Asia
29 February 2016
ASIA/IRAQ - Government annunces new measure to curb corrupt state works abetting fraud to the damage of Iraqi Christians
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) –State workers abetting property to the damage of Christians will be severely punished with temporary suspension or definitive dismissal. This was announced in a television interview by the ...
29 February 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Execution of Qadri, the killer of governor Taseer
Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) – Mumtaz Qadri, bodyguard and killer of the governor of Punjab Salmaan Taseer, assassinated 4 January 2011, was hanged this morning in Adiala prison, under massive security measures.
After t ...
26 February 2016
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Leopold Kropfreiter
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 13, 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Leopold Kropfreiter of the Servants of Jesus and Mary, SJM as Nat ...
26 February 2016
ASIA/INDIA - A website on the martyrs of Orissa
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - A website to describe the ordeal that the survivors of anti-Christian massacres in Orissa still live at a social, judicial, religious level: is the initiative launched by a group of activist ...
26 February 2016
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Door open to mercy, recalling the 150th anniversary of the persecution of Byeong-in
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - On 23 February 1866 the greatest persecution of the history of the Korean Church began: about 9,000 people, almost half of the total Catholic population at that time, were killed for their faith. ...
26 February 2016
ASIA/IRAN - For Iranian Christians: to participate in the elections is a "national duty" and a "sign of belonging to the people"
Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - The Iranian Assyrian Christians, like those of other confessions, perceive that the participation in elections scheduled for them today is a "national duty" and also "an important sign of their b ...
25 February 2016
ASIA/IRAQ - New initiative of minority MP’s against the islamization law of minors
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - In recent days, members of Christians present in the Parliamentary Assembly of Iraq have called for greater representation of minorities in the government of technocrats led by Prime Minister Ha ...
25 February 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Paul Bhatti: re-establish the Ministry of Minorities, recalling Shahbaz
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Re-establish the Ministry of Minorities in Pakistan, an organization that at a federal level takes care of the representation of religious minorities: is the proposal that Paul Bhatti launch ...
25 February 2016
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Orthodox Archbishop: celebrate Easter and Christmas together is the desire of all Christians
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "I think there is not a Catholic or an Orthodox who does not have the desire to see a rapprochement between the Churches, and to find a common date to celebrate Easter and Christmas. We pray t ...
24 February 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Sarathi Jhalak: Community radio which every morning allows citizens to speak
Anugondanahalli (Agenzia Fides) - Every morning, a group of Indian farmers of Anugondanahalli village are huddled around Sarathi Jhalak, a community radio station that broadcasts a program on climate change. The group of ...
24 February 2016
ASIA/INDIA - The Franciscans: "In the Jubilee Year, freedom for a thousand prisoners"
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Free a thousand prisoners, detained for minor offenses in Indian jails, granting them a special "pardon" in the Jubilee Year: is what the Indian Franciscans submit to the government, hoping th ...
24 February 2016
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Tension for minorities and missionaries heavily guarded
Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Tension remains high in Banglasdesh, and the necessary monitoring of the missionary life "is causing some consequences on the exercise of the ministry", says a note from the Pontifical Institute f ...
24 February 2016
ASIA/TURKEY - Mayor of Selciuk relaunches: we will build the biggest statue of the Virgin Mary in the world
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Turkish Mayor Zeynel Bakici, at the head of the town of Selcuk – where there is the archaeological site of the ancient city of Ephesus - has relauched plans to build the tallest statue in the ...
23 February 2016
ASIA/INDONESIA - Young people of different religions together invoke harmony and peace
Semarang (Agenza Fides) – Get to know each other, share experiences, pray together and invoke harmony and peace in Indonesia: with this spirit young people of all religious communities came together in recent days at H ...
23 February 2016
ASIA/SYRIA - Other 43 Assyrian Christians of the Khabur valley released by jihadists
Hassakè (Agenzia Fides) - The jihadists affiliated to the self-styled Islamic State (Daesh) have released 43 other Assyrian Christians of the group of about 250 people who had been taken from the Christian villages of t ...
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