Asia
3 March 2016
ASIA/CHINA - The Word of God and Mercy accompany Chinese Catholics along the path of Lent
ASIA/CHINA – The Word of God and Mercy accompany Chinese Catholics along the path of Lent
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Misericordiae Vultus, the Bull of Indiction for this extraordinary Holy Year, the word of God a ...
3 March 2016
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A Centre for suppying information on the situation of human rights in N. Korea
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) –While the United Nations Security Council has unanimously established harsh sanctions on North Korea following Pyongyang's recent nuclear experiment – compulsory inspections, ban on arms sale, ...
3 March 2016
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Bethlehem calling Lourdes: partnership between towns supports Palestinian Christians
Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) – Lourdes and Bethlehem share a “common destiny”, because "without pilgrimages, Bethlehem, like Lourdes, would be a small forgotten village”. With these words charged with realism the m ...
3 March 2016
ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops call embrace between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill “an ecumenical and prophetic step”
Bkerkè (Agenzia Fides) – The recent embrace on 12 February in Cuba between Pope Francis and the Orthodox Patriarch Moscow Kirill, and their Joint Declaration represent “an ecumenical and prophetic step” taken by t ...
3 March 2016
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishop of Malolos says steelworks project must be stopped
Malolos City (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop José F. Oliveros of the diocese of Malolos calls for the immediate cancellation of a steelworks project which would irreversibly ruin the life of the local people and the natural e ...
2 March 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Politics as a service”: a testimony by the spiritual father of Shahbaz Bhatti
ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Politics as a service”: a testimony by the spiritual father of Shahbaz Bhatti
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – “Recognising his gifs of leadership and concern for the good of the Catholic Church in ...
2 March 2016
ASIA/IRAQ - Petition for rights of displaced Christians amidst preparations for battle to take back Mosul
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – While US military sources confirm that the next objective in the fight against Islamic State jihadists (Daesh) will be to take back Mosul, a petition has been forwarded by Iraqi Chaldean Rae ...
2 March 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Nation marks fifth anniversary of the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – With special prayers in churches in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Khushpur and Sargodha and in many other places, Pakistan commemorated Shahbaz Bhatti on the 5th anniversary of his assas ...
1 March 2016
ASIA/LEBANON - Newly launched TV news chanel declares “war on war”
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – In the heart of the Middle East region torn apart by bloody conflict, a new satellite TV channel of Information , proposing news “ from the Catholic point of view”, in order to “buil ...
1 March 2016
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Jesuit run East Asian Pastoral Institute marks 50 years of pastoral service in the spirit of Vatican II
Manila (Agenzia Fides) – It has become a point of reference in Asia for primary and on-going pastoral formation in the spirit of Vatican II: for 50 years the East Asian Pastoral Institute EAPI based in Manila, has ir ...
1 March 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Shahbaz Bhatti, diocese collects testimony for 'Martyrdom'
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – At this time of year when Pakistan's Catholics mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Shahbaz Bhatti, a Catholic, MP for Minority Groups assassinated in Islamabad on 2 March 2011, the ...
29 February 2016
ASIA/SRI LANKA - New PMS National Director , Rev. Pedige Basil Rohan Fernando
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 13 October 2015, appointed as new National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Sr ...
29 February 2016
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Coutts: “Our mission is to spread love in a context of violence and terrorism”
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “As Pakistani Christians we face numerous challenges every day: many will have heard of the so-called blasphemy law and the emblematic case of Asia Bibi, an innocent Christian mother sentenc ...
29 February 2016
ASIA/SINGAPORE - Children taught to be responsible at school
Singapore (Agenzia Fides) – People in Asian countries are increasingly aware of the necessity of helping minors be aware of daily responsibilities . At school, besides learning to read and write, and study history, pro ...
29 February 2016
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Number of Christians in the Gaza Strip continues to dwindle
Gaza (Agenzia Fides) – The small Christian presence in Gaza Strip continues to dwindle: in recent months at least thirty young people decided to leave the land in which they were born to emigrate and funeral services ...
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