Asia

• 9 June 2004
  ASIA/JAPAN - Formation programmes to encourage vocations to the religious life among women Tokyo (Fides Service) - Women religious are a great gift for the Church: all over the world thousands of Sisters dedicate their life to teaching children, caring for the sick, assisting the poor, and helping in parishes ...
• 9 June 2004
  ASIA - “Martyrs are a gift for the Church in Asia and inspiritaion and encouragement for missionaries”: a reflection by Prof. Jose Vidamor Yu, theologian Manila (Fides Service) - “The martyrs, shining examples of Christians, are witnesses of faith and an extraordinary help for the growth of the Church in Asia. Asians elevated to the honour of the altars planted the Chri ...
• 8 June 2004
  ASIA/NEPAL - Bomb blast in a Catholic school in Nepal: no casualties - the local Church carries on with its pastoral and service of education Kathmandu (Fides Service) - “Institutes of education in Nepal, including Catholic schools, are closed at the moment because of the danger of attacks by Maoist guerrillas. The bomb which exploded in our school caused a ...
• 8 June 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Combining sport with solidarity: city march to raise funds for evangelisation among prison inmates Hong Kong (Fides Service) - “From the very beginning Christians have brought, along with the bred and the wine for the Eucharist, gifts to share with those in need. This custom of the collection, ever appropriate, is i ...
• 8 June 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Reconciliation among communities: a task for all religious beliefs”: Seminar on Dialougue among religions and cultures Mumbai (Fides Service) - “Conflict between religious communities destroys the authentic essence of religion”: this was the conclusion reached by participants at a Seminar “Reconciliation of Communities a task for a ...
• 8 June 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The church attacked on June 6 in Jakarta belong to a protestant community: religion exploited in view of presidential elections Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian protestant church at Ciputat, Tangerang, south of the Indonesian capital Jakarta was attacked on Sunday June 6 and in the violence Pastor Jonathan Wijaya was injured. This was confir ...
• 7 June 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In front of the UN Human Rights Commission, Franciscans and Dominicans support request to abolish blasphemy law in Pakistan Geneva (Fides) - Two NGOs of Catholic religious, Franciscans International and Dominicans for Justice and Peace, accredited to the UN Human Rights Commission based in Geneva Switzerland, have voiced support for a reques ...
• 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 ...