Asia

• 28 February 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Attack on Assyrian Democratic Organization head offices Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) – In the evening of 27 February a gang of men armed with machine guns and hand grenades attacked the head offices of the Assyrian Democratic Organization (ADO), at Qamishli, in the north easter ...
• 28 February 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA – Where to be a child is impossible Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - All over the world there are countries where children live in continual danger and for many different reasons it is impossible to be a child. Among these countries Syria, Afghanistan and Congo ...
• 27 February 2014
  ASIA/CHINA – Eucharistic adoration and sobriety: message from Han Dan diocese for the new year Han Dan (Agenzia Fides) – Eucharistic Adoration in community and individual form, to practice with devotion, and the adoption of a life stile of sobriety, above all in certain circumstances of ecclesial life, concentra ...
• 27 February 2014
  ASIA/TURKEY – Restitution of lands to Syrian Orthodox Mor Gabriel Monastery completed Mardin (Agenzia Fides) – The lands belonging to the ancient Monastery of Mor Gabriel, situated in the south-eastern Turkish province of Mardin, have at last been returned to the Syrian-Orthodox community to which the ...
• 27 February 2014
  ASIA/JORDAN - Tension with Israel over Holy Places, Archbishop Lahham: enough defiant acts Amman (Agenzia Fides) – The majority of the members of the Jordanian parliament voted in favour of a motion to expel the Israeli ambassador from the country and to recall the ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom to Isra ...
• 26 February 2014
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Leading politicians reassure new Archbishop: “government will respect the rights of Pakistan’s Churches” Lahore (Agenzia Fides) –Political leaders in Pakistan say the state will respect the rights, property and status of Pakistan’s Christian Churches, according to a report sent to Fides. The promise was made to the new ...
• 26 February 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ – Iraq’s Catholic Bishops insist: we must react to the violence destroying our nation Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – The dramatic situation which Iraq is experiencing has prompted the country’s Catholic Bishops, yesterday in assembly, to urge the nation’s Christians and all Iraqis to react against sect ...
• 26 February 2014
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN – Humanitarian aid and videogames for orphans in Herat Herat (Agenzia Fides) – Rice, oil, winter clothes, trainers, toys, various hand-craft kits and videogames, were recently delivered, with the help of the Spanish Airforce, Ejército del Aire, and sent by several Spanish ...
• 26 February 2014
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “Pluralism endangered” government inertia NGO report Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – The historical and traditional religious pluralism which has always marked Indonesia is at risk due to inertia on the part of the government which leaves space for Islamic extremists: this war ...
• 25 February 2014
  ASIA/INDIA – The UN takes closer look at massacres in 2002 and the present situation of freedom of religion in Gujarat Ahmedabad (Agenzia Fides) – The United Nations Organisation intends to act to guarantee that the human right of ‘freedom of religion’, ratified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is fully respected in t ...
• 25 February 2014
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Syria, Gaza, Egypt: Holy Land Custodians launch initiatives to face emergency Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – Ongoing violence and social and political crisis rocking the Middle East has prompted the religious communities in the region rethink forms of presence in order to meet the urgent needs of ...
• 24 February 2014
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA – Catholic Bishops: for 2014 “a Church with a warm heart” (Agenzia Fides) – A “Church with a warm heart”. This is the motto chosen by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of South Korea for the year 2014: Fides was informed by Fr. Thaddaeus Lee Ki-rak, the Conference’s ex ...
• 24 February 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako: A Lenten Season of fasting and prayer that Christians in Iraq will not emigrate Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - “I ask you to fast and to offer prayers that Iraqi Christians will remain here in our country and not emigrate”. This pressing call was contained in a brief but heartfelt message, issued by ...
• 24 February 2014
  ASIA/INDIA - No to social exclusion, no to the caste system: Franciscans in India play a prophetic role Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) – Franciscans, consecrated persons as well as lay members, have reaffirmed their prophetic role in India, their desire to be “a poor fraternity among the poor and for the poor”, committed to ...
• 21 February 2014
  ASIA/IRAQ – Decision to include Syriac and Christian religious education in 152 schools Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi Ministry of Education has decided to include Syriac and Christian religious education in the currucula of 152 public schools in the provinces of Baghdad, Nineveh and Kirkuk. The goal i ...