Asia
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21 May 2003
ASIA/PAKSITAN - CENTENARY OF FRANCISABAD ST FRANCIS CITY, A LITTLE ASSISI IN PAKISTAN, CHRISTIAN OASIS IN A MAINLY MUSLIM LAND
Faisalabad (Fides Service) – A hundred years ago Belgian Capuchin Father Philip came on mission to Pakistan and built a village to which he gave the name of St Francis and which is known locally as Francisabad. Today t ...
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21 May 2003
ASIA/INDIA - SCHOOL FOR 5000 PUPILS; IT SCHOOL FOR 3,000; HOME FOR LEPERS; 300 BED HOSPITAL AND NURSING SCHOOL: HERITAGE LEFT BY ITALIAN MISSIONARY WHO SPENT 50 YEARS ON MISSION IN INDIA
Lucknow (Fides Service) – Sacred Heart Catholic school with 5,000 pupils; an Information Technology Institute for 3000 students, a 300 bed hospital which also has a Nurses Training School, and a Leper colony run by fif ...
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20 May 2003
ASIA/INDIA - MORE THAN 700 PEOPLE ATTEND PRESENTATION OF ALBERIONE AWARD TO “OUTLOOK” WEEKLY, COMMITTED TO PEACE AND SOCIAL HARMONY IN INDIA
Bombay (Fides Service) – The journalism award named after the founder of the Pauline Family, Blessed Giacomo Alberione, beatified 27 April, was assigned to Outlook an Indian culture and news weekly in a ceremony in Bom ...
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20 May 2003
ASIA/INDIA - TURA DIOCESE HAS A SCHOOL, A CHURCH AND A SMALL HOSPITAL NAMED AFTER PADRE PIO, MISSIONARY TO THE WORLD
Tura (Fides Service) – Padre Pio School in the diocese of Tura in north west India is already fully functioning with intense activity. The local Catholics are deeply devoted to the Franciscan friar, canonised a Saint o ...
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20 May 2003
ASIA/TAIWAN - LOCAL CATHOLIC CENTRE FOR SARS EMERGENCY: CARDINAL SHAN SAYS DO NOT BE AFRAID OF ONE ANOTHER
Taipei (Fides Service) – While the situation of the SARS emergency on the Island is ever more critical, the Catholic Church in Taiwan has opened a Catholic Centre for the SARS Emergency. The Centre, opened under the pa ...
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19 May 2003
ASIA/CHINA - SARS: MORE CATHOLIC CHURCH PERSONNEL VOLUNTEER FOR HOSPITAL PASTORAL, BELIEVERS OF ALL FAITHS MAKE JOINT COLLECTION TO FIGHT DISEASE IN HEBEI PROVINCE
ShiJiaZhuang (Fides Service) – Religions in China are making a valuable contribution to the fight against SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. According to information sent to Fides Service by XinDe Faith Catholic b ...
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19 May 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - FROM ACEH: “NOT FIGHTING BUT PATIENCE AND REBUILDING TRUST” THE VOICE OF FATHER FERDINANDO FRANCISCAN FRIAR IN THE ONLY PARISH IN THE PROVINCE
Banda Aceh (Fides Service) “We are tragically accustomed to violence. The conflict between the army and the rebels has continued for years with a few brief interruptions. After the imposition of martial law and the sta ...
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16 May 2003
ASIA/HONG KONG - PRIESTS VOLUNTEER TO CARRY COMFORT OF SACRAMENTS TO HOSPITALISED SARS PATIENTS
Hong Kong (Fides Service) – No less than forty five priests in Hong Kong volunteered to go to SARS assigned hospitals to administer the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, in response to a call from the diocese. Af ...
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16 May 2003
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - CARDINAL SECRETARY OF STATE IN KAZAKHSTAN ON 2ND ANNIVERSARY OF HISTORY MAKING PAPAL VISIT
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Pope’s Secretary of State, is visiting Kazakhstan from 16-19 May at the invitation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and the local Catholic Bishops to mark th ...
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16 May 2003
ASIA/INDIA - THE ROLE OF CATHOLIC TEACHERS IN INDIA IS TO BUILD HARMONY BETWEEN CULTURES AND RELIGIONS
Bangalore (Fides Service) – Catholic teachers in India have an important role to play in the present social context of polarisation of caste, language, culture and religion: teachers can help create a national consci ...
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16 May 2003
ASIA/CHINA
BENEDICTINES THE WORLD OVER PRAY FOR PEOPLE OF CHINA STRUGGLING AGAINST SARS
Beijing (Fides Service) – The Superior General of the Benedictines, Father Jeremias Schroeder, recently wrote an encouraging letter to Xin-de or Faith, the most widely read Catholic bulletin in mainland China, in which ...
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15 May 2003
ASIA/INDIA - LOCAL CALCUTTA COMMITTEE FOR OCTOBER BEATIFICATION OF MOTHER TERESA
Calcutta (Fides Service) – The Archbishop of Calcutta Lucas Sirkar has instituted a local committee to prepare for the beatification in Rome 19 October 2003 of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, foundress of the Missionaries o ...
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15 May 2003
ASIA/INDIA - "THE SYRO-MALABAR CHURCH RICH IN MISSIONARY VOCATIONS, IS READY TO ANNOUNCE THE GOSPEL” SAYS CARDINAL VARKEY VITHAYATHIL
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Our Church is flourishing, rich in priestly and religious vocations, committed to family pastoral, filled with a keen missionary spirit: the Syro-Malabar Church in India, fruit of the pre ...
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15 May 2003
ASIA/PAKISTAN - CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS IN PAKISTAN SUPPORT INDIA/PAKISTAN PEACE INITIATIVES
Multan (Fides Service) – Peace between India and Pakistan may be at last at hand and full support for initiatives of reconciliation between the two neighbour countries has been expressed by the Justice and Peace Commis ...
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15 May 2003
ASIA/HONG KONG - CHURCH IN HONG KONG GUARANTEES SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL ASSISTANCE FOR QUARANTINED SARS VICTIMS AND HOSPITAL PERSONNEL
Hong Kong (Fides Service) – Responding to an appeal made by the Bishop of Hong Kong Joseph Zen, the diocesan commission for Hospital Pastoral Care organised special collections for quarantined victims of SARS Severe Ac ...
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