ASIA/PAKISTAN - Punjab Province: Catholic lawyer is human rights minister
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic lawyer Khalil Tahir Sindhu is Minister of Human Rights in the government of Pakistan's Punjab province, an area that is the economic, social and cultural heart of the nation and where th ...
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Stop any form of revenge
by Father Ibrahim Faltas ofm*
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Land has been at war for almost seven months. I use the verb to live, even though war means death, suffering and destruction. It is a way of life, or ...
The martyrology of Catholics in Rwanda in 1994
by Stefano Lodigiani
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In Rwanda, which in 1994 was struck by a tremendous genocide that reached the impressive figure of one million victims in a population of 6,733,000 inhabitants (44% Catholic ...
12 April 2024
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Democratic Party wins in the parliamentary elections
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In the parliamentary elections on April 10 in South Korea, the Democratic Party and its coalition won a clear victory: according to the official count of seats, the parties received a total of 175 ...
ASIA/JAPAN - The face of the Japanese Catholic Church
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the ad limina visit of the Bishops of Japan, Fides publishes some figures and information about the Catholic Church in Japan.
The Catholic Church in Japan today has 419 ...