Asia
11 April 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN- A convent school destroyed by the Taliban reopens, "a sign of resurrection"
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - For the Sisters of the Presentation it is a special event, a congregation of Irish origin with three communities in Pakistan: women religious in recent days celebrated the reopening of a girls ...
11 April 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - Cardinal Tong encourages the newly baptized and their catechists to be witnesses of faith in the footsteps of the first Christian communities
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal John Tong Hon, Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong, encouraged about 3,500 catechumens who were baptized and the other two sacraments of Christian initiation (Confirmation and Eucharis ...
11 April 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Education opens the door of progress:" Inauguration of the St. Camillus English Medium Primary School in Okara
Okara (Agenzia Fides) - The community Bhatta, Chak 14/4-L, in Okara, in the Pakistan province of Punjab, is composed of about 400 families and is part of the St. Anthony of Padua Parish. The residents of this place, esp ...
4 April 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN- The road to protect Pakistani women from all kinds of violence and discrimination is still long
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Pakistani women, throughout history, have suffered discrimination on the basis of gender, experienced the high risk of rape, and faced brutal deaths. Incidents of this nature abound in the cou ...
4 April 2012
ASIA/SYRIA- Apostolic Vicar’s appeal: "Cease-fire for an Easter without violence"
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo for the Latins, Monsignor Giuseppe Nazzaro, OFM launches through Fides an appeal to an "immediate cease-fire in Syria, for an Easter without violence". Mgr. Nazzaro ...
4 April 2012
ASIA/INDIA-Easter Pilgrimage and the Way of the Cross in the tribal areas of the Northeast
Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - With Easter approaching, the Church in Northeast India – an area troubled by tribal conflict - shows its closeness to the tribal people, who have embraced the Christian faith. For the past fe ...
3 April 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN-Education without hatred or prejudice: Commission's appeal "Justice and Peace"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - No to bigotry in schools, no to the imposition of Islamic studies to non-Muslim students: is the appeal launched by the Commission "Justice and Peace" of the Episcopal Conference of Pakstan focus ...
3 April 2012
ASIA/NORTH KOREA-Christians and NGOs to the UN: Stop to the gulag in North Korea
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations are asked to help North Korea to close forever the vast gulag system in the country: is what is asked, in a petition today to the UN Council for Human Rights, on behalf of over ...
3 April 2012
ASIA - Over 50 million people in Muslim countries suffered serious damage in 2011
Dubai (Agenzia Fides) - At the International Humanitarian Aid & Development Conference & Exhibition, the recent meeting held in Dubai, sources of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said that disasters and cri ...
2 April 2012
ASIA/LAOS - To celebrate Easter, Christians occupy a requisitioned church
Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) – It is an act of extreme and risky protest, because the faithful might soon be arrested: yesterday, April 1, Palm Sunday, a group of Laotian Christians in the village of Kengweng in the pro ...
2 April 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - Minorities and civilian victims of armed Salafist gangs: No to "religious war"
Kusayr (Agenzia Fides) - In Kusayr, a large village near Homs, on the border with Lebanon the ethnic minorities and religious such as Alawites, Christians, Shiites have been subjected to violence and atrocities perpetrat ...
2 April 2012
ASIA/MYANMAR - The Bishops: elections and pluralism, "beginning of a new era of peace"
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The result of the elections, although not yet official, "is a new beginning for the country, the beginning of an era of great hope for us all. The opposition will be present in Parliament, a fact ...
30 March 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - The lay missionaries share their experience with younger students
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The experience of the lay missionaries of the Commission for the Diocesan Youth Pastoral helps the young of Hong Kong to live more in a Christian spirit, especially in the Year of the Laity. A ...
30 March 2012
ASIA/INDIA - Hindu Fanatics beat Christians in Karnataka
Mundargi (Karnataka) - Allegations of conversions and then violent beatings: is what the Hindu extremists of the movement RSS ("Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh", "National Volunteer Organization") did against the Christian P ...
30 March 2012
ASIA/SYRIA - Christians being targeted by armed Islamist gangs
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Armed Islamist gangs, that pollute the Syrian Liberation Army, have targeted some believers in the ongoing conflict in Syria: is what several sources say to Fides in the Christian community in ...
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