Asia

• 2 December 2004
  ASIA/HONGKONG - Hong Kong Catholic doctors teach health care in Taunggyi diocese in Myanmar Hong Kong (Fides Service) - A medical team of four Hong Kong doctors and a nurse recently returned from a mission in Myanmar, where, in Taunggyi diocese, one of the poorest in the county, they trained missionaries and lo ...
• 1 December 2004
  ASIA/CAMBODIA -info Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of a visit by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, here is some information ...
• 1 December 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Typhoon Winnie hits northern Philippines: many killed and missing after flash floods and landslides Manila (Fides Service) - The death toll caused by typhoon Winnie in northern Philippines continues to rise. Local authorities in Luzon, say that flash floods and landslides left at least 447 persons dead and over 300 mo ...
• 1 December 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Once again… 36 Tribal Christian converts are sent away from their village New Delhi (Fides Service) - There is no end to anti-minority discrimination and violence in India. A report from Jagdalpur diocese in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, said that recently the people of the village ...
• 30 November 2004
  ASIA/TURKEY - Catholics and Orthodox give warm welcome to relics of St John Chrysostom and St Gregory Nanzianzen arrived from Rome - Jesuit House returned to Syro-Catholic community Istanbul (Fides Service) - An ecumenical assembly, including civil authorities and many Catholic Bishops gathered yesterday in the St George’s Orthodox Cathedral to welcome the relics of St Gregory Nazianzen and St Joh ...
• 30 November 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Bishops of Korea and Japan committed to regular meetings to re-read painful episodes of history in the light of truth and reconciliation Seoul (Fides Service) - Recently Catholic Bishops of Japan and Korea met in Cheju, South Korea for their traditional annual meeting to exchange ideas and experience in an atmosphere of friendship. A total of thirty one ...
• 29 November 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - “People are getting their breath back after the assaults a few days ago” source in Mosul told Fides Baghdad (Fides Service)- “Things are a little quieter thank goodness. Some parts of the city are calm although in other districts fighting continues” Father Nizar Semaan told Fides, after contacting people in the nor ...
• 29 November 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Bishops focus Advent Messages on Eucharist, Life and the Family Seoul (Fides Service) -Eucharist, Life and the Family were the main focus of Advent Messages issued by Catholic Bishops in Korea, and in view of this special Year of the Eucharist, called by Pope John Paul II, the Bisho ...
• 29 November 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Radio Veritas programmes in Urdu are a point of reference and encounter for peaceful co-existence in Pakistan Lahore (Fides Service) -Radio Veritas programmes in Urdu broadcast in Pakistan are a highly appreciated source of information on the Catholic Church in Pakistan and its services to promote peace, respect for human rights ...
• 27 November 2004
  VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe addresses Thai Bishop: “As we are at the beginning of the Third Millennium, I can only remind that the Church in Thailand is called to a new missionary momentum” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Addressing the Bishops of Thailand on Friday 26 November in Bangkok, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, assured them of the Pope’s wa ...
• 27 November 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Interreligious Forum gives impulse to Anti-Death Penalty activity Seoul (Fides Service) - Religions in Korea have launched a camping to promote awareness and support for the abolition of the death penalty. A forum of 7 religious communities, including the local Catholic Church, some pr ...
• 27 November 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - More than 10,000 pilgrims visit Bom Jesus basilica every day to venerate relics of St Francis Xavier Goa (Fides Service) - Every day more than 10,000 pilgrims, far more than expected, flock to venerate the relics of Saint Francis Xavier on show at the Bom Jesus Basilica in God. The exposition of the relics of this great ...
• 26 November 2004
  ASIA/KOREA - “The Family, a place of love and life” is the title of a pastoral letter issued by the Catholic Bishops for Advent 2004 Seoul (Fides Service) - Advent is a time to sanctify and evangelise the family, the Korean Bishops say in a pastoral letter for Advent with the title The Family, Place of love and Life. The letter with 83 paragraphs took ...
• 26 November 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Salesians open new Don Bosco Institute in Assam; government closes Catholic school in Kashmir New Delhi (Fides Service) - Catholic education in India is highly appreciated by Christians, Hindus, Muslims, civil authorities, intellectuals, men of the world of culture. It is always at the centre of attention sometim ...
• 26 November 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Poverty new plague in Moluccas: after years of civil war reconstruction and development is slow Ambon (Fides Service) - Poverty is the sad heritage of years of civil war 1999-2002 which ravaged the Moluccas Islands in the east of the archipelago of Indonesia. According to a report from the Amboina Diocese Crisis Ce ...