ASIA/INDIA - The drama of tea pickers left to themselves
Dharanipur (Agenzia Fides) - A team run by the Jesuits in North Bengal is providing food and health care to the workers of a tea plantation where two people were killed at the end of last year, presumably due to causes r ...
ASIA/IRAQ – Safety measures taken for the relics of St. Thomas Mosul
(Agenzia Fides) - The capture of Mosul by the jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which began on June 9, besides causing the exodus of a large part of the population - both Christian and Muslim - has c ...
ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai: the existence of Lebanon at risk
Diman (Agenzia Fides) - The delay or postponement of the election of a new President of the Republic "threatens the very existence of Lebanon", because "only a Maronite President with broad consensus and appropriate pers ...
ASIA/ISRAEL – Tension is always high in the detention camp in Holot
Holot (Agenzia Fides) – Tension remains high in the detention center in Holot, in the Negev desert, where last week the malaise of prisoners gave rise to several initiatives of protest and mobilization, repressed by th ...
5 July 2014
ASIA/IRAQ - Churches in Kirkuk assist Muslim refugees during Ramadan
Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - In the city of Kirkuk, the Churches are intensely engaged in assisting refugees - mainly Muslims – who have fled from Mosul and villages that are under the control of Sunni insurgents in the no ...