Asia

• 21 December 2010
  ASIA/NEPAL - “Living for God, working for Nepal”: Jesuit schools continue to expand Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Sixty years after opening the first school in Nepal, the Jesuits continue to expand the educational apostolate in the Country. In fact another floor, the fourth, has just been added at St Xavi ...
• 21 December 2010
  ASIA/THAILAND - In a detention centre: children, women, elderly and sick people fleeing from Pakistan Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - A group of 85 displaced people from Pakistan have been taken into custody by immigration in Bangkok, according to a statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission received by Fides. The group ...
• 21 December 2010
  ASIA/IRAQ - Increased security measures, especially for religious and ethnic communities Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Christians of Mosul are increasingly targeted by armed men that, as reported by the press in Iraq, killed at least five people in the month of November. News of kidnappings and murders of Chris ...
• 20 December 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Inauguration of the Centre for Pastoral Care Service at the Sanctuary of the Mount of Beatitudes Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) - The great dream of Cardinal Paul Shan, Bishop emeritus of Kaohsiung Diocese and President emeritus of the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan, and that of many Catholics in Taiwan has fina ...
• 20 December 2010
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - In Manila, a new house for disabled children, to enhance their capabilities Quezon City (Agenzia Fides) - The Guanella Home for Special Children, a simple house with a familial environment designed to accommodate about twenty children with mental and physical disabilities, was inaugurated on 12 ...
• 20 December 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Even if food is not lacking, children in the east are still dying from malnutrition Kupang (Agenzia Fides) - A lack of trained health staff, treatments and health promotion make Indonesia's eastern province of Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) one of the country's most food insecure, despite the general avail ...
• 18 December 2010
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - “Save Rizana, sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia”: appeal by religious leaders and human rights groups Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - A heartfelt appeal and a petition to save Rizana Nafeek, a young Sri Lankan Muslim woman sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia is the initiative, Fides is told, undertaken by Christian, Muslim and ...
• 18 December 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic girl raped by a Muslim Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - Gulfam, a nine year old Catholic girl, was raped by a Muslim man in the district of Samundari Tehsil, in the district of Faisalabad. Today the child is in shock and in the throes of a physica ...
• 17 December 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Attack of vandalism on a Marian Shrine New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Health, in Guntkal within the Diocese of Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh, was attacked by vandals who have destroyed sacred statues and paintings. The Bishops' Confe ...
• 17 December 2010
  ASIA/MACAO - New priestly ordination in the Diocese of Macao after 18 years Macao (Agenzia Fides) – There is much celebration in the Diocese of Macao for the first priestly ordination in 18 years. The deacon, Li Xian Jun, of Korean origin, who entered the Diocese of Macao in 2005, was ordaine ...
• 16 December 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Malnutrition continues to have a lethal effect on children in the tribes of Madhya Pradesh Shivpuri (Agenzia Fides) – According to a report by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), in two months five children from the Sahariya tribe in Madhya Pradesh have died from malnutrition, and another ten are serio ...
• 16 December 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - A long pilgrimage to commemorate the efforts of the first missionaries, opens the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Kaohsiung Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) - “Always continue the journey of the 150 years of Evangelization of Wanchin” is the theme of the celebration of the 150 year anniversary of the foundation and commitment to evangelization b ...
• 16 December 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic radicals: a Christmas protest against Asia Bibi, for “the honour of the Prophet” Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - It promises to be a difficult Christmas for the Christian community in Pakistan. An alliance among radical Islamic groups - which includes religious parties, Islamic movements, organizations a ...
• 15 December 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - “Vocations Training” theme for Forum organized by Faith Institute for Cultural Studies in collaboration with seminaries, religious congregations and dioceses Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - “Vocations Training” is the main theme of the Forum for the modern formation of vocations, organized by the Faith Institute for Cultural Studies (FICS) in collaboration with 16 mainla ...
• 15 December 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Kiran's foetus is malformed, the pregnant Catholic girl who was raped Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – The foetus suffers from a severe form of hydrocephalus; no higher or lower limbs are present. It is destined for certain death due to miscarriage, or, should it come to light, in the first ...