Asia

• 25 February 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Bishops encourage all dioceses to organise special prayers for the speedy recovery of Pope John Paul II New Delhi (Fides Service) - “The Church in India is following the condition of the Pope with apprehension. As soon as the Bishops heard that he had been admitted to hospital again they called on Catholics all over the ...
• 25 February 2005
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Michel Sabbah calls on Christians in the Holy Land to offer special prayers for the Pope Nazareth (Fides Service) - The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Michel Sabbah sent a letter to the Bishops of the Holy Land asking for special prayers for Pope John Paul II. Auxiliary Bishop Giacinto Boulos Marcuzzo told Fid ...
• 24 February 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Harmonising ancient Chinese culture with the teaching of the Church: Caritas puts into practice the Pope’s request for Lent 2005 to show more concern for the elderly Hong Kong (Fides Service) - According to the Kong Ko Bao bulletin of Hong Kong diocese Caritas Hong Kong says Pope John Paul II’s Lenten call for more concern for the aged is an encouragement for its activity. In his m ...
• 24 February 2005
  ASIA/SIBERIA - On mission in Siberia with the charisma of don Luigi Giussani. Testimonial from Fr Francesco Bertolina, missionary of St Charles Boromeo Fraternity Rome (Fides Service) - Italian Father Francesco Bertolina is a missionary of the priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St Charles Boromeo. For ten years he has been on mission in Novosibirsk, Siberia. His vocation m ...
• 24 February 2005
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic Bishops of the Philippines call for national reconciliation and peace Manila (Fides Service) - While in Jolo, southern Philippines, the regular army is in conflict with separatists Moro National Liberation Front and the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group, Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales of Manila has ...
• 24 February 2005
  ASIA /INDIA - All is ready for assembly of Latin Rite Catholic Bishops in Ranchi tribal area: the poor and the excluded are priorities for the Church Ranchi (Fides) - All is ready for the assembly of the Catholic Bishops of Latin Rite 4 to 8 March in Ranchi, Jharkhand, north east India. Some 120 Bishops of Latin will take part. In India there are also Catholic Bisho ...
• 23 February 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic nun in Rajasthan attacked and beaten for being a Christian Ajmer (Fides Service) -A Catholic nun was attacked by a group of eight men near a railway station in Kota, diocese of Ajmer-Jaipur, in the north west Indian state of Rajasthan because she was a Christian. A spokesman of ...
• 23 February 2005
  ASIA/IRAN - Caritas Italy ready to intervene to help earthquake victims in Kerman south east Iran Teheran (Fides Service) - Caritas Italy has expressed sympathy and solidarity to Iran after the earthquake on 22 February in Kerman, south east of Iran, about 700 km from the capital Teheran, in which whole villages wer ...
• 23 February 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Two months after the tsunami disaster Papal Nuncio visits affected areas New Delhi (Fides Service) - Recently Archbishop Pedro Lopez Quintana Papal Nuncio to India visited Catholic communities in areas affected by the December 26 tsunami to comfort bereaved families, encourage the work of reb ...
• 23 February 2005
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - United Nations High Commission for Refugees protects Burmese refugees in Malaysia Kuala Lumpur (Fides Service) - To cope with the continuous flow of immigrants coming from Myanmar the government of Malaysia plans to clamp down on illegal immigrants. The operation will start when the present amnesty en ...
• 22 February 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Italian post tsunami aid in Sri Lanka: volunteers for development (VIS) and Italy’s national civil protection unit sign two agreements Colombo (Fides Service) - Two Italian development programmes in tsunami affected Negombo and Trincomalee have started as a result of an agreement between the Italian civil protection unit and Salesian NGO Volontariato In ...
• 22 February 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “If only the conflicting parties would see how the people suffer!”: director of Indonesian Catholic Bishops’ “Crisis and Reconciliation Service” says to Fides Banda Aceh (Fides Service) - “Peace is possible if both sides (government and rebels) would only see how the people suffer”: Father Ignazio Ismartono, SJ, head of the Indonesian Bishops’ Conference Crisis and Recon ...
• 22 February 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - All is calm in the Moluccas but missionaries warn against possible infiltration of terrorists Ambon (Fides Service) - The situation is calm in Ambon, capital of the Moluccas Islands in eastern Indonesia, apart from some minor episodes of violence in a few outlying islands. However security forces are still on the ...
• 22 February 2005
  ASIA/CHINA On the Feast of the Chair of Peter Chinese Catholics confirm fidelity and communion with the Pope and the universal Church Beijing (Fides Service) - This morning on the occasion of the Feast of the Chair of Peter during morning Masses in various churches in China priests encouraged those present to pray especially for the Successor of Peter ...
• 21 February 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Young Catholics in China anxious to take part in World Youth Day 2005 in Germany Beijing (Fides Service) - As the next World Youth Day approaches enthusiasm among young Chinese Catholics is growing. The event will take place in August in Germany in the town of Cologne. After visiting the official WJT ...