Asia

• 25 February 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians condemn Taliban attacks on Sikh Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Christians in Pakistan express their full solidarity with the Sikh community of believers and strongly condemns the attacks of the Taliban, confirming the urgent need to defend the rights of re ...
• 25 February 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Re-building bridges of unity: Guanellians hold celebration at “Vatluru Tower”: a great event of reconciliation for Catholics and non Rome (Agenzia Fides) – It is a sort of bell tower, with stairs that allow people to go up and stop at various points along the way to pray in front of statues of saints: this is Vatluru (India). "There is no feast of a ...
• 24 February 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence against Christians in Karachi, working to return to calm Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – There is calm on the streets, but tension remains high in the city of Karachi in southern Pakistan, where Sunday, February 21 a group of 150 Muslims attacked Christian churches, shops, and hom ...
• 24 February 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Public press coverage of Fr. Matteo Ricci exhibition in Beijing Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "Matteo Ricci – A Meeting of Civilizations in Ming China," the exhibition commemorating the 400th anniversary of death of the Italian Jesuit missionary, was opened in Beijing with ample covera ...
• 24 February 2010
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “Thanks to dialogue, the Catholic community is opening new churches, hospitals, and social centers,” Indonesian Bishop tells Fides Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – His diocese includes over more than a thousand small islands: Bishop Hilarius Moa Nurak, missionary of the Divine Word, is Bishop of the Diocese of Pangkal Pinang, in the South China Sea. ...
• 23 February 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops call for peace and write Minister for Education in response to blasphemous image of Christ New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – Indian Bishops are launching an appeal for peace and will write a formal letter of protest to the Federal Minister for Education, asking them to supervise publishing houses and the education ...
• 23 February 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Archbishop Menamparampil, on the eve of the Bishops' Assembly, tells Fides: Hindu people respect religious symbols, youth are key to harmony Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil, Salesian, could not be happier: his Diocese of Guwahati - in a peripheral territory (state of Assam, in India in the Northeast), troubled by internal problems ...
• 23 February 2010
  ASIA/IRAQ - Council of Christian Church Leaders in Iraq: government should do its duty; Churches of the world, please help us Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – All the Christian leaders in Iraq, on an ecumenical level, are united with deep sympathy for the sufferings of Christians in Mosul, and call for a global mobilization of churches on an interna ...
• 23 February 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - As New Year kicks off, ecclesial base communities relaunch initiatives for growing in the faith Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – With the start of the new year, a number of ecclesial base communities have launched training courses to help the faithful deepen in their faith life and be authentic witnesses of Christ in th ...
• 22 February 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Blasphemous image of Christ, clashes, two churches destroyed, curfew established in Punjab Jalandhar (Agenzia Fides) – There has been increased protest in response to a blasphemous picture of Christ, published in a textbook published in New Delhi and used in schools in India. The text, published by Skyline P ...
• 22 February 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Congress on Evangelization and Pastoral Ministry for Diocese of Tai Chung concludes with inauguration of Diocesan “Disciples University” Tai Chung (Agenzia Fides) – After the updating of the diocesan website, the Diocese of Tai Chung inaugurated the Diocesan “Disciples University,” creating a new channel for the evangelization formation and charitab ...
• 22 February 2010
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian Bishops of Mosul send message to the government: “Will the blood of Christians be shed with impunity?” Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – "The authorities must take full responsibility in order to preserve the Christian presence in Mosul. We need international intervention to push the central and local government to act immediatel ...
• 20 February 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Archbishop of Taipei launches "An Appeal for Love in Lent," for the people affected by the typhoon last August Taipei (Agenzia Fides) – In this Lent we are invited to be very especially united, "gather together to cry, smile, and bear witness to the glory of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ." This is the call that Arch ...
• 20 February 2010
  ASIA/NEPAL - Despite the fact that leprosy has been officially eliminated in the country, many years are needed to eradicate the disease Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) – On January 19, 2010, the government declared to have officially eliminated leprosy in Nepal, after reaching a prevalence of 0.89 per 10,000 people nationwide, but the challenges in the fight ...
• 19 February 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Pastoral Letter for Lent from Bishop Tong calls for continuous conversion and social justice, according to Pope's indications Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The teachings of Scripture and the Pope, personal spiritual experience and examples of the Saints were all presented to the faithful by Bishop John Tong, Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong, ...