Asia

• 24 March 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA - S. Egidio Community appeal to save the lives of Fabianus, Domingus and Marinus, three local Catholics facing execution Poso (Fides Service) - The Rome based S. Egidio Community has launched an appeal for the lives of three Indonesian Catholics condemned to death: “Your excellency I am deeply concerned for the death sentence given by th ...
• 23 March 2006
  ASIA - Eucharist: theme of 9th Plenary Assembly of the Federation Asian Bishops’ Conferences Bangkok (Fides Service) - The Eucharist will be the main focus of the 9th plenary assembly of the Federation of the Asian Bishops’ Conference FABC in 2008. The Bishops’ chose the theme to follow up reflection propo ...
• 23 March 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Lay Catholic Association issues new pastoral programme Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Spreading the Gospel, formation for the laity, contact with Basic Ecclesial Communities, social services, attention for the Church on the mainland are the principal points of a new programme f ...
• 23 March 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - “Seeing the Lord in the world and showing him to others through our life”: Sisters of Sheng Kung 12th hold Provincial Chapter Taipei (Fides Service) - “Seeing the Lord in the world and showing him to others through our life” was the commitment taken by the 12th provincial chapter of the Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception Sheng Kung ...
• 23 March 2006
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - “11 million people in Horn of Africa at risk”: warning from Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- “Eleven million people in the Horn of Africa particularly in the Ethiopian regions of Somali Region and Oromiya are in danger of dying of thirst due to serious prolonged drought in the area ...
• 23 March 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians and Muslims stage silent prayerful march for peace Jaipur (Fides Service ) - After the inter-religious march for peace and religious harmony led by Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist leaders leader on 14 March in Benares, another similar peaceful march was held in Ja ...
• 23 March 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - New Centre for street children Nashik, Maharashtra state Rome (Fides Service) - The world has 100 million street children and 18 million of them live in India. Alone, without a home or any adult to care for them they live and work on the streets. Some are abandoned or orphaned ...
• 22 March 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Over 300 take part in spring catechesis course in Tian Jin diocese Tianjin (Fides Service) - Over 300 Catholics accompanied by 30 catechists enrolled for a Spring Course in Catechesis at Xi Kai cathedral in the diocese of Tianjin in mainland China. At the opening of the course parish pr ...
• 22 March 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Taipei archdiocese starts formation course for special ministers of the Eucharist Taipei (Fides Service) - Duties and mission of special ministers of the Eucharist and how to improve this service is the theme of a formation course for special ministers of the Eucharist started recently in Taipei. The ...
• 22 March 2006
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - State of emergency extended as administrative elections approach. Civil society and local Church hope for peace Colombo (Fides Service) - The state of emergency continues, but hopes for peace resist while government and Tamil minority leaders negotiate to improve the situation. Civil society and religious organisations hope that ...
• 21 March 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - New Cardinal Zen tells delegates of Catholic parishes and associations: “parishes must give more attention to the formation of the laity” Hong Kong (Fides Service) - “Difficulties and scarcity of funds must not prevent us from restructuring the diocese’s system of formation which must be simplified and made more effective” said Bishop Joseph Zen of H ...
• 21 March 2006
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Mission and Spirituality newsletter offers Lenten reflections, update on the fight against AIDS, and new edition of the Bible Sydney (Fides Service) - A Lenten Reflection based on Pope Benedict XVI Message for Lent; anti-AIDS awareness campaign in Australia and Catholic involvement; in memory of Archbishop Oscar Romero, martyred in Salvador in ...
• 21 March 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Moluccas and Sulawesi leaders say the only way to stop violence and prevent conflict is to promote a change of heart and for every member of the community to be committed to building peace and harmony Ambon (Fides Service) - Following a visit by the Indonesian president Susilo Bambanag Yudhoyono to the troubled provinces of Moluccas and Sulawesi the country’s religious, civil and political leaders have said the only ...
• 21 March 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Three year refresher course for women religious in Han Dan diocese Han Dan (Fides Service) - Women religious in the diocese of Han Dan will be offered a three year updating course to foster spiritual and intellectual growth in view of ever better service in the work of evangelisation a ...
• 21 March 2006
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Local Church opens John Paul II Pro-Life Centre for families with HIV/AIDS Kep City (Fides Service) - In 2003 in Cambodia 20 new cases of HIV-AIDS were registered every day. In 2005 in nine months 10,000 new cases of HIV and 19,811 cases of AIDS were registered, according to the Department of S ...