Asia

• 22 June 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Franciscan Youth Mission in August planned by young people for young people Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A mission “young people to young people” is the fruit of an intuition born during the experience of World Youth Day in 2000 when Pope John Paul II asked the young Catholics present to “set th ...
• 22 June 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Abandoned children, humanitarian emergency: 145 million of the world’s children abandoned Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Presented in Rome a cultural project on the Emergency Abandonment from which will be born a Permanent and Multi-Disciplinary Observatory which will collect, examine and compare scientific products ...
• 21 June 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong Catholic cathedral organises prayer Taizé style “Prayer for China and the Church” Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Brother He Jin Tang, a member of the Ecumenical Taizé Community, recently organised a prayer meeting for young Christian workers in Hong Kong to encourage them to find more time for prayer an ...
• 20 June 2006
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Cardinal Martino Papal Envoy to celebrations for 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations with Holy See Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - First papal representative to the Republic of Singapore in 1981, Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, today President of the Pontifical Councils for Peace and Justice and for the Pastoral care of ...
• 20 June 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Pastoral care for students is an ongoing commitment for the Catholic community: Mass for students at the end of the school year and before exams Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Pastoral care for students has become a constant for the Catholic community in China, characterised by a variety of forms and contents. As the priest in charge in Han Dan diocese confirms, “th ...
• 20 June 2006
  AFRICA/CONGO BRAZZAVILLE - The diocesan Union of the Mother Superiors of Pointe-Noire intervenes to denounce critical water shortage Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - Women Religious have raised their voices to denounce a critical water shortage in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville according to a Brazzaville Catholic newspaper La Semaine ...
• 19 June 2006
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - “A partial agreement is better than no agreement” say local Church sources in Burundi after the settlement reached by government and rebels Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)- “A partial agreement is better than no agreement” say local Catholic sources in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi, where there is some disappointment after the government and FNL rebels signed ...
• 19 June 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Christian Conference of Asia organises prayers for peace in the world especially in Nepal Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The CCA Christian Conference of Asia an ecumenical body has called for prayers for peace in the world, especially in Nepal which has suffered violence since 1996. Christians in Nepal a new membe ...
• 19 June 2006
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “Keep on the road to peace, Mr President”: Italian associations write in a letter to Museveni Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Italian associations aware of the suffering of the people in Uganda have written an open letter calling on president Yoweri Museveni and his government to intensify efforts for peace after 20 ye ...
• 17 June 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Nan Chang city decides to name a square after Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary who resided there for three years during his mission in China Nan Chang (Agenzia Fides) - “This city is one of the most important and noble of China not only because it is a metropolis of such a noble province, but because it is beautiful, large and its sons are of great intellec ...
• 17 June 2006
  ASIA/NEPAL - 5,000 children take part in street protest against child labour in Kathmandu Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “In Nepal there are 2.6 million child workers” says the director of a Centre for Street Children. “At our Centre at the moment we have 23. Last week there were 35, but a few have since run aw ...
• 17 June 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Sacred Heart Cathedral in archdiocese of Ji Nan, copy of Cologne Cathedral now national heritage monument Ji Nan (Agenzia Fides) - Sacred Heart Cathedral in archdiocese of Ji Nan, in the eastern coastal province of Shan Dong has been proclaimed a national heritage monument. Sacred Heart cathedral known to the local people si ...
• 14 June 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Oblate Missionary Sisters of the Holy Family celebrate 50 years of mission in Taiwan Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - It is fifty years since the first Oblate Missionary Sisters of the Holy Family OHF arrived in Taiwan. The congregation was founded in mainland China by Saint Josef Freinademetz the first Divine ...
• 13 June 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - New churches opened in various dioceses Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - In just over three months from north to the south of mainland China several new churches were opened and a 60mt. high bell tower was inaugurated. In the month of May over 2.000 Catholics were p ...
• 13 June 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - An Orionino missionary in Korea shares first impressions: “at the side of poor and rich, helping them to discover in Jesus the meaning of life ” Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Piccola Opera della Divina Provvidenza started its presence in South Korea on 21 April with the arrival in Seoul of Argentinean Fr. Luciano Felloni and Korean Fr Bernardo Seo Yong-Tae. A humbl ...