Asia

• 20 January 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong's religious leaders hope for a better new year and invite the faithful to act to overcome the global financial crisis Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - A harmonious society, local and the global financial crisis, the importance of religion in public life: these are the topics covered in the Message for the Chinese New Year, which will be cele ...
• 20 January 2012
  ASIA - "Asian Cultures in Dialogue": Archbishop Menamparampil’s greetings Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - The dialogue between cultures and religions is the main road to ensure Asia a future of peace and development: this is what emerged from the recent seminar titled "Asian Cultures in Dialogue" or ...
• 20 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishop of Multan’s appeal to the kidnappers; for Caritas it is "red alert among the NGOs" Multan (Agenzia Fides) - "We are in close contact with the government and the police. We have activated all the contacts of the local Justice and Peace Commission, we hope to have positive news on the two aid workers kid ...
• 20 January 2012
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Week of prayer for the unity of the Church: "We have to proclaim with one voice the Gospel of Christ and his final victory" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "We should proclaim in one voice the Gospel of Christ and His definitive victory," said His Exc. Mgr.Hyginus Kim Hee-joong, Archbishop of Gwangju and President of the Commission for the Promotion ...
• 19 January 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The Bishop of Shang hai hopes that Paul Xu will soon be Blessed, because "he is the "man for all seasons" Shang Hai (Agenzia Fides) - "He is the man for all seasons" is the title of the Chinese New Year Message by His Exc. Mgr. Alios Jin Lu Xian, a 95-year-old Bishop of the diocese of Shang Hai, focused on the figure of Paul ...
• 19 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Abolish Death Penalty: appeals of civil society and the Church New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – To commit onself to formally abolish death penalty is what the Christian Churches in India and civil society are asking the Indian government in a joint appeal. The text sent to Fides urges ...
• 19 January 2012
  ASIA - Bishops, priests and Asian lay people among the Burmese refugees of ethnic Karen, "the invisible" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - For three days a group of Bishops, priests and Asian lay people live the hardships and sufferings, the extreme poverty of the Burmese refugees of ethnic Karen, camped in refugee camps on the bor ...
• 18 January 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Disadvantaged families and elderly people living alone: Catholics live the Chinese New Year in the sign of love Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, the mainland Chinese Catholics are living the eve of the Chinese New Year, which this year falls on January 23, largely through acts of Christian charity so that everyone can feel ...
• 18 January 2012
  ASIA - Four days of "immersion among the poor" for the Asian Bishops Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - A group of Asian Bishops - together with some priests, religious and lay people - will live for four days a true "immersion" in poverty, staying from January 18 to 21 among the poorest and the m ...
• 18 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - No results in the investigations for the murders of the catechist in Orissa and Sister Valsa in Jharkhand New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Murder without justice. And so far no one has been found guilty. The Catholic community in India reports to Fides that for two recent murders, that of a Catholic catechist Rabindra Parichha in ...
• 17 January 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - A disabled Catholic who died to defend a girl, among the ten people who gave a heroic example in the province of He Bei Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Wu Wen De, a disabled Catholic who sacrificed his life to defend a girl from a robber, was chosen by the major Chinese media as one of ten people who moved to tears the province of He Bei, stro ...
• 17 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Church ransacked and Christian children beaten: a Muslim blogger defends them Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A Muslim intellectual and blogger took to the streets to defend the Christian children beaten in an episode that has recently shaken the Christian community in Karachi, the capital of Sindh: In ...
• 17 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bhatti’s Murder: the "main person behind the crime" has been killed, the perpetrators are being chased, but ambiguity remains Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - With the killing of Hakimullah Mehsud, leader of the "Pakistani Talibans", the militant movement which is the most serious threat to national security, "who was the man behind the killing of the ...
• 17 January 2012
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - South Korea is open to dialogue and to aid towards the North; for the Bishops "it is the good path" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - South Korea is ready to hold talks at the highest level and to provide large-scale food aid to North Korea, even if Pyongyang has not "officially apologized" after the two military attacks in 2010 ...
• 16 January 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - More prayer, reflection and action in the new year after 150 years of evangelization Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - In an editorial entitled "Let’s move forward in 2012", Catholic Weekly, the weekly Catholic bulletin of the Archdiocese of Taipei in Taiwan invites the faithful to pray, reflect and act more i ...