ASIA/IRAQ - Northern Iraq's displaced get own radio station
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - A radio station at the service of the refugees in northern Iraq, belonging to different ethnic and religious groups - Christians and Muslims, Kurds, Shiites eyazidi - forced to flee their homes be ...
ASIA/VIETNAM – Children of the war return to Vietnam in search of relatives
Ba Ria (Agenzia Fides) - Some of the 4,500 Eurasian children that at the end of the Indochina War (1946-1954) were sent to orphanages in France, have just returned to Vietnam to search their relatives who were left behin ...
10 April 2015
ASIA/INDONESIA - The rediscovery of the value of assisting the sick
Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - In Indonesia, where Catholics are only 5%, Good Friday is still a holiday throughout the Country, in order to give the opportunity to Catholics to live the historical event of the passion and de ...
ASIA/VIETNAM - A new law on religions is being studied
Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Vietnam is considering the possibility of reforming the law regulating religious communities in the country: according to some representatives of Christian Churches, government o ...
9 April 2015
ASIA/SYRIA - Caritas operator dies in the bombing in Aleppo
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The operator of Caritas Syria, Safouh Al-Mosleh, was killed at noon on Tuesday, April 7, in the bombing that hit his home, located in Farhat square, where Greek-Catholic, Armenian and Maronite ca ...
9 April 2015
ASIA/PAKISTAN - School programs in the name of religious tolerance in Sindh
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - In the name of the affirmation of religious tolerance and respect for religious minorities, the Sindh government has included a well-known speech of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - 28 Christians are indicted for the lynching of Lahore
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Anti Terrorism Court in Lahore has indicted 28 Christians accused of the brutal killing of two Muslims after the attacks on the churches in Youhanabad, on March 15, and for the ensuing riots. ...