Asia

• 14 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic education commitment increases in highly scientific field: new Catholic College run by Pallotine Fathers will train engineers in west India Nagpur (Fides Service) - Education has always been an important field of service for the Catholic community in India. All over the country Catholic schools province high level of education appreciated and sought after an ...
• 13 July 2004
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Music is climbing over the West Bank Barrier in the Holy Land: Israeli and Palestinians play side by side in the World Youth Orchestra with its music for hope Jerusalem (Fides Service) - Music is climbing over the West Bank Barrier in the Holy Land. Just when the World Court in the Hague was declaring illegal Israel’s wall built to keep Palestinians out or in, an orchestra o ...
• 13 July 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Promote a culture of honesty, take part in the process of national transformation, build conditions for peace and intensify struggle to uproot corruption: jobs for Catholics in post election Philippines Manila (Fides Service) - Recently in Manila, after the Congress of the Clergy, the Catholic Bishops of the Philippines gathered in assembly to discuss the Catholic community’s role in the country after the 10 May elect ...
• 12 July 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop Zen and the entire Catholic community criticise the new education law passed by parliament Hong Kong (Fides Service) - After Hong Kong’s parliament approved a new education law on July 8, the Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong, Bishop Zen, has openly voiced his disappointment. The Church in Hong Kong had already p ...
• 12 July 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Beatification cause of 124 Korean martyrs officially opened in Seoul Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - On July 5 at the offices of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea in Seoul the beatification cause for the Servant of God Paul Yun Ji-chung and 123 companions was officially opened. July 5 w ...
• 12 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Building peace and reconciliation, showing solidarity to the suffering: symposium on the role and challenges of priests in an area of tension among different communities Guwahati (Fides Service) - Closeness to God, solidarity towards others are the characteristics of a good priest, said Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, President Indian Bishop Conference at a recent symposium on the priestly li ...
• 10 July 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - A STUDY - Harmony and religious freedom: the paths of peace for civil development and the progress of peoples SRI LANKA (society and religion) Colombo (Fides Service) - Peace and religious freedom, two of the highest values of civil harmony are threatened in Sri Lanka. A recent suicide bombing in the centre of the capital Colombo and a Bill presented in Parliam ...
• 10 July 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Political, social and religious forces must unite to guarantee peace and reconciliation necessary for progress and prosperity Colombo (Fides Service) - In Sri Lanka tension is high, but the time is ripe for a change; the country’s political, social and religious forces must commit themselves to guaranteeing peace and religious freedom imperat ...
• 10 July 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The roots of the ethnic conflict which has shed the country’s blood and strangled the economy Colombo (Fides Service) -Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) since 1984 has lived an inter-ethnic conflict between the Sinhalese majority (about 74% of the population) and the Tamil majority of Indian origin (about 13%). Anothe ...
• 10 July 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - INFO Area 65,630 sq km; Population 19,287,000; Density pop/sq km 281,9; Urban Pop. 22,5%; population growth 1.4%; life expectancy 70 anni (men), 76 (women); literacy 92%; Languages Sinhalese, Tamil, English; Ethnic groups Sin ...
• 10 July 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA Links to background stories from Fides Archives Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of today’s study on Sri Lanka - with a domestic debate on the peace process and religious we suggest you use the following list of links from Fides Archives as background ...
• 10 July 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - A STUDY - Harmony and religious freedom (contents) ASIA/SRI LANKA - Harmony and religious freedom: the paths of peace for civil development and the progress of peoples SRI LANKA (society and religion) ASIA/SRI LANKA - Political, social and religious forces must unite ...
• 10 July 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Guarantee freedom of conscience and religion: indispensable condition for democracy - Local Church works to maintain dialogue with Buddhists while opposing the “anti-conversion” law and proposing mixed Commission state/religious communities Colombo (Fides Service) - Unless every citizen is guaranteed freedom of conscience and religion it will be impossible to build harmony and peace, development and prosperity and make Sri Lanka an authentic democracy the C ...
• 9 July 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Living the family and love with a faith dimension: local Church focuses on education of youth Seoul (Fides Service) - Hedonism, secularisation, moral relativism, are endemic ills in Korean society which often affect the decisions of young Koreans in their personal and social life. With this in mind this year 2004 ...
• 9 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Commission for dialogue between Catholic Church and Assyrian Church of the East approves common statement on Sacraments: steps towards unity Thrissur (Fides Service) - Moving towards unity members of the mixed Commission of the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East approved a common statement on the Sacraments. The statement will now be examine ...