Asia

• 1 October 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Bishop Padilla, Prefect of Prefecture Apostolic Ulaanbaator in Mongolia, shares his missionary experience Taipei (Fides Service) - Recently Catholics in Taiwan heard about missionary work in the mysterious and fascinating country of Mongolia when Bishop Padilla, formerly a missionary in Taiwan and today Prefect of Prefecture ...
• 1 October 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Missionary month of October looking towards North Korea and laity as chief agents in the Church’s mission Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - “Support for missionary activity, with prayer, sacrifice and material offerings is important because it helps sustain and nourish the whole Church” Bishop Joseph Kyeong Kap-ryong, President of ...
• 30 September 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Not only bombs and violence. Local Catholic priest tells another story Baghdad (Fides Service)- Father Nizar, who returned to Iraq a month ago, describes the local situation : “Life is difficult but we keep hoping that the future will be better. The first problem is lack of security, the ...
• 30 September 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Info: victims of blasphemy law Lahore (Fides Service) - There is a long gallery of victims who have suffered in recent years after being falsely accused of blasphemy. The law is often abused to punish an adversary or enemy, for political or economic r ...
• 30 September 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Church in Pakistan calls on president Musharraf, today received in audience by the Pope, to abolish the blasphemy law, which is unjust and discriminates against minorities. Bishops’ Justice and Peace Commission denounces situation in ample document sent to Fides Lahore (Fides Service) - For some time now the Catholic Church in Pakistan has been asking the government to abolish the Blasphemy Law which is ‘unfair, evil and abused to discriminate against non Muslim minorities and ...
• 29 September 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - These barbarians will not stop the birth of a new Iraq. Testimony from northern Iraq: “All the hostages must be released and the humanitarian organisations must come back to help Iraq and its people rise again” Baghdad (Fides Service)- “The good news that the hostages Simona Pari and Simona Torretta are free comes to join other positive facts in Iraq which are however overshadowed by facts of violence” Father Nizar Semaan, ...
• 29 September 2004
  ASIA/NEPAL - A small Catholic community in the Tibetan mountains celebrates and witnesses to the Gospel, offers services of social assistance and education in a situation of Maoist guerrilla warfare: interview with Pro-Prefect Apostolic Rev. Pius Perumana Kathmandu (Fides Service) - While the country is living a general strike and there are rumours that government-rebels negotiations are about to resume, the small Catholic community in Nepal carries on with its pastoral a ...
• 28 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA- “Children’s Village” in New Delhi in memory of Archbishop Alan De Lastic, champion of religious freedom in India New Delhi (Fides Service) - In memory of Archbishop Alan De Lastic, a champion of religious freedom, a secular state and respect for rights of minority groups rights, the archdiocese of Delhi has opened a Memorial Childr ...
• 28 September 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Salesians mark fifty years of service to Korean youth: education, professional training and evangelisation Seoul (Fides Service) - “Pray and work that one day your love may reach also North Korea, in a united country” Archbishop Nicholas Cheong of Seoul told the Salesian Fathers who recently celebrated 50 years of servic ...
• 28 September 2004
  ASIA /PAKISTAN - The fact that President Musharraf will meet the Holy Father will boost Muslim Christian relations and help the battle to stop terrorism, chairman of the Catholic Bishops told Fides Lahore (Fides Service) - “We are very pleased that president Musharraf will have a meeting with the Pope. This will be good for the Church in Pakistan and for the whole country” Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore ...
• 27 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu extremists attack and injure a group Mother Teresa’s Sisters. One is seriously wounded. Bishops’ Conference spokesman comments for Fides New Delhi (Fides Service) - “The Bishops strongly condemn this attack on Catholic Sisters, in Kerala yesterday” the spokesman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in India, Fr Babu Joseph Karakombil told Fides. “W ...
• 24 September 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Death of Bishop Alfonso Yang Guangyan, Bishop of Zhouzhi: meek and humble, ever faithful to the Holy See: under his guidance the diocese developed considerably Zhouzhi (Fides Service) - On September 4 Bishop Alfonso Yang Guangyan of Zhouzhi in Shaanxi Province, (mainland China), died at the age of 76 comforted by the Sacraments. The Bishop was born on 9 September 1928 and ordai ...
• 23 September 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Together Christians and Muslims demonstrate for peace and tolerance, against terrorism, war and violence Lahore (Fides Service) - Despite the threat of fundamentalist Islamic groups, a latent conflict in the disputed border region of Kashmir, the presence of Jihad radicals in the region of Waziristan on the border with Afgh ...
• 23 September 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Central government takes up defence of Christians attacked by Hindu extremists in Orissa state New Delhi (Fides Service) - Following protests to the central government of India after recent attacks on the Christians in Orissa, the central government of India sent a team of investigators to Raikia, where Hindu extr ...
• 23 September 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - A priest from Hong Kong evangelises in mainland China explaining the catechism to people in Inner Mongolia Hu He Hao Te (Fides Service) - According to Faith Catholic bulleting in Hebei, recently people in a parish in Hu He Hao Te the main city in inner Mongolia had a chance to learn more about the main contents of the Christi ...