Asia

• 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 ...
• 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 ...