Asia
4 October 2004
ASIA/TAJIKISTAN Using the web to proclaim the Gospel in central Asia: Tajikistan Catholic Mission opens web site on Feast of Saint Therese of Lisieux
Dushanbe (Fides Service) - To mark the 7th anniversary of the opening of the Catholic Missio sui iuris in Tajikistan (29 September 1997), on the feast day of Saint Therese of Lisieux, patron of the Missions, Superior of ...
4 October 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - First day of school in Iraq, photos of Saddam removed from text books: eyewitness tells Fides
Baghdad (Fides Service)- Catholic Iraqi priest Rev. Nizar Seeman told Fides about the first day at school in northern Iraq.
It is 7.45 in the morning I am in front of the elementary school. I see boys and girls, many ar ...
4 October 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Christian Hindu network to bring peace to travailed region of north eastern India the scene of violence and bomb blasts: Catholic Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil takes concrete action in Assam
Guwahati (Fides Service) - The Catholic Archbishop of Guwahati in Assam state is fully committed to keeping peace and preventing any return of indiscriminate violence in north eastern India. Archbishop Thomas Menamparamp ...
1 October 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Bishops of India open news-website www.theindiancatholic.com: everything you ever wanted to know about the history, service and mission of India’s Catholic community
New Delhi (Fides Service) - The Media and Information Office of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India CBCI announced the launching of a news-website on October 1, 2004 to provide information on the Catholic faith, ...
1 October 2004
ASIA/TAIWAN - Bishop Padilla, Prefect of Prefecture Apostolic Ulaanbaator in Mongolia, shares his missionary experience
Taipei (Fides Service) - Recently Catholics in Taiwan heard about missionary work in the mysterious and fascinating country of Mongolia when Bishop Padilla, formerly a missionary in Taiwan and today Prefect of Prefecture ...
1 October 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Missionary month of October looking towards North Korea and laity as chief agents in the Church’s mission
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - “Support for missionary activity, with prayer, sacrifice and material offerings is important because it helps sustain and nourish the whole Church” Bishop Joseph Kyeong Kap-ryong, President of ...
30 September 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - Not only bombs and violence. Local Catholic priest tells another story
Baghdad (Fides Service)- Father Nizar, who returned to Iraq a month ago, describes the local situation : “Life is difficult but we keep hoping that the future will be better. The first problem is lack of security, the ...
30 September 2004
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Info: victims of blasphemy law
Lahore (Fides Service) - There is a long gallery of victims who have suffered in recent years after being falsely accused of blasphemy. The law is often abused to punish an adversary or enemy, for political or economic r ...
30 September 2004
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Church in Pakistan calls on president Musharraf, today received in audience by the Pope, to abolish the blasphemy law, which is unjust and discriminates against minorities. Bishops’ Justice and Peace Commission denounces situation in ample document sent to Fides
Lahore (Fides Service) - For some time now the Catholic Church in Pakistan has been asking the government to abolish the Blasphemy Law which is ‘unfair, evil and abused to discriminate against non Muslim minorities and ...
29 September 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - These barbarians will not stop the birth of a new Iraq. Testimony from northern Iraq: “All the hostages must be released and the humanitarian organisations must come back to help Iraq and its people rise again”
Baghdad (Fides Service)- “The good news that the hostages Simona Pari and Simona Torretta are free comes to join other positive facts in Iraq which are however overshadowed by facts of violence” Father Nizar Semaan, ...
29 September 2004
ASIA/NEPAL - A small Catholic community in the Tibetan mountains celebrates and witnesses to the Gospel, offers services of social assistance and education in a situation of Maoist guerrilla warfare: interview with Pro-Prefect Apostolic Rev. Pius Perumana
Kathmandu (Fides Service) - While the country is living a general strike and there are rumours that government-rebels negotiations are about to resume, the small Catholic community in Nepal carries on with its pastoral a ...
28 September 2004
ASIA/INDIA- “Children’s Village” in New Delhi in memory of Archbishop Alan De Lastic, champion of religious freedom in India
New Delhi (Fides Service) - In memory of Archbishop Alan De Lastic, a champion of religious freedom, a secular state and respect for rights of minority groups rights, the archdiocese of Delhi has opened a Memorial Childr ...
28 September 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Salesians mark fifty years of service to Korean youth: education, professional training and evangelisation
Seoul (Fides Service) - “Pray and work that one day your love may reach also North Korea, in a united country” Archbishop Nicholas Cheong of Seoul told the Salesian Fathers who recently celebrated 50 years of servic ...
28 September 2004
ASIA /PAKISTAN - The fact that President Musharraf will meet the Holy Father will boost Muslim Christian relations and help the battle to stop terrorism, chairman of the Catholic Bishops told Fides
Lahore (Fides Service) - “We are very pleased that president Musharraf will have a meeting with the Pope. This will be good for the Church in Pakistan and for the whole country” Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore ...
27 September 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Hindu extremists attack and injure a group Mother Teresa’s Sisters. One is seriously wounded. Bishops’ Conference spokesman comments for Fides
New Delhi (Fides Service) - “The Bishops strongly condemn this attack on Catholic Sisters, in Kerala yesterday” the spokesman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in India, Fr Babu Joseph Karakombil told Fides. “W ...
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