Asia

• 19 July 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Ramadan is an opportunity for dialogue and friendship": message from the interfaith movement "Silsilah" Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - "Ramadan is an opportunity for everyone to reflect, to find spiritual meaning of life. For the Muslim it is an obligation, for others it is a challenge. The Movement 'Silsilah' has alway ...
• 19 July 2012
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Revival of Jihad: Islamic extremist groups join to regain strength Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – After Ten years since the terrorist attack in Bali in 2002, the Indonesian Islamic extremist groups, weakened and divided, intend to join together to regain strength. This is what the latest r ...
• 18 July 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Apostolate of the Sea: the ecumenical and interfaith dimension gets more and more important Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Father Valan Arasu Arockiaswarmy, Divine Word Missionary (SVD) of Indian origin, is the chaplain of the seamen in the diocese of Hong Kong. Considering that every year more than 6 thousand s ...
• 18 July 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Hundreds of deaths and over 400 000 people homeless due to heavy floods in the country Pazarbhanga (Agenzia Fides) - Since last June the heavy rainfalls in India have caused 109 deaths and at least 400,000homeless in the northeastern State of Assam. According to experts, the tragedy was compounded by cor ...
• 18 July 2012
  ASIA/SIRIA - The Maronite Archbishop: "In Damascus people flee, pray and hope, and turn their gaze to the martyrs" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Bombs, shootings, violence, screaming, deaths rage in the city of Damascus in these hours. People "suffer, hope, escape, pray and, in these tragic hours, turn their gaze to the Blessed Martyrs ...
• 18 July 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - George Sabra, Christian spokesman of the opposition: "It will be a new democratic Syria, guarantees for everyone" Milan (Agenzia Fides) – We are "at the beginning of the end for the Syrian regime." "A new page of national history is about to open." And the new Syria will be democratic, potentially lay, reconciled and free from opp ...
• 17 July 2012
  ASIA/CHINA -Children’s summer pastoral: formation and experience of faith as well as fun Tian Jin (Agenzia Fides) - As every year the Catholic community in mainland China is intensifying the children’s summer pastoral with the organization of summer camps, meetings and catechism with many other initiatives ...
• 17 July 2012
  ASIA/INDONESIA - 150 000 children die every year due to preventable diseases Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 150 000 children under five years of age die every year in Indonesia due to preventable diseases and more than 10 000 women die from postpartum complications. The latest research p ...
• 17 July 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The sister of a Christian Pastor: kidnapped, raped and forcibly converted to Islam Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The sister of a Christian Protestant pastor was kidnapped, repeatedly raped and forced to convert to Islam. This is what happened in the town of Chunian, in the south of Lahore, in the province o ...
• 17 July 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - "The dangers are anarchy, weapons, interference; dialogue and reconciliation are necessary": Patriarch Gregory III Laham’s appeal Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - As the Syrian crisis deepens, in front of what is now called a "civil war"; while "the language of violence prevails and the voice of moderation weakens" "efforts for dialogue and reconciliatio ...
• 16 July 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Transform lunch break in a moment of permanent formation of faith Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - In response to the current pastoral needs, the Cathedral of the Diocese of Hong Kong offers employees of numerous offices in the area, to turn the lunch break into opportunities for permanent ...
• 16 July 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo supports the effort of reconciliation of "Mussalaha" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "I believe that the initiative 'Mussalaha' should be encouraged and supported by all. Reconciliation, although it is sometimes hard to accept, is a way not to be left out and should not be undere ...
• 16 July 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Blasphemous burned at the stake": culprits unpunished: no to summary justice Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – There is still no arrest of the culprits that, on 5 July, burned a Muslim man, Ghulam Abbas, probably mentally ill alive, only because he was accused of blasphemy in Chani Ghot, in the Diocese ...
• 13 July 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The Catholic media prepare to participate in the Hong Kong Book Fair 2012 Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic media in Hong Kong are preparing to participate in the annual "Hong Kong Book Fair 2012" to be held from July 18 to 24, with the presence of more than 530 publishing houses from a ...
• 13 July 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Franciscans’ appeal: "Dialogue, no weapons to Syria!" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "Syria needs dialogue, not weapons" is the appeal launched by the Franciscans in Syria, through Fr. Romualdo Fernandez OFM, director of the Ecumenical Centre in Tabbaleh (Damascus) and Rector o ...