ASIA/ISRAEL - Christian graves vandalised in the cemetery in Jaffa
Jaffa (Agenzia Fides) - Attackers desecrated graves in an Arab Christian cemetery in Jaffa and the headstones were sprayed with Hebrew graffiti, apparently the incident took place probably in the night between Wednesday ...
14 June 2013
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians oppressed by abuse and usury in Punjab
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian, victim of violent Muslim moneylenders, another kidnapped and tortured for a whole night: are the two lastest "ordinary stories of abuse" reported to Fides by the Christians of Punjab ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians "treated like animals" by Muslims in Punjab
Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - Christians are "treated like animals", they are denied the dignity of human beings: is the complaint that reaches Fides from Kasur district, in the Punjab province, a district already known for th ...
10 June 2013
ASIA/VIETNAM – Free surgery for a group of disabled children
Nam Dinh (Agenzia Fides) - A group of 30 disabled children in the northern Vietnamese province of Nam Dinh, will benefit from free surgery thanks to a program sponsored and supported by the Australian organization Hands ...
ASIA/TURKEY - A mosque in Taksim Square?
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish Premier Tayyip Erdogan, who returned yesterday to his country after his visit in some Countries of the Maghreb, called for the "immediate end" of the demonstrations which have trigg ...
ASIA/IRAQ - The Synod of the Chaldean Church has begun
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, June 5 the Synod of the Chaldean Church convened by the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans Louis Raphael I Sako began in Baghdad. The beginning of the assembly was also attend ...