Asia

• 15 January 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - "Light of Faith": concert for vocations in the parish of the Miraculous Medal in Beijing for the first hundred days of the Year of Faith Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - A concert dedicated to the promotion of vocations in the Year of Faith, entitled "Light of Faith", was held on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord on Sunday, January 13, in Beijing, in the pari ...
• 15 January 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rimsha Masih's case reaches the Supreme Court Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Rimsha Masih’s ordeal has not finished yet, a Christian girl accused of blasphemy, mentally disabled, arrested and then acquitted by the High Court in Islamabad (see Fides 20/11/2012). The l ...
• 15 January 2013
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarch Twal’s message for the parliamentary elections in Jordan: citizens go to vote Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins, Fouad Twal, has sent a message to the "dear children" of Jordan in view of the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled for January 23. In the message, ...
• 15 January 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - The Church to the Head of the police: "Sex education is important" Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - Sex education for children and young Indians? In the lively debate that is taking place in the country - following numerous cases of group rapes that have attracted national and international att ...
• 14 January 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - The Fifth Forum on Catholic Studies for Young Chinese scholars is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The 50th anniversary of Vatican II was the central theme of the Fifth Forum on Catholic Studies for Young Chinese Scholars 2012 organized by the "Beijing Institute for the Study of Christian Cul ...
• 14 January 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops against rape: "The dignity of each person is sacred: the challenge is education" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - As another episode of gang rape shakes the nation – the victim, a 29 year-old a woman in Punjab, raped by six men in Amristar – the Bishops of India reaffirm "the sanctity of life and the ...
• 14 January 2013
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Schools reopen after the typhoon but there is still no electricity Manila (Agenzia Fides) - After the passage of devastating typhoon Bopha, which hit the country recently (see Fides 06/12/2012), thousands of children in the southern island of Mindanao are returning to school, late in co ...
• 12 January 2013
  ASIA/LAOS - Christians disappeared: open letter to the President of the country Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - Christian families who have suddenly "disappeared into thin air": the problem regarding, among other cases, the Boontheong family, in the province of Luang Namtha, or Khamsone Baccam, in the p ...
• 12 January 2013
  ASIA/JORDAN - Archbishop Maroun Lahham: we open our churches to the Syrian refugees of the camp of Zaatari Amman (Agenzia Fides) - In front of the humanitarian catastrophe that looms over the refugee camp of Zaatari - where snowstorms and freezing rain in recent days have swept away hundreds of tents - Archbishop Maroun Laham ...
• 12 January 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence and murder, the Taliban have arrived in Karachi: the Church launches the alarm Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A generalized violence grips by fear Karachi, South Pakistan's port city: ways and strategies to stop it are urgently required, also because in the city "the Taliban are actively working," repor ...
• 12 January 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Christian leaders debate over the electoral law Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The debate on the electoral law with which the legislative elections will be celebrated scheduled for next spring, sees distinctions and second thoughts emerge even among Christian leaders. As le ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Extreme poverty forces children to leave school in order to find a job Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Education penalized by poverty. This is the situation for almost 50% of elementary school students in Bangladesh who are forced by the overwhelming poverty to leave school before completing fifth ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Three Christians among those killed in the attacks in Baluchistan Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - Dismay, grief, fear, prayer: These are the feelings lived by the small Christian community in the province of Quetta, after the wave of terrorist attacks which yesterday, only in the city of Que ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/YEMEN - The tragedy of women bought, sold, sexually abused Aden (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of human trafficking continues to rise and poverty causes the sexual exploitation of women who are the most vulnerable group in Yemen. They are bought and sold throughout the country ...
• 11 January 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - A small community of the Diocese of Feng Xiang becomes a point of reference for evangelization Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) - The parish of Nan Guan of the deanery of Bao Ji, in the diocese of Feng Xiang of Shaan Xi province, is a small community of about 200 faithful, but shows remarkable capacity for evangelizatio ...