Asia

• 28 October 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - “Ai Min Hospital” built and managed by German Benedictine Missionary Sisters of Tutzing Beijing (Fides Service) - The latest missionary endeavour of the Benedictine Missionary Sisters of Tutzing (Germany) is the well equipped modern Ai Min Hospital in Mei he kou, a town in north eastern China in Ji Lin on ...
• 28 October 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - “Thank you Holy Father for your words of comfort: you have strengthened our faith and hope” Baghdad (Fides Service)- “Iraqi Christians are grateful to the Pope for his words of encouragement which strengthen our faith and hope amidst so much hardship and suffering” Fr Nizar Semaan, a Catholic priest in Mosu ...
• 26 October 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - “Not only bombs blasts kill”. Christian girls targeted. Strategy evident: frighten Christians and chase them from Iraq Baghdad (Fides Service) - After a week’s strike to protest threats and violence against Christians on the part of Islamic fundamentalists (see Fides 21 October 2004) Christian university students in Mosul have returne ...
• 26 October 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Unexploded bombs found near a church: police alert, concern among Christians in the Moluccas, but people believe in peace Amboina (Agenzia Fides) - “A new explosion of violence must be prevented at all cost. Christians are concerned but they are confident that the local police will manage the situation” Father Carl Bohm, head of Amboina ...
• 26 October 2004
  ASIA/THAILAND - More than 80 people killed and many injured in clashes between militant Muslims and police - Some 1.300 arrests, fear of infiltration of radical elements Bangkok (Fides Service) - Tension in southern Thailand where a Muslim minority group has created disorder in recent months exploded yesterday 25 October when a group of about 2,000 attacked a police station in Tai Bai ab ...
• 25 October 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ Lay Christian in Baghdad calls for help: “This is civil war and if it continues Christianity could very soon disappear from Iraq. Many Christian families have fled Baghdad where Christians are forced once again to worship in catacombs” Baghdad (Fides Service) - “We have Mass in the crypts of our churches, the only places which are safe. Our lives are in danger. We ask the international community and the universal Church to help us” 30 year old Chri ...
• 25 October 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Accidental fire in Good Jesus Church shortly before for ten yearly exposition of St Francis Xavier’s relics Goa (Fides Service) - A month before a long awaited showing of the relics of Saint Francis Xavier, a great evangeliser in India, an accidental fire in the Catholic Basilica de Bom Jesus in Goa on October 21 caused widesp ...
• 25 October 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Lay people give indispensable helping hand with pastoral work Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Lay Catholics in Hong Kong are increasingly aware of their role in the local Church and community which is becoming indispensable. According to the diocesan Office for the Formation of the Lai ...
• 22 October 2004
  ASIA/THAILAND - Salesian Father appointed chairman of South East Asian Catholic Press Association Bangkok (Fides Service) - Indian born Salesian George Plathottam from Guwahati, a priest and journalist, was elected chairman of the South East Asian Catholic Press Association during the 20th International Catholic Pre ...
• 21 October 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - In Mosul Christian university students strike to protest Islamic fundamentalist violence Baghdad (Fides Service)- “In the face of continued violence against Christians with deep regret Christian university students have staged a strike” a Catholic priest in Mosul Father Nizar Semaan told Fides. “Faced ...
• 21 October 2004
  ASIA/LEBANON - Christians in Beirut organise torchlight march to show solidarity with Iraqi Christians Beirut (Fides Service) - Lebanon’s Christians are staging a new action of solidarity with Christians in Iraq. This evening the Christian community in Beirut will hold a torchlight procession as a demonstration of sympa ...
• 21 October 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Valuable social commitment of Hong Kong’s Don Bosco Charitable Foundation in mainland China Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - For almost six years the Don Bosco Charitable Foundation DBF registered in Hong has assisted youth in mainland China with programmes of education, professional training and assistance for poor ...
• 21 October 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Newly installed government faced with concerning signs of interreligious tension in eastern Indonesia Jakarta (Fides Service) - As the new government led by newly elected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, settles down to work, reports from the eastern Indonesian region of Sulawesi give rise to concern. In 2000-2002 Sul ...
• 20 October 2004
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Australian Marist Brothers open special school in Cambodia for children with mental and physical disabilities Phnom Penh (Fides Service) - Going to school or getting a job is taken for granted in Australia or in Europe but for many boys and girls in Cambodia, especially those with a disability, it is still an unattainable dream. ...
• 20 October 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - “Ramadan holy month of violence, threats and kidnappings: what about prayer, peace and charity? A local Catholic Sister appeals to Fides: “More dialogue with Muslim leaders could persuade Imam to educate to peace and convince perpetrators to stop violence Mosul (Fides Service) - Although Ramadan has started there is no letup in violence in Iraq where five churches were attacked on Saturday 16 October, a few days after the start of the Muslim holy month. “Ramadan is supp ...