Asia

• 31 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Director of the PMS: "If Rimsha becomes a symbol, everything will be more difficult" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "If Rimsha becomes a symbol for her release everything will be more difficult. Today and tomorrow we will pray in all churches for her and her family ": is what Fr. Mario Rodrigues, national Dir ...
• 31 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Attack in the Christian area: one victim and two injured in Karachi Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The young Christian Faisal Masih was killed two days ago in shots fired in the attack of an Islamic extremist group in the Christian suburb of Essa Nagri, on the outskirts of Karachi. This is co ...
• 31 August 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - "The anti-conversion law violates the Constitution": landmark ruling for Christians New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The anti-conversion law passed in the state of Hhimachal Pradesh (in northern India) is, in some parts, "unconstitutional". In fact, "a person not only has the right to freedom of conscience, ...
• 30 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Rimsha, new postponement: the counter-party does not recognize the medical report Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The case of Rimsha Masih, an 11-year-old Christian girl accused of blasphemy in Pakistan gets more and more complicated. This morning, at the hearing before the judge Javad Abbas, a Court of ...
• 30 August 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Thanksgiving and sharing: the theme of the Day of the indigenous peoples Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - Thanksgiving and sharing: this is the invitation by Monsignor J. B. Tseng Chien-Tsi, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Lien Hwa and President of the Commission for the Apostolate of the Aborigi ...
• 30 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim leaders: "Rimsha must be released, the sharia says it" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer is a Salafi Muslim leader. He is the current Secretary General of the "Jamiat Ahle Hadith" ("Assembly of the followers of the sayings of the Prophet"), the political-relig ...
• 29 August 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - "Reflection on faith in the Year of Faith": Pastoral Letter by Mgr. Lucas Li, Bishop of Feng Xiang Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) - "Reflection on faith in the Year of Faith" is the title of the long pastoral Letter by Mgr. Lucas Li Jing Feng, ninety-year-old Bishop of the Diocese of Feng Xiang, in the province of Shaan X ...
• 29 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Save Rimsha and the other victims of blasphemy Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - There are several hundred adhesions to the campaign "Let us save Rimsha Masih," the Christian girl accused of blasphemy and tomorrow, August 30, there should be the pronouncement of a Court in ...
• 29 August 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bomb at a funeral, a family beheaded: Christians and Druzes targeted in Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - A terrorist attack hit innocent Christian faithful and innocent Druzes in the area of Jaramana, a suburb of Damascus: yesterday, August 28, at 2 pm, a bomb in a car was detonated while a crowd ...
• 28 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The verdict on the case of Rimsha has been postponed; for doctors she is a minor and mentally disabled Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The hearing of the Court of Islamabad on the case of Rimsha, the Christian girl in prison on charges of blasphemy has been postponed to August 30 (see Fides 23/08/2012). The reason for the po ...
• 28 August 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Camillian Sisters have been in Taiwan for 60 years for the mission of service to the sick Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The Camillian Sisters have been in Taiwan for 60 years to carry out the mission to serve Jesus through the sick, in the footsteps of the founder, St. Camillus de Lellis. The anniversary celebrat ...
• 28 August 2012
  ASIA/LAOS - Christian leader arrested because "he converted 300 people" Muang Pakxan (Agenzia Fides) - The Laotian police arrested the Christian leader Bountheung of Nongpong village, in the district of Khamkerd, in the province of Borikhamxai (central Laos). The charge is "to have converted ...
• 27 August 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Renewal and evangelization among the themes of the 12th General Chapter of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Tong Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - "Conversion, renewal, dedication, evangelization" was the theme of the 12th General Chapter of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, held from August 16 to 23, preceded by ...
• 27 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian Teenager raped and murdered in Punjab Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A teenage Christian Muqadas Kainat was raped by five men and brutally killed near the town of Sahiwal in Punjab. This is yet another incident of violence, which brings attention to the long trail ...
• 27 August 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistanis in Europe are mobilizing for Rimsha Masih Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us save Rimsha Masih": is the campaign launched by Pakistani Christians in Europe to save the Christian girl falsely accused of blasphemy and currently in a juvenile prison in Islamabad (see F ...