Asia

• 30 May 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-Law to protect minorities: urgent after 3800 cases of inter-community violence in five years New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Indian Union government has finally decided to act, bringing forward a Bill to prevent minorities and inter-community violence. In particular, in the last 40 years, Christians have been ...
• 28 May 2011
  ASIA/VIETNAM-The Catholics “ are called to contribute to justice and peace in the nation” Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - Vietnamese Catholics intend to commit themselves in building justice and peace in Vietnam, starting from their daily lives, so as to contribute to human and social development as well a ...
• 28 May 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN-The Eucharistic Congress in Taiwan in the Year of the Laity and in preparation for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress 2012 Tai Nan (Agenzia Fides) – The spring Assembly of the Regional Episcopal Conference in Taiwan, held in recent days in the Diocese of Tai Nan, launched the Eucharistic Congress in Taiwan. According to reports from the ...
• 28 May 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-Communion, ecumenism, dialogue: the ways of the new major Archbishop of Syro-Malabar Kochi (Agenzia Fides) - With the election of Mar George Alencherry as new major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church in India an era of greater communion between the Catholic communities in India, a large ecumenical coo ...
• 28 May 2011
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN-Street children and adolescents are victims of Islamic extremists Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - A growing number of orphans and Tajik street children are victims of Islamic extremist groups, who recruit them to grow according to radical ideologies and make them small, modern terrorists. T ...
• 27 May 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG -The three "miracles" of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and of their Founder Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. John Tong, Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong, thanked the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) for the great contribution to the religious and missionary growth through ...
• 27 May 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two Christian girls have been kidnapped and converted to Islam in Punjab Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The violence on Christian girls in central Punjab has caused two other victims: as reported by the Masihi Foundation to Fides- which deals with the protection of Christians in Pakistan - two ...
• 27 May 2011
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA-The visit of Cardinal Tauran: "an impulse to continue on the path of dialogue" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The visit of Cardinal Jean Louis Tauran in Korea is "an impulse to the Korean Church to continue the path of dialogue": states His Exc.Mgr. Peter Kang, Bishop of Cheju and President of the Episcop ...
• 27 May 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-Law on violence against minorities is under review of the civil society; in Parliament in July New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The human rights organizations, religious communities, Christian and Muslim associations, NGOs in the Indian civil society have one week (until June 4) to read, consider and propose amendments ...
• 27 May 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-Summer session of Parliament: on the agenda food security, corruption and inter-community violence New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – It will be a challenging summer for the Indian Parliament and especially for the government coalition in power in India, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), formed by the Congress Party, ...
• 27 May 2011
  ASIA/SRI LANKA-Appointment of the Bishop of Galle Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 27, 2011 appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Galle (Sri Lanka) Rev.do Raymond Wickramasinghe, Professor of Moral Theology at the National Seminary of Our ...
• 26 May 2011
  ASIA/CHINA- the restoration of the church of the diocese of Mei Zhou dedicated to Mary Help of Christians has been completed Mei Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - On the day of the liturgical feast of Mary Help of Christians, on May 24, more than 700 faithful attended the grand opening, after the restoration of the church of the diocese of Mei Zhou, in t ...
• 26 May 2011
  ASIA/SRI LANKA-War crimes and crimes against humanity on the Tamil: will be discussed at the UN Colombo (Fides Service) - The accusations of "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity" against the Tamil people of Sri Lanka will be discussed, starting from May 30, at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva . As reporte ...
• 26 May 2011
  ASIA/BANGLADESH-After two years victims of the cyclone Aila still need help Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the cyclone Aila, which destroyed south western Bangladesh, thousands of survivors are still in need of everything. According to Bangladesh's Disaster Management Bureau, the peopl ...
• 26 May 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-The radio, a means to train new leaders of civil society, the antidote to fundamentalism Lahore (Fides Service) - Thanks to the radio, a means of communication and widely listened to by a lot of young Pakistanis, it is possible to train new leaders of civil society, with moderate and democratic ideas, based ...