Asia
2 May 2013
ASIA/INDIA - Islamic militants to the Christian missionaries: "Leave Kashmir"
Jammu (Agenzia Fides) - New allegations and threats by Islamic extremists against the Christian missionaries in Kashmir, where the social and religious situation remains explosive. As sources of Fides report, the "United ...
2 May 2013
ASIA/NORTH KOREA - An American sentenced to hard labor: religions call for dialogue
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "I believe that the case of Kenneth Bae will be used by North Korea to open a direct dialogue with the United States. As religious communities we renew our call for dialogue, respect for human rig ...
2 May 2013
ASIA/IRAQ - A Prayer for the Chaldean Synod
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – On June 5 the first Synod of the Chaldean Church convened by the new Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, who was elected last January 31 will begin in Baghdad. The agenda of the synodal assembly i ...
2 May 2013
ASIA/CHINA - DEEPEST CONDOLENCES FROM MGR. SAVIO HON TAI FAI FOR THE DEATH OF BISHOP JIN
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
My deepest condolences to you all!
When the news of the death of our beloved Bishop JIN reached me, I felt very sad. I still have fond memories of the Seminary in Sheshan, when Bishop JI ...
30 April 2013
ASIA/INDIA - Formation and awareness on rights, health, prevention of women from violence
Pune (Agenzia Fides) - In India, boys are taught to continue their family activities, while girls are trained to be "good wives and submissive." Forced to marry very soon, they have to leave their families and live with ...
30 April 2013
ASIA/EAST TIMOR - The Jesuits: apostolate in prisons in Dili, encouraged by Pope Francis
Dili (Agenzia Fides) - The apostolate in prisons, especially with young prisoners, is one of the special ministries for the Jesuit community in Dili, capital of East Timor. As reported to Fides, the second Sunday of each ...
30 April 2013
ASIA/SRI LANKA - The case of the Buddhist "Taliban" explodes: Church re-launches the work for religious harmony
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The group of Buddhist fundamentalist monks, extremist and violent seriously concern civil society and religious minorities. This is 'the alarm sent to Fides Agency by His Exc. Mgr. Raymond Wickr ...
29 April 2013
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The industrial complex of Kaesong closes but the "North-South cooperation is not completely interrupted," notes the Church
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - South Korea has begun to return home workers engaged in the industrial complex in Kaesong, an area of economic production on the border between the Koreas, the result of cooperation between the go ...
29 April 2013
ASIA/SYRIA - Holy Week of the Eastern Churches begins in the sign of the bishops kidnapped
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian communities in Syria are working together to plead for the release of the two bishops of Aleppo kidnapped – the Syrian-Orthodox Metropolitan Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and the ...
29 April 2013
ASIA/BANGLADESH - A missionary: "The collapse of the factory brings together the elements of discontent: explosive situation"
Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The story of the collapse of the factory on the outskirts of Dhaka" has shocked the nation and has aggregated all the elements of discontent in society," says to Fides Agency Fr. Silvano Garello, ...
27 April 2013
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Eight arrests for the collapse of the factory, three Christian girls missing
Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - As one continues to dig under the rubble of the eight-storey building which collapsed last Wednesday on the outskirts of Dhaka, burying more than three thousand people, all workers from three text ...
27 April 2013
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The "new Korean martyrs": an example in the Year of Faith
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Faith is even martyrdom. We wanted to express our spiritual closeness to all the faithful who bore witness to their faith in the distant past, in recent decades, and many still keep alight the fl ...
27 April 2013
ASIA/SYRIA - Anxiety for the bishops kidnapped. New details on the dynamics of the seizure
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - While among the Christians of Syria and around the world anxiety increases for the fate of Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos al-Yazigi - Syrian Orthodox and Greek-Orthodox bishops of Alepp ...
26 April 2013
ASIA/BANGLADESH - The ultimatum of the Islamists to the government: "Approve the law of blasphemy or we will siege Dhaka"
Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) – There is tension in Bangladesh between Islamist movements and the government. The group Hefazat-e-Islam (HeI) - which at the beginning of April had promoted a major demonstration - has launched ...
26 April 2013
ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Wall in the valley of Cremisan changes route, but does not stop
Beit Jala (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli Special Appeals Committee for land seizure under emergency released its verdict on actions brought by a convent of the Salesian Sisters and many families of Palestinian farmers aga ...
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