Asia

• 19 November 2011
  ASIA/TURKEY- The problematic crucial points for religious minorities and for those who have converted to Christianity Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Despite the openess of Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the restitution of properties to churches and other communities, the problems that Turkey's religious minorities live are significant. Acc ...
• 19 November 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The community of Taiwan is preparing a big party for Cardinal Shan’s 90th birthday Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The community of Taiwan is preparing a big party for the 90th birthday of the beloved Cardinal Paul Shan, SJ, Bishop Emeritus of Kaohsiung. In view of the occasion, the Archbishop of the Diocese ...
• 19 November 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Dommara girls’ heavy hereditary: forced into prostitution to support the family Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of Universal Child’s Day, celebrated around the world on Sunday, November 20, the Spanish Catholic organization Manos Unidas has recalled the plight of the Dommara girls comm ...
• 18 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Minorities in turmoil: a Christian killed, Hindus ask for "the revocation of citizenship" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian businessman, family man, was killed in Karachi, the capital of Sindh province; the Hindu faithful protest and in Parliament ask, provocatively, the government "to revoke the citizens ...
• 18 November 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Xaverians in Taiwan celebrated the canonization of the founder, St. Conforti Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - A solemn Eucharist presided by Cardinal Paul Shan, the screening of a documentary about the founder, the inauguration of the statue of the Saint, an exhibition on the life and mission of Confort ...
• 18 November 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Paramilitary behind Fr.Tentorio’s crime; the dam will be built and will inundate the tribal people in Mindanao Manila (Agenzia Fides) – The responsibles of father Fausto Tentorio’s murder are to be sought among "former members of the armed forces or police, expelled because accused of crimes, then recycled into private secur ...
• 17 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-A Protestant Pastor gunned down in Karachi Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The Protestant Pastor Jameel Sawan was killed yesterday with three gunshot in Karachi: this is what Paul Bhatti confirms to Fides, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for religious Minoritt Af ...
• 17 November 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Sister killed for her missionary work among the tribal people, "a true disciple of Christ", abandoned by the civil authorities Dumka (Agenzia Fides) – She was one of the many religious from Kerala (a state in South India, thriving in vocations) scattered in India and the world as missionaries: Sr.Valsha John, 53, of the "Sisters of Charity of ...
• 17 November 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The International Forum on Liturgy & Inculturation traces 20 years of formation and development of the Liturgy in China Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The Forum on Liturgy & Inculturation organized by Faith Institute for Cultural Studies of He Bei, in collaboration with the ten major Seminaries in the Chinese mainland, is taking place i ...
• 16 November 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Disabled elderly priest promotes the construction of a new church dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Zhou Zhi (Agenzia Fides) - Don Zhang Xiong Feng, disabled elderly priest of the Diocese of Zhou Zhi, in the Shaan Xi province, presided the solemn blessing and location of the new church building cross dedicated to the S ...
• 16 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-A new church and an agreement with the Lateran University: the Ministry for Harmony is linked up with the Church of Rome Rome (Agenzia Fides) - An agreement of collaboration with the Pontifical Lateran University and the construction of a new church in the diocese of Faisalabad: is what is reported to Fides, these are the results that toda ...
• 16 November 2011
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Millions of mosquito nets to prevent malaria facilitated by recent floods Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Millions of Cambodians will receive insecticide-treated nets by the government to try to limit the spread of malaria and dengue fever. This is the largest operation of distribution in Asia, 2 ...
• 16 November 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Franciscans: human rights violations in Papua, NGOs hampered, the media gagged Geneva (Agenzia Fides) –Indonesian Papua is experiencing "serious abuses of civil and political rights as well as economic, social and cultural", while the mass media are gagged to hide the truth: so says the new Repor ...
• 15 November 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Bishop and a Pastor are forced to leave the country on false charges of blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Protestant Bishop Mgr. Pervaiz Joseph and Pastor Baber George were forced to flee abroad, because they were victims of false accusations of blasphemy and threatened with death by Islamic radi ...
• 15 November 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Year of the Laity: coordinate all the resources for a solid formation of faith and the Bible Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Coordinate all community resources to ensure a solid faith and with regard to the Holy Scripture: is the commitment underlined by the Diocesan Group, Responsible for the Year of the Laity, org ...