Asia

• 15 June 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - It is right and dutiful to protect life and the family: Bishops of Pakistan offer full support to Church in Spain for pro-family demonstration on 18 June Lahore (Fides Service) - “The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Pakistan gaurantees clear and total support to the rightful moral position in favour of the family and life taken by the Catholic Bishops of Spain and hop ...
• 15 June 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Communications experts, Catholic and non, say minority groups deserve more space in the media Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Communications experts in Hong Kong, Catholic and non, have urged the media to give greater attention to minority groups of foreign workers. According to the diocesan bulletin Kong Ko Bao the ...
• 14 June 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Results of referendum in Italy encourage Catholics in Korea and everywhere to continue the fight to protect the life of the unborn child Kwangju (Fides Service) - “The result of Italy’s referendum on fertility treatment is valid for the whole world, also here in Korea, as a point of reference for Catholics everywhere. We are happy that the Italian law ...
• 14 June 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Tsunami affected families gradually return to normality: Australian religious institutes and Caritas continue to help Banda Aceh (Fides Service) - The living conditions of people affected by the tragic tsunami on 26 December 2005 are gradually improving thanks also to efforts of Catholic agencies and bodies. Caritas Australia, working i ...
• 14 June 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Tai Yuan diocese hold first Eucharistic Congress and celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral Tai Yuan (Fides Service) - Recently the diocese of Tai Yuan main town in Shan Xi province of mainland China held its first Eucharistic Congress in the parish of Bei Gu Nian. According to the bulletin Faith published in H ...
• 13 June 2005
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Vox returns to give voice to solidarity in the Holy Land Jerusalem (Fides Service) - It is a voice which speaks of Christian solidarity and recently it has once again begun to make itself heard. Vox, a monthly publication issued by Caritas Holy Land in collaboration with other ...
• 13 June 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop John Tong, Auxiliary of Hong Kong, presides opening of new parish for Korean Catholic immigrants Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Hong Kong diocese has given the local Korean Catholic community its own parish chapel. Kong Ko Bao diocesan bulletin reported that the new church which will serve as a parish for Catholic immi ...
• 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 ...