Asia

• 7 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Lent for Christians in Pakistan: prayer and a “Caravan for Shahbaz” Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Mass and prayer vigils were celebrated in more than 500 churches in Pakistan yesterday, concluding three days of mourning to remember Catholic Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, killed on 2 March in I ...
• 7 March 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Once again, a cross erected by Christians is pulled down; for the faithful it amounts to “selective demolition” Bombay (Agenzia Fides) – The Christian faithful in the district of “Byculla-Mazagaon”, in Bombay, had just erected a cross when it was demolished by bulldozers a few days ago, at the request of the civil authoritie ...
• 7 March 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The mainland Catholic Chinese community are preparing for their Lenten spiritual path Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – Spiritual retreats and formation courses on marriage and the Christian faith, centred in the Word of God, have distinguished the spiritual and formative path of the mainland Catholic Ch ...
• 5 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops: we ask for Bhatti to be proclaimed “martyr” Multan (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Bishops Conference of Pakistan, which will meet for its General Assembly in Multan, Punjab, from 20 to 25 March, will examine the proposal to formally submit the request to the Hol ...
• 5 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Dialogue, compassion, religious freedom: Shahbaz Bhatti's legacy Multan (Agenzia Fides) – “It has been a grave loss, but we Christians in Pakistan want to transform the death of Shahbaz Batti into a prophecy of the Resurrection. We are in pain, but we maintain great hope: Bhatti g ...
• 5 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 90,000 malnourished children in the province of Sindh Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – A study conducted by the Pakistani provincial government of Sindh, with support from UNICEF, reveals a serious nutrition crisis among children. There are an estimated 90,000 children under fiv ...
• 5 March 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic community of Tang Shan supports victims of the New Zealand earthquake, “because we experienced the same tragedy” Tang Shan (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic community of Tang Shan, in the province of He Bei, led by their Bishop, Bishop Fang Jian Ping, prays for the earthquake victims of Christchurch in New Zealand. According to info ...
• 4 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “He was a man who did the will of God,” said the Archbishop of Islamabad at the Memorial Mass of Minister Bhatti Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – “Shahbaz Bhatti was a man who followed God's plan in his life. He was a man who did the will of God, with faith, obedience, hope and certainty in the Kingdom”: with these words the Archb ...
• 4 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Ecumenical funeral celebration for Minister Bhatti Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – It was not a Catholic Mass but an ecumenical celebration of prayer, in the presence of other religious leaders, to give the final goodbye to Minister Shabhaz Bhatti, and which accompanied h ...
• 4 March 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Young Catholic Immigrant workers search for work with a nearby church to continue to live their faith Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – In view of Lent, the mainland Catholic community is intensifying its youth ministry. According to information furnished by “Faith” of He Bei to Fides, “the Church invites young pe ...
• 3 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Closed schools, prayer and Christians protesting about Bhatti's murder, tomorrow the funeral Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – The Christian community in Pakistan, convulsed by grief after the murder of Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, is reacting to the event with spontaneous demonstrations of peaceful protest, with vigil ...
• 3 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bhatti “killed for religious hatred” which is being fueled in public schools: missionary's analysis Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Shahbaz Bhatti was killed “because he was a Christian, an infidel and a blasphemer.” His assassination is part of a “religious war to eliminate those who wish to amend the blasphemy la ...
• 3 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society: need to reform security forces and cleanse them of extremists Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – In what may be defined as “a dark day for the nation's history,” civil society in Pakistan raises the burning question of the complicity by some of the State apparatus with extremist for ...
• 3 March 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Lucas Li: “St Joseph is a model even for immigrant workers today” Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) – “St Joseph is Patron Saint of the Universal Church, Patron Saint of China, an excellent model of a good Catholic, a good father, a good citizen, but also an exemplary model for immigrant ...
• 2 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Minister Bhatti killed, a “martyr of the blasphemy law” Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Grief and terror within the Christian community in Pakistan: the Federal Minister for Religious Minorities, Catholic Shahbaz Bhatti, was killed this morning in Islamabad. Fides' local source ...