Asia

• 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 ...
• 16 December 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Land grabbing, instrument of oppression against Christians Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - There is a subtle instrument of oppression against Christians in Pakistan: land grabbing. It is a phenomenon that consists of systematically expropriating Christian families of their land (large p ...
• 16 December 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Year of the consecrated life: Sisters in brothels to save the enslaved prostitutes Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - For the Indian religious women the Year of consecrated Life means a strong return to the contemplative dimension but also a renewed commitment to action: with this awareness, a group of four si ...
• 16 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - The autonomous region of Kurdistan includes Syriac and Armenian among the official languages Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, has approved the new legislation which also includes Armenian and Syriac among the five official languages used in the t ...
• 16 December 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - More than 7,000 Christian refugees from Iraq; Caritas Jordan: "in two months we will not have anymore resources to assist them" Amman (Agenzia Fides) – There are now more than 7000 Iraqi Christians who have fled from Mosul and Nineveh Plain and have found refuge in Jordan and the resources available for their assistance will end within two mont ...
• 15 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Solidarity towards Christians: the governor of Kirkuk proclaims December 25 a public Holiday Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) - The governor of the province of Kirkuk, Kurdish Necmettin Karim, proclaimed December 25 a public holiday, to express the solidarity of institutions and the whole society towards Christians, on th ...
• 13 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - President Barzani listens to minorities: need to review the composition of the Electoral Commission Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan Massoud Barzani has expressed his full support with regards to the requests to review the composition of the Electoral Commission also str ...
• 12 December 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - "I walk with you": the Catholic community prepares itself for Christmas Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, the Catholic communities in mainland China have launched numerous initiatives of charity and spirituality in this Advent season to help the faithful, especially the elderly ...
• 12 December 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch proposes three days of fasting to ask refugees to return to their homes Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Fasting, prayer and penance in the three days before Christmas and the invitation to give up parties with music and dancing at Christmas and New Year: these are the acts of penance that Patriarc ...
• 12 December 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish historians working to refute reconstructions of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 Ankara (Fides) - The Center for Strategic Research of the New Turkey YTSAM (Yeni Turkiye Stratejik Arastırmalar Merkezi) has commissioned eight Turkish historians to provide materials and useful contributions to refute ...