Asia

• 14 January 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Fu Ren Catholic University study seminar on Pope John Paul II’s Letter for the Year of the Eucharist ‘Stay with us Lord!’ Taipei (Fides Service) - To help local Catholics benefit from the special year of the Eucharist as Pope John Paul II intended when he announced this unprecedented decision, in collaboration with the Chinese Regional Bish ...
• 14 January 2005
  ASIA - “The tsunami revealed efforts to globalise solidarity but smaller tsunami which strike every day all over the world must not be forgotten ”: Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, Holy See Permanent Observer to the United Nations in Geneva Geneva (Fides Service) - The world’s response to meet the tsunami disaster has been exceptional and revealed that it is possible to “globalise solidarity”, but once the emergency is over will promises for funds for ...
• 13 January 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Caritas India continues major commitment to assist tsunami victims in Tamil Nadu, Andra Pradesh, Kerala - Catholic volunteers first to reach some remote districts New Delhi (Fides Service) - Caritas India continues major commitment to assist tsunami victims in Tamil Nadu, Andra Pradesh, Kerala. Caritas is working closely with local state organisations in Channai, Pondicherry, Kott ...
• 13 January 2005
  ASIA/THAILAND - Camillian healthcare team help 300 Morgan fisherfolk forced to abandon their village as the tsunami approached Bangkok (Fides Service) - Camillian healthcare team leaves Bangkok to assist 300 Morgan people who fled their fishing village Bang Sak when the tsunami struck. The Morgans are extremely poor and primitive fisherfolk wi ...
• 13 January 2005
  ASIA - International Organisation for Migration assists 500,000 tsunami refugees in Indonesia and 300,000 in Sri Lanka Jakarta (Fides Service) - The International Organisation for Migration IOM is working alongside missionaries, local Churches and Catholic NGOs to help tsunami victims in south east Asia. IOM a non-confessional organisati ...
• 13 January 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Diocesan Justice and Peace commission seminar calls on media to giver more attention to the weaker members of society Hong Kong (Fides Service ) - The justice and Peace commission of Hong Kong diocese recently organised a seminar for scholars, experts and members of various associations to discuss the range and type of questions highlig ...
• 13 January 2005
  ASIA/THAILAND - This report received by Fides is a testimony of concrete help offered by local religious free of prejudice or discrimination to all tsunami victims; it will discredit opinions that Christian missionaries have other aims than that solidarity with people whatever their religion Bangkok (Fides Service) - Father Paul Cherdchai Lertjitlekha, Vice Provincial of the Camillian Fathers Thailand sent this report on aid to victims of the 26 tsunami: “Dear confreres and friends I am sure you have had ...
• 12 January 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - “Stop Funding Hate”: aid for tsunami victims must not go to Hindu fundamentalist groups Calcutta (Fides Service) - Donations in aid of tsunami victims must not find their way to the pockets of Hindu fundamentalist groups which spread religious hatred and social discriminate, Indian citizens resident in the ...
• 12 January 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Don Bosco school pupils in Pakistan send help to children victims of the tsunami Lahore (Fides Service) - In Pakistan pupils at Don Bosco in Lahore were quick to forget their own troubles and turn to helping children victims of the December 26 tsunami, organising charity raffles to collect money to s ...
• 11 January 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Islamic fundamentalists warn Catholic priest humanitarian helper not to try to convert Muslim orphans Banda Aceh (Fides Service) - Father Chris Riley, an Australian Catholic priest who arrived in tsunami-ravaged Indonesian province of Aceh on 7 January to set up an orphanage, sparked a warning from hard-line Islamic grou ...
• 11 January 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - “Platinum Jubilee” for St Charles Borromeo Sisters who first came on mission to India 75 years ago Bangalore (Fides Service) - It all started when, in response to a call from Pope Pius XI “for missionaries to go to every corner of the earth”, in 1929 a group of five Sisters of St Charles Borromeo set out from Belg ...
• 11 January 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - UN High Commission for Refugees starts relief operations in Aceh Banda Aceh (Fides Service) - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and other UN agencies have started relief operations along the west cost of the Indonesian province of Aceh, the area worst hit by the ...
• 10 January 2005
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic Missionaries and Muslim faithful work side by side in relief work: one good result of tsunami disaster Manila (Fides Service) - The Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate OMI have started a campaign to collect money for the people affected by the December 26 tsunami in south Asia among the Philippines deeply saddened by t ...
• 10 January 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Why did the tragedy push peace in Sri Lanka further away? What if the tsunami fails to stop the war … Colombo (Fides Service) - Everyone hoped the tsunami tragedy would unite the people of Sri Lanka where for decades the two main ethnic groups Sinhalese (74%) and Tamil (12,5%) have fought a war of hatred and reciprocal ...
• 10 January 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Why are arms in Banda Aceh not silent? The tsunami and guerrilla warfare Jakarta (Fides Service) - In northern Sumatra the tsunami hit a situation which was already difficult, marked by conflict and violence. For more than a year the Indonesian army has launched a massive offensive against re ...