Asia

• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 14 May 2003
  ASIA/TURKEY - MISSION TODAY IN ANTIOCH, CRADLE OF EARLY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES Antioch (Fides Service) – Antioch on the Oronte River was the cradle of early the early Christian communities mentioned in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. Here for the first time the disciples of Jesus came to be ...
• 14 May 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - PRAYERS AND SOLIDARITY TO FIGHT SARS: CATHOLICS OFFER SUPPORT TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF CHINA Beijing (Fides Service) – Since the outbreak of the epidemic of SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Catholics in Beijing have been fighting the virus with every means possible, prayer in the first place. The Cathol ...
• 14 May 2003
  ASIA/THAILAND - CARITAS WORKS TO PROMOTE RECONCILIATION AND PREVENT CONFLICTS Bangkok (Fides Service) – Among the challenges facing Caritas offices in South East Asia is to find solutions to situations of conflict and prevent violence, through peace-building and reconciliation programmes and sem ...
• 13 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - MAJOR SUPERIORS DISCUSS: FORMATION OF RELIGIOUS FOR MISSION IN INDIA TODAY Bangalore (Fides Service) – Revise formation and ongoing formation for Religious to meet the challenges of the third millennium in a constantly changing world. This was the commitment taken at the end of a Meeting of ...