ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Eucharist is mercy: meeting of the priests of Mindanao
Kidapawan City (Agenzia Fides) - The Eucharist is the source of each pastoral work with families, with the poor, in the Church and in society, in need of the mercy of the Father: is the belief which emerged from the asse ...
ASIA/INDIA - Young people of all religions against religious fundamentalism
Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "Unity in diversity" and "condemnation of all religious extremism". These are the themes that characterized the recent meeting of more than 500 young people of different religions, gathered in Mu ...
19 February 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian Girl kidnapped: threats also to the lawyer
Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian girl, Nabila Bibi, was kidnapped, converted to Islam and forced to marry a Muslim man in Pattoki, in Kasur district, in Pakistani Punjab. Bashir Masih, the girl's father, went to the p ...
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Young people seek God through the Bible
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "We find God, not worshiping images or beautiful words, but when we apply the teachings that the Bible reveals to us": this is how Archbishop Osvaldo Padilla, Apostolic Nuncio in Korea, addressed ...
ASIA/INDIA - Donating blood is an act of mercy
Secunderabad (Agenzia Fides) - Donating blood as an act of mercy and compassion, to be rediscovered in the Jubilee Year: with this intention the "Catholic Health Association of India" (CHAI) organizes sessions of "blood ...
17 February 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian and Muslim children "ambassadors of peace"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Children are the hope of society and the first messengers of peace and harmony, starting from families and schools: in this spirit the "Council for Interreligious Dialogue", based in Lahore, form ...