Asia

• 18 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - WORD OF GOD NOW ACCESSIBLE TO MORE THAN 200 MILLION PEOPLE THANKS TO 35 YEARS OF DEDICATED WORK TO PRODUCE BIBLE IN BENGALI Calcutta (Fides Service) – The complete Bible has been translated and published in Bengali thanks to the Xavier Publications House in Calcutta. The Bengali Bible was presented to the press at the Jesuit Communications ...
• 18 November 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - PREVENT ABORTION AND SUICIDE “SAVE ANOTHER LIFE!”: “LIFE 31” CAMPAIGN TO SAVE AN ESTIMATED 4.000 UNBORN BABIES KILLED IN THEIR MOTHER’S WOMB EVERY DAY Seoul (Fides Service) – The figures are frightening: it is estimated that in South Korea at least 4.000 women abort a child every day and this means that about 1,5 unborn babies are denied a chance to live. In this sit ...
• 18 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - FUNDAMENTALISTS LAUNCH GRENADE AT GOOD SHEPHERD SCHOOL INJURING THREE OFFICE STAFF AND A SECURITY GUARD Srinagar (Fides Service) – There is fear among Christians in Kashmir after grenade was launched on 15 November at Good Shepherd Catholic School in Pulwama, 35 km from Srinagar, in Kashmir. Three office staff and a sec ...
• 17 November 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - INTIMIDATION AGAINST CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN NORTHERN IRAQ. FUNDAMENTALISTS PAY YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TO ADOPT EXTREMIST ATTITUDES Mosul (Fides Service )- Fides has received news of serious acts of intimidation against Christian communities in Mosul northern Iraq. “Last week a bomb was found in front of Catholic school in Mosul; luckily it was def ...
• 17 November 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE”: NATIONAL BIBLE WEEK IN SOUTH KOREA 23 TO 30 NOVEMBER Seoul (Fides Service) – From 23 to 30 November the Church in South Korea will celebrate a National Bible Week promoted by the Biblical Commission of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference CBCK. The theme for reflection is ...
• 17 November 2003
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS AT ANNUAL MEETING DISCUSS CATECHESIS, FORMATION AND MISSION IN DIFFICULT SOCIAL POLITICAL CONTEXT Phnom Penh (Fides Service) – “The meeting was a positive event lived in an atmosphere of brotherhood and sharing. We discussed priorities for the Church today, including the building of new communities, catechesis an ...
• 14 November 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - “WE DO NOT WANT IRAQ TO BE ANOTHER PALESTINE! NO STATE, A NATION LEFT AT THE MERCY OF TERRORISTS”: HEARTFELT PLEA TO FIDES BY SUPERIOR GENERAL OF CHALDEAN CATHOLIC MONKS Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – “We do not want Iraq to be another Palestine! No state, a nation left at the mercy of terrorist groups and its people dying of hunger!”. This was the heartfelt plea launched by Father Den ...
• 14 November 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM MUST RESPECT THE HUMAN PERSON AND IT CAN HELP CHINESE CATHOLICS TO FULFIL THEIR DREAM TO MAKE A PILGRIMAGE TO EUROPE Beijing (Fides Service) – Following the summit meeting between China the European Union, the tourist industry is China has been fully alerted. A tourist operator in Beijing tells Fides “the China UE talks opened new ...
• 13 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - INDIA THREATENED BY GROWING HINDU FASCISM: CATHOLIC CLERGY VOICE CONCERN Patna (Fides Service) – India’s Catholic priests are alarmed by a growing spirit of intolerance felt all over the country threatened by waves of ideological fascism and Hindu fundamentalism based on Hiindutva. This e ...
• 13 November 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - PRESIDENT ARROYO’S NATIONAL UNITY PLAN WANTS HELP FROM LOCAL CHURCH AND BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE PRESIDENT ARCHBISHOP CAPALLA Zamboanga (Fides Service) – The national plan for unity and reconciliation launched by President Gloria Arroyo “is a good opportunity to re-launch dialogue and the peace process although there is a danger that this i ...
• 12 November 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - ITALIAN TROOPS KILLED: IRAQI CHRISTIANS VOICE SYMPATHY TO ITALY THROUGH FATHER NIZAR SEMAAN Rome (Fides Service)- “We firmly condemn the attack on Italian troops on a peacekeeping mission in Iraq” Catholic priest Father Nizar Semaan of Ninive tells Fides expressing sympathy with Italy of all the Christians ...
• 12 November 2003
  ASIA/NEPAL - JESUIT REFUGEES SERVICE CALLS ON INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO HELP SOLVE CRISIS OF BHUTAN REFUGEES IN NEPAL Kathmandu (Fides Service) – A call for an International Conference between the governments of Bhutan and Nepal and the UN High Commission for Refugees UNHCR to find a lasting solution to the 12 year crisis of Bhutanes ...
• 12 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - “WE ARE A DYNAMIC AND VIBRANT, WHICH RUNS MANY SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS DESPITE OBSTACLES POSED BY TAMIL NADU LOCAL GOVERNMENT”: ARCHBISHOP JAMES ARUL DAS OF MADRAS SPEAKS TO FIDES Vatican City (Fides Service) – “In Tamil Nadu the Church is dynamic and vibrant. We have about 3.2 million Catholics in the state and we are present with various social institutions, schools, hospitals and orphanages ...
• 12 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - MORE THAN 1,300 JESUITS TO ATTEND BOMBAY SOCIAL FORUM IN JANUARY TO DISCUSS GLOBALISATION AND EXCLUSION, TAKING SIDES WITH THE POOR Bombay (Fides Service ) – More than 1.300 Jesuits from all over the world will take part in the 4th World Social Forum WSF in Bombay 16 - 21 January 2004, Father Joe Xavier S J, head the organising committee told Fid ...
• 12 November 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “FAMILY SANCTIFICATION DEPARTMENT ” IN EVERY PARISH IN CHONJU DIOCESE TO ANIMATE FAMILY PASTORAL AND ANNOUNCE THE GOSPEL TO NON CHRISTIAN FAMILIES Chonju (Fides Service ) – The Catholic Bishops of Korea have chosen the family as the focal point of the pastoral concern because they say the family must be seen both as the object and subject of evangelisation, a fun ...