Asia

• 11 October 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Protestant Pastor killed in Orissa: "an isolated case, not motivated by religious hatred" Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Rev. Jiban Masi, a 70-year-old Protestant pastor, was killed on Sunday, October 9 by a psychopath in the village of Bada Raksi, in Sundergarh district, in Orissa. The district is located in ...
• 11 October 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Still no school for children in the areas hit by the earthquake in 2005 Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - According to the estimates recorded by Earthquake Relief and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) after the earthquake that devastated Pakistan in 2005, in the district of Shangla 204 schools were d ...
• 10 October 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN - In preparation for the International Eucharistic Congress, the Church of Taiwan announced the National Eucharistic Congress, November 19 Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - In order to accommodate and prepare for the International Eucharistic Congress - which is "a blessing for the Church in Taiwan" in the words of Archbishop John Hung, Archbishop of Tai Pei and Pr ...
• 10 October 2011
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES-Mission with mass media and social networks, to speak the language of the youth Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The mission in the Philippines travels on blogs, social networks, with new technologies and new channels, because it aims to "speak the language of the youth": is what Fr. Socrates Mesiona, Natio ...
• 10 October 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-The Word of God is the engine of the mission: the new Bible in kashmiri has been presented Srinagar (Agenzia Fides) – To render the Word of God the engine of the mission; renew the efforts for dialogue and cooperation with the Muslim majority: in this spirit and with these intentions the small Christian comm ...
• 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 ...