Asia

• 8 June 2005
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - New magazine for Palestine’s Christian youth “to instil hope and help them say no to hatred and war” Bethlehem (Fides Service) - Juthouruna (Our Roots) is the name of a new magazine mainly for Christian youth presented yesterday 7 June in Bethlehem at the local Catholic Action Hall. “At last we have our first issue, a ...
• 8 June 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Long procession through the streets on Corpus Christi: the Eucharist helps us realise we are all one family Hong Kong (Fides Service) - More than 700 special ministers of Holy Communion and hundreds of Catholic faithful took part in the Corpus Christi procession through the streets of Hong Kong led by Bishop Joseph Zen. Kong K ...
• 8 June 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - For Catholics in Orissa threats are a daily reality, the situation is unbearable: Catholic Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar launches appeal through Fides Bhubaneshwar (Fides Service) - “Our missionaries and our other church personnel are all afraid. It is dangerous to move about. Christians are jeered and boycotted every day amidst the total indifference of the civil au ...
• 8 June 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - In a few years the Catholic community in Heng Shui has grown again to 300 members Heng Shui (Agenzia Fides) - Some years ago one of the very few Catholics in the town of Heng Shui, in the northern mainland China Hebei province offered his home as a centre for prayer and other religious activity. Since ...
• 7 June 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - In the world’s largest democracy 109 Christian homes are demolished to meet demands of RSS a movement of extremism neo-nationalist ever further from the spirituality and tolerance of a millennial creed Bhubaneswar (Fides Service) - Tension and bewilderment in the state of Orissa, north east India after the Koraput district administration approved an order to demolish 109 homes belonging to Christian families. The episo ...
• 7 June 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong diocese starts school of evangelisation on-line Hong Kong (Fides Service) - On Pentecost Sunday, 15 May, Hong Kong diocese officially inaugurated its new School of Evangelisation on-line an idea of the diocesan youth group supervised by Italian PIME missionary Fr. Gio ...
• 7 June 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Mgr Giuseppe Wang founder of the Chinese speaking Catholic community in Rome and father to all Chinese immigrants the Italian capital dies at the age of 79. Funeral 8 June at Santa Maria degli Angeli Basilica in Rome Rome (Fides Service) - Mgr Giuseppe Wang founder the Chinese speaking Catholic community in Rome and father to all Chinese immigrants the Italian capital, died yesterday 6 June in Rome at the age of 79. Mgr Wang had been ...
• 6 June 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop John Wang Xixian who spent 21 years in prison for the faith dies at the age of 79 after a long illness Hohhot (Fides Service) - Bishop John Wang Xixian of the archdiocese of Hohhot in the Inner Mongolia region of China died of on Wednesday 25 May at the age of 79 after two years of suffering with bone cancer. John Wang wa ...
• 6 June 2005
  ASIA - Migration in central Asia: questions, figures, prospects in a report by the International Organisation for Migration Astana (Fides Service) - Migratory streams from Central Asia move towards the Russian Federation and also increasingly towards Europe and Canada according to a report issued by the International Organisation for Migrati ...
• 6 June 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Lay Catholics play important part in Church life in India agents di evangelisation, courageous witnesses of Christ even in hostile environments New Delhi (Fides Service) - Lay Catholics play a major role in evangelisation in India, their specific role and charisma are fundamental in today’s context where Christians often face hostility and attacks by extremist ...
• 3 June 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - In the Year of the Eucharist 400 people take part in pilgrimage on the history of Catholicism in Hong Kong Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Making a pilgrimage in the footsteps of the history of Catholicism in Hong Kong was a good way to celebrate the Year of the Eucharist and to build a closer bond with the Lord. This is why the ...
• 3 June 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - First church dedicated to Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta New Delhi (Fides Service) - A new church in the village of Malvalayanvayal, Ramananthapuram district, in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu has been dedicated to Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The church was con ...
• 3 June 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - World Environment Day, the local Church proposes themes on creation protection and bio-ethics Seoul (Fides) - In view of World Environment Day on June 5 the Catholic Church in Korea issued information on a number of questions dear to the community of believers which can offer valid ideas for reflection for all Ko ...
• 3 June 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - May the month of Mary closes with pilgrimage to Hu Zhuang Marian Shrine Ji Nan (Fides) - During the month of May the parish of the Sacred Heart in Hong Jia Lou, archdiocese of Ji Nan, organised various initiatives to celebrate the Marian month of May and also in view of the major feast day o ...
• 2 June 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Archbishop Cheng of Taipei makes pastoral visit to St Joseph’s parish to celebrate Pentecost Taipei (Fides Service) - The pastoral visit of the Archbishop of Taipei Mgr. Cheng arrived at the parish of St Joseph on the solemnity of Pentecost. According to Christian Life Weekly despite terrible weather several hu ...