Asia

• 3 September 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The "Ambassadors of San Camillo": a response to misery and poverty Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A group of Filipino laity came together to create the association called "Ambassadors of San Camillo". With the formation of this association, the Philippine Province of the Order of the Servants ...
• 3 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rimsha, "lamb to the slaughter, saved by the grace of God" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The blasphemy case, of which the Catholic girl Rimsha Masih is accused, was manipulated by the imam of the mosque, Khalid Jadoon, who was arrested. This inhuman act of accusation has now been ...
• 3 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Bishops: "With the truth concerning Rimsha’s case, the whole of Pakistan gains" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "To establish the truth concerning Rimsha Masi’s case, and the false accusations, is a gain, not only for the Christian community, but for the whole of Pakistan: it is a boon for democracy, ...
• 1 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Release Rimsha": U.S. Senators' Letter to President Zardari Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - A bipartisan group of six U.S. senators wrote a letter to President Asif Ali Zardari, demanding the release of the Christian Rimsha Masih, the minor arrested on charges of blasphemy, and more ...
• 1 September 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - More than 5,000 Christians take to the streets in Orissa to demand justice Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - About 5,000 Christians took to the streets in Orissa staging a peaceful demonstration to demand justice, on the anniversary of the massacres that hit the Christian community in Kandhamal dis ...
• 1 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Rimsha is innocent and will soon be free": also Muslim lawyers in her defense Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "Rimsha is innocent, there is no evidence against her. She will soon be free." Paul Bhatti, Advisor to the Prime Minister for National Harmony and president of the "All Pakistan Minorities All ...
• 1 September 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Land mafia behind Rimsha's case Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The charges against Masih Rimsha are completely false and made up: behind her case there is land mafia. Unscrupulous criminals intend to wrest land from Christians and drive them out from Mehrab ...
• 31 August 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Communion of the community to glorify God and promote evangelization: the Diocese of Zhou Zhi celebrates 80 years of foundation Zhou Zhi (Agenzia Fides) - More than 2,000 faithful celebrated the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Diocese of Zhou Zhi in the Shaan Xi province in mainland China on August 22, feast of the patron of the diocese, ...
• 31 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Director of the PMS: "If Rimsha becomes a symbol, everything will be more difficult" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "If Rimsha becomes a symbol for her release everything will be more difficult. Today and tomorrow we will pray in all churches for her and her family ": is what Fr. Mario Rodrigues, national Dir ...
• 31 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Attack in the Christian area: one victim and two injured in Karachi Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The young Christian Faisal Masih was killed two days ago in shots fired in the attack of an Islamic extremist group in the Christian suburb of Essa Nagri, on the outskirts of Karachi. This is co ...
• 31 August 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - "The anti-conversion law violates the Constitution": landmark ruling for Christians New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The anti-conversion law passed in the state of Hhimachal Pradesh (in northern India) is, in some parts, "unconstitutional". In fact, "a person not only has the right to freedom of conscience, ...
• 30 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rimsha, new postponement: the counter-party does not recognize the medical report Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The case of Rimsha Masih, an 11-year-old Christian girl accused of blasphemy in Pakistan gets more and more complicated. This morning, at the hearing before the judge Javad Abbas, a Court of ...
• 30 August 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Thanksgiving and sharing: the theme of the Day of the indigenous peoples Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - Thanksgiving and sharing: this is the invitation by Monsignor J. B. Tseng Chien-Tsi, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Lien Hwa and President of the Commission for the Apostolate of the Aborigi ...
• 30 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim leaders: "Rimsha must be released, the sharia says it" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer is a Salafi Muslim leader. He is the current Secretary General of the "Jamiat Ahle Hadith" ("Assembly of the followers of the sayings of the Prophet"), the political-relig ...
• 29 August 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - "Reflection on faith in the Year of Faith": Pastoral Letter by Mgr. Lucas Li, Bishop of Feng Xiang Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) - "Reflection on faith in the Year of Faith" is the title of the long pastoral Letter by Mgr. Lucas Li Jing Feng, ninety-year-old Bishop of the Diocese of Feng Xiang, in the province of Shaan X ...