Asia
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26 September 2006
ASIA/INDIA - “Serving the Sick means doing God’s Will”: Sisters of the Holy Cross Society celebrate 150th anniversary launching new programme to help children with hearing and speech impediments
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In India there are at least 425,000 people who cannot hear or speak but no structures for specialised assistance. Now the Catholic Sisters of the Holy Cross Society have launched a new Home-Trainin ...
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23 September 2006
ASIA/KUWAIT - Statement by Bishop Ballin, Vicar Apostolic of Kuwait with regard to Pope Benedict XVI’s Lecture at Regensburg
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The following statement was issued in English, Arabic and Italian by the Catholic Bishop Camillo Ballin, Vicar Apostolic in Kuwait, to address certain reactions in the Muslim world to a lecture giv ...
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23 September 2006
ASIA - We come from local churches in remote areas of the world and in these three weeks we have heard the beating heart of the universal Church, say participants at the end of the Study Seminar for recently appointed Bishops organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Bishops from different countries in America, Asia, Africa and Oceania shared their impressions with Fides at the end of a three week Study Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evan ...
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23 September 2006
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Solemn Mass closes Eucharistic Congress 2006 in archdiocese of Seoul
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - A solemn Mass celebrated on 16 September at the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul marked the closing of Eucharistic Congress 2006 organised by the archdiocese of Seoul. The Congress, on the th ...
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23 September 2006
ASIA/TAIWAN - Radio Veritas Chinese section in Taiwan marks 30 years of service to evangelisation over the radio
Taipei (Agenzia Fides) -“Thirty years of sowing and watering have allowed Radio Veritas Chinese section in Taiwan to collect flowers and fruits of evangelisation. Let us ask the Lord to continue to guide our work of ev ...
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22 September 2006
ASIA/INDIA - Course in journalism for young people dedicated to St Francis Xavier, announcer in Asia of the Good News
Ahmedabad (Agenzia Fides) - In the western Indian state of Gujarat, often the scene of Hindu religious nationalism, the Jesuit Fathers are offering a special Course in Communications for young people of all religions ded ...
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22 September 2006
ASIA/INDONESIA - At dawn 22 September 3 Indonesian Catholics executed. Fr. Ismartono: “We must all unite to abolish the death penalty. No to spiral of hatred and violence”
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Fabianus Tibo, Marianus Riwu and Dominggus da Silva, three Indonesian Catholics found guilt of being involved in a massacre of Muslims in Poso in 2000, were executed at 1am 22 September. The loc ...
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21 September 2006
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Bishop of Jaffna launches appeal to find priest and lay man who disappeared a month ago
Jaffna (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Thomas Savundaranayagam of the diocese of Jaffna, in north of Sri Lanka has launched an appeal for a more thorough investigation into the disappearance of a Catholic priest and lay man las ...
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21 September 2006
ASIA/INDIA - Another Catholic school comes under attack: Salesian institute in north east India is completely sacked
Itanagar (Agenzia Fides) - Another Catholic school in India has come under attack. After the recent attack on a school run by the Loreto Sisters in Luknow, Uttar Pradesh, another episode of violence has been reported to ...
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21 September 2006
ASIA/INDONESIA - “Three Catholics to be executed ‘in haste, while 86 more Indonesians have been waiting on death row for years”: Fides spoke with Fr Ismartono, co-ordinator of humanitarian and inter-religious affairs for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - “We are filled with sadness. We have lost all hope of saving the lives of three Catholics. The extremists appear to have won”, Jesuit Father Ignazio Ismartono, co-ordinator of humanitarian a ...
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20 September 2006
ASIA/INDONESIA - Three Indonesian Catholics to be executed in 36 hours time, dawn 22 September. The world hopes for a suspension, Indonesia’s Christians immersed in prayer call on President to grant reprieve
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - There is little hope of saving the lives of Fabianus Tibo, Domingus Da Silva, and Marinus Riwu, three Indonesian Catholics facing a death sentence. The execution has been set for dawn on 22 Sept ...
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20 September 2006
ASIA/CAMBODIA - Local Catholic village community in Kompong Tom province welcomes new church
Phnom Pen (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in the village of Preik Sbaw, province of Kompong Tom, in the Apostolic Prefecture of Battambang have a new church. The blessing and inauguration of the new place of worship in Augus ...
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19 September 2006
ASIA/LAOS - An Oblate ordained to the priesthood in Laos, the first in over 30 years
Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in over 30 years, an Oblate has been ordained to the priesthood in Laos.
The details of the Ordination are on the www.omiworld.org, web site run by the OMI office for commu ...
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19 September 2006
ASIA/INDIA - Association of Catholic laity re-elects chairman and confirms loyalty to Pope Benedict XVI
News Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The All India Catholic Union, an association for lay Catholics was formed 87 years ago as a body of committed lay Catholics in a society where Christians are a small minority and where in rec ...
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19 September 2006
ASIA/JAPAN - Local Church grateful to missionaries ready to take its future and the work of evangelisation in its own hands
Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - The missionaries brought the seed of the Gospel to Japan. Today the local Church must stand on its own feet and take its future and the work of evangelisation in its own hands according to Rev. Sh ...
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