News
10 July 2004
ASIA/SRI LANKA - A STUDY - Harmony and religious freedom: the paths of peace
for civil development and the progress of peoples
SRI LANKA (society and religion)
Colombo (Fides Service) - Peace and religious freedom, two of the highest values of civil harmony are threatened in Sri Lanka. A recent suicide bombing in the centre of the capital Colombo and a Bill presented in Parliam ...
10 July 2004
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Political, social and religious forces must unite to guarantee peace and reconciliation necessary for progress and prosperity
Colombo (Fides Service) - In Sri Lanka tension is high, but the time is ripe for a change; the country’s political, social and religious forces must commit themselves to guaranteeing peace and religious freedom imperat ...
10 July 2004
ASIA/SRI LANKA - The roots of the ethnic conflict which has shed the country’s blood and strangled the economy
Colombo (Fides Service) -Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) since 1984 has lived an inter-ethnic conflict between the Sinhalese majority (about 74% of the population) and the Tamil majority of Indian origin (about 13%). Anothe ...
10 July 2004
ASIA/SRI LANKA - INFO
Area 65,630 sq km; Population 19,287,000; Density pop/sq km 281,9; Urban Pop. 22,5%; population growth 1.4%; life expectancy 70 anni (men), 76 (women); literacy 92%; Languages Sinhalese, Tamil, English; Ethnic groups Sin ...
10 July 2004
ASIA/SRI LANKA Links to background stories from Fides Archives
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of today’s study on Sri Lanka - with a domestic debate on the peace process and religious we suggest you use the following list of links from Fides Archives as background ...
10 July 2004
ASIA/SRI LANKA - A STUDY - Harmony and religious freedom (contents)
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Harmony and religious freedom: the paths of peace for civil development and the progress of peoples SRI LANKA (society and religion)
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Political, social and religious forces must unite ...
10 July 2004
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Guarantee freedom of conscience and religion: indispensable condition for democracy - Local Church works to maintain dialogue with Buddhists while opposing the “anti-conversion” law and proposing mixed Commission state/religious communities
Colombo (Fides Service) - Unless every citizen is guaranteed freedom of conscience and religion it will be impossible to build harmony and peace, development and prosperity and make Sri Lanka an authentic democracy the C ...
9 July 2004
AFRICA/KENYA - New Constitution demonstrations stem from fight between president and former political associate
Nairobi (Fides Service)- In Kenya a political fight is fast becoming a contest between centre and periphery after recent clashes among police and demonstrators protesting the postponement of the approval of the new Const ...
9 July 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Living the family and love with a faith dimension: local Church focuses on education of youth
Seoul (Fides Service) - Hedonism, secularisation, moral relativism, are endemic ills in Korean society which often affect the decisions of young Koreans in their personal and social life. With this in mind this year 2004 ...
9 July 2004
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New impulse to missione in Asia and Oceania: Christian Brothers take up the challenge
Sydney (Fides Service) - The Congregation of the Christian Brothers has decided to give new impulse to evangelisation with new missions in Asia and Oceania, focussing on service to the poor. This was announced by Brother ...
9 July 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Commission for dialogue between Catholic Church and Assyrian Church of the East approves common statement on Sacraments: steps towards unity
Thrissur (Fides Service) - Moving towards unity members of the mixed Commission of the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East approved a common statement on the Sacraments. The statement will now be examine ...
9 July 2004
AMERICA/CHILE - Italian priest Fr Oreste Benzi in Chile to protect the rights of the Mapuche indigenous people.
Rome (Fides Service) - From 6 to 21 August 2004 the community of Rev. Oreste Benzi (Association John XXIII) will open a camp in Chile.
The main objective is to investigate the situation of the Mapuche Indios living in s ...
9 July 2004
ASIA/MONGOLIA - Results of legislative elections announced
Ulaanbaator (Fides Service) - After some days of protests, the general elections commission has announced the results of parliamentary elections in Mongolia held ten days ago. The Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party ...
9 July 2004
EUROPE/SPAIN - Multi Festival David 2004: a Christian encounter of modern music and art “to translate the Gospel into the language of music”
Oviedo (Fides Service) - "Generation Hope" is the slogan of the 19th Multi Festival David 2004 which opened on 8 July in the Spanish town of Los Cabos and will close on Sunday 11. The first Multi Festival David was firs ...
9 July 2004
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A decision to send 300 African troops to Darfur, first step towards a continental security system?
Addis Ababa (Fides Service) - It is early days yet but could this be a first step towards and African system of security? The decision taken at the end of a conference of heads of states and government of the African Uni ...
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