Asia

• 2 October 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Our Lady of Luo Dong Catholic Hospital celebrates 54th anniversary: Camillian missionaries loved for their dedicated and qualified service Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - “These fifty four years of service have been 54 years of grace” said Fr Raimondo Yang Chia-Men, M.I., director general for pastoral care at Our Lady of Luo Dong Catholic Hospital during a rec ...
• 2 October 2006
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In view of Mission Sunday 2006 lay Catholics attend apostolate formation Course promoted by Pontifical Mission Societies Pakistan Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Prepare lay Catholics for works of apostolate, reflect on the laity’s role, tasks and place in the Church, discuss problems and identify remedies in society of the third millennium: these were ...
• 2 October 2006
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops-Ulama Conference urges parties to stop wasting time and return to the negotiating table to reach peace Davao (Agenzia Fides) - To restart the process of peace and reconciliation with Muslim separatists in Mindanao, BUC the Bishops-Ulama Conference will meet 9 and 10 October in Davao for a “Consultation of Peace with al ...
• 29 September 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - “We entrust to Mary the Cause for Life”: Chinese Regional Bishops Conference welcomes appeal from Fatima to unite with recitation of Rosary Prayer on Sunday 8 October Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - “Mary, to You we entrust the cause of Life” is the theme of the next meeting 4 - 8 October in Fatima, Portugal, organised by The World Apostolate of Fatima. The Apostolate has called for a wo ...
• 29 September 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - In tsunami affected Tamil Nadu life returns to normal with new homes and new schools Pondicherry (Agenzia Fides) - “We are working to help tsunami affected people in Tamil Nadu resume normal life rebuilding and repairing structures but also offering psychological care for traumatised people, mainly chi ...
• 28 September 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Some 6,800 first year students at Fu Ren Catholic University attend academic year opening ceremony presided by Grand Chancellor, Archbishop Cheng Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - The Summer holidays over, some 6,800 first year students gathered at Fu Ren Catholic University on 15 September for the opening ceremony for the new academic year presided by the University’s G ...
• 28 September 2006
  ASIA/JAPAN - Children's letters and poems dedicated to Francis Xavier on show in Kagoshima to mark the 5th centenary of his birth: an opportunity to rediscover the Saint’s missionary charisma Kagoshima (Agenzia Fides) - “Dear Fr Francis thank you for looking after us” a little girl at a Catholic primary school in Kagoshima writes in a letter composed as part of thanksgiving celebrations to commemorate th ...
• 28 September 2006
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Courageous witness of tiny Catholic community in Quetta, an impervious region of Pakistan bordering on Iran and Afghanistan Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - It is not easy, but the small Catholic community in Quetta keeps the flame of faith burning. Catholics in the apostolic prefecture of Quetta, which borders on Iran and Afghanistan, are mainly sub ...
• 27 September 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - With optimism and enthusiasm Caritas South Korea prepares to shoulder responsibility for cooperation programmes in north Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - “We are very busy at the Caritas South Korea offices in Seoul”, says Stella Koh, head of International Cooperation at Caritas Korea. Religious, laity, volunteers, are preparing to take over co ...
• 27 September 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Hsin Chu prepares 3rd Sacred Scripture Seminar on the “Return to the Word of God, walk with Christ” Hsin Chu (Agenzia Fides) - Hsin Chu is preparing for the 3rd Sacred Scripture Seminar on the “Return to the Word of God, walk with Christ” sponsored by the Commission for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Teaching of ...
• 26 September 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic Bishop of Maumere (Flores): “We shouted and campaigned for all human life not only the lives of our three Catholics and we will continue the battle side by side with our Muslim brothers and sisters Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - “The campaign to abolish capital punishment has nothing to do with religion”, said Bishop Vincentius Sensi of Maumere diocese of Flores, the home of Domingus Da Silva, one of the three Indon ...
• 26 September 2006
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Council of Catholic priests in Colombo archdiocese warns that widespread violence, kidnapping, killing could cause the country to collapse Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Council of Priests of the Catholic archdiocese of Colombo has voiced great alarm for growing crime rate, including killings, abductions, disappearances and other forms of violence. In a pres ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...