Asia

• 26 October 2011
  ASIA/YEMEN - Humanitarian Disaster: One child out of 3 is malnourished, hospitals are overcrowded or closed, access to water is difficult Sa'dah (Agenzia Fides) - Yemen is on the verge of a real and serious humanitarian disaster. In some areas of the country vaccination for children has decreased by 40%, fueling the rapid spread of polio and measles epidem ...
• 25 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Identikit for two of Tentorio’s killers; two other missionaries in the crosshairs Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Special Task Force is investigating the death of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, killed on October 17 in Arakan (Mindanao) and the identikit of two killers has been traced, say local sources of Fides. A ...
• 25 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops and 15 thousand tribal people from Mindanao for the last farewell to Fr. Fausto Tentorio Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) - In a climate of prayer and emotion, the communities of Mindanao and the entire Church in the Philippines said farewell to Fr. Fausto Tentorio, the missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Fo ...
• 25 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "He died like Jesus on the cross, the missionary who showed mercy to the tribal people, abandoned by the government", says the Bishop during the funeral Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) - Father Fausto "did not like ceremonies" and "worked in relative obscurity". "He was a missionary who showed mercy, especially to the little children of God among his parishioners, the Lumad (t ...
• 25 October 2011
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The nutrition of the population affected by severe flooding is at risk Kratie (Agenzia Fides) - The severe floods in Cambodia have put at serious risk the nutrition of the country’s population. In 17 of the 24 provinces, about 300 people have been killed and other 34 000 have been forced ...
• 25 October 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - World Mission Day: new beginning of evangelization for the continental Catholic community Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - World Mission Day marks a "new beginning of evangelization" for mainland Catholic community. This is what priests of various continental Catholic communties report to Fides. As reported in Faith ...
• 24 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The death of Fr.Tentorio will give more courage to the tribal people in the South of the Philippines Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Death of Father Fausto Tentorio during the month dedicated to the tribal people, will give courage to many within the Church and Philippine society, to be more aware of, and identify ...
• 24 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - March and prayer in Mindanao: "justice" is demanded for the missionary killed Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) - The population of Mindanao mobilizes to seek "justice for Fr.Tentorio", the PIME missionary killed seven days ago in Arakan, on the island of Mindanao in southern Philippines (see Fides 17/10/ ...
• 24 October 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - "Walk among the Words of God" is the theme of the Seminar on Sacred Scripture Hsinchu (Agenzia Fides) - "Walk among the Words of God - I am the Way, the Truth and the Life (Jn 14.6)": This is the theme of the Eighth Seminar on Sacred Scripture, which will be held from 11 to 13 November in the Arc ...
• 24 October 2011
  ASIA - Floods simultaneously in six countries: 700 dead, 8 million people affected, the intervention of Caritas Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "It is the first time that six Southeast Asian countries are affected simultaneously by powerful floods. It is a great emergency, the worst in 50 years, and Caritas of different countries are be ...
• 21 October 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Churches seized, civilians beaten, women raped: abuse of the military on Kachin Christians Banmaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Burmese military army continues violence against civilians and do not spare the churches: this is what Fides sources denounce in the diocese of Banmaw in northern Mynamar, where a bloody war ...
• 21 October 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The Association of the Rosary spreads, "to draw strength and wisdom from evangelization" Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - On the feast of St. Luke, 18 October, during the month of the Rosary and Missions, the Association of the Rosary in parish of Xi Ling, in the diocese of Wen Zhou was born. According to reports ...
• 21 October 2011
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - For the first time the Mass for World Mission Day will be celebrated in Russian Astana (Agenzia Fides) - There are many initiatives for World Mission Day in Kazakhstan, where the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) were established in 2008 and since then continue to work in order to raise the Kazakhs ...
• 21 October 2011
  ASIA/LEBANON - "Blessed Paolo Manna translated into Arabic, to be missionaries in the Middle East", says the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Lebanon Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Although they are a small minority, and despite the difficulties, "the Christians in Lebanon want to be leaven in the mass, for the Middle East. This is why we encourage t missionary experiences; ...
• 20 October 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Dedicated to the Catholic funeral Liturgy and the inculturation of the 15th Asian Liturgy Forum Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "Catholic funeral liturgy and Inculturation" is the theme of the 15th Asian Liturgy Forum that is taking place in Tai Pei, from October 17 to 21, sponsored by the Liturgical Commission of the Ep ...