Asia

• 9 June 2012
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Urgent reform of the judicial and penal system: essential step in the rule of law Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar must eliminate from the justice and penal system practices such as illegal and arbitrary arrest, detention without trial, torture, forced confessions, processes behind closed doors, death ...
• 9 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA - Ultimatum to Christians: "Leave Qusayr" Qusayr (Agenzia Fides) - Exodus of Christians in the west of Syria: the Christian population has left the town of Qusayr, near Homs, following an ultimatum from the military chief of the armed opposition, Abdel Salam Har ...
• 9 June 2012
  ASIA/SYRIA-Appeal of the Greek catholic Patriarch: a month of fasting and abstinence for peace Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of massacres and bloody events experienced recently in Syria, Gregorios III Laham, the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Damascus, has launched a heartfelt appeal to all the faith ...
• 8 June 2012
  ASIA/CHINA - The celebration of Corpus Christi in the sign of evangelization Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, commonly known as the Corpus Domini, was celebrated yesterday, Thursday, June 7, in several Chinese Catholic communities, ...
• 8 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bomb in front of a madrasa: the Church calls for the end to violence and peace Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - A bomb exploded today outside the gate of an Islamic religious school (madrasa) in Quetta, capital of the Pakistani province of Baluchistan. The toll of the powerful explosion caused 15 victims a ...
• 8 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Human rights and religious minorities: Pakistan under observation Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Increase efforts to protect human rights, enact laws on crucial issues such as torture, education and women's rights: is what the Pakistani government has asked the UN High Commissioner for Hu ...
• 8 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - False accusations: a Christian pastor in prison accused of fraud Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Protestant Christian Pastor Mehboob Yaqoob was arrested and charged with fraud by police in Lahore. The Pastor is the victim of deception and was denounced and dragged in on false charges by ...
• 6 June 2012
  ASIA/TAIWAN-The delegation of Taiwan: leaving for Dublin to attend the International Eucharistic Congress Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The faithful who will represent the local Church of Taiwan at the International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, will leave on June 8 for their pilgrimage to Ireland. Led by His Exc. Mgr. John B. ...
• 6 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN- Asma Jahangir receives threats on behalf of secret Services: solidarity of the Church and civil society Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Asma Jahangir, well-known lawyer and leader in the protection of human rights in Pakistan, is in danger: her life is threatened by sectors of the Pakistani establishment and the powerful intel ...
• 6 June 2012
  ASIA/INDIA - Protestant Pastor killed in Tamil Nadu Chennai (Agenzia Fides) - The Protestant Christian Pastor C. Wilson, 54, was murdered in Tamil Nadu, in South India. His body was found last Saturday, June 2, near a highway and, according to police, his skull was fractu ...
• 5 June 2012
  ASIA-The Asian Bishops: enhance religious institutes for the mission of the Church Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - For the mission of the Church in Asia the contribution of the institutes and religious congregations, called to collaborate with the Bishops, clergy and laity is essential. This is why the Offic ...
• 5 June 2012
  ASIA/CHINA-Five years of the "House of the Faithful", where the laity immigrants cultivate their faith in order to evangelize others Ning Bo (Agenzia Fides) – To provide a reference point to the faithful lay people from other places where one can live the life of faith, develop the sense of belonging to the Church and therefore to be able to evangel ...
• 5 June 2012
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-The Diocese of Bangassou welcomes the victims of the "tyrant of child soldiers" Bangassou (Agenzia Fides) - For about 5 years, the Bishop of Bangassou, His Exc. Mgr. Juan José Aguirre, welcomes boys and girls who succeed in escaping from the criminal Joseph Kony, "the tyrant of child soldiers", in ...
• 5 June 2012
  ASIA/PAKISTAN-The Auxiliary of Lahore: "Thanks to firm faith, the status of Christians has improved " Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "To remain steadfast in faith": is the appeal to the faithful by His Exc. Mgr. Sebastian Francis Shaw (OFM), auxiliary Bishop and apostolic Administrator of the archdiocese of Lahore, on the occa ...
• 5 June 2012
  ASIA/THAILAND-Alarming phenomenon of child trafficking: forced to sell flowers and to beg Pak Kred (Agenzia Fides) - In Bangkok, about 1 thousand children are given for "rent" for very little money from the poorest families to traffickers who force them to beg and sell flowers on the streets. According to the ...