Asia

• 29 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Save Rimsha and the other victims of blasphemy Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - There are several hundred adhesions to the campaign "Let us save Rimsha Masih," the Christian girl accused of blasphemy and tomorrow, August 30, there should be the pronouncement of a Court in ...
• 29 August 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bomb at a funeral, a family beheaded: Christians and Druzes targeted in Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - A terrorist attack hit innocent Christian faithful and innocent Druzes in the area of Jaramana, a suburb of Damascus: yesterday, August 28, at 2 pm, a bomb in a car was detonated while a crowd ...
• 28 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The verdict on the case of Rimsha has been postponed; for doctors she is a minor and mentally disabled Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The hearing of the Court of Islamabad on the case of Rimsha, the Christian girl in prison on charges of blasphemy has been postponed to August 30 (see Fides 23/08/2012). The reason for the po ...
• 28 August 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Camillian Sisters have been in Taiwan for 60 years for the mission of service to the sick Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The Camillian Sisters have been in Taiwan for 60 years to carry out the mission to serve Jesus through the sick, in the footsteps of the founder, St. Camillus de Lellis. The anniversary celebrat ...
• 28 August 2012
  ASIA/LAOS - Christian leader arrested because "he converted 300 people" Muang Pakxan (Agenzia Fides) - The Laotian police arrested the Christian leader Bountheung of Nongpong village, in the district of Khamkerd, in the province of Borikhamxai (central Laos). The charge is "to have converted ...
• 27 August 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Renewal and evangelization among the themes of the 12th General Chapter of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Tong Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - "Conversion, renewal, dedication, evangelization" was the theme of the 12th General Chapter of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, held from August 16 to 23, preceded by ...
• 27 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian Teenager raped and murdered in Punjab Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A teenage Christian Muqadas Kainat was raped by five men and brutally killed near the town of Sahiwal in Punjab. This is yet another incident of violence, which brings attention to the long trail ...
• 27 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistanis in Europe are mobilizing for Rimsha Masih Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us save Rimsha Masih": is the campaign launched by Pakistani Christians in Europe to save the Christian girl falsely accused of blasphemy and currently in a juvenile prison in Islamabad (see F ...
• 27 August 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Greek Catholic Archbishopric of Aleppo violated Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The Metropolitan Archbishop of Aleppo, His Exc. Mgr. Jean-Clément Jeanbart’s residence was broken into and looted during clashes between militiamen and loyalist troops. The Archbishop, his Vic ...
• 24 August 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - "To be a happy youth": World Youth Day in Hong Kong responds to the Pope's exhortation, "Be glad in the Lord always!" Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Day Day Run Run – to be a happy youth" was the theme of World Youth Day celebrated at a diocesan level by the diocese of Hong Kong on 18 and 19 August, which was organized by the Commission ...
• 24 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Too many Christian children victims of violence": appeal to the government and the UN Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The news, continually increasing, regarding violence against Christian children are really annoying, disturbing. For Christians, it seems that living in Pakistan is more and more difficult. Ther ...
• 24 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rimsha: Hearing for the release, the focus is on the Medical Commission Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The All Pakistan Minorities Alliance" (APMA), through the lawyer and Christian MP Tahir Naveed Chaudhry, today presented to a court of first instance in Islamabad a request for the release of ...
• 24 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The long trail of Christian children raped or killed Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The last case reported to Fides happened a few days ago in Islamabad: the 14-year-old Christian Waiz Masih was killed by young Muslims, after a "discussion on religion." The boy was savagely beat ...
• 23 August 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Cardinal Paul Shan "belongs forever to Christ": the funeral on 1 September Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) –There is deep emotion in the Chinese Catholic world, after the death of Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-Hsi, SJ, Bishop Emeritus of Kaohsiung, who died yesterday afternoon in the Catholic hospital of G ...
• 23 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Church, Government, imam committed to save Rimsha, a Christian girl accused of blasphemy Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - There is a joint effort of the Church, the government, religious leaders, NGOs, to save Rimsha Masih, an 11-year-old Christian Protestant girl, suffering from Down syndrome, accused of blasphe ...