Asia

• 17 July 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Sisters of the Precious Blood SPB celebrate 25 and 50 years of religious profession with renewed mission commitment Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Recently the Sisters of the Precious Blood SPB, a Hong Kong diocesan community, celebrated 25 and 50 years of religious profession and also lay membership of the Association of the Friends of ...
• 17 July 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bishops issue message for 11th Farmers’ Sunday Seoul (Fides Service) - Bishop Boniface Choi Ki-san, President of the CBCK Committee for Justice and Peace, issued the Message for the 11th Farmers' Sunday on July 16, 2006 and urged the Government to establish a system ...
• 17 July 2006
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Migration “space for celebrating diversity”: theologians, pastoral workers, academics at international meeting organised by the Scalabrini Missionaries Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Migration is a theological “place” in which to discover the Church’s itinerant and missionary dimension and promote inter-personal relations inspired by the model of the Trinity and hence � ...
• 14 July 2006
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Totally dedicated to announcing the Gospel: Catholics in Huê remember zealous missionary Bishop Allys Ly on the 70th anniversary of his death Huê (Agenzia Fides) - On June 28 at least a thousand people gathered in Phu Cam parish to watch a documentary film on the life of Bishop Allys Ly, who was their parish priest for 23 years before being appointed Bishop o ...
• 14 July 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Annual retreat for special ministers of the Eucharist of Taipei archdiocese concludes with blessing and mandate Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - Recently 132 special ministers of the Eucharist of Tai Pei archdiocese, 12 of them newly appointed, made a retreat organised by the archdiocese and the Pastoral Centre in collaboration with the ...
• 14 July 2006
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - New prime minister Josè Ramos Horta receives congratulations and encouragement from the nation’s Catholic Bishops and thanks the Church for important role played and contribution to the nation Dili (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of East Timor have congratulated and encouraged the new Premier Josè Ramos Horta who was sworn in on July 10 in the capital Dili. The Bishops urged the prime minister to make ...
• 14 July 2006
  ASIA/JAPAN- Announcing the Gospel through the media: Hiroshima radio and important channel for evangelisation Hiroshima (Agenzia Fides) - A weekly 7.45am Sunday Gospel programme produced by the Catholic community Hiroshima and broadcast by the local radio station Yamaguchi Radio is having growing success and proving to be an exc ...
• 14 July 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Caritas Korea holds first National Congress: giving a helping hand to poor brothers and sisters in the North Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - A service to man which as the Gospel teaches is a service to Christ. This awareness was the starting point for the work of Korea’s 1st National Caritas Congress held recently in Daejeon. The tit ...
• 13 July 2006
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Fierce, tragic and ever more concerning the fire in the Middle East. Interview with Israeli Franciscan Father David Jaeger, a jurist, unanimously recognised among the major experts on the complex situation in the Middle East. Now - he says - the re-convocation of the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference is more urgent than ever Hezbollah enters the field on the border between Lebanon and Israel... The most recent confrontation involving Israel and Lebanon started on Wednesday morning with an attack launched from Lebanese territory on military ...
• 13 July 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - “Violence must not lead to more violence”: secretary of Caritas Internationalis decries killings in Bombay Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - The danger is real: the recent bomb attacks in Bombay could stir up inter-religious hatred and unleash violence and retaliation. In a message of solidarity with the Indian people Caritas Internat ...
• 13 July 2006
  ASIA/CHINA- The Bible written in Chinese characters on a piece of silk 5,007 metres long has been given a place in the Guinness Book of Records Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - An authentic work of art, a Bible written on a piece of silk 5,007 metres long a combination of Chinese culture and Christianity has been given a place in the Guinness Book of Records. This long ...
• 12 July 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Following Bombay bomb blasts Christian organisations say fanaticism must stop Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - Fanaticism and terrorism must be eradicated from India. Citizens must unite to win the battle against hatred and intolerance. Christian organisations have condemned the bomb blasts on 11 July in ...
• 11 July 2006
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Nunciature publishes memorial book to mark 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the Republic of Singapore Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - A special book was published by Apostolic Nunciature in Singapore to mark a major event underlined in the book’s title “The 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Holy See an ...
• 11 July 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Malnutrition pushes up infant mortality rate: Franciscan missionary engaged in courageous fight for children Banda Aceh (Agenzia Fides) - Growing malnutrition in Indonesia is the cause of a rising infant mortality rate according to a report issued by the UN World Food Programme in collaboration with the Indonesian Institute of ...
• 10 July 2006
  ASIA/TURKEY - Expecting Pope Benedict XVI in Turkey Catholics celebrated Saints Peter and Paul intensifying ecumenical and inter-religious relations Antioch (Agenzia Fides) - In view of a visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Turkey Catholics are intensifying ecumenical and inter-religious relations. An occasion of this slow but sure movement towards unity- which makes progr ...