Asia
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7 January 2005
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate share experience of helping seaquake refugees in northern Sri Lanka
Jaffna (Fides Service) - The communities of Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate in Sri Lanka and India, who sad to say lost some of their confreres and family members in the December 26 tsunami disaster, have added ai ...
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5 January 2005
ASIA/THAILAND - The local Church and Caritas mobilised for the emergency: new operative humanitarian aid Centre - No alarm over trafficking of disaster orphans
Bangkok (Fides Service) - The Thai Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Caritas Thailand, the Catholic diocese of Surath Thani (the most affected area) and Religious Institutes have opened a Humanitarian Aid Centre for organi ...
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5 January 2005
ASIA/INDIA - The Church in front line to help seaquake victims: A Religious Brother in Nagapattinam one of the most affected areas, reports to Fides
Manithlayam (Fides Service) -“The local Church, missionaries and NGOs were the first to reach affected areas with material help for the victims of the tsunami”, Brother Victor General, Regional Superior of the Franc ...
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5 January 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Ursuline Sisters of St. Jerome in Somasca missionaries in the state of Tamil Nadu plan to open home for homeless children and orphans
Pudur Kundukulam (Fides Service) - Ursuline Sisters of St. Jerome in Somasca on mission in the state of Tamil Nadu plan to open a home for orphans for victims of the December 26 tsunami disaster.
The Sisters have alre ...
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5 January 2005
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Missionary in Sri Lanka told Fides: “Besides material help the Catholic community is working for moral rehabilitation of the population offering consolation and comfort”
Colombo (Fides Service) - “Besides material help the Catholic community is offering consolation and comfort”, extremely necessary in these moments for the population victims of the disaster. We are also working for m ...
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5 January 2005
ASIA/CINA - Reflection by a Chinese priest: “The path evangelisation is still long. In China there is even more Christmas atmosphere than Paris and New York, but few have heard of the Infant Jesus”
Beijing (Fides Service) - The Chinese Catholic community lived Christmas 2004 as a profound experience of faith: the bitter cold of Winter in Beijing was attenuated by a warm Christmas spirit and unity of prayer. At the ...
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5 January 2005
ASIA/THAILAND - “Most of the members of the Catholic parish at Phuket survived because they were in church for Sunday Mass, then the seaquake struck, but they lost everything and will have to start life all over again”, says PIME Father Claudio Corti on mission in Thailand
Phuket (Fides Service) - Missionaries of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions PIME are sending aid to Thailand through Father Pietro Bancha, parish priest in Phuket, the Thai area most affected by the tsunami. ...
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5 January 2005
ASIA/SRI LANKA - United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Sri Lanka and Indonesia to deal with emergency: shelter is a priority
Colombo (Fides Service) - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR is involved in aid operations in south east Asia for victims of the December 26 tsunami. UNHCR has started major 6 month plans of interventi ...
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4 January 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Immediate response from Chinese Catholics to help seaquake victims
Beijing (Fides Service) - Chinese Catholics were quick to respond to provide relief aid for victims of the December 26 seaquake. In collaboration with international charity organisations the Bei Fang Jin De Foundation ha ...
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4 January 2005
ASIA/THAILAND - Jesuit in Thailand reports to Fides: “The nation is united. Our Superior is acting as interpreter in hospitals for non Thai seaquake victims”
Bangkok (Fides Service) - “I must say that the country is united”, Spanish Jesuit Alfonso de Juan, 40 years on mission in Thailand, told Fides. “Thailand reacted quickly and efficiently”, the missionary said. “ ...
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4 January 2005
ASIA/ SRI LANKA - No alarm about children kidnapped for organ trafficking: the Church in Sri Lanka has received no direct reports of missing infants
Colombo (Fides Service) - At the moment there have been no reports of children who lost their parents in the seaquake now sadly known as tsunami orphans, being kidnapped or abused or sold as slaves or used for human orga ...
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4 January 2005
ASIA/HONG KONG - Catholic community united in grief mourns Father Antonius Lee biblical scholar promoter of the Chinese Bible: Bishop Joseph Zen presides funeral
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Recently Bishop Joseph Zen of Hong Kong presided the funeral of Franciscan Father Antonius Lee who will be for ever remembered for his contribution towards producing a Chinese version of the B ...
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3 January 2005
ASIA/HONG KONG - Diocese collects money for tsunami victims and holds special prayers for the dead and their families
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Besides organising special collections for the peoples affected by the seaquake in southern Asia, Hong Kong diocese also is also holding special prayers in the Cathedral for the people victims ...
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3 January 2005
ASIA/TAIWAN - Cardinal Paul Shan, President of the Chinese Regional Bishops’ Conference makes appeal for seaquake victims
Taiwan (Fides Service) - Cardinal Paul Shan, President of the Chinese Regional Bishops’ Conference has launched an appeal for seaquake victims calling on Catholics and all men and women of good will to show solidarity ...
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3 January 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - Sick people and medical helpers among the victims of seaquake in Indonesia: AIFO leprosy service personnel among the dead and missing
Jakarta (Fides Service) - The disastrous seaquake in southern Asia did not spare leprosy centres run by the Association of Friends of Raoul Follereau (AIFO) in Indonesia in particular. AIFO rehabilitation Centre in Aceh ...
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