Asia

• 22 September 2010
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Indigenous Christians denied right to build church Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - A small evangelical Christian community in the state of Kelantan (northeast of Peninsular Malaysia), composed of the indigenous group “Orang Asli,” has been denied the right to rebuild ...
• 22 September 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - World Youth Day helps youth to strengthen their faith and hope Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – World Youth Day helps young people in Hong Kong to strengthen their faith and hope, to be more satisfied with life, and enjoy good moral and mental health. This is the result of a recent sur ...
• 22 September 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Church warns: Orissa becoming a “realm for trafficking of women” Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – "There are alarming reports of trafficking of young women on a large scale in Orissa. The victims are mostly young Christian women. The violence against Christians in 2008 gave the opportu ...
• 22 September 2010
  ASIA/THAILAND - Buddhist and Christians working together for a just economy Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) – A group of Buddhist and Christian representatives, who met recently at the Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand highlighted the need for faith communities to engage with the government ...
• 21 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Fear among Christians in Karachi, suffering “insecurity” Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – "There are no imminent threats, but there is still fear evident among the Christian community. In Pakistan, we Christians are in a precarious condition: we do not know what may happen in the n ...
• 21 September 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Commitment to Christianizing the family is a journey that should never end Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) – "The courses dedicated to Christianizing the family have ended, but the effort to Christianize the family is a journey that should never end." This was how Archbishop Peter Liu of the Dioces ...
• 21 September 2010
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Decrease in the number of dengue cases in comparison with same time in 2009 Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – Health officials in Sri Lanka are reporting a significant drop in the number of reported dengue cases. According to the team of officials, 58 cases of the mosquito-borne disease occurred durin ...
• 20 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Trafficking of women and children refugees denounced by NGOs Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – It is a growing phenomenon, observed by local NGOs: among the flood refugees there are a rising number of cases of abductions and disappearances of women and children who are victims of huma ...
• 18 September 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians in Orissa only receive “ceremonies” and little aid Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – The visit of H.T. Sangliana, Vice-President of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM), to the Orissa and Kadhamal district was mere “ceremony,” said Archbishop Raphael Cheenath, ...
• 18 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Using solidarity to fight radicalism; UN makes appeal Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – In order to face all the problems associated with the vast relief operation taking place amidst the floods in Pakistan - the fatigue in aid, corruption, discrimination, opportunism of Islami ...
• 18 September 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Second national meeting of PMS Volunteers in Taiwan Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) – The second national meeting of the Volunteers of the Pontifical Mission Societies was held September 11 and 12 in the city of Kaohsiung, in the south of Taiwan. Over 110 participants from al ...
• 17 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian pastor wounded “for preaching salvation in Christ” Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - It is an attack on the religious freedom that the state should be protecting: this is what sources of Fides commented on the recent attack in Pakistan suffered by Pastor Emmanuel Beshir, of the " ...
• 17 September 2010
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - National interreligious committee: an important step towards harmony Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - "It is an important step towards establishing interfaith harmony in Malaysia. It is a committee that will serve to meet, discuss, and address - government and religious communities – all ...
• 17 September 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Over 5,000 faithful make pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Holy Cross in the Diocese of Zhou Zhi Zhou Zhi (Agenzia Fides) – More than 5,000 Chinese faithful on the mainland, from different dioceses, made a pilgrimage to the shrine dedicated to the Holy Cross, located in the district of Mei Xian, in the Diocese of ...
• 17 September 2010
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - 12.8 million children under 15 living in poverty Manila (Agenzia Fides) – A new study by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) [ ] and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), estimates that 12.8 million children under the age of 15 are living in poverty, a ...