ASIA - Climate change and ecology at the attention of Asian churches
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Churches of Asia focus their attention on environmental issues and climate change. As Fides learns, in view of the publication of Pope Francis’ Encyclical dedicated to the issues of protect ...
ASIA/NEPAL - Children bought for $ 500 among the ruins of the earthquake
Gorkham (Agenzia Fides) - While the Nepalese population are trying to rebuild their lives devastated by the earthquake, traffickers take advantage of poverty to increase illegal trade. This is what four young Californian ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bail denied to Christians and Muslims accused of lynching
Lahore (Fides) - An anti-terrorism court has denied bail to 18 Christians who are in prison, accused of having carried out the lynching of two Muslims, which took place in Youhanabad, a Christian area in Lahore, immediat ...
ASIA/INDIA - Suicides of farmers, a scourge of society
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Over the past 20 years, about 300,000 farmers have committed suicide in India, according to the National Bureau of Statistics of India. And in the first months of 2015, 257 farmers committed s ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Jinnha Institute: difficult life for religious minorities
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - In Pakistan, space and freedom for ethnic and religious minorities and marginalized communities is more and more restricted, and those who defend human rights are being targeted: is what the p ...