Asia

• 11 June 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Seminar of Major Superiors: for a new identity of the local Church Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - Sacred Scripture, Liturgy, spiritual deepening, missionary responsibility of the laity for a new identity of the particular Church in Taiwan: these were the main themes discussed at the Seminar ...
• 11 June 2012
  ASIA/MYANMAR - State of emergency in the west of the country: Church's appeal for peace Pyay (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is dramatic, tension is very high among the ethnic majority communities of the Rakhine and the Muslim Rohingya population. We hope that the civil authorities can restore peace. As a ...
• 11 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The choice of the poor: either send their children to school or eat Okara (Agenzia Fides) - "Values such as equality, justice and education can and should bring Pakistan out of the hellish vortex of poverty and exploitation involving adults and children." This is the testimony sent to Fi ...
• 9 June 2012
  ASIA/IRAN - A Protestant church ordered to close, the crackdown on churches continues Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - A Protestant church of the "Assembly of God" in the Janat-Abad area of Tehran, has been ordered the immediate closure by intelligence Branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. According to local ...
• 9 June 2012
  ASIA/LAOS - "Too charismatic, too many conversions": A Christian Pastor arrested Luang Namtha (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian leader was arrested in Laos. The Christian Pastor Asa Sing, 53 years of age, head of a Protestant Christian Church in the village of Peeyeur in the district of Sing, within the ...
• 9 June 2012
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Urgent reform of the judicial and penal system: essential step in the rule of law Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar must eliminate from the justice and penal system practices such as illegal and arbitrary arrest, detention without trial, torture, forced confessions, processes behind closed doors, death ...
• 9 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Ultimatum to Christians: "Leave Qusayr" Qusayr (Agenzia Fides) - Exodus of Christians in the west of Syria: the Christian population has left the town of Qusayr, near Homs, following an ultimatum from the military chief of the armed opposition, Abdel Salam Har ...
• 9 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA-Appeal of the Greek catholic Patriarch: a month of fasting and abstinence for peace Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of massacres and bloody events experienced recently in Syria, Gregorios III Laham, the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Damascus, has launched a heartfelt appeal to all the faith ...
• 8 June 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The celebration of Corpus Christi in the sign of evangelization Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, commonly known as the Corpus Domini, was celebrated yesterday, Thursday, June 7, in several Chinese Catholic communities, ...
• 8 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bomb in front of a madrasa: the Church calls for the end to violence and peace Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - A bomb exploded today outside the gate of an Islamic religious school (madrasa) in Quetta, capital of the Pakistani province of Baluchistan. The toll of the powerful explosion caused 15 victims a ...
• 8 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Human rights and religious minorities: Pakistan under observation Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Increase efforts to protect human rights, enact laws on crucial issues such as torture, education and women's rights: is what the Pakistani government has asked the UN High Commissioner for Hu ...
• 8 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - False accusations: a Christian pastor in prison accused of fraud Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Protestant Christian Pastor Mehboob Yaqoob was arrested and charged with fraud by police in Lahore. The Pastor is the victim of deception and was denounced and dragged in on false charges by ...
• 6 June 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN-The delegation of Taiwan: leaving for Dublin to attend the International Eucharistic Congress Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The faithful who will represent the local Church of Taiwan at the International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, will leave on June 8 for their pilgrimage to Ireland. Led by His Exc. Mgr. John B. ...
• 6 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN- Asma Jahangir receives threats on behalf of secret Services: solidarity of the Church and civil society Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Asma Jahangir, well-known lawyer and leader in the protection of human rights in Pakistan, is in danger: her life is threatened by sectors of the Pakistani establishment and the powerful intel ...
• 6 June 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Protestant Pastor killed in Tamil Nadu Chennai (Agenzia Fides) - The Protestant Christian Pastor C. Wilson, 54, was murdered in Tamil Nadu, in South India. His body was found last Saturday, June 2, near a highway and, according to police, his skull was fractu ...