Asia
9 July 2013
ASIA/INDIA - Christians: no to the new anti-conversion law in Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) - Christians of the state of Madhya Pradesh (Central India) strongly oppose a measure that exacerbates the existing measures on the prohibition of conversion. The new law was approved by the execut ...
9 July 2013
ASIA - Bishop Wickramasinghe: major effort for inter-religious harmony is needed in Asia
Galle (Agenzia Fides) - "We call on all people of good will to promote dialogue among believers of all religions in Asia: it is urgent to promote mutual respect, understanding, harmony, love and peace in the hearts and m ...
9 July 2013
ASIA/PHILIPPINES – Mgr. Villegas, Cardinal Sin’s successor, dusts off the "critical collaboration" with the government
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The relationship between Church and government will be marked by a "critical collaboration": His Exc. Mgr. Socrates Villegas, Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan and newly elected President of the Cat ...
9 July 2013
ASIA/ISRAEL - The Justice and Peace Commission intervenes on the recruitment of Christian Arabs into the army
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - A document which has just released by the Justice and Peace Commission - a body linked to the Assembly of Ordinary Catholic Bishops of the Holy Land and presided by the Patriarch Emeritus Mich ...
8 July 2013
ASIA/SYRIA - Fr. Dall'Oglio’s appeal for peace during Ramadan
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The holy month of Ramadan is a time of penance and conversion to God and is a time to ask our brothers and sisters’ forgiveness. We ask the grace of repentance for everyone. We ask it while clai ...
8 July 2013
ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako to priests: priesthood is a mission, not business
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - In recent years, the weakness in the management of the central authority, the vacatio of several episcopal sees, the lack of security and the state of perpetual socio-political emergency experie ...
8 July 2013
ASIA - Asian Bishops: conviction for violence against Buddha, more effort against divisions
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Asian Bishops strongly condemn the violence against Buddhist temple in Bodh Gaya. They also condemn the mentality of division, discrimination and communalism that breeds violence. They de ...
5 July 2013
ASIA/PAKISTAN – Christian girl's rapists will be prosecuted
Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - A court in Pattoki in the district of Kasur, Punjab province, has formalized the charges of rape against two Muslim men who in February raped the Christian 15-year-old Fouzia Bibi. Shabir Ali and ...
5 July 2013
ASIA/IRAN - Pastor Asserian released
Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - The Pentecostal pastor Robert Asserian, a member of the Assemblies of God in the Iranian capital was released on bail. The release, which took place on Tuesday, July 2, was reported to Fides by t ...
5 July 2013
ASIA/IRAN - Christians between hope and skepticism, after the victory of a moderate religious in the election
Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - The victory of the moderate religious Hassan Rouhani in the recent presidential elections in Iran increases expectations and hopes among the Christian communities in the Islamic republic, althoug ...
4 July 2013
ASIA/SYRIA - A Catholic Belgian priest and a monastery are in the sights of the jihadists
Qara (Agenzia Fides) - The Belgian Catholic priest Fr. Daniel Maes, 74, of the religious Order of "Canons Regular Premonstratensian", is in the sights of jihadist groups who intend to eliminate him and invade the monaste ...
4 July 2013
ASIA/VIETNAM - Cardinal Van Thuan, controversial hero of faith, "for the Vietnamese he is already a saint"
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "For the faithful he is already a saint. Hundreds of testimonies of Catholics have been collected, many say they prayed and received graces through his intercession. The faithful love him and pray ...
3 July 2013
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence against minorities: the case of three Christian women stripped naked and humiliated shakes the nation
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An episode of violence against Christians has become a "political case" in Pakistan. Three Christian women were beaten, stripped naked and humiliated publicly in a village near Pattoki, in the di ...
3 July 2013
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Discrimination and hatred: the church and civil society take stock of the problems concerning Christian minorities
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Becoming aware of the discrimination, injustice, prejudice of whom Christians in Pakistan face and are victims, about 3% of the population, and the necessity to report these issues to the new gov ...
2 July 2013
ASIA/SYRIA - The "Caliphate" of Saraqib, where Fr. Murad was killed
Idlib (Agenzia Fides) - The governorate of Idlib has become "the caliphate of Saraqib." The region of Idlib, in the northwest of Syria, between Aleppo and Hama, controlled by Islamist factions of the Syrian rebels, is th ...
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