Asia

• 7 September 2012
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - A million children under 5 years of age are malnourished Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - Despite the massive international aid to Afghanistan, about one third of children under five years of age of the entire northern region, amounting to one million, suffer from malnutrition, a level ...
• 7 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rimsha is free; her case upholds the review of the blasphemy law Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - This morning the Pakistani judge Muhammad Azam Khan granted the bail for Rimsha Masih, a Christian teenager arrested in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy for having burned pages of the Koran. T ...
• 7 September 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - More than one million children are at risk because of the food and health crisis Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - In Syria and neighboring countries where they have taken refuge, there is an alarm for minors due to the shortage of food and health care facilities. There are tens of thousands of children inv ...
• 6 September 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - In the parish of Jiang Yin, the Diocese of Nan Jing, 294 baptized in eight months Nan Jing (Agenzia Fides) - In the first eight months of 2012, the parish of Jiang Yin of the Diocese of Nan Jing, in the province of Jiang Su, welcomed 294 new members after a long journey of preparation and catechesis. ...
• 6 September 2012
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Small steps to reduce child malnutrition, but the problem remains very serious Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - In Indonesia 1 child under 5 years of age out of three suffer from malnutrition, both in the acute and chronic form, stunting and impairment. Although, according to the latest statistics carried ...
• 5 September 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Faith, testimony and evangelization: the program of the diocese of Xian Xian for the Year of Faith Cang Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - Faith, testimony and evangelization are the three key points of the program of the diocese of Xian Xian (today Cang Zhou), in the province of He Bei province, mainland China for the Year of Fa ...
• 5 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Pakistani Christian at the Paralympics: good sign for minorities London (Agenzia Fides) – He is 25 years old from Karachi and is the only Pakistani Christian who is part of the team sent from Islamabad to the London Paralympics: Naeem Masih wanted to play cricket but, having lost h ...
• 5 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Forced conversions of Christians in Lahore? An invented case (Agenzia Fides) - Some members of the Christian community in the Walton Road area, in Lahore, have complained to the police a "campaign of forced conversion to Islam" by some local Muslims. The community has received sup ...
• 5 September 2012
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Human rights and violence: the refugees in India prefer not to return home Tamil Nadu (Agenzia Fides) - Three years after the end of the civil war that devastated Sri Lanka from 1983to 2009, most of the refugees in India are reluctant to returning home because of financial difficulties and for ...
• 5 September 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Assault on a human rights activist in Mindanao: his 11-year-old son killed Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - The objective of the attack was him, Timuay Locencio Manda, tribal leader of the community Subanen, an activist for human rights, but yesterday, September 4, when the gunmen shot him at 7 ...
• 4 September 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The preparatory Seminary of the Archdiocese of Xi An begins the school year with 17 new seminarians Xi An (Agenzia Fides) - The preparatory Seminary of the Archdiocese of Xi An in the province of Shaan Xi welcomed 17new seminarians in the opening of the new school year, celebrated on September 2 in the presence of His ...
• 4 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two new witnesses in favor of Rimsha; threats to Paul Bhatti Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The legal front in favor of Rimsha Masih strengthens: yesterday two new witnesses were added to Hafiz Zubair, deputy imam of the mosque, confirming the accusations against Imam Khalid Jadoon o ...
• 4 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - After the case of Rimsha, the challenge of the blasphemy law Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The case of Rimsha Masih, a Catholic girl accused of blasphemy, is having wide coverage in the media, public and private, in Pakistan. It is very present also in the press in Urdu, notoriously ...
• 4 September 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Patriarch Gregory III Laham calls for "an international campaign for reconciliation in Syria" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "For Syria, reconciliation is the only frontline." This is why "an international campaign for reconciliation in Syria" is needed shared by all the Churches in the world: it is the heartfelt ple ...
• 3 September 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Forthcoming beatification of Fr Gabriele Maria Allegra, the Franciscan missionary who supervised the translation of the Bible into Chinese Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The venerable Fr. Gabriele Maria Allegra, OFM, founder of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, will be beatified on September 29 in Acireale, Sicily (Italy), his homeland. The Franciscan mission ...