Asia

• 15 November 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - India needs a "Magna Carta" for children's rights New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "Every month about a hundred thousand Indian children die from causes related to malnutrition. Many die because of infectious diseases that could be cured, but malnutrition has lowered childre ...
• 15 November 2013
  ASIA/THAILAND - Children used in boxing combat: a new form of child slavery Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - They train 10 hours a day, sleeping under the ring, and weigh just 30 pounds. We are talking about 30,000 small Thai children, only 8 years of age, involved in the illegal boxing fighting with t ...
• 15 November 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Chemin Neuf Community: let us rediscover the figure of Charles de Foucauld Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - The figure and the message of Charles de Foucauld should be freed from the "caricatures which present him as a rich, dissolute young man who was suddenly overwhelmed by the Grace of God and the ...
• 15 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Typhoon Haiyan, the Order of Malta is mobilizing for the islands which have not been reached by relief Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - Malteser International, the international relief agency of the Order of Malta, has decided to concentrate its intervention assistance in the Philippine Islands affected by Typhoon Haiyan not yet re ...
• 14 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The efforts of the Guanelliani missionaries in the relief effort for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Tireless efforts, with the presence of missionaries on site; an extraordinary collection, relaunched in the works present in the world: this is how the missionaries of Opera Don Guanella (Guanell ...
• 14 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Profiteering traffickers and pedophiles on the orphaned children of Typhoon Haiyan Manila (Agenzia Fides) - They are already called "orphans of Yolanda" (the name of the Philippine Typhoon Haiyan, ed). There are thousands of children who have become orphans after the storm that struck the province of L ...
• 14 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Love can do everything: thousands displaced in the school of the Salesian Sisters Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - The Salesian Sisters of Cebu are helping the victims of Typhoon Haiyan by giving them support in these difficult hours. In the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians school in the city, classrooms an ...
• 14 November 2013
  ASIA/IRAQ - Conference on demographic change in areas inhabited by Christians Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The first conference, sponsored by the organization "Friends of Bartala" to denounce the process of demographic balance interference in areas where Iraqi native Christian communities of Assyrian, ...
• 13 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Caritas Asia: the victims of Typhoon Haiyan "a message of love and hope" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - A "message of love and hope" to the population of the Philippines from Caritas Asia. In a statement released by the organization and sent to Fides Agency, the 23 Caritas of Asian countries expre ...
• 13 November 2013
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Buddhist protest against the visit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "Muslims go away!": With this slogan hundreds of Burmese citizens of Buddhist religion in Myanmar today welcomed the arrival of a delegation from the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), ...
• 13 November 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Mourning in the Episcopate Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 October, His Exc. Mgr. Peter Liu Guandong, Bishop Emeritus of the Apostolic Prefecture of Yixian (Yihsien), in Hebei Province (Mainland China) returned to the Father's house, at the age of 94 ...
• 13 November 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - "Ad interim" government of the Syrian opposition: Christians, excluded, protest Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of the Syriac and Assyrian Christian members of the Syrian National Coalition - the Syrian opposition groups recognized last year as the sole legitimate representative of th ...
• 13 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Incalculable material damage, more than 4 million people devastated by Hayan: NGOs mobilize Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Among the many humanitarian organizations that are mobilizing to help the people of the Philippines, also Manos Unidas, engaged in the Asian country for over 25 years, together with the organizat ...
• 12 November 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Double the mortality rate of people with disabilities compared to the rest of the population affected by the typhoon Iloilo City (Agenzia Fides) - An alarming fact is added to the very serious situation that the Philippine population is experiencing due to the violent typhoon Hayan. Unfortunately people with disabilities are those most ...
• 12 November 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Mortar shells on the center of Damascus: children, civilians and churches affected Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Mortar shells damaged the Primary Christian School St. John Damascene yesterday in the district of Al-Qassaa in Damascus, killing 5 children and wounding 27 others. Another rocket hit a school ...