Asia

• 11 January 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The new Governor of the Muslim Autonomous Region of Mindanao is a missionary’s student Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - The hopes of peace and reconciliation are growing in the southern Philippines, where a Muslim community of over 6 million people live, most of them are residents in the "Muslim Autonomous Regi ...
• 11 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The government of Punjab demolishes a Caritas lodging: for the Church it is a "criminal move", we resort to Court Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Many Pakistani Christians, priests, nuns and activists from the Commission "Justice and Peace" of the Episcopal Conference of Pakistan gathered today in Lahore to protest and assert their rights: ...
• 11 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - First study on malnutrition: 42% of children in the poorest districts suffer from malnutrition New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "HUNGaMA" (Hunger and malnutrition) is the name of the first study carried out after years concerning the problem of child malnutrition. According to the report just submitted by the country's ...
• 10 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA-Two Christian leaders arrested in Orissa with false accusations Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - The police in Orissa have arrested two Christian leaders with accusations that the community defines "false and intimidating". At 4.30 last night, in Baliguda, the police arrested Junus Prad ...
• 10 January 2012
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Kim Jong-un has announced an amnesty, the NGOs ask for "a new era for human rights" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The new North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has announced an amnesty on the occasion of the anniversary of the two leaders who paased away, his father Kim Jong-il and his grandfather Kim Il-sung. But, ...
• 10 January 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The challenges of the church in the pastoral, political, economic and social field: Seminar for priests in Hong Kong Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The challenges that the church of today places in the pastoral, political, economic and social field, emphasizing the social responsibility of Christians towards the weakest, was the theme of ...
• 10 January 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES -Tentorio’s case: the man arrested is not the killer, but cites a politician and the chief of the police as the alleged masterminds Cotabato (Agenzia Fides) - Jimmy Ato, the man arrested by the police and accused of killing the missionary father, Fausto Tentorio on October 17 in Arakan, on the island of Mindanao, has denied being the killer but has i ...
• 9 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Cyclone Thane violently devastates the villages of Tamil Nadu Madras (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian state of Tamil Nadu was violently hit by torrential rains and winds of over 150 miles per hour caused by the storm, called Thane, in the last days of 2011 that hit the Indian Ocean and ...
• 9 January 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Pilgrimage of the faithful of Shanghai at the beginning of the new year Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - There were about 150 faithful of the diocese of Shanghai who participated in the pilgrimage to welcome the new year 2012. In particular, they prayed for the priest and the six major seminarians ...
• 9 January 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - More than 9 million young people in the street for the "Nazarene", between devotion and terrorist threats Manila (Agenzia Fides) - More than nine million faithful Catholics, regardless of the "attack alert" released by the government, took to the streets today, January 9, in Manila, for the solemn procession of the Nazarene, ...
• 9 January 2012
  ASIA/LAOS - Two pastors protested released after one year in prison, other Christians leaders arrested Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - The civilian authorities in the province of Khammouan have released two Protestant pastors Wanna and Yohan, after a year in jail, but they continue to arrest other Christians and consider Ch ...
• 7 January 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-More than a thousand children killed by their families because of poverty Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - According to local humanitarian sources, because of poverty, over a thousand children were killed by their families in Pakistan in 2011, of whom 90% were girls. The charitable organization Edhi F ...
• 7 January 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu and Muslim radicals infiltrated into Churches: Christian Ong’s alarm Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Islamic Fundamentalists and Hindu radicals are infiltrating into the Christian community and Christian NGOs in India: their goal is to obtain material that can be used against Christians, espe ...
• 5 January 2012
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Caritas Korea: "The political tension must not stop humanitarian aid in the North for millions of hungry people" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Our hope is that the political tensions does not stop humanitarian aid in the North for millions of hungry people ", says to Fides Fr. Gerard Hammond, Maryknoll Missionary and Director of Program ...
• 5 January 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The Sisters of St. Joseph have been in service to society for 120 years Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - They are a presence that is leaven for the Church and society: the Sisters of the Congregation of St. Joseph of the Diocese of Shi Jia Zhuang (in the province of He Bei) celebrated the 12 ...