Asia

• 29 May 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - More than 2,000 priests, religious and laity at the service of children: National Congress for Catholic Educators in Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - “Walking Beside Them” was the theme of a recent National Congress for Catholic Educators held in Seoul. The event was attended by 2,000 teachers, educators, pastoral workers, priests, men and ...
• 29 May 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Hebei: two Catholic priests detained by police for five days are released but no sign of two arrested Bishops Baoding (Fides Service) - Two Catholic priests, Father Lu Genjun, aged 42, and Father Cheng Xiaoli, aged 40, arrested on 14 May were released four days later on May 18. The priests were arrested in Anguo, 200 km south we ...
• 28 May 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Education and catechesis and social assistance: Marist Brothers in mostly Muslim area of southern Philippines welcome local novices Kidapawan (Fides Service) - The community of the Marist Brothers in Kidapawan, southern Philippines recently gave a warm welcome to two local novices Brother Jeff Rhey Antiquiza and Brother Albert Munoz. Both young men s ...
• 28 May 2004
  ASIA/QATAR - “Religious freedom antidote to fundamentalism”: 2nd International Conference on Christian/Muslim Dialogue opens in Doha Doha (Agenzia Fides) - Some 300 people have gathered in Doha, Qatar, for the 2nd International Conference on Christian/Muslim Dialogue organised by the commission for relations with Muslims of the Pontifical Council for ...
• 28 May 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Vote candidates committed to fighting corruption and promoting social development: Bishops advise Catholic in view of presidential elections on 5 July Jakarta (Fides Service) - “Vote for a president seriously committed to preventing the destruction of nature and who has the courage to work to eliminate corruption and punish the corrupt. We need a national leader who ...
• 27 May 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - National paper front page cartoon offends India’s Christians: Catholic Bishops protest New Delhi (Fides Service) - India’s Christians were deeply offended by a cartoon with regard to the recent elections in India published by a national newspaper. Strong protest was voiced by the country’s Catholic Bis ...
• 26 May 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - In rich societies the custom to exclude the aged must be overcome: commitment of Church in Taipei Taipei (Fides Service) - Taipei is rightly proud of its Catholic Home for the Aged opened by the Jesuit fathers. Twenty years ago Jesuits gave the home to the archdiocese handing it to the then Archbishop Matteo Kia. Tod ...
• 26 May 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Highlight of celebrations for Marian month of May in China: Feast of “Mary Help of Christians” at Dong Lu shrine Dong Lu (Fides Service) - On May 24 feast of Our Lady help of Christians the Marian Shrine in Dong Lu, Hebei province was overflowing with pilgrims from many parts of China and overseas. As elsewhere in the world the fea ...
• 26 May 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Korean fidei donum priests will be sent on mission to the United States to care for overseas Catholics Seoul (Fides Service) - The respective Commissions for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples of the Korean Bishops’ Conference and the American Bishops’ Conference have agreed on the status and life of Kore ...
• 26 May 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Chain suicides among farmers in Southern India ruined by poor harvests and heavy bank debts: Caritas comes to aid of stricken families Hyderabad (Fides Service) - Caritas and other Catholic humanitarian agencies are striving to help impoverished farmers in the southern Indian state of Andrha Pradesh stricken by bad harvests and who have resorted to comm ...
• 25 May 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - A wedding is not a show of family wealth, it is the celebration of a Sacrament Han Dan (Fides Service) - Also in modern day China Christian weddings are ever more costly and luxurious a sort of competition among families to see who has the most wealth. To stop this tendency, mistaken and not Wu An ...
• 25 May 2004
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Strengthen the spirit of faith, hope and charity in every parish: local communities set to work Taipei (Fides Service) - Parishes all over Taiwan have welcomed the call from Cardinal Paul Shan, President of the Regional Chinese Bishops’ Conference, to build parish communities where people live authentic faith, ho ...
• 25 May 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian Social Institute now NGO accredited with the United Nations New Delhi (Fides Service) - Catholics in India are delighted that the Indian Social Institute (ISI), prestigious institute for research in social studies run by Jesuit Fathers in Delhi, has obtained the status of Non Gov ...
• 25 May 2004
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - East Timor’s president makes symbolic act of forgiveness towards pro-Indonesia militia guilty of being involved in massacres following referendum on independence Dili (Fides Service) - An act of clemency to promote national reconciliation: this was the intention of East Timor’s President Xanana Gusmao when he reduced a sentence issued by a Special Panel for Serious Crimes to th ...
• 25 May 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Efforts to resume negotiations to restore peace: priorities of new government Colombo (Fides Service) - Eliminate the barriers preventing negotiations between government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels is the aim of mediation by Norway resumed recently after the installation of ...