Asia
28 July 2004
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Return to the negotiation table, revive dialogue to reach just and lasting peace: Bishops and Ulama launch joint appeal to Philippines government and Muslim separatists
Davao (Fides Service) - A call for the government of the Philippines and the Muslim separatist movement in Mindanao to make peace, has been launched by the Bishops Ulama Conference (BUC) whose members are Catholic and no ...
28 July 2004
ASIA/CHINA/MACAO - Bishop appoints new episcopal delegate for pastoral care of Portuguese speaking Catholics
Macao (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishop of Macao diocese, Bishop José Lai Hung-seng, has appointed Father Luis Lei Xavier episcopal delegate for pastoral care of Portuguese speaking Catholics for a five year mandate ...
27 July 2004
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Thousands of families need urgent help: Caritas Internationalis collects funds in aid of flood victims in Bangladesh
Dhaka (Fides Service) - Food and medical supplies must be provided for hundreds of thousands of flood victims in Bangladesh to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and epidemics of disease. Caritas Internationalis warns as ...
27 July 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Indian Jesuit appointed director of Interdisciplinary Communications Centre at Gregorian University in Rome
Bangalore (Fides Service) - The appointment of Jesuit father from Patna in India, Father Jacob Srampickal, as Director of the Interdisciplinary Communications Centre at Gregorian University in Rome, where he has been tea ...
27 July 2004
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Bird flu alarm: European Union extends ban on Asia poultry and domestic birds
Rome (Fides Service) - The European Union has decided to extend until December 15 its ban on poultry and domestic birds from Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Pakistan, China, South Korea and Vietnam, countries ...
27 July 2004
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - President speaks on the state of the nation promising to fight corruption and poverty, boost the economy and show concern for every citizen
Manila (Fides Service) - Cut red tape in public administration, help millions of poor to rise above the poverty line, care for each and every citizen: these were the promises made by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, re ...
23 July 2004
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Business man becomes a priest: the vocation of Philip Motha manager now a promoter of the Kingdom of God
Colombo (Fides Service) - The Lord called him late in life: former Sri Lankan businessman Philip Motha was recently ordained a priest for Colombo archdiocese at the age of 72. The Ordination, held in Colombo Cathedral, ...
23 July 2004
ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong Book Fair 2004 proving great success
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Hong Kong Book Fair 2004, opened on July 21, is giving special attention to Catholic publications. The sector on Catholicism includes two series of books presented by the Council for the Laity ...
23 July 2004
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Talks between India and Pakistan to increase economic cooperation and strengthen peace in Kashmir: the role of Christians for reconciliation
Islamabad (Fides Service) - Strengthen peace, increase economic cooperation were the main topics of talks between Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf and India’s Foreign Minister Natwar Singh, as part of the proces ...
22 July 2004
ASIA/INDIA - In Gujarat a Church under construction was destroyed by Hindu fundamentalist extremists
Ahmedabad (Fides Agency) - After the recent episode in Hyderabad, in Andra Pradesh State (southeastern India), where a group of 100 extremists attacked several priests and Catholic believers, the Hindu extremists have ag ...
16 July 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Bishops meet Christian members of parliament: religious discrimination must stop; India’s Catholics have a role in society
New Delhi (Fides Service) - Efforts to eliminate religious discrimination, offer equal opportunities to all religious communities, lift pressure on India’s Christians, promote development of poorest people: these were ...
16 July 2004
ASIA/MYANMAR - More than 1,300 seminarians in the tiny community of 600,000 MyanmarCatholics, which prepares missionaries for central Asia
Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Myanmar, formerly Burma, is rich in vocations, Bishop Nicholas Man Thang, Bishop of Hakha diocese told representatives of Aid to the Church in Need organisation. The Bishop was recen ...
16 July 2004
ASIA/CHINA - Pilgrimage and charity: Tian Jin pilgrims to Cang Zhou offer spiritual and material help to local orphans
Tian Jin (Fides Service) - Recently a group of 220 people from Xi Kai parish in Tian Jin, not far from Beijing, went on a pilgrimage to Cang Zhou in Hebei province led by assistant parish priest Father Li Dong. According ...
15 July 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Catholic Church in France engages in mission via web site run by lay Catholics
Paris (Fides Service) - The Mission of the Chaldean Catholic Church born of the preaching of St Thomas the Apostle and which has its cradle in Iraq, has begun a mission via the Internet with a new web site www.mission-ch ...
15 July 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Scalabrini International Migration Institute offers theological and sociological formation on themes of Migration and a new Masters
Rome (Fides Service) - “We are very happy that our Institute has been recognised by the Congregation for Catholic Education. We intend to continue our work of studying the different migratory realities, from two approa ...
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