Asia

• 29 November 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The Continental Catholic community has begun the new liturgical year in communion with the Universal Church Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - "Living Advent with a heart full of grace, a heart of praise and a heart of repentance and obedience; living Advent with so much love, participating in the celebration of the sacraments, ...
• 29 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A teenager fights for the right to education of her peers Islamabad (Agenzai Fides) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize, recently announced in Cape Town, the five candidates for the International Child Prize for Peace 2011. This is an initiative sponsored by Kids Right ...
• 29 November 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "The people are hostage in a reign of terror and impunity", the complaint is from the forum "Justice for Fr. Tentorio" Arakan (Agenzia Fides) - Harassment and intimidation to tribal peolple and social leaders; threats to the missionaries; chaos and suffering of the people, in a "reign of terror and impunity" This is what the religious, C ...
• 28 November 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Archbishop of Orissa’s appeal to the faithful: "Heralds of Hope, for the common good" Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - "As we approach Christmas, we want to be heralds of a message of hope, in the certainty that God accompanies His people": this is the appeal launched to the faithful of Orissa by His Exc. Mg ...
• 28 November 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The Hong Kong diocese is preparing to welcome a new deacon Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Hong Kong, and especially the parish of St. Jude, are preparing to welcome a new deacon originally from the diocese, Mai Ying Jiang, who was educated at the diocesan Seminary in ...
• 28 November 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA-Six churches threatened by extremist groups, other two will be demolished by the state Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) –Islamic extremists of the Islamic Defenders Front ("Front Pembela Islam," FPI) took to the streets en masse in Bekasi, one of the biggest suburbs of the metropolis of Jakarta, threatening to ra ...
• 28 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Paul Bhatti: "The NATO attack may compromise the fight against terrorism and religious harmony in Pakistan" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The NATO attack is serious because it can compromise the fight against terrorism but also interreligious harmony, intercultural dialogue, and peace in Pakistan": with these words, the Catholi ...
• 28 November 2011
  ASIA/SYRIA - Torture and mutilation of children held in prisons in the country Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) expressed serious concern due to the incidents of general violation of human rights that are registered in Syria and for the total impunity to ...
• 26 November 2011
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Word of God to evangelize society today: Bible Week just concluded Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – To hold firm the reference to Sacred Scripture, in order to evangelize a rapidly changing society: with this spirit, the community celebrated the Catholic Bible Week 2011, sponsored by the Bibli ...
• 26 November 2011
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - A spiritual offensive to revive faith in North Korea Paris (Agenzia Fides) - Today, since the regime denies personal freedom, including religious freedom, it is not possible to send material aid to the faithful Christians in North Korea. "Only God's action, solicited by pr ...
• 26 November 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES-Tentorio’s case, the police have identified the person behind the assassination; civil society on a pilgrimage Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - The investigation of Father Fausto Tentorio’s murder, the missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) killed on October 17 in Arakan, may be at a turning point: as loca ...
• 26 November 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Vacuum of authority, ideas, law, morals in Mindanao", denounces a Jesuit Davao (Agenzia Fides) - "We are concerned about the difficulties that we live in Mindanao: in particular the absence of the rule of law, the absence of a credible leadership, the lack of adequate investments in social pr ...
• 25 November 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Lay Missionary Association of the laity: on December 18 the missionary mandate to a lay woman who will spend three years in India Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) –Mrs Stephanie Ling, of the parish of St. Margaret in Hong Kong on 18 December will receive the missionary mandate of the Hong Kong Catholic Lay Missionary Association to spend three years on ...
• 25 November 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Investigations concerning Father Tentorio are being carried out at a slow pace, stop to impunity: Civil Society writes to President Aquino Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) – To put an immediate end to the impunity that reigns in Arakan Valley and throughout the island of Mindanao; to promote justice and transparency with every means in the case of the murder of ...
• 25 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal for calm in Punjab after the killing of a farmer: it was not an act of violence against minorities Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - "One must not fuel interreligious hatred and one must pay extreme attention in spreading information: the farmer Akram Masih, who was killed two days ago in Okara district, had converted to I ...