Asia

• 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 ...
• 7 July 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-The first Cultural Festival of the Cathedral of Bao Ding re-launches mission through the religious culture Bao Ding (Agenzia Fides) - The first Cultural Festival organized by the Cathedral of the Diocese of Bao Ding, dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, took place on July 2, on the day of the 106th anniversary of the founding ...
• 7 July 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu radicals want to enter (by force) their children to Catholic schools Belgaum (Fides Service) - A group of 50 militants of the radical Hindu groups burst into St. Joseph school, of the Sisters of Canossian in Belgaum, to impose on the religious women to enter their two boys in their schoo ...
• 7 July 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - APMA mediation fails in the case of Farah, the Catholic Islamized by force Lahore (Fides Service) - The first attempt of mediation by the "All Pakistan Minorities Alliance" (APMA) in the case of Hatim Farah, the kidnapped Catholic girl, married and converted to Islam by the Muslim Iliyas in Zee ...