Asia

• 4 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Ecumenical funeral celebration for Minister Bhatti Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – It was not a Catholic Mass but an ecumenical celebration of prayer, in the presence of other religious leaders, to give the final goodbye to Minister Shabhaz Bhatti, and which accompanied h ...
• 4 March 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Young Catholic Immigrant workers search for work with a nearby church to continue to live their faith Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – In view of Lent, the mainland Catholic community is intensifying its youth ministry. According to information furnished by “Faith” of He Bei to Fides, “the Church invites young pe ...
• 3 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Closed schools, prayer and Christians protesting about Bhatti's murder, tomorrow the funeral Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) – The Christian community in Pakistan, convulsed by grief after the murder of Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, is reacting to the event with spontaneous demonstrations of peaceful protest, with vigil ...
• 3 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bhatti “killed for religious hatred” which is being fueled in public schools: missionary's analysis Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Shahbaz Bhatti was killed “because he was a Christian, an infidel and a blasphemer.” His assassination is part of a “religious war to eliminate those who wish to amend the blasphemy la ...
• 3 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society: need to reform security forces and cleanse them of extremists Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – In what may be defined as “a dark day for the nation's history,” civil society in Pakistan raises the burning question of the complicity by some of the State apparatus with extremist for ...
• 3 March 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Lucas Li: “St Joseph is a model even for immigrant workers today” Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) – “St Joseph is Patron Saint of the Universal Church, Patron Saint of China, an excellent model of a good Catholic, a good father, a good citizen, but also an exemplary model for immigrant ...
• 2 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Minister Bhatti killed, a “martyr of the blasphemy law” Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Grief and terror within the Christian community in Pakistan: the Federal Minister for Religious Minorities, Catholic Shahbaz Bhatti, was killed this morning in Islamabad. Fides' local source ...
• 2 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops on Bhatti's murder: “A tragic example of the intolerant climate in which we live” Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – “We condemn the assassination of the Catholic Minister for Religious Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti. We are devastated and deplore this anti-life gesture. This is a perfectly tragic example of th ...
• 2 March 2011
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Breakdown of Christians in Pakistan Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Of the population in Pakistan of 185 million inhabitants, 96% are Muslims, and 2% are Christians. Among these, Catholics are slightly more than one million. Christians, with Hindus and Sikhs (the r ...
• 1 March 2011
  ASIA/CHINA - Even the Catholic community of Shaan Xi is praying for the earthquake victims in Christchurch, remembering their own similar tragic experience Xi An (Agenzia Fides) – In spiritual support for those who survived the earthquake which hit Christchurch in New Zealand and for emergency workers, prayer, the Rosary, Holy Mass and fundraising for the victims (and the ...
• 1 March 2011
  ASIA/NEPAL - The Government in Nepal committed to reducing Bhutanese refugee camps Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) – The Nepalese Government is committed to reducing Bhutanese refugee camps from seven currently to two in the next two years, says Jay Mukunda Khanal, head of national unity for coordinating r ...
• 1 March 2011
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Christian leaders of Papua: indigenous human rights trampled Jayapura (Agenzia Fides) – A “kairos” - a “moment of truth” - for a reflection on the continuing degeneration of respect for human rights in Indonesian Papua: this is what various Indonesian Christian leaders a ...
• 1 March 2011
  ASIA/INDIA - Peace blooms in the Northeast, thanks to the help of the Church Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) – The mediation encouraged by the Catholic Church in the Northeast of India, to defuse a bitter conflict between the Rabha and Garo tribal groups, is bearing its fruit, to the great satisfactio ...
• 1 March 2011
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of Bishop of Dà Lat Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 1 March 2011, appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Dà Lat (Vietnam), Bishop Antoine Vu Huy Chuong, until now Bishop of Hung Hoá. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 1/ ...
• 1 March 2011
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of Bishop of Hung Hoá Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on 1 March 2011, appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Hung Hoá (Vietnam), Bishop Jean Marie Vu Tât, until now titular Bishop of Tisiduo and Auxiliary of the ...