Asia
27 September 2011
ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Archbishop Kim after the trip to the North: "A trip centered on religious themes, a hope for peace"
Kwanju (Agenzia Fides) - The journey of seven religious leaders in North Korea leaves a door open to hope that religion may again flourish beyond the "Bamboo Curtain": this is the wish expressed at the end of the journey ...
27 September 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - For an error of pronunciation, a-13-year old Christian girl is accused of "blasphemy"
Abbottabad (Agenzia Fides) – Due to an error of pronunciation during a school exam, a-13-year old Christian girl has been accused of "blasphemy". A trivial mistake in urdu becomes an excuse to attack a girl, a family, ...
27 September 2011
ASIA/INDONESIA - Rudimental bombs in front of the churches in the Moluccas: Christian leaders reject "religious war"
Ambon (Agenzia Fides) - Two rudimental bombs were found in Ambon in front of the Synod Office of the Protestant Church of the Moluccas and in front of the protestant church "Marantaha" in Ambon. The two unexploded bombs ...
27 September 2011
ASIA/CHINA - Only in Christ and faith there is the strength to deal with family life and marriage
Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - Only in Christ and in faith we can find the strength to face the trials and challenges of family life and marriage: the 20 couples participating in the First Meeting of Catholic marriage and fa ...
27 September 2011
ASIA/INDIA - A life for the Gospel: Farewell to Fr. Luigi, "recordman" 75 years of mission
Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - A community mourns, but praises the Lord for the extraordinary life of Father Luigi Gobetti, Salesian missionary who died on Sept. 22, aged 91, in Bandel (Diocese of Calcutta), after 75 years o ...
26 September 2011
ASIA/HONG KONG - Laity, witnesses of faith in different areas of commitment
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Witnessing faith and to be "signs" of faith through commitment on behalf of the laity (extraordinary ministers of communion, pastoral workers, catechists ...); to analyze the biblical, liturg ...
26 September 2011
ASIA/INDONESIA - After the bomb in a church, interfaith prayer in Solo to say "No" to violence
Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - There is concern and confusion among Christians of the diocese of Semarang (Central Java) after the suicide attack which occurred yesterday, on Sunday, Sept. 25, in a Protestant Christian churc ...
23 September 2011
ASIA/INDIA - The phenomenon of "missing girls" continues to increase
Dehradun (Agenzia Fides) - India is the fourth country in the world most at risk for the female gender, after Afghanistan, Congo and Pakistan, and the widespread practice of selective abortion of female fetuses makes the ...
23 September 2011
ASIA/HONG KONG - To further strengthen evangelization: the exhortation on behalf of Mgr. Tong to the Legion of Mary
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "A competent force of the diocesan evangelization": this is the appreciation and consideration shown by Mgr. John Tong, Bishop of Hong Kong, to the 1,500 members of the Legion of Mary who came ...
23 September 2011
ASIA/INDIA - Statistics on communal violence: debate on the law for the protection of minorities
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - More than 4,000 episodes of violence in four years, 648 people died and 11 thousand were injured in the 24 states of the Indian Federation: these statistics released by the Indian Bishops on v ...
23 September 2011
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Mindanao without peace: terrorism alarm, Islamic fundamentalists cause havoc, deadlock in the negotiations
Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) – Criminal terrorist groups in search of visibility; uncertainty about future policies; Islamic fundamentalist infiltration from abroad; deadlock in the peace process and the elections fo ...
23 September 2011
AFRICA/SUDAN - New clashes in South Kordofan: the crisis is likely to worsen
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Heavy fighting erupted yesterday, September 22, in the state of South Kordofan, on the border between north and south Sudan, after rebels of the Sudan’s People’s Liberation Movement North ...
22 September 2011
ASIA/TAIWAN - "To ignite the spark of Evangelization": how to create a good project for evangelization
Kao Hsiung (Agenzia Fides) - "To ignite the spark of Evangelization" was the theme of the Seminar organized by the Missionary Association of the Diocese of Kao Hsiung, on the island of Taiwan, on Sept. 17. According to i ...
22 September 2011
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA-Religious leaders in the North to "maintain an open channel", but "religious freedom is denied"
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The visit to North Korea of seven religious leaders of the "Korean Conference of Religions for Peace" representatives of Catholicism, Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism, shamanism and other loca ...
22 September 2011
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Caritas, the only channel that gives humanitarian aid to religious minorities
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The only channel to get humanitarian aid to displaced people belonging to religious minorities, Christians and Hindus, is Caritas, although government agencies and other Muslim NGOs deny it" ...
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