Asia

• 21 March 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The new Muslim mayor: I want the Annunciation to be proclaimed a civic feast in Nazareth Nazareth (Agenzia Fides ) - "It is my greatest desire that the Feast of the Annunciation is proclaimed a civic official holiday for all Nazareth". This is what the new mayor of Nazareth, the Muslim Ali Sallam said in a r ...
• 21 March 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - "Do justice": the Indian Church next to the weakest Patna ( Agenzia Fides) - The defense of the rights of the most vulnerable is a priority for the Church: is what His Exc. Mgr. William D' Souza, Archbishop of Patna, the capital of the Indian state of Bihar said during a ...
• 21 March 2014
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES – Award to the Islamic movement for dialogue "Silsilah" in Southern Philippines Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - The movement for Islamic-Christian dialogue "Silsilah" which began in the southern Philippines by PIME missionary Fr. Sebastiano D'Ambra, won the first prize of "World Interfaith Harmony ...
• 20 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy and attacks against Hindus: the condemnation of Catholic Bishops Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Strong condemnation for an act of intolerance and request to the government to protect the places of worship of any religion: is what is expressed, in a statement sent to Fides, by the "Justice a ...
• 20 March 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Oblate missionaries: importance to guarantee the respect of human rights in Sri Lanka Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Satisfaction for the release of the missionary Fr. Praveen Mahesan, OMI, and Ruki Fernando, a priest and an activist who had been stopped by the police on March 16; concern for the perpetuation o ...
• 18 March 2014
  ASIA/CHINA - Priests and nuns in the most remote villages to help the faithful live Lent Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The presence of priests and religious in villages or in the remotest basic ecclesial communities, especially in inaccessible areas, Community Eucharistic adoration in parishes, charitable ...
• 18 March 2014
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai at the Mass for Caritas: the war of attrition in the Country must stop Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Political leaders and all those who wish to remain faithful to the Lebanese nation must put "an end to the attrition in the Country, giving confidence in the government in order to relaunch the ...
• 17 March 2014
  ASIA/LAOS - Christians in a village are ordered to abandon their faith Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian faithful living in the Laotian village of Natahall in Phin district, in the province of Savannakhet (southern Laos) are struggling hard to defend the constitutionally guarantee ...
• 17 March 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Audo: war devastates the hearts; and the work of Caritas opens new fronts Aleppo ( Agenzia Fides ) - The ongoing conflict is killing the Syrian people also at a psychological level, and this pushes Caritas to take charge of new emergencies, such as those of the block of work activities and psy ...
• 17 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi: the hearing of the appeal postponed, but lawyers remain confident Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The first hearing of the appeal trial, scheduled this morning, March 17th, in front of the High Court in Lahore, has been postponed due to the absence of one of the judges. This was reported to F ...
• 15 March 2014
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Tamil clergy to the UN: "human rights abuses, international intervention is urgent" Mannar (Agenzia Fides) – The Tamil Christian clergy submitted a letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council for an international investigation into the country’s alleged war crimes and human rights violation. T ...
• 15 March 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi’s trial begins Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, March 17, the hearing before the High Court of Lahore - second instance –regarding Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman and mother of 5 children, reopens. She was arrested on June ...
• 14 March 2014
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Church and government engaged in the Pope's visit; boom of participants at the Asian Youth Day Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Korean Church has welcomed with joy Pope Francis’ visit to the country and has set up a special Commission, composed of Bishops, religious and laity, who are responsible for organizing the v ...
• 14 March 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - Three convicted and six acquitted for the rape of a nun in the massacres of Christians in Orissa New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – There is shock and dismay among the Christians in India after this morning’s ruling, March 14, in which a court of first instance in the district of Kandhamal, in Orissa, condemned three p ...
• 14 March 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Nassar: signs of hope in our Lent spent in war Damascus ( Agenzia Fides) - A new Lent spent in war "will mean pain and violence", but "from this abyss of suffering" one can also see "miraculous signs of light and hope". This is described by the Maronite Archbishop of ...