Asia
27 February 2007
ASIA/VIETNAM - New outbreak of bid flu in the north, hundreds of chicken culled to prevent virus from spreading
Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The Vietnamese health authorities have confirmed the news of another outbreak of bird flu in the north of the country with hundreds of infected chickens in a farm in the province of Hai Duong, 50 ...
27 February 2007
ASIA/MYANMAR - Major army offensive: United Nations urges government to allow humanitarian aid agencies to assist displaced civilians
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations Human Rights Council has expressed serious concern for the situation of respect for human rights in Myanmar, particularly because of major military operations in the Kayin regi ...
27 February 2007
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Concern for the life of a priest actively involved in promoting respect for human rights who has received life threats from ‘death squads’
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Feliciano Nalzaro, involved in promoting respect for human rights in the Philippines is in danger. His name is on the black list of an illegal paramilitary group, one of many ‘death squads ...
26 February 2007
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - UN report charges Philippines army with complicity in long series of summary executions
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Philippines army is under pressure from public opinion since UN envoy Philip Alston accused the military of being responsible for many of the killings of journalist, activists, politicians an ...
26 February 2007
ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Ramos-Horta candidate for Presidency in April elections
Dili (Agenzia Fides) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta, present prime minister of East Timor, has announced his intention to run for presidency in elections in April.
Ramos-Horta who led the Timor executive in ...
26 February 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Overseas Chinese Catholics celebrate Lunar New Year with harmony, solidarity and inculturation
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Overseas Chinese Catholics in many parts of the world celebrated Lunar New Year under the banner of harmony, solidarity and inculturation and evangelisation. According to Chinese sources in London, ...
24 February 2007
ASIA/MONGOLIA - New baptisms in Darkhan bear witness to the growth of the local Catholic Church
Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in Mongolia is growing beyond the capital Ulaanbaatar. The apostolic prefecture of Mongolia announced that during the Easter Vigil Mass on 7 April 23 children and youn ...
23 February 2007
ASIA/HONG KONG - Diocesan Commission for Catholic Education will promote a course on Morals and Religion in Catholic schools in Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Schools of Hong Kong will offer a new optional course on Morals and Religion starting in 2009. According to the Hong Kong diocesan bulletin Kong Ko Bao the decision was taken by ...
23 February 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Catholics help curtail farmers’ suicide rates in the country
New Delhi (Fides Service) - In the name of the sacredness of human life Caritas India, the largest national NGO of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI), has devised an integrated programme "Save Farmers-Save ...
20 February 2007
ASIA/NEPAL - Springtime in the Nepali Catholic community and great expectations for the future of the Kingdom of Nepal: interview with Bishop elect Vicar Apostolic Anthony Sharma
Kathmandu (Fides Service) - In Nepal the Catholic community is appreciated for its valid service in education and social assistance and formation in the faith for young people and adults and there are great expectations ...
17 February 2007
ASIA/TAIWAN -In New Year Pastoral Letter Archbishop of Tai Pei calls for religious institutes and parishes to coordinate pastoral work and prayers for vocations
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - In a New Year Pastoral Letter the Archbishop of Tai Pei Joseph Cheng has asked for more intense coordination of pastoral work and prayers for vocations. The Letter, published in the diocesan bul ...
17 February 2007
ASIA/INDONESIA - Army offensive leaves five thousand hungry and desperate: humanitarian emergency in west Papua
Sorong (Agenzia Fides) - More than five thousand people forced to abandon their homes following an army offensive in the Papuan district in Puncak Jaya have been living in the forest since last December in a situation of ...
16 February 2007
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic Women’s Organisation promotes conditions of women in Pakistan
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - To promote respect for the rights of women and equal opportunities for all women the Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Pakistan has launched a new project Cath ...
16 February 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Mar Isaac Cleemis new Major Archbishop of Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Tiruvalla (Fides Service) - Pope Benedict XVI gave his assent to the 8 February 2007 election by the Synod of Bishops for the Syro-Malankar Church of Archbishop Isaac Cleemis Thoyyunkal, until now Metropolitan Archbishop ...
15 February 2007
ASIA/CAMBODIA - King Sihamoni opens Don Bosco Hotel School in Sihanoukville
Sihanoukville (Agenzia Fides) - Cambodia looks with attention and appreciation at Catholic institutes of education, the King himself recently presided the opening of a new Catholic school. A new Don Bosco Hotel School in ...
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