Asia

• 18 January 2012
  ASIA - Four days of "immersion among the poor" for the Asian Bishops Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - A group of Asian Bishops - together with some priests, religious and lay people - will live for four days a true "immersion" in poverty, staying from January 18 to 21 among the poorest and the m ...
• 18 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - No results in the investigations for the murders of the catechist in Orissa and Sister Valsa in Jharkhand New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Murder without justice. And so far no one has been found guilty. The Catholic community in India reports to Fides that for two recent murders, that of a Catholic catechist Rabindra Parichha in ...
• 17 January 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - A disabled Catholic who died to defend a girl, among the ten people who gave a heroic example in the province of He Bei Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Wu Wen De, a disabled Catholic who sacrificed his life to defend a girl from a robber, was chosen by the major Chinese media as one of ten people who moved to tears the province of He Bei, stro ...
• 17 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Church ransacked and Christian children beaten: a Muslim blogger defends them Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A Muslim intellectual and blogger took to the streets to defend the Christian children beaten in an episode that has recently shaken the Christian community in Karachi, the capital of Sindh: In ...
• 17 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bhatti’s Murder: the "main person behind the crime" has been killed, the perpetrators are being chased, but ambiguity remains Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - With the killing of Hakimullah Mehsud, leader of the "Pakistani Talibans", the militant movement which is the most serious threat to national security, "who was the man behind the killing of the ...
• 17 January 2012
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - South Korea is open to dialogue and to aid towards the North; for the Bishops "it is the good path" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - South Korea is ready to hold talks at the highest level and to provide large-scale food aid to North Korea, even if Pyongyang has not "officially apologized" after the two military attacks in 2010 ...
• 16 January 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - More prayer, reflection and action in the new year after 150 years of evangelization Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - In an editorial entitled "Let’s move forward in 2012", Catholic Weekly, the weekly Catholic bulletin of the Archdiocese of Taipei in Taiwan invites the faithful to pray, reflect and act more i ...
• 16 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-More than 160 indicted and 9 killed for "blasphemy" in 2011; 1,800 Christian and Hindu girls converted to Islam by force Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The controversial blasphemy law continues to claim victims in Pakistan, while religious minorities suffer from rampant extremism. In 2011, because of the "black law" (composed of the articles 295 ...
• 16 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-8 million religious minorities: a special Commission is urgently needed Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The government has released new figures which are not official (the last official census dates back to 1998) regarding the composition of Pakistani society: according to recent sociological resea ...
• 16 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians beaten and a pastor’s finger was cut off in an attack by Hindu extremists Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty Christians were attacked and beaten, the Protestant Pastor Srirangam Shanthakumar of the "Agape Church", was wounded and his finger was cut off. This is the toll of the final attack car ...
• 13 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - The Islamic court in Kashmir incriminates a Catholic missionary and a Protestant Pastor: alarm for Christians Srinagar (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamic Supreme in Kashmir Court has incriminated the Catholic missionary Father Jim Borst and the Protestant Pastor Chander Mani Khanna for their involvement in fraudulent activities of pr ...
• 13 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA-New Report on persecution against Christians: more than 2,000 cases in 2011 Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - 2,141 Christians suffered aggressions, attacks and persecutions in 2011, not counting their families, relatives and friends, indirect victims. It is expected that the persecution by Hindu extremi ...
• 13 January 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The Church's commitment to the poor and to uphold the fundamental values in society Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Church has the duty to give full attention to the poor through the parish, formation and social services, taking its social responsibility: this is how His Exc. Mgr. John Tong, Bishop of ...
• 13 January 2012
  ASIA/BANGLADESH-National campaign of vaccination against polio for 22 million children Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Mobile health teams, in Bangladesh, are doing a research "child-child" aimed at achieving the remaining half a million children who have not been vaccinated during the national campaign against po ...
• 13 January 2012
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Amnesty for 650 political prisoners; the Bishops: "a sign of hope and peace for the future" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The president of Burma Thein Sein has today issued a measure of amnesty, ordering the release of 650 political prisoners. Among those released are important prisoners such as former Prime Ministe ...