ASIA/INDIA - Meeting street children is like meeting Christ
Nagpur (Agenzia Fides) - Meeting, visiting, assisting street children means encountering Christ: this is what a group of young Catholics in Nagpur, a city in central India experienced when they went in search of street c ...
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Less trade, more spirituality in the Church
Lingayen (Agenzia Fides) - The Church has to deal with spiritual and pastoral matters, and not give the idea of being a commercial enterprise: with this in mind the Catholic Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan, north of Mani ...
ASIA/INDIA - Dialogue between Vishnus and Christians
Tirupati (Agenzia Fides) - In India there is need to bear witness to the power of prayer combined with action to build a community of peace and harmony: this is the result of the recent session of dialogue between Christ ...
ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Patriarch: we offer the "fast of Nineveh"
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Chaldean Christians, in accordance with its liturgical tradition, are preparing to observe the so-called "fast of Nineveh" (Bautha of Ninwaye), preceding the three weeks of Lent. For three days, ...
ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops of Kerala give their support to farmers
Kottayam (Agenzia Fides) - The Council of Bishops of Kerala - which brings together the Bishops of various rites present in the state, support farmers in their needs and calls on the government not to neglect their probl ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian Protestant Church burned in Punjab
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - After a dispute between a group of Christians and Muslims, in the village of Bath, between Multan and Lahore, in Pakistani Punjab, the chapel of the Protestant Christian congregation called "Apos ...
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christian cemetery in Beit Gemal desecrated
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The cemetery adjacent to the Salesian monastery in Beit Gemal, in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, was desecrated and the wooden and concrete crosses placed on many tombs w ...