Asia

• 3 January 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN - "Deepening the mystery of faith, to live the sacrament of thanksgiving" pastoral letter for 2012 of the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "Deepening the mystery of faith, to live the sacrament of thanksgiving" is the theme of the 2012 pastoral letter of the Regional Episcopal Conference of Taiwan, signed on January 1, Solemnity of ...
• 3 January 2012
  ASIA - "Asian of the Year": the Catholic Shabhaz Bhatti or the dissident Ai Weiwei? Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – Is Shabhaz Bhatti, a Pakistani Catholic minister murdered, or Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissident and blogger the "Asian of the Year 2011"? : this is the debate registered by Fides among organiz ...
• 3 January 2012
  ASIA/MYANMAR-New rules for the labour law, less military spending: Aung San Suu Kyi’s appeal Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - New rules concerning the labour law are urgent and are "strategically important" for Myanmar; the state budget should cut military spending and invest in employment, health, education: this is wh ...
• 2 January 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The people behind Fr.Tentorio’s murder: investigation concerning the corruption of politicians and military Cagayan De Oro (Agenzia Fides) - The people behind Father Fausto Tentorio’s murder are to be found among corrupt politicians and officials of energy companies, responsible for the project of a dam on the river Pulangi; ...
• 2 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians: "In the new year, justice for the victims of the massacres in Orissa are needed" Bhubaneshwar (Agenzia Fides) - The new year should bring an important priority: justice for the victims of the anti-Christian massacres that occurred in Orissa: This is what the Indian Christians gathered in the All Indi ...
• 2 January 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The Christmas celebrations are marked by the sacraments, and evangelization Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The mainland Chinese Catholics spent Christmas marked by the sacraments and initiatives related to evangelization. According to the information Fides received by Faith, the Catholic communities ...
• 29 December 2011
  ASIA/VIETNAM - New phase of the national campaign against child malnutrition Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The Vietnamese government closes 2011 promoting a national campaign against child malnutrition, which provides for the delivery of two liters of milk for 16 000 children in need. The Ministry of L ...
• 29 December 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The situation for the population affected by Tropical Storm Washi gets worse Manila (Agenzia Fides) - After two weeks since the passage of Tropical Storm Washi, which struck the central archipelago of Visayas and Mindanao, in the Philippines, there are more than 1,200 victims, 400 000 IDPs and st ...
• 23 December 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN- Asia Bibi's case "on the Ministry of Interior’s negotiating table"; appeal to the Pope Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The dramatic report on Asia Bibi’s health, a Christian unjustly sentenced to death for blasphemy, was sent to the Federal Interior Ministry of Pakistan from the "Masihi Foundation", the non- ...
• 23 December 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Churches patrolled by the police for the Christmas Masses Lahore (agenzia Fides) - More than 2,500 police will be present to protect Christian churches in Pakistan during the Christmas weekend, to avoid attacks by radical Islamist groups. As local sources of Fides report, the a ...
• 23 December 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-He was a leader committed to justice: "planned" murder of a Catholic catechist Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian community in Orissa has no doubt: the murder of Rabindra Parichha, the Catholic catechist killed days ago in Orissa (see Fides 16/12/2011), was carried out "on commission". The ...
• 23 December 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-The persecution of Christians in Orissa "is the living history of Christmas" Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - "The persecution against Christians in Kandhamal is the living history of Christmas," says to Fides Fr. Mrutunjaya Digal, a priest in the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, where the faithf ...
• 23 December 2011
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The heavy rains put 38 000 people at risk, there are fears regarding the flooding of dams Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - More than 38 thousand people of the north of Sri Lanka have been evacuated because of heavy rains and floods that these days have been hitting on the island. More than 10 thousand families have ...
• 23 December 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Deaths continue to increase and the risk of epidemics amplifies Mindanao (Agenzia Fides) - The survivors of the devastating floods caused by the tropical storm Washi face growing threat of the spread of diseases such as typhoid and cholera. The hygienic conditions of the evacuation c ...
• 22 December 2011
  ASIA/CAMBODIA-The 12 pieces of "good news" from the Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics grow in faith, committed to formation, as in charity: this is what His Exc. Mgr. Olivier Schmitthaeusler, MEP, apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh says in a pastoral letter released in vi ...