Asia

• 13 July 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-Year of the Laity: the faithful are aware of their missionary responsibility Ba Meng (Fides Service) - "Here I am Lord, send me!": these are the words pronounced by 24 lay missionaries of the diocese of Ba Meng, in Inner Mongolia in mainland China during the rite of the missionary mandate preside ...
• 13 July 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu radicals threaten a Catholic school asking for the admission of Hindu children Khandwa (Agenzia Fides) - The radical Hindu groups have threatened the headmaster and teachers of a Catholic school in the Diocese of Khandwa (in the Madhya Pradesh state) trying to get a Hindu girl admitted to the scho ...
• 12 July 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The case of Farah Hatim arrives at the High Court of Punjab, the Catholic girl Islamized by force Multan (Fides Service) - The High Court in Punjab will judge and determine the truth about the case of Farah Hatim, the Catholic girl kidnapped, Islamized and forced to marry a Muslim man in the city of Rahim Yar Khan i ...
• 12 July 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-From the Vatican Council II to the current pastoral: summer training in the diocese of Liao Ning Liao Ning (Agenzia Fides) - In order to improve overall preparation of priests, religious men, religious women and laity of the diocese, the diocese of Liao Ning in the northeast province in mainland China a series of tr ...
• 12 July 2011
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN-Maternal and infant mortality rate among the highest in the world Kabul (Fides Service) - 50 women die in childbirth every day in Afghanistan, one in three has suffered psychological or sexual violence, and the average age of survival is 44. According to the report State of the World' ...
• 12 July 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Two American tourists kidnapped, the nightmare of "Abu Sayyaf" returns Zamboanga City (Fides Service) – Fear for tourists and missionaries in south Philippines returns. The news of the kidnapping of two American tourists on holiday on the island of Tictabon, off the coast of Zamboanga Cit ...
• 11 July 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Paul Bhatti: "Education, legal support, political commitment: my plan for religious minorities" Islamabad (Fides Service) - A global action plan to improve the conditions of religious minorities, promote their rights, ensure life safety: is what the Catholic Paul Bhatti has in mind, Special Advisor to the Prime Min ...
• 11 July 2011
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Prime Minister meets the Pope: diplomatic relations and "crucial points" in the lives of Christians Kuala Lumpur (Fides Service) –The current, fluid, political situation in Malaysia, has weakened the Prime Minister, as he prepares to meet Benedict XVI, in a "private visit", scheduled for July 18 at Castel Gandolfo, ...
• 11 July 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Spiritual retreat for priests and catechism summer course: intense spiritual journey and pastoral work in the Diocese of Han Dan Han Dan (Fides Service) – Promotion of the Eucharistic adoration and devotion to the Sacred Heart; to form the basic ecclesial communities in the parishes: were the main topics of the monthly retreat for priests of t ...
• 9 July 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG-Mgr. Tong gave 89 catechists the diploma and awarded 83 Sunday Schools teachers Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. John Tong, Bishop of Hong Kong, gave the diploma to 89 catechists who completed the 2-year permanent training course, and awarded 83 Sunday Schools teachers for carrying out th ...
• 9 July 2011
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - "Civil society takes to the streets to demand legality and less corruption: the movement is inter-religious", says the Director of Herald Kuala Lumpur (Fides Service) - "What is shaking the nation is a transversal and inter-religious movement, and is born from civil society without political labels. It brings legitimate requests, asks for a change, transpa ...
• 8 July 2011
  ASIA/BANGLADESH-Erection of the new diocese of Sylhet and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI has erected the new Diocese of Sylhet, in Bangladesh, for the dismantling of the Archdiocese of Dhaka, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan see itself, on ...
• 8 July 2011
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - "Transparency and reform": civil society is demonstrating, with their eyes towards the "Arab Spring" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The "Arab Spring" is coming to the East. The biggest event of the Malaysian civil society in the last 50 years is announced for tomorrow, July 9, which plans to bring together over 400 thou ...
• 8 July 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG-The Trappist Cistercians of the Abbey of Our Lady of Joy have been in Hong Kong for 60 years Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Trappists (Cistercians of the Strict Observance, O.C.S.O) of the Trappist Abbey Our Lady of Joy celebrated their 60 years of service in Hong Kong on July 2, with a Mass presided by the Adm ...
• 8 July 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Surgery to change sex to female infants: the condemnation of the Church Bhopal (Fides Service) –What has taken hold in the state of Madhya Pradesh (central India) is an aberrant phenomenon: cases in which doctors practice surgery to change sex to female babies multiply, at the request of p ...