Asia

• 30 May 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Christians kidnapped: after Houla, they are possible target for revenge Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Syrian Christians are a possible target of revenge by armed groups and Sunni Islamic militants who want to avenge the massacre of Houla. And they are privileged victims of kidnappings. As fa ...
• 30 May 2012
  ASIA/TURKEY - Prime Minister Erdogan. "Abortion is murder, yes to the law to abolish it" Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - "Abortion is murder": is what the Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a meeting with groups and women's associations in Turkey. "What is the difference between killing a ...
• 29 May 2012
  ASIA/CHINA-With the Day of Prayer for the Church in China "the springtime of the Church" has arrived Shao Guan (Agenzia Fides) - With the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China "spring has arrived for the church of Shao Guan", in the diocese of Guang Zhou: is what the local priest said. In fact on May 24 the local ...
• 29 May 2012
  ASIA/NEPAL - Civil Society: a power vacuum, there is a risk of violence and profiteering Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Uncertainty, lack of clarity and perspective, fear dominates the social and political climate in Kathmandu, shaken yesterday by protests outside the headquarters of the Constituent Assembly, w ...
• 28 May 2012
  ASIA/CHINA-Many believers received Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion at Pentecost Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – The continental Catholic community celebrated the feast of Pentecost with the administration of the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion to many of the faithful, and ...
• 28 May 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-Christian family murdered in Punjab Okara (Agenzia Fides) – An entire Christian family was brutally killed in Punjab. Four people were slaughtered in the Christian colony of Muhala Ahmad, in the city of Okara, in the south of Lahore, capital of Punjab. T ...
• 28 May 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Prayer and Fasting in the hell of battle: the experience of a Catholic priest Qusayr (Agenzia Fides) - In the midst of massacres, rape, shootings, kidnappings, vendettas, a small flame of faith and love is kindled in the city of Qusayr (near Homs), one of the places where the war rages more violen ...
• 28 May 2012
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Jesuit vocations flourish Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - Vietnam is fertile ground for the Society of Jesus: as Fides learns from the Jesuits in Vietnam, in recent years the vocations of the congregation founded by St. Ignatius have multiplie ...
• 26 May 2012
  ASIA/SINGAPORE-Pentecost: a "Spring of the Spirit" for the new evangelization Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - The theme for the celebration of the day of Pentecost will be the new "Spring of the Spirit", which takes place tomorrow, May 27, at the Church of Christ King in Singapore. The island's Cathol ...
• 26 May 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Firing on Christians: Three injured in Karachi, threats to a Christian MP from Sindh Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A group of extremists raided the Christian neighborhood of Essa Nagri, in Karachi, firing wildly and injuring three Christians: Aftab Bhatti Khairat Masih, 40 years old, the 22-year-old Khurram ...
• 26 May 2012
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The "Emmaus community" in Mindanao: women consecrated to the service of dialogue with Muslims Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - Christians and Muslims in Mindanao, the largest island in the southern Philippines, call them "maidens of Providence", "poor sisters", "flames of dialogue": they are the women of the "Emm ...
• 26 May 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA-Instability and violence, appeal of the Apostolic Nuncio: "Enough with atrocities" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Instability, insecurity, violence, massacres: the scenario in Syria today is bleak. According to the "Syrian National Council", which leads the opposition in Houla, in the province of Homs, 88 ...
• 25 May 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA-"How to help the Christians in Syria?": we are waiting for the Pope's words in Lebanon Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "How to help the Christians in Syria and the Christians in the East? We are waiting for prophetic words from the post-synodal exhortation that Pope Benedict XVI will officially deliver in Lebanon ...
• 25 May 2012
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The Taliban attack girls' schools in order to force the closure Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - More than 120 students and 3 teachers have been intoxicated in the second attack reported after months in Afghanistan by radical conservatives in the north of the country. According to the Afghan ...
• 25 May 2012
  ASIA/HONG KONG- The journey toward the Congress on the ministry of the lay faithful has begun: "From the ministry to the testimony - living the light of Christ" Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The journey for the preparation of the diocese of Hong Kong toward the Congress on the ministry of the lay faithful to be held in Hong Kong from October 27 to November 1, 2012, on the theme "F ...