Asia

• 2 December 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - FIRST INTERACTIVE MALAYALAM BIBLE ON CD-ROM TO SPREAD THE WORD AMONG INDIA’S YOUTH Cochin (Fides Service) – Young people in India are spending increasingly more time in front of the computer. To spread the Word of God among PC users, young and old, ten years of labour have made the Bible in Malayalam ...
• 2 December 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - HUMAN RESOURCES MINISTRY ASSIGNS NATIONAL CHILD CARE AWARD TO CHRISTIANS FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE: CATHOLICS EVER MORE INVOLVED IN HELPING LOCAL PEOPLE New Delhi (Fides Service) – While in some Indian states violence against Christians and Christian institutions reportedly continues, Catholics continue to serve the community. This commitment, often silent and unnotice ...
• 1 December 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS: CHURCH IN GOA DETERMINED TO PROTECT YOUTH FROM HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC Goa (Fides Service) – The alarming AIDS pandemic in India places a series of challenges which the Church in Goa is determined to answer to prevent the young generation in this region formerly under Portuguese governmen ...
• 1 December 2003
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - FRIARS TELL PILGRIMS: “COME, INVADE THE HOLY LAND!” COME TO BETHLEHEM FOR CHRISTMAS Jerusalem (Fides Service) – An call for a “peaceful invasion” of the Holy Land 2003 has been launched by the Franciscans in Jerusalem, Holy Land Custodians. After news from travel agents that bookings for the Holy ...
• 29 November 2003
  ASIA/TURKEY - ST ANDREW’S DAY IN ISTANBUL: ANNUAL GESTURE UNITY AND COMMUNITY AMONG CATHOLIC AND ORTHODOX SISTER CHURCHES THIS YEAR IN THE LIGHT OF SOLIDARITY WITH JEWS AND MUSLIMS Istanbul (Fides Service ) – “The encounter of Catholic and Orthodox church leaders on the occasion of Saint Andrew’s Day is an important event of brotherhood among Christians. It is an even which demonstrates mutua ...
• 28 November 2003
  ASIA/NEPAL - CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES RECEIVE ROYAL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION: QUALITY INSTRUCTION PROVIDED BY THE CHURCH OVERCOMES CULTURAL AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCES Kathmandu (Fides Service) – The Catholic Church in Nepal, a small community of 6,000 among a population of 23 million, is celebrating since two of its members received a national award from the hands of the King. Two ...
• 28 November 2003
  ASIA/HONG KONG - EVANGELISING THROUGH MEDIA CULTURE, PROMOTING JUSTICE: MEETING OF CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL CIMEMA ORGANISATION OCIC IN ASIA Hong Kong (Fides Service) – Catholic media must unite to defend justice , promote the rights of citizens and imbue society with the values of the Gospel values. These ideas were voiced by Bishops Joseph Zen of Hong Kon ...
• 28 November 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM WOMEN COMMITTED TO INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE: CONFERENCE ON CONDITION OF WOMEN IN PAKISTAN SOCIETY Lahore (Fides Service) – Interreligious dialogue travels also via female sensitivity: with an unprecedented initiative, news of which reached Fides Service, a recent study Seminar on the conditions of women in Pakistan ...
• 27 November 2003
  ASIA/HOLY LAND – PILGRIMS BUILD BRIDGES FOR CHRISTIANS FROM EAST AND WEST; HOLY LAND HOPES FOR MORE VISITORS FOR CHRISTMAS 2003 AND IN THE NEW YEAR Vatican City (Fides Service ) – A pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a way to respond to Pope John Paul II’s urgent call on Sunday 16 November to build “bridges not walls” in the Holy Land. A pilgrimage is a bridge o ...
• 27 November 2003
  ASIA/JAPAN – CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA MEET TO PROMOTE RECONCILIATION BETWEEN COUNTRIES DIVIDED BY HISTORY Nagasaki (Fides Service ) – A joint appeal to look at history in the light of truth and reconciliation has been launched by the Catholic Bishops of Japan and South Korea meeting recently in Nagasaki, Japan. Nine years ...
• 27 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA – ST GABRIEL BROTHERS MARK CENTENARY OF MISSION IN INDIA Patna (Fides Service) – A hundred years ago in 1903 three French St Gabriel Brothers of Christian Education set out from Saint Laurent sur Sèvre Vandea, France for India and they settled at Pondicherry, in southern In ...
• 26 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - “THE CEASE-FIRE A BLESSING FROM GOD, BUT WE CALL ON GOVERNMENTS TO KEEP THEIR PROMISES” KASHMIR’S ONLY BISHOP TOLD FIDES Srinagar (Fides Service) – “The cease fire is a blessing from God! It comes at the end of Ramadan and it is the Lord’s gift to all the people of Kashmir so sorely tried. We welcome the treaty with great enthusiasm ...
• 26 November 2003
  ASIA/TURKEY - DESPITE FEAR IN RECENT DAYS, AS RAMADAN COMES TO AN END FAMILIES OF DIFFERENT RELIGIONS GATHER TO SHARE MEALS AND DIALOGUE Antioch (Fides Service) – In these days of Muslim festivities for the end of Ramadan in Antioch, known to be a city of peace and harmony among peoples and religions, fear has been set aside and the different religious ...
• 25 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - HINDU FUNDAMENTALISTS DEVASTATE A CATHOLIC CHURCH, BIBLES BURNED, NUN RAPED Bhubaneshwar (Fides Service ) – The Catholic community in Orissa state, east India is in a state of shock after a new wave of Hindu fundamentalists against the Indian Catholic Church. A group of men on motor bikes belo ...
• 25 November 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - NEW JESUIT PUBLICATION “RENLAI” TO PROMOTE DIALOGUE WITH THE CHINESE WORLD Taipei (Fides Service) – With a new monthly publication Renlai, Jesuits in Taiwan intend to promote authentic dialogue with the Chinese world. Renlai, meaning “Flute of Humanity”, is published by the “Ricci Cultu ...