Asia
11 March 2013
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Attack on Christians: a move of the Supreme Court, solidarity from political and religious leaders
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, March 11, the Supreme Court of Pakistan began the hearings to shed light on the attack at the Christian area of Joseph Colony, which took place on Saturday in Lahore, where 178 C ...
11 March 2013
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Commission "Justice and Peace": "Government and police are the perpetrators of violence against Christians"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Government and police are the perpetrators of violence against Christians": This is what the Commission "Justice and Peace" of Catholic Pakistani Bishops strongly says, speaking after the seriou ...
11 March 2013
ASIA/TAIWAN - The Youth Pastoral Commission of the Diocese of Tai Chung accompanies the young people’s spiritual journey of Lent
Tai Chung (Agenzia Fides) - A spiritual retreat, the via crucis, Taize prayer, the sacrament of reconciliation, Eucharist celebration ...: is the two-day program organized by the Youth Pastoral Commission of the Diocese ...
9 March 2013
ASIA/IRAN - False News with regards to the execution of an evangelical pastor
Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is still alive. The news about his execution circulated last week have been discredited by reputable sources contacted by the association Christian Solidarity Worldwi ...
9 March 2013
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Alleged blasphemy: over one hundred Christian homes burned in Lahore and a Bishop wounded
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A crowd of about 3,000 Muslims attacked and set fire this morning, Saturday, March 9, to about a hundred homes of Christians in the district of Badami Bagh in Lahore, for a case of alleged blasph ...
8 March 2013
ASIA/INDONESIA - Radical Islamic groups: stop to the churches in West Java
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Protestant community "Banua Niha Keriso Protestant" in the city of Bandung (West Java province) received threats and orders to stop the assemblies of worship. A local Muslim leader ...
8 March 2013
ASIA - Civil and religious leaders united against nuclear weapons
Oslo (Agenzia Fides) - In front of dangerous wings of nuclear escalation and provocations launched recently by countries such as North Korea, religious leaders and civil society in the world raise a cry to stop nuclear w ...
8 March 2013
ASIA/TURKEY - Block the election bodies that administer the Foundations linked to religious minorities
Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The General Directorate of Foundations in Turkey in recent days sent a letter to the Foundation for Religious minorities with a request to suspend the election of their respective Boards of admin ...
8 March 2013
ASIA/HONG KONG - Cardinal John Tong encourages catechumens to participate actively in evangelization
HongKong (Agenzia Fides) - Before leaving for Rome for the Conclave, Cardinal John Tong, Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong, encouraged the catechumens to participate actively in evangelization to bear witness to Christ. ...
7 March 2013
ASIA/CHINA – Itinerant priest in remote communities
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Several Catholic communities in mainland China have created the figure of the itinerant priest during Lent. According to what Faith of He Bei said, the priests of the diocese of Bayanur Meng (Sh ...
7 March 2013
ASIA/IRAQ - New Chaldean Patriarch Sako takes possession of the See of Baghdad: "The storm will have to pass"
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The new Chaldean Patriarch of the Church Louis Raphael I Sako yesterday Wednesday, March 6 celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Joseph the mass of enthronement of the Patriarchal See in Baghdad. T ...
7 March 2013
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Petition to remove the death penalty under the law of blasphemy
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – To eliminate the death penalty under the law of blasphemy and withdraw the charges against Sherry Rehman: this is what the petition launched by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), non- ...
7 March 2013
ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Prison camps spread out and encompass the villages
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The notorious "prison camps" that exist in North Korea, where more than 200 thousand political prisoners and dissidents are detained, for reasons of conscience and religion, are getting bigger and ...
6 March 2013
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian Pastor released, who was arrested for alleged blasphemy
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Protestant Pastor Karma Patras, 55 years old, arrested in October 2012 on false charges of blasphemy, was released on bail after his accuser admitted he accused him "incorrectly". A ...
6 March 2013
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula": Archbishop of Seoul’s appeal
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Due to the tensions that occur between North and South Korea, "it is urgent to promote a desire for dialogue." Starting with an assumption: "The Church proposes to denuclearize the Korean Penins ...
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