Asia

• 2 September 2011
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A Bishop on a mission to North Korea: "We want to reopen the door to dialogue and peace" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Iginus Kim Hee-jong, Archbishop of Kwanju, is visiting North Korea next September 21, and will be the head of a delegation of seven religious leaders, members of the "Korean Confer ...
• 2 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Religious minorities "ready to take to the streets for the Muslim Shahbaz Taseer" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The religious minorities of Pakistan are "ready to take to the streets for the salvation of the Muslim Shahbaz Tasser", kidnapped a week ago. This is what is reported to Fides by Paul Bhatti, ...
• 1 September 2011
  ASIA/CHINA-Firm commitment on behalf of the Diocese of Yan An to promote priests’ vocational and spiritual formation Yan An (Agenzia Fides) - The ordination of three new deacons, celebrated on August 30, concluded the annual retreat of the clergy of the diocese of Yan An (Yulin), in the Shaan Xi Province. According to information gathe ...
• 1 September 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Order for the arrest of Shahbaz Bhatti’s killers, but the country is struggling to combat terrorism Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Special Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Rawalpindi has issued an arrest warrant against two men suspected of being the Christian Shahbaz Bhatti’s perpetrators. Bhatti was the minister of reli ...
• 1 September 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Celebration at the end of Ramadan, lived in peace and in interreligious respect Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Eid-al-Fitr, the feast that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan (the Islamic month of fasting), was celebrated in Indonesia "in a peaceful manner, in respect of differences and inter-reli ...
• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/TAIWAN-Ten elderly missionaries who have offered their lives for the mission in Taiwan continue to enlighten today's youth Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) - In the Nazareth Spiritual Center of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM) of the Diocese of Hsin Chu in Taiwan, live ten simple and extraordinary religious women. The elderly nuns are aged ...
• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/INDIA-The Supreme Court appeals for a new report, but "there is still no justice for Christians in Orissa" Cuttack (Agenzia Fides) - Justice for Christians in Orissa affected by violence is still far off, despite faint steps forward. The Supreme Court has officially asked the National Commission for Human Rights to submit wi ...
• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistani Christians discriminated and persecuted find asylum in India Goa (Agenzia Fides) – Pakistani Christians, victims of violence, discrimination and persecution, are welcomed and may extend asylum in India and get Indian citizenship: is what the Indian Ministry of the Interior has d ...
• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA-Young Christians protect Muslims in prayer and looking forward to celebrating Eid, at the end of Ramadan Jayapura (Agenzia Fides ) - Young Christians from Papua are committed today as sentinels to guarantee security to all the Muslim communities who are praying and fasting for the end of Ramadan and to ensure that the celeb ...
• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/THAILAND - Millions of children are not registered at birth and remain without any assistance Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Fifty years since the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 12 million people are still deprived of citizenship. According to the UN Agency for Refugees, most of them live in Asia. The o ...
• 31 August 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians in Quetta: "Terrorism does not cease, Eid is a day of peace" Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - "A day of peace and celebration was transformed in a day of mourning and disaster. We must unite the efforts of Muslim and Christian citizens and all people of good will against terrorism", said ...
• 31 August 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "There are problems, but I am confident that reconciliation will prevail", says Mgr.Martinelli Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The feeling that I had already expressed, for more relaxation and peace is strengthened in light of the fact that from what I have been told, the road links between Tripoli and Tunisia have become ...
• 30 August 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - The diocese of Jin Zhong welcomes three new priests on the feast of St. Bartholomew Yu Ci (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of faithful from the Diocese of Jin Zhong in Shan Xi province, received with great enthusiasm and joy three new priests on August 24, the day the Church remembers St. Bartholomew, Apostl ...
• 30 August 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Mission Year": focus on the role of Christians and rights for religious minorities Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Rights, freedom, the role of Christians in the Pakistani society, the fight against extremism, evangelism, inter-religious harmony: these are the central themes of the Mission Year launched by t ...
• 30 August 2011
  ASIA/JAPAN - The Church asks the new Prime Minister Noda "more collaboration between state and religions" Niigata (Agenzia Fides) - Yoshihiko Noda, the newly elected Prime Minister of Japan, "is a young politician, and this gives us much hope, especially in the present difficulties", says His Exc. Mgr. Isao Kikuchi, Svd , B ...