02/10/2012ITALY - ASIA "Jesus our contemporary" shakes Asia and Europe At the International event organized by the Cultural Project of the Italian Bishops Conference, Card. Joseph Zen emphasizes the vitality of the Church in China and Hong Kong. For Card. Bagnasco, in the West there is a "strange reticence" to speaking of Jesus The Pope: many believers face suffering and persecution for Jesus today. Rome (AsiaNews) - "Jesus is my contemporary through the saints and people who are suffering": this is how Card. Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, summed up his experience speaking at the international conference "Jesus our contemporary" promoted by the Cultural Project of the Italian Bishops...
02/10/2012TIBET - CHINA Tibet, Chinese police kill a Buddhist monk and his brother The two were not protesting, but hidden in a protected place: they had participated in the protests on January 23 against Chinese rule. Tibetan prime minister tells AsiaNews: "We are shocked by such violence. The international community must send inspectors to discover the truth about Tibet. "
02/10/2012INDIA Gujarat massacre: government to rebuild more than 500 places of worship by Nirmala Carvalho The state’s High Court makes the ruling following a petition by the Islamic Relief Committee of Gujarat. Fr Prakash, director of a Jesuit human rights centre, welcomes the decision. More than a thousand people were killed in the 2002 riots; 523 places were destroyed, including three churches.
02/10/2012SAUDI ARABIA – MALAYSIA Saudi committee calls for “harsh punitive measures” against man who insulted Muhammad Writer and poet Hamza Kashghari is deemed an infidel and apostate. Malaysian police announce his arrest. Under Sharia, anyone who commits a “sacrilegious action” that may make him or her kafir should be given three days to repent, failing which the person is to be beheaded.
02/10/2012INDONESIA Double defeat for Yasmin Church: Parliament and Yudhoyono deny them right of worship by Mathias Hariyadi In a special session of the Chamber, the delegates of the Christian community are forced to leave the hall. Despite the Supreme Court ruling, faithful denied right hold religious services. For the Indonesian President it is not a matter of "freedom" of worship, but "lack" of a building permit.
02/10/2012IRAN Ten Iranian Christians arrested at a prayer meeting They were meeting at the home of those arrested. The authorities refuse to give the families information about their whereabouts. Police and security services hunt down converts, shut down churches were services are in Farsi.
02/09/2012VIETNAM Vietnamese Buddhist dissident nominated for 2012 Nobel Peace Prize The Venerable Thich Quảng Độ, patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (Cubv), is among the leaders of the struggle for human rights and religious freedom in the communist country. Still lives under house arrest in the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery. In recent months, he has challenged the government, inviting it to rid itself of "the Chinese vice".
02/09/2012INDIA Orissa pogrom: Church helps victim (Hindu) to get compensation by Santosh Digal Kandhamal Authority will pay the man 50 thousand rupees (about 760 euros). During the anti-Christian violence in 2008, Hindu ultranationalists burned the house of Ashor Kumar Ray, 45. A lawyer for the Archdiocese’ Commission for Justice, Peace and Development assisted the man in bringing his trial to the State High Court.
02/09/2012MALAYSIA-SAUDI ARABIA "Blasphemous" Saudi Poet arrested in Malaysia and deported to Jeddah. Risks death Kashgari Hamza, 23, the day before the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed published a comment on Twitter: " I do not like the halos of divinity around you. I shall not pray for you ". Forced to flee; he was arrested in Malaysia, and will be tried at home for blasphemy. He risks the death penalty.
02/09/2012EGYPT Alexandria: forced eviction of 62 Coptic families by the Salafis Muslims in the area of el-Amerya, with the complicity of police and state authorities, set fire to Christian homes and shops, and forced several families to leave the country, under the threat of further violence.
Books
Augusto Colombo. Apostolo dei paria di Piero Gheddo
pp. 320
Matteo Ricci: missione e ragione. Una biografia intellettuale di Gianni Criveller
pp. 132
Bioetica religioni missioni di Buono Giuseppe, Pelosi Patrizia pp. 432
Matteo Ricci e Giulio Aleni, due vite incrociate di Giulio Aleni / (a cura di) Gianni Criveller
pp. 176
Missione Bengala 155 anni del Pime in India e Bangladesh EMI
di Piero Gheddo
pp. 480
La Cina di Mao processa la Chiesa di Angelo S.Lazzarotto pp. 528
Il rovescio delle medaglie di Bernardo Cervellera pp. 240
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