Asia

• 9 October 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Putting ethics in business to ensure the economy, development, market is at the service of the person: Catholic Business Colleges among the best in India New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic education in India, famous for its quality, includes business studies. Besides offering excellent training, the Catholic vision of this type of education aims to instil moral values i ...
• 8 October 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Church in Korea commemorates its national martyrs, proudly honouring brothers and sisters who died for the faith Seoul (Fides Service) - Korea’s martyrs, the founding members of the Catholic Church in that country, are always commemorated with gratitude and joy as a precious heritage by Catholics throughout the peninsula. Recentl ...
• 7 October 2004
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christians of many confessions in the Middle East are closer thanks to a new web site opened by the Middle East Council of Churches Jerusalem (Fides Service) - The Middle East Council of Churches has opened a new web site to facilitate contact and exchange of information in a spirit of ecumenism friendship and collaboration among all the Christians ...
• 7 October 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Network of radio stations for peace broadcast messages of reconciliation and solidarity over the air in Southern Philippines Manila (Fides Service) - In the southern Philippines civil and religious leaders and many independent organisations are striving with various initiatives to build a culture of peace starting with families, workers, schoo ...
• 7 October 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Benoit Vermander, director of the Matteo Ricci Institute in Taiwan, shows paintings in Hong Kong: an encounter of cultures Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Father Benoit Vermander, director of the Matteo Ricci Institute in Taiwan is not only a scholar of international fame he is an excellent painter and poet. This French born Jesuit is known for ...
• 7 October 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Global Council of Indian Christians calls on government to eliminate nationalist and fundamentalist ideologies from politics and society New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Global Council of Indian Christians has called on the central government to take special legislative measures to eliminate from politics and social customs in India all trace of nationalis ...
• 6 October 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians targeted: dramatic cry for help and crude tragedy of a story of death raise concern...what can be done? Ninive (Fides Service) - Iraqi Christians have launched a pressing call for help: “Save us, they are killing us! We are being persecuted” a Chaldean Christian in the Al-Baker district of Ninive in northern Iraq not f ...
• 6 October 2004
  ASIA/QATAR - Qatar will soon have its very first Christian churches. Happy local Catholics give warm welcome to Holy See representative on pastoral visit Doha (Fides Service) - “We are very happy. For years we have been waiting for this moment” local Catholics told Bishop Bernardo Gremoli, Vicar Apostolic for Arabia when he visited them recently and announced that wor ...
• 6 October 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese pilgrims to Lourdes share joyful pilgrimage memories strengthening faith, authentic Christian life style and desire to go on pilgrimage Beijing (Fides Service) - For a group of Chinese Catholics from the Immaculate Conception parish in Beijing last month’s pilgrimage to Lourdes will be a lasting memory. They had such a moving story to tell on their ret ...
• 5 October 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - With regard to Catholic school surrounded on Sunday by radical Muslim youths local Catholics say: “We ask local authorities the central government and the new president Yudhoyono to show tolerance and respect with regard to religious minorities” Jakarta (Fides Service) - There is concern among Catholics in Indonesia since a group of radical Muslim youths surrounded Sang Timur Catholic school at Ciledug, in Banten province on the Island of Java, 40 km west of th ...
• 5 October 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “New President faces major challenge: isolate Islamic fundamentalism which thrives on violence, corruption and unemployment” - says Father Ignazio Ismartono, spokesman of the Indonesian Catholic Bishops’ Conference Jakarta (Fides Service) - “Corruption, violence, Muslim fundamentalism, unemployment, destruction of the environment are some of the problems facing the newly elected President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,” ...
• 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, ...