Asia

• 10 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians: yes to legality, but "no one touches the murderer Mumtaz Qadri" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Yes" to justice and legality, "no" to death penalty, even for Mumtaz Qadri, who killed the governor of Punjab Salman Taseer and has become for radical Islamic groups, "the hero of blasphemy". Th ...
• 8 October 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Federation of Catholic students: 50 years for evangelization and for the disadvantaged Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Federation of Catholic Students of the diocese of Hong Kong which aims to "unite the Catholic students in order to apply the Christian spirit", celebrates 50 years of mission. According to ...
• 7 October 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA-Peace in the Moluccas through the "social media", while the government closes 300 radical websites Ambon (Agenzia Fides) - Christian and Muslim Volunteers of the "Moluccas Interfaith Institute" and the youth group "Ambon Bergerak" have led and continue to conduct a "peace campaign" with text messages, internet forums, ...
• 7 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "All the baptized for the mission of the Church, which is the mission of Christ": the testimony of a religious Camillian Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - On 23 October all the parishes of the Catholic Church in Pakistan will celebrate World Mission Day, and the whole Church of the Asian country is getting ready for this moment. "This is a day ...
• 7 October 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholics live the traditional celebration of the elderly according to Christian teaching Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "The father of a just man will exult with glee; he who begets a wise son will have joy in him. Let your father and mother have joy; let her who bore you exult"(Pr 23.24 to 25). The continental C ...
• 7 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Radical groups in the square, wave of arrests, minorities under attack Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A day of high tension in Pakistan because of protest marches and a strike called by Islamic radical groups of "Tahafuz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat" ("Alliance to defend the name of the Prophet") to ask f ...
• 7 October 2011
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Courses on technology for children at risk Sihanoukville (Agenzia Fides) - During the month of October, 20 young people at risk in the remote Cambodian province of Kep, Takeo and Kompot will start to attend training courses on Internet technologies and web design ...
• 6 October 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Over one thousand faithful welcome three new priests in the diocese of Yan An Yan An (Agenzia Fides) - There were over a thousand faithful of the diocese of Yan An, in the province of Shaa Xi, who attended the ordination of three new diocesan priests on October 3. The solemn ceremony was presided ...
• 6 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - More than 600 thousand displaced persons, victims of typhoons: humanitarian help is urgently needed Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "More than 600 thousand displaced people are struggling to survive, they are in the pouring rain, and they find shelter in churches, they hope to receive humanitarian help", says Fr. Socrates Mes ...
• 6 October 2011
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - "Stop to crimes against humanity, access to humanitarian agencies": NGOs letter to Kim Jong-il Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Protesters and civil society activists took to the streets today in Seoul to ask North Korea to "stop the crimes against humanity and violations of human rights" and "to allow access to humanitari ...
• 5 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Stalemate in the economy, floods, Qadri’s case, blasphemy: government crisis, risks for Minorities increase Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – The economy, the controversy concerning the lack of electricity to vast parts of the population, the slow progress in the management of flood emergency have had a decisive influence on the g ...
• 5 October 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The formation of the youth for a life of authentic faith Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - On the basis of experience in the field of youth formation in the last two years, from 2009 to 2011, the Commission for the Youth Pastoral in the diocese of Hong Kong has concluded that youth ...
• 5 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Bishop of Islamabad: Blasphemy is a "constitutional defect", Asia Bibi must be saved Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - As protests, and the maneuvers of the radical Islamic groups in favor of Mumtaz Qadri - government of Punjab’s murderer, guilty for having defended Asia Bibi and questioned the blasphemy law ...
• 4 October 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - "A great family of humanity" the 15th Day of the Migrants was celebrated Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "A great family of humanity" was the theme of the 15th Day of the Migrants which was celebrated on the last Sunday of September in Taiwan, according to the directions of the Pastoral Care Commis ...
• 4 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal of NGOs, Christian and Muslim leaders: "If Qadri is released at the 'price of blood', all the more Asia Bibi is to be released" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Islamic groups are orchestrating the release of Mumtaz Qadri, former Governor Salman Taseer’s murderer (see Fides 1/10/2011; 3/10/2011).At this juncture, NGOs, Bishops and moderate Islamic l ...