Asia

• 2 July 2011
  ASIA/THAILAND - Corruption and Rule of Law: Challenges to the nation on the eve of elections Bangkok (Fides Service) - The perennial problem of corruption, the gap between elites and masses of rural population; respect for the rule of law and freedom of expression: these are the most urgent challenges in the Tha ...
• 2 July 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Prime Minister meets religious minorities: "You will have a new Ministry" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gilani, today met a delegation of representatives of religious minorities of Pakistan in Islamabad and has officially announced the upcoming creatio ...
• 1 July 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Minority rights and the future of Christians: the Catholic minister is "confident" Islamabad (Fides Service) - Although the Federal Ministry that presided has just been "dissolved" - after a Provincial decentralization plan approved by the Parliament - the Catholic Akram Gill, until yesterday Minister ...
• 1 July 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Caritas, the only organization committed to the humanitarian emergency in the scene of war Banmaw (Fides Service) - To meet ongoing humanitarian emergency in northern Myanmar - scarred by civil war between the army and rebels of the Kachin Independent Army (see Fides 06/30/2011) - Caritas has put into the fiel ...
• 1 July 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG-Proclamation and testimony, the two recommendations from Mgr.Tong to catechists Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Proclamation and testimony to fulfill the mission of evangelization. This is what His Exc. Mgr. John Tong, Bishop of Hong Kong, recommended to the catechists in Hong Kong during the awards cer ...
• 1 July 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Violence in Gujarat, all evidence have been destroyed. A Jesuit, "injustice is done" Ahmedabad (Fides Service) - The Government of Gujarat state in western India, admitted that all evidence relating to the massacres of 2002 - when about 2,000 Muslim citizens were killed, attacked by thousands of militant ...
• 30 June 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Devolution approved: the Federal Ministry for Religious Minorities has been abolished Islamabad (Fides Service) - Pakistan has abolished the Federal Ministry for religious minorities. This was confirmed to Fides by the Catholic Akram Gill, Minister of State for Religious Minorities, in what is, in fact, t ...
• 30 June 2011
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Priests and nuns help 20 thousand Kachin refugees, victims of indiscriminate repression Myitkyina (Fides Service) - "Ethnic cleansing" and "humanitarian emergency" is what is happening in the Kachin State in northern Myanmar, where a conflict is raging between the Burmese army, and the Kachin Independent Ar ...
• 30 June 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Paul Bhatti: "My brother Shabhaz killed by Al Qaeda Shabhaz: investigations finally on the right track" Islamabad (Fides Service) - "The investigations into the murder of my brother Shabhaz are finally on the right track: it is the work carried out by the Taliban and Islamic fanatics. Now we are waiting for the capture of ...
• 30 June 2011
  ASIA/CHINA.100 years of the Maryknoll missionaries: their first foundation was in China Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in China's mainland, which was the first foundation of the Maryknoll missionaries abroad, participate with great joy and gratitude to the Lord in the celebration of 100 years of ...
• 28 June 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-The solemnity of Corpus Christi an opportunity for evangelization Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - According to information received by Fides, the majority of the Chinese Catholic community celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi on June 26th with the celebration of the Eucharist and th ...
• 28 June 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Abolishing the Federal Ministry for minorities means "killing Bhatti for the second time" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Pakistani government is ready to abolish the Federal Ministry for Religious Minorities, fragmenting it into "divisions" that will be distributed in the Pakistani provinces. The responsibi ...
• 28 June 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-Justice, equality and rights for Dalits: fasting for crowds of Christians New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - It will be a fast that falls in a rare moment of political importance for religious minorities and for the whole Indian society: as reported to Fides by local sources, the Christians of India ...
• 27 June 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-An Archbishop will work with Gandhi’s granddaughter for peace and reconciliation Guwahati (Fides Service) - An Archbishop will work for peace and reconciliation beside Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, Mahatma Gandhi’s granddaughter and Vice President of the "Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti", an organiza ...
• 27 June 2011
  ASIA/CHINA- Missionary mandate to 305 lay of the parish of Fu Shun, a sign of the Diocese’s vitality in Liao Ning Fu Shun (Fides Service) - 305 lay missionaries, divided into 11 groups, of the parish of Fu Shun of the Diocese in Liao Ning, received the missionary mandate by the parish priest on the solemnity of the Pentecost, thus c ...