Asia

• 23 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Statistics on communal violence: debate on the law for the protection of minorities New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - More than 4,000 episodes of violence in four years, 648 people died and 11 thousand were injured in the 24 states of the Indian Federation: these statistics released by the Indian Bishops on v ...
• 23 September 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Mindanao without peace: terrorism alarm, Islamic fundamentalists cause havoc, deadlock in the negotiations Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) – Criminal terrorist groups in search of visibility; uncertainty about future policies; Islamic fundamentalist infiltration from abroad; deadlock in the peace process and the elections fo ...
• 23 September 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - New clashes in South Kordofan: the crisis is likely to worsen Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Heavy fighting erupted yesterday, September 22, in the state of South Kordofan, on the border between north and south Sudan, after rebels of the Sudan’s People’s Liberation Movement North ...
• 22 September 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - "To ignite the spark of Evangelization": how to create a good project for evangelization Kao Hsiung (Agenzia Fides) - "To ignite the spark of Evangelization" was the theme of the Seminar organized by the Missionary Association of the Diocese of Kao Hsiung, on the island of Taiwan, on Sept. 17. According to i ...
• 22 September 2011
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA-Religious leaders in the North to "maintain an open channel", but "religious freedom is denied" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The visit to North Korea of seven religious leaders of the "Korean Conference of Religions for Peace" representatives of Catholicism, Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism, shamanism and other loca ...
• 22 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Caritas, the only channel that gives humanitarian aid to religious minorities Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The only channel to get humanitarian aid to displaced people belonging to religious minorities, Christians and Hindus, is Caritas, although government agencies and other Muslim NGOs deny it" ...
• 21 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - More than 55 anti-Christian attacks in 2011; for the Bishops a legislation to protect minorities is urgently needed" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - A church was attacked and damaged in Karnataka two days ago; a prayer meeting was interrupted and stopped by extremists in Madhya Pradesh; 7 Christians were arrested in Andhra Pradesh and a Pr ...
• 21 September 2011
  EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC - A "missionary bridge of prayer" and a video clip for World Mission Day Prague (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of World Mission Day 2011, the national leadership of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the Czech Republic, have launched the initiative to create a "missionary bridge of ...
• 21 September 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Support for vocations is the mission of the parish of Bei Tang in the archdiocese of Xi An Xi An (Agenzia Fides) - To support and accompany vocations, both materially and spiritually, especially the seminarians of the Minor Seminary: this is the imperative mission of the parish of Bei Tang, in the archdiocese ...
• 21 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishop of Vasai: "The Church responds to violence with forgiveness and doing good" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Towards the attacks by Hindu extremist groups, who "have their own agenda", the Christians respond by "doing good": more than 33% of social services in India, in the field of education and ...
• 21 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Islamic fundamentalists are ready to send militia to the Moluccas Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The radical Islamic group "Front Pembela Islam," FPI has announced that it "is ready to send militia to fight a holy war against Christians in the Moluccas" as refered by Fides sources in the In ...
• 20 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Earthquake in the Northeast, floods in Orissa: Caritas in the forefront New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas India is at the forefront in the emergency aid after two catastrophic events that, almost simultaneously, have hit two areas of the country: the earthquake in the northeast (in the Him ...
• 20 September 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Mgr. Tong urges a group of religious to unity and communion, and to re-read Benedict XVI’s letter to the Chinese Catholics Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Unity and communion of the Church, the consolidation of religious life and spirit of evangelization, the Pope's letter to the Chinese Catholics in 2007: these are the themes His Exc. Mgr. Joh ...
• 20 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - The Indian Church: "No" to nuclear power, solidarity with the nonviolent who fast in Tamil Nadu New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Immediate closure of the plant in Koodankulam (in Tamil Nadu) and the gradual disposal of all existing plants in India; a moratorium on all nuclear projects; a decisive shift towards alternati ...
• 20 September 2011
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - NGOs to the UN: President Rajapaksa ensure accountability for violations of human rights Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Ensure accountability for human rights violations and war crimes committed during the final stages of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka; and, in doing so, take the necessary measures so that the ...