Asia
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11 October 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - New diocese of Uijongbu on the border with North Korea takes first steps
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - With a meeting of all its priests the newly created diocese of Uijongbu, situated close to the border with north Korea, took its first steps to organise pastoral activity . The Council of Presbyte ...
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11 October 2004
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic Bishops urge President Gloria Arroyo to abolish capital punishment
Manila (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, October 11, 2004, the Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines strongly ap ...
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11 October 2004
ASIA/INDIA - “Peace begins at home”: Catholic Bishops of north eastern India organise monthly First Friday for Peace to promote social harmony among at least 300 ethnic groups struggling with poverty and unemployment
New Delhi (Fides Service) - The north eastern part of India, a region with situations of tension and conflict, feels neglected by the central government preoccupied with the question of Kashmir and problems caused by sp ...
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11 October 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - Christians in trenches in Mosul call to Fides. In this situation how can these barbaric threats and acts of violence be stopped, how can co-existence continue?
Baghdad (Fides Service)- Father Nizar Semaan a Catholic priest in Iraq sent Fides following report on the situation: “People in Mosul, mostly Christians, are afraid since radical groups act in broad daylight and no one ...
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9 October 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Putting ethics in business to ensure the economy, development, market is at the service of the person: Catholic Business Colleges among the best in India
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic education in India, famous for its quality, includes business studies. Besides offering excellent training, the Catholic vision of this type of education aims to instil moral values i ...
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8 October 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Church in Korea commemorates its national martyrs, proudly honouring brothers and sisters who died for the faith
Seoul (Fides Service) - Korea’s martyrs, the founding members of the Catholic Church in that country, are always commemorated with gratitude and joy as a precious heritage by Catholics throughout the peninsula. Recentl ...
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7 October 2004
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christians of many confessions in the Middle East are closer thanks to a new web site opened by the Middle East Council of Churches
Jerusalem (Fides Service) - The Middle East Council of Churches has opened a new web site to facilitate contact and exchange of information in a spirit of ecumenism friendship and collaboration among all the Christians ...
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7 October 2004
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Network of radio stations for peace broadcast messages of reconciliation and solidarity over the air in Southern Philippines
Manila (Fides Service) - In the southern Philippines civil and religious leaders and many independent organisations are striving with various initiatives to build a culture of peace starting with families, workers, schoo ...
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7 October 2004
ASIA/HONG KONG - Benoit Vermander, director of the Matteo Ricci Institute in Taiwan, shows paintings in Hong Kong: an encounter of cultures
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Father Benoit Vermander, director of the Matteo Ricci Institute in Taiwan is not only a scholar of international fame he is an excellent painter and poet. This French born Jesuit is known for ...
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7 October 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Global Council of Indian Christians calls on government to eliminate nationalist and fundamentalist ideologies from politics and society
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Global Council of Indian Christians has called on the central government to take special legislative measures to eliminate from politics and social customs in India all trace of nationalis ...
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6 October 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - Christians targeted: dramatic cry for help and crude tragedy of a story of death raise concern...what can be done?
Ninive (Fides Service) - Iraqi Christians have launched a pressing call for help: “Save us, they are killing us! We are being persecuted” a Chaldean Christian in the Al-Baker district of Ninive in northern Iraq not f ...
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6 October 2004
ASIA/QATAR - Qatar will soon have its very first Christian churches. Happy local Catholics give warm welcome to Holy See representative on pastoral visit
Doha (Fides Service) - “We are very happy. For years we have been waiting for this moment” local Catholics told Bishop Bernardo Gremoli, Vicar Apostolic for Arabia when he visited them recently and announced that wor ...
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6 October 2004
ASIA/CHINA - Chinese pilgrims to Lourdes share joyful pilgrimage memories strengthening faith, authentic Christian life style and desire to go on pilgrimage
Beijing (Fides Service) - For a group of Chinese Catholics from the Immaculate Conception parish in Beijing last month’s pilgrimage to Lourdes will be a lasting memory. They had such a moving story to tell on their ret ...
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5 October 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - With regard to Catholic school surrounded on Sunday by radical Muslim youths local Catholics say: “We ask local authorities the central government and the new president Yudhoyono to show tolerance and respect with regard to religious minorities”
Jakarta (Fides Service) - There is concern among Catholics in Indonesia since a group of radical Muslim youths surrounded Sang Timur Catholic school at Ciledug, in Banten province on the Island of Java, 40 km west of th ...
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5 October 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - “New President faces major challenge: isolate Islamic fundamentalism which thrives on violence, corruption and unemployment” - says Father Ignazio Ismartono, spokesman of the Indonesian Catholic Bishops’ Conference
Jakarta (Fides Service) - “Corruption, violence, Muslim fundamentalism, unemployment, destruction of the environment are some of the problems facing the newly elected President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,” ...
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