Asia

• 16 July 2003
  ASIA/CHINA/HONG KONG - FROM HONG KONG TO AFRICA: FIRST DIOCESAN PRIEST GOES ON MISSION Hong Kong (Fides Service) – “We are delighted. This is a sign of the maturity of our local Church. Concern for the young Churches of Africa is a sign of growth: when a church is missionary it means that it is dynamic ...
• 15 July 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - THANKS TO ARCHBISHOP’S MEDIATION CONFLICTING ETHNIC GROUPS IN EAST INDIA MAKE PEACE Guwahati (Fides Service) – A Catholic Archbishop succeeded in bringing feuding tribal groups in the east Indian State of Assam to make peace. Mgr Thomas Menamparampil of Guwahati offered to mediate to try to put an end ...
• 15 July 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - VIETNAMESE DIASPORA DETERMINED TO “PUT OUT INTO THE DEEP”: FIRST MEETING OF NEW MILLENNIUM FOR VIETNAM’S OVERSEAS CATHOLICS 24-27 JULY IN ROME Rome (Fides Service) – It will be the first meeting for overseas Vietnamese Catholics of the new millennium and it will help “continue along the spiritual path started in the Holy Year in response to the Pope’s cal ...
• 14 July 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - CALCUTTA FILM FESTIVAL TO HONOUR MOTHER TERESA Calcutta (Fides Service) – To mark the beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta SIGNIS-India is organising a Film Festival in November this year. The little Mother known all over the world for her mission of caring ...
• 11 July 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - HIV/AIDS KILLER IN CHINA, ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG MEN UNDER 30 – CATHOLIC CHURCH FULLY COMMITTED TO CARING AND FIGHTING Beijing (Fides Service) – China, the most populated country in Asia and in the world, is battling to check spreading AIDS which strikes particularly its young males. According to the recent data issued by the Chinese ...
• 11 July 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - CARITAS ACTIVITY IN POST-WAR PERIOD: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AND SOCIAL PROMOTION FOR CHILDREN, THE SICK AND DISPLACED PERSONS Baghdad (Fides Service) - In post war Iraq marked by instability and social problems, such as spreading drug addiction and an increase in the phenomenon of street children, Caritas is intensifying its activity. The 14 c ...
• 11 July 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - IN INDONESIA DEFEAT FOR EDUCATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY IN DIVERSITY OF RELIGIONS – NEW EDUCATION BILL: THE VOICE OF THE CHURCH Jakarta (Fides Service) – “We are deeply saddened and concerned. The passing of the Education Bill is a defeat for the very idea of education. The bill politicises education, penalises the autonomy of schools and bro ...
• 10 July 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - RELIGIOUS LIFE ON THE WEB: NEW INTERNET PAGE FOR CONFERENCE OF RELIGIOUS IN KOREA Seoul (Fides Service) – www.brothers.or.kr is the new web page opened by the Conference of Religious Major Superiors of male institutes in South Korea. The page is vivacious and interactive with news on spirituality, i ...
• 10 July 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - CHALDEANS WANT TO PLAY THEIR PART TO PROMOTE DEMOCRATIC, CIVIL AND MORAL GROWTH OF NEW IRAQ Baghdad (Fides Service) – After years of exclusion and absence from public life Chaldeans in Iraq want to take part in the political activity of their country. Following the news that Iraq will soon have a Leadership C ...
• 10 July 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - SISTER JOURNALISTS TRAIN MEDIA WORKERS IN ELECTRONIC JOURNALISM New Delhi (Fides Service) – Sister journalists teach communications to young people. The Notre Dame Communications Centre in Patna, Bihar State, run by the Saint Peter Claver Notre Dame Sisters is offering a new course ...
• 9 July 2003
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - “ONLY CHANGED HEARTS CAN BRING PEACE AND SECURITY TO THE HOLY LAND” INTERVIEW WITH FATHER DAVID JAEGER OFM, FRANCISCAN CUSTODY SPOKESMAN Jerusalem (Fides Service) – There is an atmosphere of new hope and optimism in the Holy Land since a cease fire was agreed in the Israel-Palestine war. In this critical stage which could open the way to a resuming of p ...
• 9 July 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - CHURCH FOCUSES ON PASTORAL CARE FOR POLICEMEN: MORE THAN 200 OFFICERS RECEIVE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION Seoul (Fides Service) – To be a professed Christian but with a job which often requires the use of arms is the spiritual challenge lived daily by members of police and security forces all over the world. In Korea, in 2 ...
• 9 July 2003
  ASIA/NEPAL - FIRST OFFICIAL VISIT BY NEW NUNCIO ARCHBISHOP PEDRO LOPEZ QUINTANA: THE GOSPEL WILL TAKE ROOT ONLY IF IT HAS A PROFITABLE MEETING WITH CULTURES AND TRADITIONS OF THE PEOPLE AMONG WHOM IT IS PROCLAIMED Kathmandu (Fides Service) – To see the country, meet the people and the authorities and encourage church personnel Archbishop Pedro Lopez Quintana, newly appointed Papal Nuncio to India and Nepal made a first official ...
• 8 July 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - CHALDEAN CHRISTIANS MOURN PATRIARCH RAPHAEL BIDAWID OF BAGHDAD Beirut (Fides Service) – On July 7 in Beirut, Lebanon, His Beatitude Raphael I Bidawid, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, died at the age of 81, after some months in hospital. The Patriarch was born in Mosul, Iraq ...
• 8 July 2003
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - BETHLEHEM WELCOMES GLIMPSE OF HOPE FOR PEACE: UNIVERSITY RESUMES SUMMER COURSES Bethlehem (Fides Service) – The town of Bethlehem is living again hopes for peace. The Christian community and all Bethlehem people are confident. Franciscan Father Ibrahim Faltas, superior of the Nativity Church tells ...