Asia

• 2 October 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - OUR MISSION IS EVANGELISATION A TASK NOT ONLY FOR PRIESTS AD RELIGIOUS BUT ALSO FOR YOUTH SAYS PRESIDENT OF KOREAN BISHOPS SACRED SCRIPTURE COMMISSION AT THE START OF OCTOBER MONTH OF MISSION Seoul (Fides Service) – “The Word of God must be given central place in the Church’s mission and youth must be helped to take major role in missionary commitment” said Father Joseph Kyeong Kap-ryong at the start ...
• 1 October 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - RELICS OF MOTHER TERESA WILL BE CARRIED TO ROME FOR BEATIFICATION: SWELLING FLOW OF VISITORS TO VENERATE THE HOLY NUN AT HER BURIAL PLACE IN CALCUTTA Calcutta (Fides Service) – It is natural for people to treasure the memory and belongings of a loved one who is no longer in this world. On the occasion of a Beatification the relics of the person are usually presented ...
• 1 October 2003
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - BETHLEHEM CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY A LIGHT OF HOPE AND DIALOGUE IN A WILDERNESS OF VIOLENCE: 30 YEARS AT THE SERVICE OF EDUCATION AND CULTURAL GROWTH IN THE HOLY LAND Bethlehem (Fides Service) – Amidst the wilderness of war and violence in the Holy Land, in the little town of Bethlehem, where Jesus the Prince of Peace was born, a light of hope is burning. The light comes from the Be ...
• 30 September 2003
  ASIA/NEPAL - DESPITE DANGER AND THREATS PRIESTS, RELIGIOUS AND LAITY DETERMINED TO CONTINUE SERVICE OF EDUCATION Kathmandu(Fides Service) – Much fear but no one hurt. Recently the Catholic mission at Okhrey, Dharan, 500 km south of Kathmandu, capital of Nepal, run by the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was torched by Maoist r ...
• 30 September 2003
  ASIA/CHINA – DESPITE FEAR AND DIFFICULTIES CATHOLICS IN SHANDONG CELEBRATE CANONISATION OF FATHER JOSEPH FREINADEMETZ MISSIONARY TO CHINA Shandong (Fides Service) - The deep faith of Chinese Catholics sustains them even amidst difficulties and persecution. Over a century ago when the Catholic community in Shandong province in eastern China was struck by an ...
• 30 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - WOMAN CURED OF CANCER BY MOTHER TERESA’S INTERCESSION WILL ATTEND BEATIFICATION IN ROME Bangalore (Fides Service) – The poor will play a major role in celebrations for the Beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Among the special guests for the Mass presided by Pope John Paul II in Rome on 19 October ...
• 29 September 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “MAKE THE EUCHARIST THE VITAL, THROBBING HEART OF PARISH LIFE” SAY KOREAN BISHOPS TO THEIR PRIESTS,DIOCESAN AND RELIGIOUS Seoul (Fides Service) “The Church draws her very life from the Eucharist” is the title of a Letter issued by the Commission for the Clergy and the Religious of the Korean Bishops’ Conference in which the Bishops ur ...
• 29 September 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - PARISH ARCHIVES GET ORGANISED WITH COMPUTERS: CHURCH KEEPS UP WITH THE TIMES PUTTING MODERN TECHNOLOGY AT SERVICE OF THE APOSTOLATE Taipei (Fides Service) – Every parish in every diocese in Taiwan will soon have a computer to improve communication within the local Church, be more effective in the field of social communications, update parish archiv ...
• 29 September 2003
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - BARNABITE FATHERS 70 YEARS OF SERVICE IN AFGHANISTAN: KABUL MISSION FIRST STEP FOR GROWTH OF LOCAL CHURCH” SAYS NUNCIO TO PAKISTAN, ARCHBISHOP ALESSANDRO D’ERRICO Kabul (Fides Service) – Sincere gratitude to the Barnabite Fathers for their pastoral zeal and also the Catholic humanitarian agencies, Caritas Internationalis, Caritas Germany Trocaire (Caritas Ireland) Misereor (Germ ...
• 26 September 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - TAIPEI SENDS POPE SPIRITUAL BOUQUET TO MARK 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS ELECTION TO SEE OF PETER Taipei (Fides Service) – The Archdiocese of Taipei has launched a special prayer campaign to render homage to His Holiness Pope John Paul II on the occasion of his 25 years of Pontificate. On 13 September Taipei dioces ...
• 26 September 2003
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - CONCLUDED INTERRELIGIOUS MEETING IN ASTANA: EXTREMISM TERRORISM AND OTHER FORMS OF VIOLENCE IN THE NAME OF RELIGION HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH GENUINE UNDERSTANDING OF RELIGION, BUT ARE A THREAT TO HUMAN LIFE Astana (Fides Service) – At the end of the “First Congress of Leaders of the World and Traditional Religions” held from 23 to 24 September in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, the participants, representing the ma ...
• 26 September 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - BISHOP IN THE GUERRILLA WAR ZONE: MGR ANGELITO LAMPON APOSTOLIC VICAR OF JOLO, WHOSE PREDECESSOR WAS ASSASSINATED BY REBELS, TELLS FIDES SERVICE ABOUT DAILY LIFE AND DANGER Vatican City (Fides Service) – Despite an armed escort for his protection in the area infested with armed groups and fighting between army and rebels, Bishop Angelito Lampon Apostolic Vicar of Jolo goes ahead with this ...
• 24 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - BEATIFICATION OF MOTHER TERESA: OPPORTUNITY TO RE-LAUNCH INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE THROUGHOUT INDIA – “SAVE A MILLION LIVES” PROJECT Bangalore (Fides Service) – The Beatification of Mother Teresa will be an opportunity to re-launch interreligious dialogue throughout India at a time of tension between communities of different religious faiths. Mother ...
• 24 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - BISHOPS ASK FOR CLEMENCY FOR MISSIONARY’S MURDERER: “WE ALWAYS DEFEND VALUE OF LIFE” New Delhi (Fides Service) – Justice but not revenge has been requested by the Catholic Bishops of India with regard to a death sentence issued to Dara Singh found guilty of murdering Australian Protestant missionary Gr ...
• 24 September 2003
  ASIA/LAOS - FRUITS OF WORLD YOUTH DAYS: VOCATIONS AMONG YOUNG CATHOLIC, SIGNS OF HOPE FOR LITTLE ISOLATED CHURCH Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Our community welcomes as signs of hope its young vocations which will enrich and strengthen the Church in Laos. These young people who want to become priests trace their calling back ...