Asia

• 2 December 2005
  ASIA/CINA - Catholic web sites blacked-out after reporting news of attack on nuns in Xi An now visible but no trace of news in question Xi An (Fides Service) - Blacked out for several hours on November 30 for reporting breaking news of attacks on ‘helpless women religious in Xi An’ (to quote the Holy See press office), the most popular Chinese Cathol ...
• 2 December 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Tai Nan diocese holds solemn closing of Year of the Eucharist with special attention for young people Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday November 30, feast of Christ the King and the last Sunday of the Liturgical year the diocese of Tai Nan celebrated the solemn closing of the Year of the Eucharist. According to Chris ...
• 2 December 2005
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Handbook for Mission Groups in Argentina, “elements and guidelines for better organisation and evangelising activity ” Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “The Bishops’ Commission for Missions and the Pontifical Mission Societies considering that Mission Groups are a complex reality in the Church in Argentina have issued a handbook, fruit ...
• 1 December 2005
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Church in Myanmar is giving more attention to youth pastoral with the help of religious congregations Yangon (Fides Service) - The Church in Myanmar is giving more attention to youth pastoral: thanks to the presence of Salesians spiritual and pastoral activities involving young people, students and seminarians are multi ...
• 1 December 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle visits Pontifical Mission Societies in Pakistan: “at Sangla Hill. we prayed that from the ashes of the destruction new life would be born” Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - From Newcastle to Pakistan: Bishop Kevin Dunn, Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, recently set out with three priests and a BBC reporter on the same route travelled by many Pakistanis resid ...
• 1 December 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Kottar diocese in Tamil Nadu builds 2,600 new homes for tsunami survivors Pondicherry (Fides Service) - Kottar diocese in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has built 2,600 new homes for fisherfolk and other people who lost everything in the tremendous sea quake on 26 December 2004. The w ...
• 1 December 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Chinese Dominican nuns commemorate founder, Dominican Mgr Theodore Labrador on 25th anniversary of his death. Kaohsiung (Fides Service) - “Today I would like to thank Mgr Theodore Labrador OP rather than commemorate him. To thank him because through the working of the Holy Spirit he founded a congregation of Chinese Dominican ...
• 30 November 2005
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Catholics in Myanmar hold first National Pastoral Meeting as part of celebrations for 50th anniversary of the institution of the hierarchy Yangon (Fides Service) - The year 1995, Year of the Eucharist, has been very special Jubilee for Catholics in Vietnam, besides celebrating the 50th anniversary of the institution of the local hierarchy in 1955 they held ...
• 30 November 2005
  ASIA/MYANMAR - “Abide in me”: Vision and Mission statement of the Church in Myanmar on the occasion of 1st National Pastoral Assembly Yangon (Fides) - In a message at the end of the 1st National Pastoral Assembly of the Catholic Church in Myanmar the Bishops say the way forward is to be ‘Church as Communion through Reconciliation’ a people of the E ...
• 30 November 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Alarm in earthquake affected areas: first deaths due to cold weather Lahore (Fides Service) - With the arrival of Winter conditions in camps for earthquake victims in Kashmir since the major quake on October 8 become more critical. The first deaths due to cold have been reported and these ...
• 29 November 2005
  ASIA/CINA - Catholic Sisters from Liao Ning visit clinic in Hebei run by other Catholic Sisters and share pastoral experience Beijing (Fides Service) - A group of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from the north eastern Chinese province of Liao Ning paid a visit to the Missionaries of Mary Mediatri ...
• 29 November 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Tension among government and Tamil community following presidential elections Colombo (Fides Service) - After presidential elections there is uncertainty in Sri Lanka with regards to the future. The new president Mahinda Rajapakse, has said he intends to revise the cease fire agreement signed in F ...
• 29 November 2005
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Visit to North Korea by German Catholic aid workers rare occasion for Mass in Pyongyang attended by 80 local Catholics Pyongyang (Fides Service) - Mass is a rare event in Pyongyang which only happens when Catholic priests or other church personnel come here from South Korea or other countries. Recently a visit to north Korea by German Ca ...
• 28 November 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholics offer earthquake victims material and spiritual solidarity Jiu Jiang (Fides Service) - During a 5.7 Richter scale earthquake on 26 November 13 people were killed, 8,000 injured and 600,000 lost their homes, 18,000 buildings were destroyed and 150,000 were seriously damaged in th ...
• 28 November 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Bandits attack Catholic convent, some nuns seriously injured, arrival of police helps avoid a higher toll, authorities investigating to bring culprits to justice Xi An (Fides Service) - On 23 November in the diocese Xi An in Central China bandits broke into a convent of a diocesan congregation of the Sacred Heart and attacked the nuns injuring some of the Sisters. When the police ...