ASIA/SYRIA - Franciscan Dhiya Azziz released
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of Monday, January 4 the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land released a short statement confirming Fr. Dhiya Azziz OFM, a Franciscan friar, who disappeared on 23 December, has no ...
5 January 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians and Muslims: Christmas as a "seed of peace"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An interreligious meeting where to talk, celebrate, confront oneself on the theme of christmas starting from the Bible and the Koran: was the successful event organized by the Council for Interre ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A new church dedicated to St. Peter in the Year of Mercy
Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - A new church dedicated to St. Peter the Apostle is the gift that the Year of Mercy brings to the faithful of a small village near the town of Okara in the diocese of Faisalabad. As reported t ...
ASIA/INDIA - Martyrs in Orissa: Cardinal Gracias says "yes"
Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) and President of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC), wants the Churc ...
VATICAN - Fides for a fairer world
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas brings the desired coming of God, the One who can establish a kingdom of universal peace based on justice. The situation in the world does not seem to go in this direction.
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23 December 2015
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - During Advent, young people experience God's forgiveness
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Advent is a time of mercy: with this awareness the Archdiocese of Seoul promoted the celebration of the sacrament of Confession for young people placing 30 "Tents of reconciliation" outside Myeong ...