ASIA/PAKISTAN - Targeted killings against the Ahmadis: third victim
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A homeopathic doctor belonging to the Ahmadiyya community was killed in his clinic in Karachi on June 20. Chaudhry Khaliq Ahmad was killed by unknown assailants while he was on his way to visit ...
ASIA/LEBANON - Bishops divided, Synod of the Melkite Greek Church postponed
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Synod of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, after being opened on Monday 20 June in Ain Traz in a climate of internal tension, was interrupted and postponed until further notice due to the no ...
22 June 2016
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Death penalty: the Church to oppose President Duterte
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the Philippines will do everything possible to discourage political action likely to reintroduce the death penalty in the country. As Fides learns, the President of the Epi ...
22 June 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Five Christians acquitted from charges of blasphemy
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An anti-terrorism court in Lahore acquitted five Christians accused of blasphemy. The case was registered on August 16, 2015 against sixteen persons accused of having published material considere ...
21 June 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Catholic priest victim of an attempted murder
Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest was attacked in the state of Assam (in Northeast India) by an unidentified person and was hospitalized with serious injuries caused by machetes. Fr. Sushil John Soren, parish ...
21 June 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Catholic minister: "Stop to honor killing in Pakistan"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Honor killing is the worst form of example of brutality and bestiality in Pakistani society. The killing of a child by the mother or father is the desecration of the sacred bond of motherhood an ...