Asia

• 16 September 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The Commission for the Pastoral Care of Workers in Hong Kong urges HSBC to revoke the dismissal of 3 000 employees Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Revoke the decision to immediately dismiss 3 000 employees in 3 years, intensify the contact with the employees making them participate in the bank development, take upon oneself social respon ...
• 16 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Floods in Sindh: aid denied to Christians and Hindus, the "untouchables" of religious minorities Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - Among the flood victims of Sindh (South of Pakistan), Christian and Hindu "Dalits" families, considered the "untouchables", are thrown out of refugee camps set up by the government and do no ...
• 16 September 2011
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - To talk about reconciliation to those who saw their parents being killed: witness of a missionary who takes care of the "hidden wounds" of the civil war Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is fairly calm but there is still much insecurity, especially in the evening, when there is a sort of unwritten curfew, so after 8pm nobody leaves the house, because security is n ...
• 15 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - False accusations of blasphemy against a Christian, the court invites him to "leave the country" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian high school teacher has suffered false accusations of blasphemy by a student and some Muslim professors, because of dislike, revenge and hatred towards Christians. He was forced to l ...
• 15 September 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Thousands of faithful pilgrims from all over China under the pouring rain at the Shrine of the Cross, the Calvary of the East Mei Xian (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of faithful Catholics coming from all over China went on a pilgrimage, under the pouring rain, to the Sanctuary of the Cross on Mount Pao Wo (nicknamed "the Calvary of the East"), in ...
• 15 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Commission "Justice and Peace": "the UN envoy is invited to Pakistan, we need to abolish the blasphemy law" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission "Justice and Peace" of the Pakistani Bishops have invited the UN Special Observer on religious Tolerance to visit Pakistan to see the "abuses and violence against religious minorit ...
• 15 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi was sentenced to death by a court "influenced by Islamic extremists" and "without a lawyer" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - There is more than a shadow on the case of Asia Bibi, a 40-year old Christian woman, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy. Asia was judged by a court "under the obvious pressure of Islamic ex ...
• 14 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Duc in altum": the theme of 'Year of the Mission for the Church in Pakistan Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Church of Pakistan, Duc in altum" This is the theme of the Mission and Evangelization, which will be launched by the Church of Pakistan, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Pontifical Miss ...
• 14 September 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops' appeal: "No to death penalty and execution of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassins" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - " As Church of India we are against death penalty and we ask for the salvation of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassins. We hope that our country will firmly take the road of abolishing capital punish ...
• 14 September 2011
  ASIA/THAILAND - Post-flood trauma: 600 displaced have committed suicide, but "in the disaster the country finds unity" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – It is a tragedy within the tragedy" for over a week heavy rains have not stopped in Thailand and have caused flooding in 21 provinces in central-south part of the country, provoking 87 deaths ...
• 14 September 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Inauguration of the largest square in the inner Mongolian steppe dedicated to "Our Lady of Mongolia" Bao Tou (Agenzia Fides) - The largest and the most beautiful square in the inner Mongolian steppe, in the diocese of Bao Tou, was inaugurated a few days ago and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Over three thousand faithful ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/HONG KONG - A new program for the mobile phone, iBreviarium, to pray the Liturgy of the Hours Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Paul Leung, SDB, a Salesian from Hong Kong, has invented a program for the mobile phone called iBreviarium, to encourage the faithful to join in the prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours thr ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Heavy floods in Pakistan; for Caritas, "the government has failed in prevention" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - It is an emergency that overlaps on another emergency. While the reconstruction after the epochal 2010 flood was still being dealt with, new major floods have hit southern Pakistan in recent day ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Power games behind the holy war in the Moluccas; the volunteers "belt of peace" Ambon (Agenzia Fides) - The tension in Ambon heightens again, on the Molucca islands: after clashes between Muslims and Christians on Sunday, September 11 (see Fides 12/09/2011), the government has allocated through the ...
• 13 September 2011
  ASIA/YEMEN - Helping displaced children overcome trauma and suffering Aden (Agenzia Fides) - The children constitute 60% of the over 100 000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in southern Yemen. According to a UNICEF representative in the country, almost all the IDPs children have suffere ...