Asia

• 26 November 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Year of Faith: after 30 years 766 confirmations administered in the parish of Long Hui Hai Men (Agenzia Fides) - 766 members of the parish of Hui Long dedicated to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, which is the most populous of the Diocese of Hai Men, to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation by their Bisho ...
• 26 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Chaldean Bishop Audo: the conflict has disfigured Aleppo Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - In recent days, the clash of arms that could be heard even from the center of Aleppo seems to have lessened. And in the apparent stalemate the devastating effects of the conflict on the ordinary ...
• 24 November 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Green light to the "Commission for Minorities" in the state of Kerala Cochin (Agenzia Fides) – The creation of a specific "Commission for Minorities" in the Indian state of Kerala, in South India is imminent. Kerala is the Indian state with the highest percentage of Christians (over 16%) ...
• 24 November 2012
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Spiritual enthusiasm of young people in the Year of Faith, with "Youcat" Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - In the Year of Faith the Catholic youth in the Arabian Peninsula will deepen faith and study the contents thanks to "You Cat", a special catechism for young people, which is available in Engli ...
• 23 November 2012
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - After the cease-fire, we need to remove the Gaza blockade: Oxfam’s appeal Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The truce just signed "is not sufficient": to restore hope for peace, today it is necessary to end the embargo of Gaza that "for five years has been subject to a crippling blockade, which has ...
• 23 November 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The role of the family and the education of young people for a happy Christian marriage Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "The family and the formation of young people play an important role for the bride and groom who will be living the Christian married life": is the belief of Cardinal John Tong, Bishop of Hong ...
• 23 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Christians in high Mesopotamia refuse to take up arms. Bishops' appeal to the Pope and the leaders of Nations: avoid the catastrophe that is upon us Kamishly (Agenzia Fides) - An urgent appeal to the Pope, the UN Secretary General and the Heads of State so that catastrophe that threatens Syrian populations of high Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and the Euphrates is ...
• 22 November 2012
  ASIA/VIETNAM - In the Year of Faith, mission among the last: a new hospital for lepers Thai Binh (Agenzia Fides) – Already the name is indicative of the radical change of paradigm: from leprosy hospital to "dermatological hospital." This is the work that has started in Thai Binh, a village 250 km north o ...
• 22 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Roham’s appeal to the belligerents: "Save the cities of Kamishly and Hassaké" Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of innocent civilians and displaced families, including women, old people, children, have taken refuge in the city of Kamishly and Hassaké (eastern Syria), who must absolutely be "pr ...
• 22 November 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - Living faith is the best way to spread it: the deanery of Cang Nan in the Diocese of Wen Zhou opens the Year of Faith Wen Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - Living faith is the best way to spread it: with this belief the participants at the Annual Assembly of the Council of Ecclesiastical Affairs of the deanery of Cang Nan of the Diocese of Wen Zh ...
• 22 November 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Church desecrated by bandits, then furnish returned and ceremony of reconciliation Homs (Agenzia Fides) - An act of vandalism, then the apology and reconciliation. This happened in Qara, in the diocese of Homs (Western Syria), where on November 19 the ancient church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, of th ...
• 21 November 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - A thousand faithful attended the blessing of the new statue of Our Lady of the parish of Dong He, in Mongolia, and the inauguration of the Pastoral Center Bao Tou (Agenzia Fides) - The blessing of the new statue of the Madonna, 4 meters high, and the inauguration of the new pastoral Center, represent a dream come true, an imperative call to evangelization especially in the ...
• 21 November 2012
  ASIA/LEBANON -The whole of Lebanon is gathered around Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai, new Cardinal Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The entrance to the Sacred College of Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai is an opportunity to regain the national unity of Lebanon in an extremely delicate moment for the political and social ...
• 21 November 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - After Rimsha’s case, other 36 cases sentenced either to death or life imprisonment for blasphemy Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - If one case, that of Rimsha Masih, was resolved with a happy ending, there are many other cases of alleged blasphemy in which innocent victims suffer in prison and are subject to a long legal ...
• 21 November 2012
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The tragedy of pothoshinsho, street children in Dhaka Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The street children of Dhaka are known as Pothoshishu. The road is where they earn their living. In Bangladesh there are about 400 000. Almost half live in Dhaka, most girls are often exposed to a ...