ASIA/NEPAL - Earthquake: the help of religious congregations
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) – The religious congregations in Nepal are committed to helping victims of the earthquake which devasted the country on 25 April. As reported in a note sent to Fides by the Apostolic Vicariate ...
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Evangelii Gaudium in Bahasha language
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation "Evangelii Gaudium" will be translated in Bahasha, the indigenous language spoken by the majority of the population of Malaysia and Indonesia. As Agenz ...
3 July 2015
ASIA/IRAQ - The founding conference of the Chaldean League has concluded
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – The first elected President of the Chaldean League, the organization - strongly supported by Chaldean Patriarch Raphael Louis I - that celebrated from the first to July 3 its founding conferenc ...
ASIA/INDIA - Stop violence against women
Nagpur (Agenzia Fides) - A silent march and a prayer vigil to express solidarity with the Salesian Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate (SMMI) and to ask for justice: with this spirit more than 2,000 people gathered nea ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Three missionary nuns forced to leave Pakistan
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Three Filipino missionary nuns of the Congregation of the "Religious of the Virgin Mary" will have to leave Pakistan. The High Court in Islamabad has in fact confirmed the decision of the Mini ...
1 July 2015
ASIA/INDIA - A radio station to help farmers in Bundelkhand
Tikamgarh (Agenzia Fides) - Radio Bundelkhand has about 250,000 listeners, of whom 99% are farmers, distributed in ten villages that form Bundelkhand, agricultural region of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. This vast re ...