Asia

• 6 February 2006
  ASIA/TURKEY - Spokesman of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Turkey: civil authorities and leaders of local Orthodox and Muslim communities send messages of sympathy and solidarity to Catholic community in Turkey Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. George Marovitch, Spokesman of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Turkey on the telephone from Istanbul, said the small Catholic community in Turkey was deeply shocked by the murder of Itali ...
• 3 February 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Divine Word missionaries inaugurate new religious province in north east India New Delhi (Fides Service) - The Society of the Divine Word has instituted a new religious province in north east India which covers the states of Arnachal Pradesh, Assam and Tripura. The official inauguration took place ...
• 2 February 2006
  ASIA/HONG KONG - “Come and See” workshop to help lay Catholics to take a more active part in the life of the Church Hong Kong (Fides Service) - “Come and See” was the invitation made to Catholics in Hong Kong diocese by Italian PIME missionary Fr Giovanni Giampietro in view of a workshop aimed at helping the laity take a more acti ...
• 2 February 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Commenting attack on Catholic Bishop of Vasai, Cardinal Ivan Dias says: “It was an act of barbarism”. Reaction among local Catholics New Delhi (Fides Service) - More attacks on India’s Christians have been condemned by many leading members of the local Catholic Church. On 29 January Hindu extremists threw stones at the Catholic Bishop of Vasai, Bish ...
• 1 February 2006
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarchs and Church leaders in Jerusalem issue statement after the Palestinian election Jerusalem (Fides Service) - Following the Palestinian election, the Patriarchs and leaders of the Churches in Jerusalem issued a common statement. See the message in English http://www.evangelizatio.org/portale/adgente ...
• 1 February 2006
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Diocese opens initial stage of beatification process for Tanzania’s first president Julius Nyerere Dar-es-Salaam (Fides Service) - The diocesan stage of the beatification process for Tanzian’s first president Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere was opened with a solemn Mass presided by Cardinal Polycarp Pengo Archbisho ...
• 31 January 2006
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - St Paul’s parish in Azam Basti celebrates Feast of the Apostle’s Conversion Islamabad (Fides Service) - There were great festitivites in the Catholic parish of St Paul in the small town of Azam Basti in Pakistan on 25 January, the feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul which coincides with the co ...
• 31 January 2006
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The country needs harmony and peace says Catholic Archbishop of Colombo on the eve of Independence Day Colombo (Fides Service) - In a message issued on the eve of National Independence Day in Sri Lanka where a situation of uncertainty and tension persists, the Catholic Archbishop of Colombo, Mgr Oswald Gomis, said: “A j ...
• 30 January 2006
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Religious intolerance in Pakistan: causes and remedies”: civil and religious leaders unite in common efforts for harmony and peace Lahore (Fides Service) - Religious intolerance in Pakistan is an evil to monitor and to eradicate according to civil and religious leaders who gathered for a recent seminar held in Lahore organised by the “Commission f ...
• 30 January 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Overseas Chinese communities celebrate Lunar new year, Chinese Catholics with a Christian spirit Beijing (Fides Service) - Lunar New Year this year 29 January in the western calendar, was celebrated in China and in overseas Chinese communities all over the world. Chinese communities in the United States, United King ...
• 30 January 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - School on Wheels Goa village education project sponsored by government and Don Bosco Salesians New Delhi (Fides) - Take education to children in villages where there are no schools and the illiteracy rate is very high: this is the objective of a project launched in the western Indian state of Goa by a community of ...
• 30 January 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholic community in Rome celebrates Lunar New Year: commemoration of ancestors and Holy Mass presided by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Rome (Fides Service) - A message of joy and a commitment to witness to the light of Christ all through the new year in small daily gestures, were the main motives of the Lunar New Year celebrations organised by the Chine ...
• 27 January 2006
  ASIA/CHINA - Tai Yuan archdiocese closes Cathedral centenary celebrations with solemn Mass Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - The archdiocese of Tai Yuan, Tai Yuan is the main city in the Shan Xi province of China, closed the year 2005 thanking God for abundant fruits of evangelisation and the centenary of the consecr ...
• 26 January 2006
  ASIA/TAIWAN - John Duns Scotus Bible Reading Promotion Centre offers courses on St Mark’s Gospel by means of traditional catechesis but also with latest information techology Taipei (Fides Service) - To help Catholics follow the readings of the Liturgical Year more closely, the John Duns Scotus Bible Reading Promotion Centre in Taiwan has organised a month long special course in February on S ...
• 26 January 2006
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Picking up the threads of negotiations for peace: hopes rise after announcement that talks between government and rebels will resume Colombo (Fides Service) - Many groups political, social and religious, including the island’s Catholic community have been working constructively to pick up the threads of peace talks in Sri Lanka. New hopes are rising ...