ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian accused of blasphemy mocked by his lawyers
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Humayun Faisal, mentally disabled accused of blasphemy in Lahore, will remain in prison as his lawyers have withdrawn their request for bail. As reported to Fides by the pool of Chr ...
30 June 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A thousand victims in five days due to heatwave
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Following the wave of scorching heat that is hitting Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan where there are 23 million people, 950 people have died in just five days. The morgues are not enough t ...
27 June 2015
ASIA/NEPAL - Debt relief for Nepal: the IMF says "no"
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The "Jubilee Network" campaign which unites 75 organizations and 400 religious communities around the world, has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) advocated for debt relief for Nepal ...
27 June 2015
ASIA/INDIA - Anti-Christian Violence in Kerala
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in India continue to face attacks by Hindu extremist groups. As reported to Fides by the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI), a new episode of anti-Christian violence took place o ...
27 June 2015
ASIA/HOLY LAND - "New" jihadist acronym threatens Christians in Jerusalem
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Some leaflets containing threats to Christians in Jerusalem and signed by an unknown organization calling itself "Islamic state in Palestine" - with the clear intention of showing their affili ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Government's plan for the security of religious minorities
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - To improve the protection of religious minorities: with this objective, the Interior Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Nisar, asked the provincial government to carry out an internal investigatio ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Threats to the president of the "Pakistan Youth Alliance"
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Maryam Kanwer, president of the "Pakistan Youth Alliance", who works in the building of peace, conflict resolution and social welfare, is under threat. This is denounced by the "Asian Human Ri ...