Asia

• 31 July 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - “STOP THE BLOODSHED. THE IRAQI PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF WAR!” SAYS AN IRAQI PRIEST Rome (Fides Service) – “As the Christian community in Iraq we are deeply saddened by the loss of human lives, Iraqi and American” Father Nizar Semaan an Iraqi Catholic priest, tells Fides Service with regard to the ...
• 30 July 2003
  ASIA/THAILAND - BUDDHIST, CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM HEALTH CARE WORKERS DISCUSS JOINT ACTION AND COOPERATION IN THE FIGHT AGAINST AIDS Bangkok (Fides Service) – About 80 experts on HIV/AIDS, Buddhist monks, Christian priests and nuns, Muslim leaders and Protestant pastors took part in a meeting held at Nonthaburi University situated north of Bangkok t ...
• 30 July 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - CHURCH STANDS BY GOVERNMENT DURING CRISIS: FIRM CALL TO UPROOT CORRUPTION Manila (Fides Service) – The local Catholic Church was not a bystander in the crisis which hit the Philippines when 296 army soldiers staged a mutiny occupying a shopping centre in Manila and taking some 300 hostages o ...
• 30 July 2003
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - DESPITE ISOLATED ACTS OF VIOLENCE BY GROUPS OF UNCONTROLLED GUERRILLAS AND BRAKING OF CEASE-FIRE, HOPE FOR PEACE IS STILL ALIVE: ON THE HORIZON RESUMING OF TALKS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS Colombo (Fides Service) – Marco Polo described it as the most beautiful island in the world, but in the last twenty years Sri Lanka, known as Ceylon under British colonial rule, has known nothing but civil war, cruel t ...
• 29 July 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR MIGRATION ALLOWED TO MAKE FACT FINDING MISSION IN NORTHERN SUMATRA, ACCESS STILL DENIED TO OTHER NGOs AS FLOW OF DISPLACED PERSONS INCREASES Jakarta (Fides Service) – There is optimism among international NGOs since the Indonesian government allowed International Organisation for Migration to make a fact finding mission to the northern Sumatra province of A ...
• 29 July 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL TO NON BELIEVERS AND RE-AWAKEN GRACE OF BAPTISM AMONG CATHOLICS; LAY MEMBERS OF BASIC CHURCH COMMUNITIES MAKE COMMITMENT Seoul (Fides Service) – Sadang-dong parish in Seoul has launched a mission to re-evangelise the capital. The decision was reached at meeting in mid-July attended by more than 1,000 Catholics mostly lay people. The Miss ...
• 28 July 2003
  ASIA/HONG KONG - AUXILIARY BISHOP JOHN TONG HON APPOINTED CONSULTOR OF CONGREGATION FOR EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES: RECOGNITION FOR HOLY SPIRIT STUDY CENTRE Hong Kong (Fides Service) – Bishop John Tong Hon auxiliary of the diocese of Hong Kong has been appointed Consultor of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples for a five year term. With regard to his appoin ...
• 28 July 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - NEW MISSIONS AMONG THE POOR IN N. VIETNAM TO MARK 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF SISTERS LOVERS OF THE CROSS LOCAL CONGREGATION Hanoi (Fides Service) – For 75 years the Sisters Lovers of the Cross, a local Vietnamese congregation of women religious, have served the poor, the excluded, lepers, terminally ill patients in central Vietnam in rural ...
• 25 July 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - THERE IS NO WAR BETWEEN RELIGIONS IN IRAQ, SAYS ARCHBISHOP ISHAQ RECTOR OF THE PONTIFICAL BABEL UNIVERSITY IN BAGHDAD Rome (Fides Service) - “I am confident about the future of the Church in Iraq” says Chaldean Archbishop Ishaq Jacques, emeritus of Arbil of the Chaldeans, presently rector of Babel Pontifical University in Baghdad. ...
• 25 July 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - UNITED TO LIVE THE GOSPEL AND PROCLAIM IT TO OTHERS: FIRST MEETING OF NEW MILLENNIUM FOR VIETNAM’S OVERSEAS CATHOLICS Rome (Fides Service) – With traditional Vietnamese song and dance and colourful festivities, the first meeting of the new millennium for overseas Vietnamese Catholics opened on 24 July at the Pontifical Urban Universit ...
• 25 July 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - VIETNAM’S OVERSEAS CATHOLICS, MANY FORMER ‘BOAT PEOPLE’ FERVENT IN FAITH AND COMMITTED TO MISSION FOR CIVIL AND MORAL REBUILDING OF THEIR HOMELAND Rome (Fides Service) – Today there are more than 2 million Vietnamese living outside their homeland in 30 different countries and about 500,000 of them are Catholics. Besides these two million, there are another 300,00 ...
• 24 July 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - FIRST BISHOP TO VISIT N. KOREA SINCE THE WAR, IS TODAY PRESIDENT OF THE BISHOPS CONFERENCE, AND CONSULTOR OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES Seoul (Fides Service) – Archbishop Andrew Choi Chang-mou of Kwangju has been appointed Consultor of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples . His appointment is a recognition of the important role of the ...
• 24 July 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - MORE THAN 10,000 DELEGATES FROM ALL ASIA FROM 9-16 AUGUST IN BANGALORE FOR ASIAN YOUTH DAY – SR. NIRMALA WILL TELL YOUTH ABOUT MOTHER TERESA Bangalore (Fides Service) – Everything is ready in Bangalore for the Asian Youth meeting, 9-16 August which will have the theme Asian Youth for Peace. The event is promoted by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Asia ...
• 23 July 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - EXHIBITION ON THE LIFE OF MATTEO RICCI, THE MISSIONARY WHO OPENED THE PATHS OF CHINA TO FAITH IN CHRIST Macerata (Fides Service) – To make known to a wider public the figure and work of Matteo Ricci, Jesuit missionary to China in the late 16th century, an exhibition has been opened in Macerata, the Italian town where the ...
• 18 July 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - A CREDIT CARD FOR CHARITY: FORMER CATHOLIC SCHOOL PUPILS OFFER SCHOLARSHIPS TO POOR CHILDREN Bangalore (Fides Service) – Shopping can also be a work of charity. Former pupils of Christ College in Bangalore, a prestigious Catholic college where many of India’s eminent personalities of the world of culture, po ...