Asia

• 6 March 2007
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Earthquake in Sumatra, society mobilised. Catholic Bishop of Padang: “With trust in Divine Providence let us help our brothers and sisters in difficulty” Padang (Fides Service) - “It was unexpected and terrible and left the people prostrate”, said a local church source in Padang with regard to the impact of a 6.3 Richter scale earthquake which struck the island of Sum ...
• 6 March 2007
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Pastoral activity and budding vocations in the tiny Catholic community in vast central Asian step lands Karaganda (Fides Service) - Pastoral work is proceeding well for the first two priests ordained after theological studies at the Catholic Seminary in Karaganda, the only Catholic seminary in Central Asia. The inter-dioce ...
• 6 March 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Harmony Forums to be launched in Gujarat to counter communalism Gandhinagar (Fides Service) - To foster a more harmonious society the Indian Bishops’ Commission for Interreligious Dialogue and the Commission for Inter-Religious Dialogue, western region, will launch Harmony Forums i ...
• 6 March 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Wu An parish sends 100 lay missionaries to surrounding villages Han Dan (Fides Service) - The parish of Wu An in the diocese of Han Dan, which has a long and glorious tradition in evangelisation, at the beginning of Lent celebrated a solemn rite to confer the missionary mandate to re ...
• 5 March 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Meeting to plan National Mission Congress for next year 2008 Bangalore (Fides Service) - The Conference of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India CCBI through its Commission for Proclamation, is planning to bring together regional secretaries of the Commission, diocesan direc ...
• 5 March 2007
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - “May Lent be for every Christian a renewed experience of God’s love given to us in Christ, a love that each day we in turn must ‘re-give’ to our neighbour”, Catholic Bishops’ issue Lenten Appeal for Peace Dili (Fides Service) - In an appeal for Peace the Bishops of East Timor draw inspiration for Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for Lent 2007 stressing the need to “recognise the wounds inflicted upon the dignity of the hum ...
• 3 March 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Conversion means turning our hearts to God: Lenten Message from Cardinal Nicholas Cheong, Archbishop of Seoul Seoul (Fides Service) - ‘Convert your hearts and believe in the Gospel’ is the title of a Lenten Letter issued by the Archbishop of Seoul Cardinal Nicholas Cheong focussed on conversion, repentance, prayer, works of ...
• 3 March 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholics end celebrations for Lunar New Year in a spirit of Christian charity and evangelisation Beijing (Fides Service) -Lunar New Year festivities lived by Catholics in a spirit of Christian charity and evangelisation in communion with Chinese Catholics all over the world close tomorrow Sunday 4 January with Yuan ...
• 2 March 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Young Catholics from South Korea pray with World Youth Day Cross at frontier with North Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Young Catholics of South Korea lived an intense and significant moment of prayer and recollection recently when they carried the visiting Youth Day Cross as far as Freedom Bridge which marks the ...
• 2 March 2007
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Spiritual books best sellers at International Book Fair in Tai Pei where twelve Catholic communications groups were present Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - For the past eight years the Catholic community in Taiwan has been a regular participant at Tei Pei’s traditional International Book Fair. At this 15th edition of the Fair 12 Catholic communic ...
• 1 March 2007
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Anonymous elderly Buddhist lady of modest means donates 23 million Taiwan dollars to Catholic Cancer Care organisation Tai Chung (Agenzia Fides) - A love which knows no boundaries between faiths was how Kao Hsiung diocesan ShanTao Catholic Weekly describes the generosity of an elderly Buddhist lady, who signs herself simply, a disciple ...
• 1 March 2007
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Life at Saint Jean Marie Vianney major seminary in Phnom Penh Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Although modest in size and number of students, Saint Jean Marie Vianney major Catholic seminary in Phnom Penh organises various events and initiatives for youth groups on different occasions ...
• 28 February 2007
  ASIA/HONG KONG - In Lent in the local diocesan Year of the Family, the diocesan commission for pastoral care for workers urges families to “Live the life of the Poor for a Week” Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Hong Kong diocese, where this year is dedicated to the Family, have been encouraged to set aside a week in Lent to experience living on about 5 Euro a day 50 $HK, like so many po ...
• 28 February 2007
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Lay people play leading role in Catholic education and social services Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - The role of lay men and women in Catholic education and social services in Cambodia is becoming increasingly important. This emerged from a meeting in Phnom Penh organised by missionaries for ...
• 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 ...