Asia

• 11 September 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - CHURCH IN KOREA ENCOURAGES BASIC ECCLESIAL COMMUNITIES FOR EVANGELISATION BASED ON WORD OF GOD AND COMMUNITY LIFE Seoul (Fides Service) – Promotion of Basic Ecclesial Communities BEC as a means of evangelisation through laity and families: this is the intention of a group of Catholic Bishops in Korea who recently invited Catholic ...
• 11 September 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - TERRORISM IS A CONCERN BUT PEOPLE ARE PREOCCUPIED WITH ECONOMIC PROBLEMS, UNEMPLOYMENT, POVERTY: SAYS BISHOP SITUMORANG, SECRETARY OF THE INDONESIAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE Padang (Fides Service) – “This is a September 11 without tension although fear of terrorism remains after the recent attack, but what peopel are mostly concerned with is work and feeding the family” says Bishop Mar ...
• 10 September 2003
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - SARS ALARM BUT WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION APPEALS FOR CALM BUT NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. CHINESE CATHOLICS CARRY ON DAILY PRAYERS Singapore (Fides Service) – A new case of SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Singapore has put the international community in alarm. In various parts of the world, especially those countries affected by the viru ...
• 10 September 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - MARY OF NAZARETH UNITES MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS: PILGRIMS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY GATHER AT MARIAMBAD SHRINE Mariambad (Fides Service) – “I am truly grateful to the people of Mariambad for their generous collaboration in welcoming pilgrims from all over the country” said Archbishop Lawrence Saldhana of Lahore in his addre ...
• 10 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - CATHOLIC CHURCH LAUNCHES ANTI-AIDS CAMPAIGN IN CHURCH-RUN INSTITUTIONS: 5,000 HOSPITALS AND 2,000 REHABILITATION CENTRES New Delhi (Fides Service) – The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India has launched a major nation-wide campaign to coordinate efforts to alleviate the suffering of an estimated 4.5 million HIV positive Indians. The C ...
• 10 September 2003
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - EVERY YEAR 300,000 SRI LANKAN CHILDREN VICTIMS OF PAEDOPHILIA: CATHOLICS COMMITTED TO ELIMINATING THIS HORROR AND OBJECT TO LEGALISATION OF PROSTITUTION WHICH FEEDS ABUSE AND CRIMINALITY Colombo (Fides Service) – Catholics in Colombo are strongly objecting to a petition being circulated in the city to legalise prostitution and organise sexual trade in certain areas of the Sri Lankan capital. The city� ...
• 10 September 2003
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - MARIST BROTHERS OPEN CATHOLIC SCHOOL TO IMPROVE LIFE QUALITY OF DISABLED CHILDREN Rome (Fides Service) – The Marist Brothers, whose charisma is care and teaching for youth, have opened a Catholic school for disabled children in Cambodia 8 km south of Phnom Penh, the capital. At present La Valla Scho ...
• 10 September 2003
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - SARS VIRUS MAY BE CHANGING, WORLD ALARM GROWS Singapore (Fides Service) – Ian Simpson, spokesman of the World health Organisation (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, has confirmed the suspected case of SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. However he also ...
• 9 September 2003
  ASIA/THAILAND - CHRISTIANS, BUDDHISTS AND MUSLIMS JOIN FORCES TO ASSIST 217,000 HIV/AIDS PATIENTS AND 300,000 AIDS ORPHANS Bangkok (Fides Service) – Religious communities can do a lot to prevent the spread of AIDS in Asia: this was said during a recent meeting of Christians, Buddhists and Muslims in Bangkok, Thailand. The local Catholic ...
• 9 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - MISSION IN CHINA: MOTHER TERESA HAD A DREAM AND IT WILL COME TRUE Calcutta (Fides Service) – Mother Teresa of Calcutta dreamed of opening a Home for the poor in China. This did not happen during her life time but there is hope that it may soon come true. On 5 September, the 5th anniv ...
• 8 September 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - FIRST BISHOP OF ULAAN BAATOR, THANKS CHURCH IN KOREA FOR MISSIONARIES AND SUPPORT TO GROWING CATHOLIC COMMUNITY IN MONGOLIA Seoul (Fides Service) – “Mongolia, a world where in the past the Catholic faith was banned, has begun to taste the first fruits of evangelisation. For this we offer heartfelt thanks to the Church in Korea for her mis ...
• 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 ...