Asia

• 2 June 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Hospital volunteers exchange experience to promote a culture of charity Hong Kong (Fides Service) - The Diocesan Commission of Hospital Pastoral recently organised a meeting for volunteers involved in the pastoral care of the sick, the elderly and outcasts. According to Kong Ko Bao diocesan ...
• 2 June 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - In Orissa state where Hindu fundamentalism prospers Catholic Home is only haven for people with leprosy Sambalpur (Fides Service) - In the Indian state of Orissa known for numerous active groups of Hindu extremists which often resort to violence, the only haven for people affected by leprosy regarded as ‘human refuse’ ...
• 31 May 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholics in China celebrate Corpus Christ with great fervour and in great numbers Rome (Fides Service) - Chinese Catholics celebrated the annual feast of Corpus Christ with great fervour and in great numbers. In a letter for the occasion published earlier Archbishop Cheng of Taipei encouraged Catholic ...
• 31 May 2005
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - “Clementina Cantoni: why is there no general mobilisation?” asks the president of the Catholic Bishops of Pakistan calling for the release of the Italian volunteer “kidnapping is against the precepts of any religion” Lahore (Fides Service - “Not much is said about the kidnapping of Clementina Cantoni. In Pakistan there is hardly any mention of it. There has been no general mobilisation among world media as in the cases of other ho ...
• 31 May 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Tension and disorder in Karachi: Christian leaders call on government to guarantee more security and promote social and inter-religious harmony Lahore (Fides Service) - There is tension in the southern Pakistan port of Karach where violent disorder followed a suicide bomb on 30 May which devastated the Mandinatul Ilm Shiite mosque in the district of Gulshan-e-I ...
• 30 May 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - UNICEF starts building 200 new schools for 40,000 children in tsunami affected areas Banda Aceh (Fides Service) - UNICEF in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration IOM has started a programme to put in place 200 new temporary primary schools in areas around Aceh most seriously af ...
• 30 May 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - RSS (Hindu fundamentalism): 300,000 training schools, 10 million members, 100 million supporters. One of 39 centres of terror listed by Terrorism Research Centre in Virginia USA New Delhi (Fides Service) - Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS (National Volunteers Corps) is a movement notorious for anti Christian and anti Muslim violence in India. A fundamentalist Hindu organisation which promotes wit ...
• 28 May 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - New Korean translation of the Bible Seoul (Fides Service) - The imminent circulation of a new Korean translation of the Bible in early June, a campaign on bio-ethical matters on the occasion of the Day for Life (29 May) and the opening of the diocesan stag ...
• 28 May 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Bomb blasts in Sulawesi, tension in the Moluccas: Christians fear possible return of generalised violence Ambon (Fides Service) - There is growing concern among Christians in eastern Indonesia after recent bomb blasts and killings in Sulawesi and the Moluccas where people fear the return of civil war. A prospect which local ...
• 27 May 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Disabled artistes from China win Roman hearts and get a special blessing from the Pope Rome (Fides Service) - Disabled musicians and dancers from China who had a great success with a performance in Rome on May 23 received a special mention and blessing from Pope Benedict XVI during the weekly Wednesday aud ...
• 27 May 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - National Day For Life: Catholic Church in Korea condemns human cloning and recalls Evangelium Vitae encyclical ten years on Seoul (Fides Service) - Respect for life from the moment of conception, protect rights of human embryo which is not an object; no to the abhorrent practice of cloning which involves an attempt to take the place of God th ...
• 25 May 2005
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Positive end to kidnapping in Mindanao: a bishop helped obtain release of sixteen women and children Manila (Fides Service) - The kidnapping and release of sixteen bus passengers yesterday in Zamboanga Sur in Mindanao southern Philippines which caused great alarm among the local people was happily concluded without any ...
• 24 May 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Exhibition on the history of the Catholic community in Nan Chong attracts more than 8,000 visitors mainly non Christians in two months Nan Chong (Fides Service) - To spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ and help people know more about the Lord and his Church, the Catholic community in Nan Chong, Si Chuan province in south west mainland China, 1,400km from ...
• 24 May 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - At the close of the diocesan Year for Evangelisation lay people called to be ever more committed to evangelisation” Hong Kong (Fides Service) - “The mission of new evangelisation calls for the involvement of every believer. Catholics are called to bear witness with their life” said Ms. Lai, chairperson of the Hong Kong Lay Catholi ...
• 23 May 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Solemn Corpus Christ procession in Hong Kong will culminate with adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction at a Home for the elderly Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Bishop Joseph Zen of Hong Kong will preside the solemn Mass for the Feast of Corpus Christi on Sunday 29 May, followed by the traditional procession with the Blessed Sacrament through the str ...