Asia
22 November 2011
ASIA/TAIWAN - "Love from Taiwan": an exhibition on international cooperation, humanitarian aid and young Catholics voluntary work in Taiwan
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "Love from Taiwan" is the theme of the Catholic youth section of the exhibition entitled "From Taiwan, in contact with the world: the result of the international participation of NGOs from Taiwa ...
22 November 2011
ASIA/TURKEY-The government grants the legal personality to the Foundations of religious minorities
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The General Directorate of Foundations in Turkey, a government organization, has decided to grant legal personality to the Foundations belonging to non-Islamic religious minorities, recognized ...
22 November 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The ban on SMS has been postponed; for the Church "one wants to block the Christian message"
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Satisfaction and prudence among the Christians of Pakistan after the announcement of the postponement concerning the "ban on vulgar SMS ", determined by the Pakistan Authority for Telecommunic ...
21 November 2011
ASIA/HONG KONG - The Diocese increases the annual fund for the Formation of the Laity: 65 scholarships have been assigned
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Hong Kong has increased the Annual Fund for the Formation of the Laity from one million to 1.2 HK $ million to respond to the appeal launched by the Year of the Laity. On 6 Nove ...
21 November 2011
ASIA/INDIA - A Pastor and other Christians have been arrested in Kashmir for "forced conversions"
Srinagar (Agenzia Fides) - Police in Kashmir have arrested Pastor C. M. Khanna of the "All Saints Church," along with other Christian faithful engaged in the same church. The accusation against the Pastor and the faithf ...
21 November 2011
ASIA/INDIA - Seven people were arrested for Sister Valsa’s murder; an activist: "With regards to the Dalits’ rights, the state has betrayed the Church"
Dumka (Agenzia Fides) - Seven people were arrested by the police in the Indian state of Jharkhand, suspected of being involved in Sister Valsa John’s murder, the nun of the Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary killed a ...
21 November 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Censorship in the name of "Jesus Christ": it is forbidden to write it in text message, the Church protests
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - In Pakistan, it is forbidden to write the name "Jesus Christ" in SMS text messages, sent via mobile phones. This was established by the Telecommunications Authority in Pakistan in a measure th ...
19 November 2011
ASIA/TURKEY- The problematic crucial points for religious minorities and for those who have converted to Christianity
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Despite the openess of Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the restitution of properties to churches and other communities, the problems that Turkey's religious minorities live are significant. Acc ...
19 November 2011
ASIA/TAIWAN - The community of Taiwan is preparing a big party for Cardinal Shan’s 90th birthday
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The community of Taiwan is preparing a big party for the 90th birthday of the beloved Cardinal Paul Shan, SJ, Bishop Emeritus of Kaohsiung. In view of the occasion, the Archbishop of the Diocese ...
19 November 2011
ASIA/INDIA - Dommara girls’ heavy hereditary: forced into prostitution to support the family
Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of Universal Child’s Day, celebrated around the world on Sunday, November 20, the Spanish Catholic organization Manos Unidas has recalled the plight of the Dommara girls comm ...
18 November 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Minorities in turmoil: a Christian killed, Hindus ask for "the revocation of citizenship"
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian businessman, family man, was killed in Karachi, the capital of Sindh province; the Hindu faithful protest and in Parliament ask, provocatively, the government "to revoke the citizens ...
18 November 2011
ASIA/TAIWAN - The Xaverians in Taiwan celebrated the canonization of the founder, St. Conforti
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - A solemn Eucharist presided by Cardinal Paul Shan, the screening of a documentary about the founder, the inauguration of the statue of the Saint, an exhibition on the life and mission of Confort ...
18 November 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Paramilitary behind Fr.Tentorio’s crime; the dam will be built and will inundate the tribal people in Mindanao
Manila (Agenzia Fides) – The responsibles of father Fausto Tentorio’s murder are to be sought among "former members of the armed forces or police, expelled because accused of crimes, then recycled into private secur ...
17 November 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN-A Protestant Pastor gunned down in Karachi
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The Protestant Pastor Jameel Sawan was killed yesterday with three gunshot in Karachi: this is what Paul Bhatti confirms to Fides, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for religious Minoritt Af ...
17 November 2011
ASIA/INDIA - Sister killed for her missionary work among the tribal people, "a true disciple of Christ", abandoned by the civil authorities
Dumka (Agenzia Fides) – She was one of the many religious from Kerala (a state in South India, thriving in vocations) scattered in India and the world as missionaries: Sr.Valsha John, 53, of the "Sisters of Charity of ...
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