Asia

• 2 December 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Angels: 85 years of missionary service through education and youth ministry Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Offering complete education, so that Catholic values become a solid foundation for students: these are the commitments of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Angels, MNDA, in 85 years of ...
• 2 December 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - "All together for a Better World: including people with disabilities" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "All together for a Better World: including people with disabilities" is the general theme the International Day of Persons with Disabilities will focus on which is celebrated on December 3. Disabl ...
• 2 December 2011
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - More than 10,000 Bibles arrive in a hot-air balloon Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Bibles cross the bamboo curtain and reaches the North Korean faithful with a hot-air balloon. Over 10 thousand copies of the Holy Scriptures were delivered to the Christians living in Nor ...
• 2 December 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Shabhaz Bhatti remembered in Italy for his testimony of faith in politics Rome (Agenzia Fides) - An excellent testimony of faith in politics, significant for the present and the future of Pakistan: With these reasons, on Sunday, December 4, the figure of Shahbaz Bhatti, Federal Minister for Re ...
• 2 December 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rapes and murders of Christians in Punjab, in silence and injustice Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - Javed Masih, Shahbaz Masih's father, a young Christian killed by Muslims in Kasur (in Punjab), has just managed to register a formal complaint (First Information Report) and is now demanding justi ...
• 2 December 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic Girl killed in Faisalabad, a "martyr of the faith" Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The local Catholic Church calls her "a martyr of the faith": Mariah Manisha was a Catholic girl from Faisalabd who was killed a week ago by a Muslim man who had kidnapped her and intended to ...
• 1 December 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Mandate to 179 extraordinary ministers of communion of Kai Xi Cathedral of the Diocese of Tian Jin Tian Jin (Agenzia Fides) - There are 179 extraordinary ministers of communion at Kai Xi Cathedral of the Diocese of Tian Jin, who received the mandate during the solemn liturgy on November 19, presided by the pastor Don ...
• 1 December 2011
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA-Christmas dedicated to the "new evangelization" in the spirit of the II Vatican Council Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas is for the Korean Catholic Church an opportunity to reflect and revive the spirit of the "new evangelization": This is what emerges from the pastoral Letters that the Korean Bishops spre ...
• 1 December 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Church: " immediately cease-fire, then a plan of national reconciliation" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "To the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on a visit to Myanmar, we ask to invite the government to immediately order a ceasefire in the conflict with the Kachin Independent Army; then to r ...
• 1 December 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Peace initiative towards ethnic minorities is about to start: a national conference is being prepared Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - It is a "courageous, initiative, with a potential to solve the devastating civil war with ethnic groups, which has been going on for 60 years", this is how the International Crisis Group (ICG) th ...
• 30 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A wave of anti-US protest: Pakistani Christians are afraid of retaliation Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The wave of protest against the United States and the West has not calmed down, started after the bombing by NATO forces, which in past days, killed 26 Pakistani soldiers on the Pakistani-Afghan ...
• 30 November 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A Christian Kachin kidnapped and raped: "Hillary Clinton look at our suffering" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who arrives in Myanmar today, "look at the suffering of the Kachin ethnic minorities, mainly Christians, victims of atrocities and abuses of the Burm ...
• 30 November 2011
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Homes razed, crops destroyed: the floods continue to do damage Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Floods caused by torrential rains that have recently hit the south of Vietnam continue to flood the country, victims only a month ago of one of the worst floods in the last decade. When the situat ...
• 30 November 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Bishops: "We are confident in a future of peace" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We are confident for the future of the country. We hope to continue the path undertaken at a political and social level and we hope to see the fruits in the near future, for the good of the enti ...
• 30 November 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The Catholic community has long been committed to the prevention, support and care of AIDS Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in mainland China is always at the forefront of AIDS prevention, support, assistance and medical care of the sick or infected by the virus. According to information gathered by ...