Asia

• 9 July 2004
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Results of legislative elections announced Ulaanbaator (Fides Service) - After some days of protests, the general elections commission has announced the results of parliamentary elections in Mongolia held ten days ago. The Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party ...
• 8 July 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bitter fight between secular and fundamentalist Muslims in North-West Frontier Province over Sharia plans which threaten country’s democracy Islamabad (Fides Service) - Amidst general protests of large sectors of society, moderate Muslims, human rights groups and, religious minorities, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal MMA governing alliance of radical religious pa ...
• 8 July 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Philippines Clergy Congress reflects on problems and challenges of pastoral ministry Manila (Fides) - Energy and hope despite the shortage of priests and need for more vocations: this is the picture emerging from the first Philippines Clergy Congress taking place in Manila, 5-9 July which has brought tog ...
• 8 July 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Struggle to eliminate corruption: state, Church and business world club together Manila (Fides Service) - Uproot corruption thanks with the help of public officials and all the citizens and the morality campaign launched by the Church in the Philippines: this is the objective of President Gloria Maca ...
• 8 July 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Interreligious Seminar on “Spirituality, Religion and Health” confirms that religion and spirituality are good for mind and body Hong Kong (Fides Service) - A successful Seminar on “Spirituality, Religion and Health” which brought together doctors, psychologists, Buddhists, Taoists, Protestants and Catholics and priests and pastoral workers of ...
• 7 July 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Indonesia’s presidency: postponed to second round of votes in September Jakarta (Fides Service) - With 40% of the votes cast on July 5 for a new president of Indonesia counted, no candidate appears to have obtained the necessary majority which means that there will be a second round of votin ...
• 7 July 2004
  ASIA /SOUTH KOREA - “To be a church community which is respected”: Cheongju diocese announces diocesan Synod to mark 50th anniversary of its institution Cheongju (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Cheongju, which will have the 50th anniversary of its institution in 2008, plans to hold a diocesan synod and promote three projects to celebrate its 50 years of history. In this ...
• 7 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - India’s Bishops welcome government’s promise to draft a law to protect religious minorities- Link Fides: to origins of Christianity in India New Delhi (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of India have welcomed the government’s decision to draft a law to protect religious minorities in India. The spokesman of the Bishops’ Conference Father Babu Joseph, ...
• 6 July 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - On the horizon a second round of voting for Indonesia’s president Jakarta (Fides Service) - There will probably be a second round of elections for presidency in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country with 230 million people 87% Muslim. About 80% of the more than 150 mill ...
• 6 July 2004
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - New Vicar Episcopal appointed for Catholic diocese of Pyongyang: hopes for new springtime of the Church in North Korea Pyongyang (Fides Service) - Even at difficult times the Church in south Korea has never lost hope of starting once again to evangelise in north Korea and help the faith to flourish. Today these hopes are closer to coming ...
• 5 July 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Polling stations closed: good turnout 150 million Indonesians place first ever vote for President Jakarta (Fides Service) - Good turnout, no incidents so far, great hopes for today’s elections say Fides sources in Jakarta where 150 million Indonesians expressed their choice for the new president of the world’s mo ...
• 5 July 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Twenty days of intensive formation for 102 catechists from parishes in Liao Ning Liao Ning (Fides Service) -The Liao Ning Community Formation Centre in Liao Ning (north east China) holds courses for priests, religious and laity, catechists in particular. As every year before the Summer the Centre off ...
• 3 July 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Monday 5 July Indonesia will elect a new president: fears and hopes for a nation balancing between Muslim fundamentalism and democracy Jakarta (Fides Service) - Indonesia, the world’s most popular Muslim country, which in recent years started out on the path to democracy, struggling with ferments of dangerous fundamentalism, is about to elect a new pr ...
• 3 July 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Candidates and strategies in first direct presidential elections Jakarta (Fides Service) - This is the first time that Indonesians will vote their president. During the dictatorship (1966-1998), and in the following years, the President was elected by the People’s Consultative Assem ...
• 3 July 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Old policies and a new course: path bristling with obstacles for Indonesia’s fragile democracy Jakarta (Fides Service) - “Ghost of the past may return”: this is the observers’ fear on the eve of presidential elections on July 5. Reliable Fides sources in Jakarta say that the present day political scene feels ...