Asia

• 8 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - RELICS OF GREAT MISSIONARY ST FRANCIS XAVIER WILL BE SHOWN TO THE PUBLIC IN 2004 Goa (Fides Service) – The general public will be able to view the relics of the great Spanish missionary Saint Francis Xavier at the end of next year 2004 in Goa, India. This was announced with a decree signed by Archb ...
• 8 September 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - FATHER NIZAR IN IRAQ SAYS FIVE MONTHS AFTER THE “END “ OF THE WAR, THE SITUATION IS UNBEARABLE Baghdad (Fides Service) – Five months have passed since the fall of Saddam Hussein and his regime and the Iraqi people who hoped for a better life than the one they left behind, are disappointed” Iraqi Catholic pries ...
• 5 September 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - STILL 200,000 MOLUCCAS PEOPLE WITHOUT HOMES: WAR MADE ISLANDS ONE OF INDONESIA’S POOREST REGIONS Ambon (Fides Service) – Still 200,000 displaced persons, an economy which cannot find its legs, tourism still at the starting line, no public funds for rebuilding infrastructures, roads, schools, hospitals, universitie ...
• 5 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE NEVER ENDING BISHOP OF KASHMIR SAYS: “ENOUGH WAR AND TERRORISM, CIVILIANS CANNOT TAKE ANY MORE!” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “People are too afraid even to leave the house. Civilians have had enough of war and terrorism, of this situation of tension and fear with army and police all over the place. Kashmir de ...
• 4 September 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - PADRE NIZAR SEMAAN. “THE NEW IRAQI GOVERNMENT IS NOT FAR FROM A RETURN TO NORMALITY” Baghdad (Fides Service)- “The setting up of the new government is an important step on the way to normality for Iraq ” Catholic priest Father Nizar Semaan, of Ninive diocese in northern Iraq, tells Fides with regard ...
• 4 September 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - DESPITE TENSION WITH MUSLIMS CHRISTIANS OCCUPY GROWING SPACE ON RADIO AND NOT ONLY CATHOLIC COMPANIES Lahore (Fides Service ) – The number of Christian commentators and personalities heard on the radio in Pakistan is growing steadily and not only on Catholic radios. Besides Radio Veritas in Urdu, which broadcasts an an ...
• 4 September 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - INTENSE PREPARATION FOR 8TH CONGRESS OF THE FAMILY OF RELIGIOUS IN ASIA AND OCEANIA: MAJOR EVEN OF COMMUNION AND SHARING FOR LOCAL CHURCHES Taipei (Fides) – The entire family of religious men and women in Asia and Oceania is preparing for the inter-continental Meeting of Religious 20-30 October in Taiwan. The Congress the 8th Asian-Oceania Meeting of Reli ...
• 4 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - “MOTHER TERESA THE MOST PRECIOUS GEM”: SCHOOL CONTEST IN RAJASTHAN STATE, CHILDREN OF ALL AGES CHRISTIAN AND NON, BUSY PRODUCING ESSAYS, PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES ON MOTHER TERESA Jaipur (Fides Agency) – Jaipur is known for its precious resources and production of gems, but the local people consider the most precious of all gems Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the little nun clad in a white sari who ...
• 4 September 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “CATHOLICS HELPED FOUND OUR COUNTRY AND FORM NATIONAL IDENTITY SAYS FATHER BERNARD INAYAT Lahore (Fides Service) – Speaking of recent tension between Muslims and Christians in Pakistan and denying the statements that Christianity is seen as a “foreign religion” Father Bernard Inayat, Head of the Pakist ...
• 3 September 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - IRAQ IS A GAMBLING TABLE WHERE EVERYONE WANTS TO PLAY AND EVERYONE WANTS TO WIN, EVEN AT THE COST OF MASS MURDER, SAYS IRAQI CATHOLIC PRIEST FATHER NIZAR Rome (Fides Service) – “Together with the entire nation I want to express my grief over the assassination of Ayatollah Al Hakim” Iraqi Catholic priest Father Nizar in Ninive, northern Iraq tells Fides Service, comm ...
• 3 September 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - MORE THAN HALF A MILLION EXPECTED TO JOIN ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE TO MARIAMBAD IN LAHORE 5-7 SEPTEMBER Lahore (Fides Service) – At least half a million people are expected to join the annual pilgrimage to Mariambad in the archdiocese of Lahore 5-7 September. The pilgrimage, now a central annual event for the Catholic Ch ...
• 3 September 2003
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - PEACE WALKS WITH CHILDREN: JESUITS IN THE NORTH LAUNCH PROGRAMME FOR RECONCILIATION BETWEEN SINHALESE AND TAMIL YOUTH Batticaloa (Fides Service) – Peace is built with small steps say the Jesuit Fathers in northern Sri Lanka in Batticaloa, a mainly Tamil area for many years the scene of civil conflict between the army and Tamil separat ...
• 2 September 2003
  ASIA/MONGOLIA: SEE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CARDINAL SEPE’S VISIT AS POPE'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ON THE OCCASION OF THE EPISCOPAL ORDINATION OF FIRST APOSTOLIC PREFECT AND CONSECRATION OF LOCAL CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL ON FIDES SERVICE WEBSITE On our website – Section Congregations – you may view a series of photographs of a recent visit to Mongolia by Cardinal Sepe. The photographs may be downloaded and freely used. The Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregati ...
• 2 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - JESUITS OFFER HOME AND HOPE TO ORPHANS AND ABANDONED CHILDREN Bombay (Fides Service) –“Snehasadan” which means “Home where we are loved” is the name of a home for street children run by the Jesuits which for forty years has restored hope and joy of life to orphans or aban ...
• 2 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - FIDES SERVICE FOR STREET CHILDREN “A child never chooses the street” Jesuit Father Placido Fonseca who runs a home for children in Bombay tells Fides Service. Nevertheless today the world has more than 100 million street children mainly in Asia, Lati ...