengthen the faith Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The children of the poor families of the parish of St. Mary Magdalene in Hong Kong have anticipated the Christmas season by sharing the joy of the birth of Jesus with the young of the Catholic ...
• 13 December 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Violence and death in the "Valley of the Christians": 150 thousand faithful in terror Tartus (Agenzia Fides) - About 150 thousand Christians live in fear in more than 40 villages in the so-called "Valley of the Christians" in western Syria. The valley ("Wadi al Nasara"), a historical stronghold of the Syr ...
• 13 December 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Maronite Bishop of Latakia: "Christians targeted by radical Islamists and bandits" Latakia (Agenzia Fides) - In the area of Latakia, Tartus and Tal khalakh, and in the "Valley of the Christians", "there is chaos: Islamist militias and criminal gangs are taking advantage of the situation of general inst ...
• 12 December 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - The Church and the "untouchables": a test bench in the Year of Faith New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In the 250 million untouchables, the Dalits, who in India are considered "human waste" there is "the moaning of the Spirit of God" that expresses and shouts the dignity of every human being. A ...
• 12 December 2012
  ASIA/NEPAL - Pilot project to assist women who have suffered violence Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Following a study carried out in 2011 by researchers at the BICE (Bureau International Catholique de l'enfance), which deals with children’s rights, a project to help women and their relatio ...
• 12 December 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The realization of the Rosary beads becomes an occasion for catechesis Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – A hand made rosary, to thank the sisters for their reception: is the Christmas initiative of the girls who are guests of the College of the Missionaries of the Good Shepherd in Hong Kong to ...
• 12 December 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Reproductive health Bill: Bishops urge politicians to respect the right to life Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - "The truth must be at the basis of the law", the nation needs a law "to affirm and protect the truth about the dignity of the human person, who has been created in the very image of God, the sancti ...
• 11 December 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A statue of the Madonna desecrated in a parish in Faisalabad Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - On 30 November, in a Catholic church in Chak Jhumra, diocese of Faisalabad, in Punjab, the destruction caused by throwing stones at the statue of the Virgin Mary brought horror, fear, dismay and ...
• 11 December 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Christian missionary injured moved to Sweden Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An air ambulance moved the Swedish Christian missionary Birgitta Almeby, 72 to Sweden, she was injured in a bomb attack in Lahore on December 3 (see Fides 04/12/2012). This is what Pastor Liaqat ...
• 11 December 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Vaccination campaign against measles and polio for more than 1 million children Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – To vaccinate one million and 400 thousand children against polio and measles in the country affected by armed conflict is the current goal of UNICEF. So far, over 500 000 have been reached. T ...
• 11 December 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - All together to serve the most vulnerable members of society: Huiling announces the opening of a new center Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - All together to serve the most vulnerable members of society: thus Fr. Fernando Cagnin, a PIME missionary, urged the participants in the celebration for the 4 years of the establishment of the ...
• 10 December 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Christian Armenian singer arrested by the secret services has been released Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Sam Ghannoum, a 28 year-old young Christian Armenian singer, who was arrested on October 15 by the Syrian secret services after his criticism to the regime, was released and returned to his famil ...
• 10 December 2012
  ASIA/IRAQ - Father Dall'Oglio welcomed in the monastic community which began in Sulaymanya, in Iraqi Kurdistan Sulaymanya (Agenzia Fides) - Father Paolo Dall'Oglio SJ, founder of the monastic community of Deir Mar Musa, after his expulsion from Syria was welcomed into the newly founded monastery of Deir Maryam el Adhra, which beg ...