Asia

• 9 March 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - New wave of anti-Christian violence in Orissa: the nightmare returns for faithful Bhubaneshwar (Agenzia Fides) – A new wave of anti-Christian violence has once again plunged the local faithful into terror, local Fides' sources report, alarmed that tribal Christians in the district of Malkangiri, Ori ...
• 9 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Zardari meets with family of Shahbaz Bhatti: his brother Paul close to becoming Minister for Minorities Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Paul Bhatti, the oldest brother of Shabhaz, the Minister for Minorities who was killed on 2 March, seems close to taking his brother's position as the new Federal Minister for Religious Mino ...
• 9 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Protest by Pakistanis in Rome: Catholics grateful to the Pope, disassociate from protest Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Groups of Christian Pakistanis in Italy have announced a protest in Rome tomorrow, 10 March, from 3.00 – 5.00 pm, in front of the Embassy of Pakistan to Italy. Some politicians and unionists ha ...
• 8 March 2011
  ASIA - Urgent measures to counter violence against women in Asia Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Violence against women in Asia is a widespread phenomena that affects the whole continent and that the governments must face and counter with urgent measures: So affirms the Asian Human Righ ...
• 8 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi speaks about Minister Bhatti: we need to protect religious minorities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Asia Bibi, from her isolation cell in jail in Sheikhupura, Punjab, expresses her “pain and concern for the death of Minister Shahbaz Bhatti”. Her lawyer, seeing her yesterday, reported this ...
• 7 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Candidates to succeed Bhatti: a Catholic favoured Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – The seat held by Shahbaz Bhatti in the National Assembly (the Parliament of Pakistan), was officially assigned today by the Electoral Commission to Javed Michael, a Catholic, and member of t ...
• 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 ...