Asia
23 December 2014
ASIA/INDIA - At Christmas, the "Day of good governance": Christians approve
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian government has proclaimed December 25 "Day of good governance": it will be celebrated at a national level as a time when institutions, citizens, associations and believers of all re ...
23 December 2014
ASIA/IRAQ - In the autonomous region of Kurdistan, Christmas will be a holiday, in solidarity with Christians
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan has proclaimed December 25 a holiday in order to express the solidarity of the institutions and the whole society towards Christians, on ...
23 December 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Share of government jobs reserved for minorities: still an illusion
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Many state offices in Pakistan do not comply with the requirement to reserve a share of 5% of government jobs to religious minorities: is the complaint made by lawyer Mushtaq Gill, claiming of ha ...
22 December 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christmas: solidarity with the victims of the massacre in Peshawar
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - For Christians in Pakistan, Christmas 2014 will be marked by prayers and moments of solidarity for the victims of the massacre in Peshawar, where the Taliban killed more than 130 children in an a ...
22 December 2014
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarch Twal visits Gaza: "today for many refugee children it would be a luxury to live in the grotto where Jesus was born"
Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - 700 Christians in Gaza this year have received permission from Israel to reach Bethlehem and celebrate the Solemnity of Christmas in the place where Jesus was born. But not many will actually be ab ...
19 December 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - False accusations of blasphemy towards 11 Christians
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Eleven Christians in Islamabad, including a Protestant Pastor, have been accused of blasphemy by a woman, Naseem Bibi, for revenge after a private dispute. The woman in fact had been denounced ...
19 December 2014
ASIA/INDIA - Christian leaders: "Christmas with a heavy heart because of the violence against Churches"
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "In view of Christmas we have a heavy heart because of the violence against our Churches in various parts of the country, especially in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and ...
19 December 2014
ASIA/INDIA - Education, food and protection for orphaned girls
Visakhapatnam (Agenzia Fides) - The Sisters of St. Louis began their work in the Indian diocese of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, in 1986. After arriving in the isolated village of Yellamanchilli they realized after some ...
19 December 2014
ASIA/LEBANON - Appeal of the Chaldean Bishop of Beirut for displaced Iraqi Christians
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – There are more than eight hundred Christian families who have fled Mosul and Nineveh Plain and have found refuge in Iraq. Their condition is that of the "newcomers" in a Country already destabi ...
18 December 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops: a minute of silence in Catholic schools, at Christmas prayer for peace
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Catholic schools across Pakistan will observe a minute of silence and gathering during the morning prayer, remembering the victims of the Taliban attack in the military school in Pes ...
18 December 2014
ASIA/IRAQ - The Islamic State turns the monastery of St. George into a prison, the cross on the dome removed
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - In the city of Mosul, captured by jihadist militants of the Islamic State (IS) in June, Christian churches continue to be turned into prisons.
Last weekend, the jihadists of the IS transferred at ...
18 December 2014
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christmas Message of His Beatitude Patriarch Twal: tragedies and hopes of a difficult year
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy City of Jerusalem "is under blood and tears" and religious antagonism jeopardizes its mission of "city of peace and inter-religious coexistence". The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fou ...
17 December 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Justice and Peace" Commission: after the massacre in Peshawar it is urgent to "rediscover unity"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The only path, the only answer to the terrible massacre in Peshawar is to rediscover the unity of the country; to rediscover the core of humanity and coexistence that founds the nation; to send ...
17 December 2014
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society: "The Taliban and Pakistan are incompatible"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The massacre of Peshawar marks a division in the history of Pakistan and incontrovertibly establishes that "the Taliban and Pakistan are incompatible": says a note of the "Human Rights Commission ...
17 December 2014
ASIA/IRAQ - Caritas Iraq intensifies aid for 6 thousand refugee families in Dohuk
Dohuk (Agenzia Fides) - The team of Caritas Iraq working in the region of Dohuk, in Iraqi Kurdistan, has launched the support program that provides for the distribution of aid and the provision of assistance to 6 thousan ...
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