Asia

• 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 ...
• 14 February 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Solemn celebrations for the reopening of Long Gang parish church newly dedicated to Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus to whom the community is deeply devoted Chong Qing (Fides) - Catholics in the parish of Long Gang, Da Zu district of Chong Qing diocese Si Chuan province of China, recently celebrated the reopening of the parish church newly dedicated to Saint Therese de Lisi ...