Asia
26 April 2004
ASIA/KOREA - Auxiliary Bishop of Seoul issues message for national Day for Persons with a Disability
Rome (Fides Service) - On April 20 the National Day for the Disabled was celebrated in Seoul and Auxiliary Bishop Lucas Kim Woon-hoe issued a message urging local Catholics to work to overcome discrimination with regard ...
26 April 2004
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Apostolic Nuncio thanks Catholics in Korea for aid to support missionaries on Bangladesh
Rome (Fides Service) - Korean born Archbishop Paul Tschang In-nam, Papal Nuncio to Bangladesh, recently wrote to his home diocese of Cheongju in Korea to express gratitude for spiritual and material help given by the loc ...
23 April 2004
ASIA/INDIA - India and Pakistan to discuss peace, nuclear disarmament, disputed Kashmir region and persisting problem of drug trafficking
New Delhi (Fides Service) - While the people of the Republic of India are focussing on legislative elections now taking place, positive signals of peace come from the leaders of India and Pakistan, the two main political ...
20 April 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - Christians in Mosul send humanitarian aid to Muslims in besieged city of Falluja
Baghdad (Fides Service)- “We want to show that we are one with all Iraqis whatever their beliefs, and in joy and in sorrow ” Catholic priest Father Nizar Semaan, in Mosul diocese told Fides explaining a new humanita ...
17 April 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - Dossier Fides: Iraq religion yesterday and today
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In view of the tragic situation in Iraq and the growing weight of several Muslim leaders on the scene Fides re-proposes
today its Dossier "Iraq and Religions", produced in March 2003,
o ...
16 April 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - Today 16 April in Baghdad children make their first Holy Communion. Archbishop Athanase Matti Shaba Mattoka, of Syrian Catholics in Baghdad told Fides: “Iraqis of different faiths can live side by side
Baghdad (Fides Service) - “We ask all Christians to pray for the people of Iraq at this difficult time” Archbishop Athanase Matti Shaba Mattoka, Archbishop of the Catholic Syrian Church in Baghdad, told Fides. “All ...
16 April 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Progressive party wins general elections, President Roh entrusted with the re-launching of the economy
Seoul (Fides Service) - Korea begins a new political era with the victory of the liberal-progressive Uri Party which defeated a coalition of conservative and moderate parties. The results were announced by the South Kore ...
16 April 2004
ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo and Easter
Rome (Fides Service) - Chinese Catholic Bishop Julius Jia, not recognised by the Beijing government, has been released.
On his release after ten days of detention he said it had been very painful to be away from his peo ...
16 April 2004
ASIA/NORTH KOREA - UN Human Rights Commission institutes role of Special Observer for North Korea
Geneva (Fides Service) - The figure of a Special Observer for North Korea to monitor the situation of human rights in that Asian country was instituted on 15 April by the United Nations Commission for Human Rights during ...
16 April 2004
ASIA/VIETNAM - Mountain peoples continue to flee Vietnam, but the Office of the UN High Commission for refugees in Cambodia which provided assistance has had to close
Ho Chi Minh City (Fides Service) - Mountain people known as Montagnards in central Vietnam, many of whom are Christians, continue to flee for safety to Cambodia to escape repression which was especially fierce over the E ...
15 April 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - “It is time for the Arab world to condemn acts of terrorism like the brutal killing of one Italian hostages ” says Father Nizar
Baghdad (Fides Service)- “I am deeply grieved by the murder of Fabrizio Quattrocchi” Nizar Semaan, a Iraqi Catholic priest in Mosul told Fides who voiced his condolences for the killing of the Italian hostage in Iraq ...
15 April 2004
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Uphold values, avoid taking sides with political parties: Archbishop Fernando Capalla urges priests and religious in view of elections on May 10
Davao (Fides Service) - Uphold values, avoid taking sides with political parties is the advice to priests and religious offered by Archbishop Fernando Capalla, President of the Philippines Bishops’ Conferences , in vie ...
14 April 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - Christians flocked to Easter Liturgies. Gesture of solidarity with Sunni Muslims in Falluja trapped in the city in crossfire between US troops and guerrilla forces
Baghdad (Fides Service)-“Despite the atmosphere anything but calm, Iraqi Christians came in great numbers to take part in all the Easter liturgies” local Catholic priest, Father Nizar Semaan, in Mosul told Fides. “ ...
14 April 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Popular Bible Correspondence Course in Santali language launched by two Catholics in Bangalore
Bangalore (Fides Service) - The first Bible Correspondence Course in the Santali language has been launched in India to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ and the teachings of his Gospel. The initiative was undertaken ...
14 April 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Imbuing politics with the Gospel values: a duty for Christians in the 3rd millennium - Catholic Bishops of Korea issue message in view of general elections on 15 April
Seoul (Fides Service) - Evangelise politics, bring Christian values to the management of public affairs, guarantee the common good by acting according to criteria of justice, solidarity and honesty: these are indications ...
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