Asia
20 January 2012
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Week of prayer for the unity of the Church: "We have to proclaim with one voice the Gospel of Christ and his final victory"
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "We should proclaim in one voice the Gospel of Christ and His definitive victory," said His Exc. Mgr.Hyginus Kim Hee-joong, Archbishop of Gwangju and President of the Commission for the Promotion ...
19 January 2012
ASIA/CHINA - The Bishop of Shang hai hopes that Paul Xu will soon be Blessed, because "he is the "man for all seasons"
Shang Hai (Agenzia Fides) - "He is the man for all seasons" is the title of the Chinese New Year Message by His Exc. Mgr. Alios Jin Lu Xian, a 95-year-old Bishop of the diocese of Shang Hai, focused on the figure of Paul ...
19 January 2012
ASIA/INDIA - Abolish Death Penalty: appeals of civil society and the Church
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – To commit onself to formally abolish death penalty is what the Christian Churches in India and civil society are asking the Indian government in a joint appeal. The text sent to Fides urges ...
19 January 2012
ASIA - Bishops, priests and Asian lay people among the Burmese refugees of ethnic Karen, "the invisible"
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - For three days a group of Bishops, priests and Asian lay people live the hardships and sufferings, the extreme poverty of the Burmese refugees of ethnic Karen, camped in refugee camps on the bor ...
18 January 2012
ASIA/CHINA - Disadvantaged families and elderly people living alone: Catholics live the Chinese New Year in the sign of love
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, the mainland Chinese Catholics are living the eve of the Chinese New Year, which this year falls on January 23, largely through acts of Christian charity so that everyone can feel ...
18 January 2012
ASIA - Four days of "immersion among the poor" for the Asian Bishops
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - A group of Asian Bishops - together with some priests, religious and lay people - will live for four days a true "immersion" in poverty, staying from January 18 to 21 among the poorest and the m ...
18 January 2012
ASIA/INDIA - No results in the investigations for the murders of the catechist in Orissa and Sister Valsa in Jharkhand
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Murder without justice. And so far no one has been found guilty. The Catholic community in India reports to Fides that for two recent murders, that of a Catholic catechist Rabindra Parichha in ...
17 January 2012
ASIA/CHINA - A disabled Catholic who died to defend a girl, among the ten people who gave a heroic example in the province of He Bei
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Wu Wen De, a disabled Catholic who sacrificed his life to defend a girl from a robber, was chosen by the major Chinese media as one of ten people who moved to tears the province of He Bei, stro ...
17 January 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Church ransacked and Christian children beaten: a Muslim blogger defends them
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A Muslim intellectual and blogger took to the streets to defend the Christian children beaten in an episode that has recently shaken the Christian community in Karachi, the capital of Sindh: In ...
17 January 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bhatti’s Murder: the "main person behind the crime" has been killed, the perpetrators are being chased, but ambiguity remains
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - With the killing of Hakimullah Mehsud, leader of the "Pakistani Talibans", the militant movement which is the most serious threat to national security, "who was the man behind the killing of the ...
17 January 2012
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - South Korea is open to dialogue and to aid towards the North; for the Bishops "it is the good path"
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - South Korea is ready to hold talks at the highest level and to provide large-scale food aid to North Korea, even if Pyongyang has not "officially apologized" after the two military attacks in 2010 ...
16 January 2012
ASIA/TAIWAN - More prayer, reflection and action in the new year after 150 years of evangelization
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - In an editorial entitled "Let’s move forward in 2012", Catholic Weekly, the weekly Catholic bulletin of the Archdiocese of Taipei in Taiwan invites the faithful to pray, reflect and act more i ...
16 January 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN-More than 160 indicted and 9 killed for "blasphemy" in 2011; 1,800 Christian and Hindu girls converted to Islam by force
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The controversial blasphemy law continues to claim victims in Pakistan, while religious minorities suffer from rampant extremism. In 2011, because of the "black law" (composed of the articles 295 ...
16 January 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN-8 million religious minorities: a special Commission is urgently needed
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The government has released new figures which are not official (the last official census dates back to 1998) regarding the composition of Pakistani society: according to recent sociological resea ...
16 January 2012
ASIA/INDIA - Christians beaten and a pastor’s finger was cut off in an attack by Hindu extremists
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty Christians were attacked and beaten, the Protestant Pastor Srirangam Shanthakumar of the "Agape Church", was wounded and his finger was cut off. This is the toll of the final attack car ...
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