Asia
7 May 2016
ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch Rai again meets political leaders to discuss the institutional crisis
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Almost two years after the end of the mandate of Michel Sleiman, the office of President of the Lebanese Republic remains vacant due to the vetoes among different political blocs. In the face of ...
6 May 2016
ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops: Lebanon looks like a ship without a helm
Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The Arab world is threatened in its very existence by "murderous identities", and crises and wars which upset the whole region have their deep roots in "regional conflicts" and "international po ...
6 May 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Bishop kidnapped: three priests arrested
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian police arrested 14 people, accusing them of having organized and participated in the kidnapping of Mgr. Prasad Gallela, Bishop of the diocese of Cuddapah, in Andhra Pradesh, kidnapp ...
6 May 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian couple burned alive for blasphemy: impunity of perpetrators
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The trial regarding the culprits of the lynching of a Christian couple Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi, burned alive for alleged blasphemy on November 4, 2014 appears to be complicated.
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6 May 2016
ASIA/TURKEY - European Award for the Armenian church in Diyarbakir, confiscated by the government
Diyarbakir (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian Apostolic Church of St. Giragos (San Ciriaco) in Diyarbakır has been awarded for its recent restoration by the European Union, but the awards ceremony and the laying of the comm ...
4 May 2016
ASIA/IRAQ - The Peshmerga and the coalition raid reject the jihadists outside the village of Telskuf
Telskuf (Agenzia Fides) - The offensive of about 150 jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) who yesterday, May 3, had attacked Telskuf, a town in the Nineveh Plain where before August 2014 about 12 thousand Christians li ...
4 May 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Boom of vocations to priesthood: a lively and vibrant Church in faith
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – That in Pakistan is a Church that lives faith in every day difficulties, in a country where 95% are Muslims and is "fervent in priestly vocations and consecrated life, a sign of God's blessing, ...
3 May 2016
ASIA/THAILAND - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Peter Watchasin Kritjharoen
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 3, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Peter Watchasin Kritjharoen of the clergy of the diocese of Ratchabur ...
3 May 2016
ASIA/TURKEY - The appeals of Christian communities against the expropriation of churches in Diyarbakir increase
Diyarbakir (Agenzia Fides) - While in Diyarbakir the curfew ordered by the Turkish authorities continues, the appeals filed by the legal representatives of foundations linked to the Christian community against the order ...
3 May 2016
ASIA/YEMEN - Two months after the massacre in Aden, negotiations continue for the release of Father Tom
Aden (Agenzia Fides) - Two months after the massacre perpetrated by a terrorist commando in the nursing home in Aden (see Fides 04/03/2016), where four Missionaries of Charity were killed along with 12 other people, ther ...
2 May 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Youth Ministry with the works of mercy
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people need to be involved, to experience mercy and to give mercy. Thus the Jubilee makes sense for them": says to Fides Fr. Jahanzeb Iqbal, a priest from Lahore, pastor of St. Antony and ...
2 May 2016
ASIA/CAMBODIA - Formation for children on vulnerability and discrimination
Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - A training session and reinforcement of the students, on the theme of support to the most vulnerable children and discriminated against, was recently held in the schools of Oh Cham Na (KSO ce ...
2 May 2016
ASIA/SYRIA - Catholic Bishops of Aleppo: let us participate in the Passion of Christ, our suffering will not be in vain
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are children of the Resurrection, of Hope, and we firmly believe that this suffering will not be in vain: following the footsteps of the saints and martyrs, we add them to the Passion of Chri ...
2 May 2016
ASIA/PALESTINE - President Abu Mazen: we have a mission and a duty to protect the presence of Christians in the Middle East
Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - The protection of the Christian presence in Palestine and all the East "is for us a duty and a mission": this is how Palestinian President Abu Mazen reiterated his commitment to do everything h ...
28 April 2016
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The first Camaldolese monastery in the Country under construction
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In these days father Alessandro Barban, Prior General of the Camaldolese Congregation of the Order of St. Benedict, met the Archbishop of Seoul, Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, who strongly support ...
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