Asia

• 15 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Commission "Justice and Peace": "the UN envoy is invited to Pakistan, we need to abolish the blasphemy law" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission "Justice and Peace" of the Pakistani Bishops have invited the UN Special Observer on religious Tolerance to visit Pakistan to see the "abuses and violence against religious minorit ...
• 15 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi was sentenced to death by a court "influenced by Islamic extremists" and "without a lawyer" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There is more than a shadow on the case of Asia Bibi, a 40-year old Christian woman, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy. Asia was judged by a court "under the obvious pressure of Islamic ex ...
• 14 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Duc in altum": the theme of 'Year of the Mission for the Church in Pakistan Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Church of Pakistan, Duc in altum" This is the theme of the Mission and Evangelization, which will be launched by the Church of Pakistan, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Pontifical Miss ...
• 14 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops' appeal: "No to death penalty and execution of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassins" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - " As Church of India we are against death penalty and we ask for the salvation of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassins. We hope that our country will firmly take the road of abolishing capital punish ...
• 14 September 2011
  ASIA/THAILAND - Post-flood trauma: 600 displaced have committed suicide, but "in the disaster the country finds unity" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – It is a tragedy within the tragedy" for over a week heavy rains have not stopped in Thailand and have caused flooding in 21 provinces in central-south part of the country, provoking 87 deaths ...
• 14 September 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Inauguration of the largest square in the inner Mongolian steppe dedicated to "Our Lady of Mongolia" Bao Tou (Agenzia Fides) - The largest and the most beautiful square in the inner Mongolian steppe, in the diocese of Bao Tou, was inaugurated a few days ago and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Over three thousand faithful ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - A new program for the mobile phone, iBreviarium, to pray the Liturgy of the Hours Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Paul Leung, SDB, a Salesian from Hong Kong, has invented a program for the mobile phone called iBreviarium, to encourage the faithful to join in the prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours thr ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Heavy floods in Pakistan; for Caritas, "the government has failed in prevention" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - It is an emergency that overlaps on another emergency. While the reconstruction after the epochal 2010 flood was still being dealt with, new major floods have hit southern Pakistan in recent day ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Power games behind the holy war in the Moluccas; the volunteers "belt of peace" Ambon (Agenzia Fides) - The tension in Ambon heightens again, on the Molucca islands: after clashes between Muslims and Christians on Sunday, September 11 (see Fides 12/09/2011), the government has allocated through the ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/YEMEN - Helping displaced children overcome trauma and suffering Aden (Agenzia Fides) - The children constitute 60% of the over 100 000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in southern Yemen. According to a UNICEF representative in the country, almost all the IDPs children have suffere ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Appeals from religious leaders and NGOs: transparency, peace, legality in the Moluccas Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) –It is urgent to protect peace by protecting legality, transparency concerning government action, impartiality of the police, dialogue between religions: this is what is said by religious lead ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Perpetual vows for four religious women Missionaries of Our Lady of Sorrows Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - Four diocesan religious women of the congregation of the Missionaries of Our Lady of Sorrows of the diocese of Tai Yuan, mainland China, professed their perpetual vows on the Feast of the Nativ ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA - In the midst of difficulties and persecution "it is the time for mission in Asia" Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - Amid the difficulties, poverty or persecution, the Christians of Asia "are called to renew the proclamation of the Word, mission, evangelization", says His Exc. Mgr. Thomas Menamparampil SDB, I ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Nine million people risk starvation Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - The drought in northern, northwestern and western Afghanistan, is putting other 1.5-2 million people at the risk of starvation, in addition to the seven million around the country who already live ...
• 12 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Orders to demolish churches in Orissa have been cancelled Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - It is a victory for the Catholic Church in Orissa: the local government of Kandhamal district, the scene of anti-Christian violence in 2008, announced the cancellation of the demolition orde ...