Asia

• 27 February 2013
  ASIA/TURKEY - A Protestant Pastor expelled, another escaped an attack Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The American Protestant Pastor Jeremiah Ian Mattix, who for over ten pastoral served in the Protestant church in Diyarbakir, was expelled from the country because accused of carrying out "illeg ...
• 26 February 2013
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Religions united to commemorate the genocide of the Khmer Rouge Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Christians, Buddhists, Cambodian Muslims gathered in past days in Choeung Ek, the "killing field" of Cambodia, to commemorate and pray for the thousands of innocent Cambodians executed there, ...
• 25 February 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Mainland Catholic community walks intensely spiritual path marked by faith and evangelisation Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – An intensely spiritual path walked by the Chinese mainland Catholic community, was marked by spiritual direction and formation in the faith and evangelisation . According to He Bei di ...
• 25 February 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Gregory III appeals: "the sending of arms to Syria must be stopped": Damasco (Agenzia Fides)-"We appeal to the whole world to stop arms from being sent to Syria". This call was part of a statement sent to Fides by His Beatitude, Greek Catholic Melkite Patriarch Gregory III Laham following ...
• 23 February 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Terror attacks in Hyderabad, Christian defend local Muslims: “they are not terrorists” Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) – No hasty conclusions, no labelling Muslims “terrorists”: the call comes from Indian lay Catholic church groups, following violence in Hyderabad, in India’s southern eastern state of A ...
• 23 February 2013
  ASIA/JAPAN - Bishops tell Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: “No arms, no nuclear power, the Constitution cannot be changed” Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) – It is urgently necessary to safeguard article 9 of Japan’s Constitution which declares “explicit and absolute renouncement of war” on the part of the government. A clear “no” must be ...
• 22 February 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN -Infant Jesus of Prague soon to have a Shrine in Pakistan Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – A statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague has arrived in Pakistan, in the diocese of Faisalabad, in Punjab, and a Shrine dedicated to the Infant Jesus is to be a centre of pilgrimage for Catholics ...
• 22 February 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Greek-Orthodox Patriarch: Help us help the Syrian people Damasco (Agenzia Fides) – The Greek-Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and all the East , through his department for ecumenical relations and development (DERD), has so far distributed 75 thousand survival kits and offered ...
• 22 February 2013
  ASIA/HONGKONG - Pilgrimage with relics of St Vincent de Paul Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Catholics in Hong Kong, particularly members of the St Vincent de Paul Society, welcomed the relics of the Founder as part of celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Fe ...
• 22 February 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Death of a Bishop loved for his understanding of young people Zhoucun (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Joseph Ma Xuesheng, bishop of the diocese of Zhoucun (Chowtsun), in Shandong (mainland China) died on February 8 at the age of almost 90. He was born on 16 September 1923, in the distr ...
• 22 February 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai to visit Moscow. He will meet Kirill I and Duma Chairman Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – The Patriarch of Antioch of Maronites Bechara Boutros Rai is soon to travel to Moscow on a visit with significant implications, both ecumenical and political-humanitarian . From 26 February t ...
• 21 February 2013
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Bishops and priests urge the UN: stop the destruction of Tamil people Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – A forceful call to the United Nations Organisation to intervene to stop the annihilation of the Tamil people being operated by the government of Sri Lanka, and to guarantee respect for human ...
• 21 February 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Endless slaughter in Damascus. Rumours of plan to strike Papal Nuncio Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – The Papal Nuncio to Syria Archbishop Mario Zenari is still shocked by reporst and images of fresh violent attacks this morning in the centre of Damascus, beginning with the attack in al-Shahb ...
• 21 February 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In the fight against terrorism and sectarianism, government seeks Ulema support Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Praise is due to the Ulema (Muslim religious leaders) who have "faithfully taught and lived the message of unity, love and peace and condemned every act of violence in this country ". Follo ...
• 21 February 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Lent in the Year of Faith in Tai Yuan: spirituality and evangelisation Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) – In the diocese of Tai Yuan (Shan Xi, province, mainland China) the period of Lent in this Year of Faith proclaimed by the Pope, is proving to be a time of intense spirituality and evangelisat ...