Asia

• 22 July 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - A 3-year-old girl raped and murdered: the Archbishop of Calcutta calls for mobilization Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - A three year old girl was raped and murdered in the area of Hastings, in Calcutta. As learned by Fides, the body of the child, belonging to one of the many "homeless" families who live on the s ...
• 22 July 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Centre of Excellence for the recovery of street children Makati City (Agenzia Fides) - A program of assistance, protection and training with regards to the fundamental values of life in favor of street children continues to increase. We are talking about Tuloy Foundation prese ...
• 22 July 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The industrial area of Kaeseong, bordering the North re-opens: Mass of the Archbishop of Seoul Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – To pray for reconciliation and to start up economic cooperation again between North and South Korea: with this spirit His Exc. Mgr. Andrew Yeom Soo-jung celebrated yesterday, 21 July, a Mass wit ...
• 19 July 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - More than a thousand faithful of the Diocese of Tai Yuan live the Year of Faith studying the documents of the Council on the Church and Ecumenism Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) – To embody the spirit of the Second Vatican Council in one’s life and transform oneself in the face of Christ to witness faith: this is the meaning of the exhortation that His Exc. Mgr. Paul ...
• 19 July 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops: Christians can contribute to justice in Orissa Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians, although a small minority, are called, by virtue of their faith, to be the leaven of justice and peace in Orissa. Driven by their faith, hope and charity they are responsible fo ...
• 19 July 2013
  ASIA/IRAN - Eight Christians sentenced for "actions against the national security" Shiraz (Agenzia Fides) - Eight evangelical Christians in Shiraz were sentenced to jail after being found guilty of "action against the national security" and "propaganda against the order of the system". The news was giv ...
• 19 July 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - New Report: deterioration of religious freedom and increasing violence in the country Washington (Agenzia Fides) - In the past 18 months we have witnessed a gradual deterioration of respect for religious freedom in Pakistan. Religious minorities such as Shia Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Ahmadis are ...
• 18 July 2013
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA – March for peace on the border between the Koreas: Prayer for Reconciliation Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Faithful Korean Catholics will march and pray for peace in the demilitarized area on the border between North and South Korea: As reported to Fides, it is one of the initiatives that characterize ...
• 18 July 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Protests against the anti-conversion law increase in Madhya Pradesh Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) - In the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh protests of religious minorities against the amendments to the anti-conversion law increase. The changes exacerbate the punishment on the prohibition of conv ...
• 18 July 2013
  ASIA/MALAYSIA – Legal comparison Church-government on the use of the word "Allah"; the Nuncio promotes the line of dialogue Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The comparison between the Catholic Church and the Malaysian government on the use of the word "Allah" to refer to God in the Bible and in Christian publications is enriched by a new chapte ...
• 17 July 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Three Christian women stripped naked and humiliated: Justice is moving Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - In the case of three Christian women stripped naked, humiliated and mocked by Muslims in Kasur – more than a month after the incident, which occurred on June 3, which caused outrage in Pakistan ...
• 17 July 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The President of Caritas Jerusalem: Gaza continues to be an open-air prison Gaza (Agenzia Fides): "I was shocked by the level of poverty that I saw in Gaza. The Strip continues to be an open-air prison, closed by the sea, the embargo of Israel and now Egypt". This is how Father Raed Abusahlia, D ...
• 17 July 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Children poisoned in a school in Bihar: the Church relaunches food safety New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The case of the 22 children who died from food poisoning in a school in the Indian state of Bihar "strongly raises the issue of food safety and food quality and the urgency with which India ha ...
• 16 July 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Greek-Orthodox monastery under attack. The nuns are appealing to President Abbas Bethany (Agenzia Fides) – The nuns of the Greek-Orthodox monastery in Bethany have sent a letter to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to urge the leaders of the Palestinian Authority to take charge, with appropriate ...
• 16 July 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Shang Chuan of the Cathedral of the Diocese of Jiang Men for prayer and evangelization Jiang Men (Agenzia Fides) - Pray for the church in China and for the Universal Church so that the mission of evangelization in the world and China take its course and strengthens faith, especially in the Year of Faith: a ...