Asia
10 January 2012
ASIA/INDIA-Two Christian leaders arrested in Orissa with false accusations
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - The police in Orissa have arrested two Christian leaders with accusations that the community defines "false and intimidating". At 4.30 last night, in Baliguda, the police arrested Junus Prad ...
10 January 2012
ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Kim Jong-un has announced an amnesty, the NGOs ask for "a new era for human rights"
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The new North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has announced an amnesty on the occasion of the anniversary of the two leaders who paased away, his father Kim Jong-il and his grandfather Kim Il-sung. But, ...
10 January 2012
ASIA/HONG KONG - The challenges of the church in the pastoral, political, economic and social field: Seminar for priests in Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The challenges that the church of today places in the pastoral, political, economic and social field, emphasizing the social responsibility of Christians towards the weakest, was the theme of ...
10 January 2012
ASIA/PHILIPPINES -Tentorio’s case: the man arrested is not the killer, but cites a politician and the chief of the police as the alleged masterminds
Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - Jimmy Ato, the man arrested by the police and accused of killing the missionary father, Fausto Tentorio on October 17 in Arakan, on the island of Mindanao, has denied being the killer but has i ...
9 January 2012
ASIA/INDIA - Cyclone Thane violently devastates the villages of Tamil Nadu
Madras (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian state of Tamil Nadu was violently hit by torrential rains and winds of over 150 miles per hour caused by the storm, called Thane, in the last days of 2011 that hit the Indian Ocean and ...
9 January 2012
ASIA/CHINA - Pilgrimage of the faithful of Shanghai at the beginning of the new year
Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - There were about 150 faithful of the diocese of Shanghai who participated in the pilgrimage to welcome the new year 2012. In particular, they prayed for the priest and the six major seminarians ...
9 January 2012
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - More than 9 million young people in the street for the "Nazarene", between devotion and terrorist threats
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - More than nine million faithful Catholics, regardless of the "attack alert" released by the government, took to the streets today, January 9, in Manila, for the solemn procession of the Nazarene, ...
9 January 2012
ASIA/LAOS - Two pastors protested released after one year in prison, other Christians leaders arrested
Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - The civilian authorities in the province of Khammouan have released two Protestant pastors Wanna and Yohan, after a year in jail, but they continue to arrest other Christians and consider Ch ...
7 January 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN-More than a thousand children killed by their families because of poverty
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - According to local humanitarian sources, because of poverty, over a thousand children were killed by their families in Pakistan in 2011, of whom 90% were girls. The charitable organization Edhi F ...
7 January 2012
ASIA/INDIA - Hindu and Muslim radicals infiltrated into Churches: Christian Ong’s alarm
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Islamic Fundamentalists and Hindu radicals are infiltrating into the Christian community and Christian NGOs in India: their goal is to obtain material that can be used against Christians, espe ...
5 January 2012
ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Caritas Korea: "The political tension must not stop humanitarian aid in the North for millions of hungry people"
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Our hope is that the political tensions does not stop humanitarian aid in the North for millions of hungry people ", says to Fides Fr. Gerard Hammond, Maryknoll Missionary and Director of Program ...
5 January 2012
ASIA/CHINA - The Sisters of St. Joseph have been in service to society for 120 years
Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - They are a presence that is leaven for the Church and society: the Sisters of the Congregation of St. Joseph of the Diocese of Shi Jia Zhuang (in the province of He Bei) celebrated the 12 ...
5 January 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN - People are hungry for food and spiritual health: new group of Lay Camillian Family in Gojra
Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The commitment of the Lay Camillian Family (LCF) in Pakistan continues to bear its fruit. In a statement just sent to Fides, Father Mushtaq Anjum, MI, reports some good news. After hearing ab ...
5 January 2012
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - New enthusiasm for the mission in the Year of grace 2012, between proclamation and solidarity
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The year 2012 will be "a year of grace for the mission" in the Philippines: the Episcopal Conference has in fact declared it the "Year of the Pontifical Mission Societies" (POM), a period that wi ...
4 January 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN-A sewing institute was inaugurated by the religious Camillians cutting for poor girls
Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The religious Camillians have just opened the St. Camillus Sewing Center, in a small village called Chak 6/4-L, MF, in Okara, in the diocese of Faisalabad in Pakistan. This is what father Mus ...
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