Asia

• 7 June 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Alarming rise in requests for marriage annulments: diocesan chancellor stresses need for adequate pastoral care for couples in crisis Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Over the past 22 years, requests for the annulment of marriages presented to Hong Kong Diocesan Court have increased six time, rising from 10 cases a year 22 years ago to 66 cases last year. T ...
• 5 June 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - “Christian Formation Centre in TaoYuan”: information and social communication to promote growth of local community Taipei (Fides Service) - At the service of the local Church the Christian Formation Centre in TaoYuan supplies a service of information and social formation to promote the cultural and moral growth of the local community ...
• 5 June 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Thousands in Cagayan take part in celebrations to mark 400th anniversary of the arrival of Spanish Dominican missionaries who brought with them devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary Manila (Fides Service) - Thousands gathered on 4th June to take part in celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of the arrival Spanish missionaries who came with a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary now known and rever ...
• 5 June 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Canossian Sisters and Third Order members celebrate Foundress with profession of three new nuns and renewal of promises of 90 Third Order members Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Canossian family in Hong Kong recently marked the feast day of its foundress Saint Magdalene of Canossa. More than 200 Canossian Sisters and a large group of Third Order lay members and fr ...
• 5 June 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Spanish Jesuit who started 145 leprosy centres caring for 10.000 patients opens home in Hunan province for people with HIV/AIDS Rome (Fides Service) - It was 1986, when Father Luis Ruiz, SJ, today 91 years old, first set out to alleviate the sufferings of lepers in the mainland Chinese province of Guangdong where at that time there was no electri ...
• 4 June 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “A Reconciled family becomes agent of reconciliation” theme for “Week for Peace” in Mindanao Manila (Fides Service) - “A Reconciled family becomes an agent of reconciliation ” is the theme of a “Week for Peace” planned for 25 November to 1 December in Mindanao, southern Philippines. The initiative comes ...
• 4 June 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - With regard to the case of Brian Savio O’Connor Indian Catholic tortured and imprisoned in Saudi Arabia, the Catholic Bishops of India call on the government to take official diplomatic action New Delhi (Fides Service) - There is concern and dismay among Catholics in India with regard to the case of Brian Savio O’Connor an Indian citizen residing in Karnataka and working in Saudi Arabia, tortured and impriso ...
• 4 June 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Not only bad news from Iraq: “Highlighting only violence is playing the game of the extremists” Iraqi priest tells the media. Baghdad (Fides Service)-“Give space to positive events in Iraq, not only to attacks and the dead” Iraqi priest Father Nizar Semaan in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul told Fides. “I urge all the media not to presen ...
• 4 June 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Catholics among 60,000 at Vigil to commemorate the dead on the 15th anniversary of the tragedy in Tiananmen Square Beijing Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Catholics in Hong Kong took to the streets as part of the 60,000 people who attended a vigil on June 4th to mark the 15th anniversary of student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in Beijing o ...
• 4 June 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Franciscans Third Order creates group of volunteers to meet social urgencies Taipei (Fides Service) - The Association of Third Order Franciscan Volunteers is receiving marks of appreciation and support. The goal of the Association, started by members of the Third Order of Franciscans in Taiwan, i ...
• 4 June 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - “Parents co-authors of creation”: Seminar organised by the Commission for the Family of the Indian Bishops’ Conference New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - God calls parents to be those who give life, co-authors of creation: to spread awareness and responsiblity among Christian parents was the aim of a recent seminar organised by the Commission f ...
• 3 June 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - India and Pakistan start new negotiation on Kashmir and nuclear safety on June 27th and 28th. New Delhi (Fides Agency) - Peace seems behind the corner: the new Indian government declared it wants to put an end as soon as possible to its dispute with Pakistan on the Kashmir region and now dates have been selected ...
• 3 June 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - New Regional Seminary in Gujarat Ahmedabad (Fides Agency) - On June 12th His Excellency Monsignor Pedro Lopez Quintana, Apostolic Nuncio in India, shall preside over the Eucharistic Celebration opening the new Regional Seminary in the Diocese of Baroda, ...
• 3 June 2004
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The courageous witness of five doctors urges us not to sell off the values of democracy, peace and development. Vatican City (Fides Agency) - The five doctors belonging to Médecins Sans Frontières were killed in an ambush in north-western Afghanistan. Their mission was to bring medical relief to people in danger, to the sick, th ...
• 3 June 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - The Catholic Church exhorts the families to promote religious vocations Shaan Xi (Fides Agency) - The Catholic community of San Yuan, in the province of Shaan Xi, has always focused much of its attention on religious vocations. In the area, many families have offered several of their childre ...