ASIA/TAIWAN - The Carmelite Novitiate of Asia returns to Taiwan
Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) - Building a base for the formation of the Carmelite vocation in the Chinese world in Asia and for the linguistic formation of all Carmelites in the world: with this purpose, from January 2013 th ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Paul Bhatti: "Rimsha towards acquittal"
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Masih Rimsha’s prosecutors - the Christian girl arrested for blasphemy and then released on bail - are carrying out an "obstructive tactic, with the sole purpose to drag out the case and pre ...
2 October 2012
ASIA/INDIA - Prayer and Fasting to say "No" to anti-Christian violence
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian Christian communities, of all denominations, scattered in different states of the Indian Federation, live today, October 2, a special day of community prayer and fasting, to invoke ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Child soldiers and young suicide bombers increase
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - In Pakistan there are more than 10 million child workers between 10 and 15 years of age, many of whom work in fisheries, mines and kilns. According to the latest annual report of the Society f ...
ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - "Pro-Syrian" prayers of the Custody of the Holy Land
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land were asked to include in the daily recitation of the Liturgy of the Hours some invocations and intercession formulas in favor of the "dear ...