Asia

• 5 May 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - NON CONFESSIONAL PARTIES, SCHOOL REFORM, SECULAR STATE, TRIBALISM OUTLAWED: THIS IS THE IRAQ IRAQI CHRISTIANS WANT Baghdad (Fides Service) - “Democracy in Iraq is possible and this is what we hope for as Christians, because a system of authentic democracy would enable us to stay in our country” Father Nizar of Ninive diocese tell ...
• 5 May 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - BORNEO : THE INTERNET REACHES ACROSS 5000 KM OF INDONESIAN ARCHIPELAGO TO FORM CATHOLIC TEACHERS Jakarta (Fides Service) – To communicate, instruct, share experiences across the Indonesian archipelago which extends from east to west for 5,000 km in the Pacific Ocean, the local Catholic Church has decided to use fo ...
• 2 May 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES COMMITTED TO FIGHTING SARS: CATHOLICS CALL FOR SUPPORT OF UNIVERSAL CHURCH Beijing (Fides Service) – Communities of the different religions in China, Buddhists, Muslims and Christians have joined the mobilisation of the people to fight SARS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, in particular by ...
• 2 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - LEADERS OF HINDU MOVEMENT REACH OUT TO CHRISTIANS ANXIOUS TO BUILD BROTHERHOOD AND UNIVERSAL FAMILY, REMOVING BARRIERS WHICH DIVIDE HUMANITY New Delhi (Fides Service) – Not only tension between Hindus and Catholics in India. Although in some states there are still attacks on Christians and Christian institutions by extremist Hindu groups, there are many gro ...
• 2 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - LAWYER SISTER GRACE THOMAS DEFENDS RIGHTS OF POOR AND EXCLUDED PEOPLES Bangalore (Fides Service) – Too many poor people end up in prison, even if they are innocent, because they have no legal assistance. This happens in developed countries in the West and all the more in India where pover ...
• 29 October 2001
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Open letter from the ruling party: "Guarantee justice for minorities" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - After the first-rate murders of Judge Arif Iqbal (who in 1997 had acquitted a Christian accused of blasphemy), of Governor Salmaan Taseer and the Minister Shahbaz Bhatti (2010), who had the coura ...