Asia
13 June 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Kidnappings and threats against Christians in Karachi
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Armed gangs of Islamic radical militants continue to terrorize the Christians of the district Essa Nagri, the largest Christian settlement in the city of Karachi, where about 50 thousand faithfu ...
12 June 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - Position and rights of disabled people in society and the Church: 30 years of service of "Faith and Light"
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The thirty years of service to disabled people on behalf of the community, "Faith and Light" in Hong Kong have always been inspired by one purpose: to give disabled people their position and r ...
12 June 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - Christian killed in Qusayr, where two priests confirm the ultimatum to Christians
Qusayr (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Maurice Bitar was killed in Qusayr, near the town of Homs where the Christian population - about a thousand people out of 10 thousand who lived there before the beginning of the vio ...
12 June 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - "Reconciliation": in Homs Syrian civil society take to the fields for a non-violent solution
Homs (Agenzia Fides) – It is called "Mussalaha", which means "Reconciliation", and is an extraordinary non-violent popular initiative born in civil society in Homs, a city torn by conflict between the regular army and ...
11 June 2012
ASIA/TAIWAN - Seminar of Major Superiors: for a new identity of the local Church
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - Sacred Scripture, Liturgy, spiritual deepening, missionary responsibility of the laity for a new identity of the particular Church in Taiwan: these were the main themes discussed at the Seminar ...
11 June 2012
ASIA/MYANMAR - State of emergency in the west of the country: Church's appeal for peace
Pyay (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is dramatic, tension is very high among the ethnic majority communities of the Rakhine and the Muslim Rohingya population. We hope that the civil authorities can restore peace. As a ...
11 June 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The choice of the poor: either send their children to school or eat
Okara (Agenzia Fides) - "Values such as equality, justice and education can and should bring Pakistan out of the hellish vortex of poverty and exploitation involving adults and children." This is the testimony sent to Fi ...
9 June 2012
ASIA/IRAN - A Protestant church ordered to close, the crackdown on churches continues
Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - A Protestant church of the "Assembly of God" in the Janat-Abad area of Tehran, has been ordered the immediate closure by intelligence Branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. According to local ...
9 June 2012
ASIA/LAOS - "Too charismatic, too many conversions": A Christian Pastor arrested
Luang Namtha (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian leader was arrested in Laos. The Christian Pastor Asa Sing, 53 years of age, head of a Protestant Christian Church in the village of Peeyeur in the district of Sing, within the ...
9 June 2012
ASIA/MYANMAR - Urgent reform of the judicial and penal system: essential step in the rule of law
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar must eliminate from the justice and penal system practices such as illegal and arbitrary arrest, detention without trial, torture, forced confessions, processes behind closed doors, death ...
9 June 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - Ultimatum to Christians: "Leave Qusayr"
Qusayr (Agenzia Fides) - Exodus of Christians in the west of Syria: the Christian population has left the town of Qusayr, near Homs, following an ultimatum from the military chief of the armed opposition, Abdel Salam Har ...
9 June 2012
ASIA/SYRIA-Appeal of the Greek catholic Patriarch: a month of fasting and abstinence for peace
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of massacres and bloody events experienced recently in Syria, Gregorios III Laham, the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Damascus, has launched a heartfelt appeal to all the faith ...
8 June 2012
ASIA/CHINA - The celebration of Corpus Christi in the sign of evangelization
Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, commonly known as the Corpus Domini, was celebrated yesterday, Thursday, June 7, in several Chinese Catholic communities, ...
8 June 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bomb in front of a madrasa: the Church calls for the end to violence and peace
Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - A bomb exploded today outside the gate of an Islamic religious school (madrasa) in Quetta, capital of the Pakistani province of Baluchistan. The toll of the powerful explosion caused 15 victims a ...
8 June 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Human rights and religious minorities: Pakistan under observation
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Increase efforts to protect human rights, enact laws on crucial issues such as torture, education and women's rights: is what the Pakistani government has asked the UN High Commissioner for Hu ...
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