Asia

• 12 April 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Forced conversions to Islam: Summit of the National Commission for Minorities Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The National Commission for Minorities, Pakistan's governing body, will dedicate a specific meeting with regards to the old question of forced conversions to Islam. This is what the Minister o ...
• 12 April 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians kidnapped in Karachi: a hostage has been released Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A Pakistani Christian, Symond Andre, kidnapped more than a month ago in Karachi, was found in past days and is free. The man had been kidnapped at the end of February, with a colleague during a ...
• 12 April 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholic Community in New York: at Easter 154 baptisms and 216 confirmations New York City (Agenzia Fides) - During Easter there were 154 baptisms and 216 confirmations in the three churches attended by the Chinese Catholic community in New York, according to what was reported to Fides by Faith o ...
• 12 April 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - In 10 years 7,563 rapes in the state of Jharkhand, the tribal population is also severely affected Ranchi (Agenzia Fides) - Since the establishment of the new state of Jharkhand, on November 15, 2000, 7,563 rapes have been recorded, 3,398 acts of violence, 576 assisted deaths and over 100 deaths caused by starvation. ...
• 11 April 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-"Family" and "Year of Faith" at the center of the Easter celebrations Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The attention towards family, the cradle of Christian life, and the beginning of the Year of Faith - expected next October –marked the Easter celebrations of the Church in Pakistan, says to F ...
• 11 April 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN- A convent school destroyed by the Taliban reopens, "a sign of resurrection" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - For the Sisters of the Presentation it is a special event, a congregation of Irish origin with three communities in Pakistan: women religious in recent days celebrated the reopening of a girls ...
• 11 April 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Cardinal Tong encourages the newly baptized and their catechists to be witnesses of faith in the footsteps of the first Christian communities Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal John Tong Hon, Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong, encouraged about 3,500 catechumens who were baptized and the other two sacraments of Christian initiation (Confirmation and Eucharis ...
• 11 April 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Education opens the door of progress:" Inauguration of the St. Camillus English Medium Primary School in Okara Okara (Agenzia Fides) - The community Bhatta, Chak 14/4-L, in Okara, in the Pakistan province of Punjab, is composed of about 400 families and is part of the St. Anthony of Padua Parish. The residents of this place, esp ...
• 4 April 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN- The road to protect Pakistani women from all kinds of violence and discrimination is still long Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Pakistani women, throughout history, have suffered discrimination on the basis of gender, experienced the high risk of rape, and faced brutal deaths. Incidents of this nature abound in the cou ...
• 4 April 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA- Apostolic Vicar’s appeal: "Cease-fire for an Easter without violence" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo for the Latins, Monsignor Giuseppe Nazzaro, OFM launches through Fides an appeal to an "immediate cease-fire in Syria, for an Easter without violence". Mgr. Nazzaro ...
• 4 April 2012
  ASIA/INDIA-Easter Pilgrimage and the Way of the Cross in the tribal areas of the Northeast Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - With Easter approaching, the Church in Northeast India – an area troubled by tribal conflict - shows its closeness to the tribal people, who have embraced the Christian faith. For the past fe ...
• 3 April 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Education without hatred or prejudice: Commission's appeal "Justice and Peace" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - No to bigotry in schools, no to the imposition of Islamic studies to non-Muslim students: is the appeal launched by the Commission "Justice and Peace" of the Episcopal Conference of Pakstan focus ...
• 3 April 2012
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA-Christians and NGOs to the UN: Stop to the gulag in North Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations are asked to help North Korea to close forever the vast gulag system in the country: is what is asked, in a petition today to the UN Council for Human Rights, on behalf of over ...
• 3 April 2012
  ASIA - Over 50 million people in Muslim countries suffered serious damage in 2011 Dubai (Agenzia Fides) - At the International Humanitarian Aid & Development Conference & Exhibition, the recent meeting held in Dubai, sources of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said that disasters and cri ...
• 2 April 2012
  ASIA/LAOS - To celebrate Easter, Christians occupy a requisitioned church Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) – It is an act of extreme and risky protest, because the faithful might soon be arrested: yesterday, April 1, Palm Sunday, a group of Laotian Christians in the village of Kengweng in the pro ...