ASIA/INDIA - The Andhra Pradesh government assures support to Churches
Secunderabad (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Indian state of Andra Pradesh assures services and rights to Christian minorities, and the protection of church properties: is what emerged from the recent meeting in ...
22 September 2015
AFRICA/EGYPT - A Fatwa to allow the Copts on the electoral Salafist lists
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The use of an old Fatwa helped leaders of the Salafist al-Nour Party, issued by Sheikh Mohammed Nasreddin Albanian al Albani, to justify in the eyes of the more rigid leaders and activists, the re ...
ASIA/INDIA - A Carmelite nun killed in Kerala
Palai (Agenzia Fides) - Murder as a result of a robbery: this is the track that investigators are following after the death of Carmelite Sister Amala Valummel, 69 years old, who was found dead in a convent in Palai, in K ...
ASIA/YEMEN - A church devastated by fire in Aden
Aden (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of the Holy Family in Aden was looted and set on fire by unidentified armed men, but according to observers could belong to al Qaeda, rooted in the region. The port city, in the south of ...
17 September 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN - To commemorate the "Christian heroes"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – To commemorate the Christian heroes who gave their lives for Pakistan: a special celebration was held at the "Santa Maria" minor Seminary in Lahore, which was attended by priests, lay people an ...
ASIA/CAMBODIA - Forcible return for the Vietnamese "Montagnards"
Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Cambodia has asked hundreds of Vietnamese Christian refugees to return home. According to the UN, in August only 13 out of more than 200 "Montagnards" (as the indigenous people who inhabit th ...