Asia

• 26 June 2008
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - results and recognition for Catholic consecrated life in Bangladesh Dacca (Agenzia Fides) – Catholic religious life in Bangladesh, active in education and social assistance, recently received national recognition for fifty years of service to the nation in the field of schooling. The ...
• 25 June 2008
  ASIA/HONG KONG - School pastoral support project Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – To support Catholic school volunteers and pupils and ensure better pastoral care within the school, the Hong Kong diocesan Youth Pastoral Commission recently presented a programme for youth ...
• 25 June 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Solemn Mass in Zhou Zhi Cathedral for the Feast day of Saint John the Baptist: “let us imitate John and prepare the way for Christ, indicating to everyone the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world ” Zhou Zhi (Agenzia Fides) – “We must imitate St John the Baptist and prepare the way for Christ, indicating to everyone the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, and calling them to convert their hearts to ...
• 25 June 2008
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Enthusiastic delegation of young Catholics prepares to travel to Sydney for World Youth Day next month Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – Preparation completed, the day of departure is close. A group of young Cambodian Catholics filled with emotion, hope and expectations, is ready to travel to Sydney to take part in World You ...
• 25 June 2008
  ASIA/JAPAN - Bishops' annual assembly agenda: Martyrs Beatification Mass, commitment for pace, Year of St Paul initiatives Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) – Putting the finishing touches to the Beatification of 188 Japanese Catholic Martyrs to take place on 24 November in Nagasaki; discussing initiatives to promote “Justice and Peace” to mark 60 ...
• 24 June 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Thirty priests celebrating their 10th anniversary of priesthood take part in the “Annual Formation Course,” which includes a visit to the Diocese of Macao Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – Improve the quality of priests, promote pastoral work, opening oneself to a perspective of pastoral care and evangelization at the service of the Church and society: these were the obje ...
• 24 June 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Local authorities announce the reconstruction of the old church in Bai Lu, built by Foreign Missions Priests of Paris 100 years ago and later destroyed by the earthquake in 8-seconds’ time Peng Zhou (Agenzia Fides) – According to the official government site of China, Xinhuanet, the Supervisory Department for Archeological Sites in Si Chuan has announced that it “will reconstruct (on the original site) ...
• 24 June 2008
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - More fighting and victims in the North: the Church renews her appeal for an end to the violence Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – While the North of the country continues to face conflict and fighting, resulting in numerous victims, the Church in Sri Lanka is once again calling for an end to the hostility and for reconci ...
• 23 June 2008
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Typhoon Fengshen hits the Philippines; the Church’s aid efforts Manila (Agenzia Fides) – The victims’ toll for Typhoon Fengshen, that recently hit the western coast of the Philippines, continues to rise. There are over 1,000 dead, over 500 missing, and 65,000 have fled their home ...
• 23 June 2008
  ASIA - Corruption is the continent’s “worst evil”: a Report from the United Nations Human Development Program Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – Corruption, on all levels of society, is an extremely wide-spread evil on the Asian continent and forms the root and primary cause of the poverty in which millions of people live. Effectively ...
• 20 June 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - “Wherever His Love is, there also is the Lord Himself”: the diary of Sr. Ji, written in the tent where she worked among the earthquake victims of Sichuan Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – “We are Catholic religious, from various religious congregations from the different dioceses and provinces.” This was the response given by Sister Ji Yong-Jing, of the Congregation ...
• 20 June 2008
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - June 22: the Church celebrates the Day of Prayer for Reconciliation and Unity of the Korean People Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Constant prayer and an increase in humanitarian aid: along these lines the Church in South Korea hopes to enter into a more fraternal relationship with North Korea, as it struggles to face hunge ...
• 20 June 2008
  ASIA/TURKEY - “In an atmosphere of ecumenism and dialogue, the Church in Turkey will open the Pauline Year, on June 21”: Agenzia Fides talks with the Secretary of the Turkish Catholic Bishops’ Conference Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) – “The climate that is felt with the upcoming opening of the Pauline Year in Turkey is positive. We are cautiously optimistic...We hope that is will be an opportunity for living the Christian ...
• 19 June 2008
  ASIA/CHINA - Diocese of Yu Ci (now Jin Zhong) celebrates the ordination of a priest and a deacon Yu Chi (Agenzia Fides) – Nearly one thousand faithful of the Diocese of Yu Chi (now Jin Zhong) of the Province of Shan Xin, in Continental China, joined in the joyful celebration in honor of their new priest, Fr. Peter ...
• 19 June 2008
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The Catholic Lay Association launches a new internet site to celebrate its 50th anniversary of foundation Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Lay Association of the Diocese of Hong Kong has launched a new website celebrating its 50th anniversary of foundation. According to a report from Kong Ko Bao (the Chinese versio ...