Asia
23 December 2003
ASIA/INDIA - CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM SYRO-MALANKAR ARCHBISHOP CYRIL BASELIOS: MAY CHRISTMAS PEACE AND JOY DISSOLVE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS TENSION
New Delhi (Fides Service ) – “Let us pray that Christmas will increase good will and comprehension among ourselves to enable us to be signs of the presence of Jesus in the world today”. This is the Christmas Messag ...
23 December 2003
ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - CHRISTMAS CONCERT BY INTERRELIGIOUS CHOIR OFFERS FIRST EVER PERFORMANCE OF HANDEL’S MESSIAH
Dushanbe (Fides Service) – For the first time the notes of Handel’s “Messiah” resounded in Tajikistan. Parts of the work regarding the birth of Christ and the majestic final were performed at a Christmas concert ...
23 December 2003
ASIA/HOLY LAND - CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM LATIN PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM
Jerusalem (Fides Service) – “Fear not. Hark, I bring you tidings of great joy: unto us a Saviour is born” (Lk 2,10-11). This passage from St Luke’s Gospel was the centre of a Christmas Message addressed to Christ ...
22 December 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - QUIET CHRISTMAS IN BAGHDAD IN PRAYER AND HOPE FOR A BETTER FUTURE
Baghdad (Fides Service )- “We will celebrate Christmas with solemnity despite the difficulties” local Church sources in Iraq told Fides. “Due to the lack of security we will not have midnight Mass in Baghdad or in ...
19 December 2003
ASIA/NEPAL - REVIEWING 2003: AMIDST SITUATION OF VIOLENCE, GRIEVING, POVERTY, LOCAL CHURCH CONTINUES SERVE PEOPLE OF THIS LAND SHARING THEIR JOYS AND SORROWS: NEW YOUTH CENTRE OPENS ON 2 JANUARY IN KATHMANDU
Kathmandu (Fides Service) – The year 2003 was one of difficulty marked by violence. Many families suffered losses of loved ones. The little Church in Nepal, (6.000 souls amidst a population of 23 million), stood by to ...
19 December 2003
ASIA/SRI LANKA - BOOST COMMUNICATION IN AND AMONG ASIAN FAMILIES FOR MUTUAL ENRICHMENT AND EVANGELISATION SAYS COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION OF ASIAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES
Colombo (Fides Service) – How to boost communication in families and among families of different nationalities in Asia was the theme of a recent Meeting in Negombo (Sri Lanka), organised by the Commission for Social C ...
19 December 2003
ASIA/TURKEY –CLOSER THAN EVER IN SOLIDARITY AND DIALOGUE WITH COMMUNITIES OF OTHER RELIGIONS, TURKEY’S CHRISTIANS PREPARE FOR CHRISTMAS
Istanbul (Fides Service ) – “This Christmas we Turkish Christians feel a deeper sense of solidarity and closeness with Jewish and Muslim communities: this is undoubtedly because of the recent tragic attacks in Istanb ...
18 December 2003
ASIA/MONGOLIA - ON CHRISTMAS DAY, NOT A HOLIDAY IN MONGOLIA, TINY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY WILL CELEBRATE THE SAVIOUR'S BIRTH: PARTIES AND PRESENTS FOR STREET CHILDREN RESCUED FROM CITY SEWERS BY MISSIONARY PRIEST
Ulaan Baator (Fides Service) – “It will be a Christmas of joy and hope in Mongolia, where the Church was established only eleven years ago” said Bishop Wenceslaw Padilla, Prefect Apostolic of Ulaan Baatar, told Fid ...
18 December 2003
ASIA/INDIA - CHRISTMAS 2003 MESSAGE OF “UNITY IN DIVERSITY”: GOA CHRISTMAS CONCERT OF SONGS IN SIX LANGUAGES FOR AN INTERRELIGIOUS AUDIENCE
Goa (Fides Service ) – This year in Goa the Christmas Concert will be polyphonic and multilingual. “We want to express unity in diversity, to show that the message of Christ is addressed to all men and women of all l ...
18 December 2003
ASIA/PAKISTAN - CHRISTMAS IN PAKISTAN: HOPE OR FEAR? DESPITE GROWING FEAR OF TERRORISM AFTER PRESIDENT NARROWLY ESCAPES BOMB BLAST PAKISTANI CHRISTIANS READY TO CELEBRATE WITH HOPE
Rawalpindi (Fides Service) – In Pakistan Christians will live Christmas with top security measures but with firm hope Bishop Anthony Lobo of Islamabad-Rawalpindi told Fides days after the 14 December bomb blast against ...
17 December 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - IRAQI CHRISTIANS APPEAL TO PEOPLE OF MOSUL: “A MINORITY OF EXTREMISTS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO DESTROY MOSUL’S TRADITIONAL IMAGE OF RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE AND PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE ”
Baghdad (Fides Service) –The Christian community in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul is subject to increasing pressure by Muslim extremists. Local sources told Fides that one night last week a group of at least 10 arme ...
17 December 2003
ASIA/JAPAN - CHURCH IN JAPAN FOR MISSION AD GENTES: FIVE LAY MISSIONARIES SET OUT FOR RUSSIA, CAMBODIA, EAST TIMOR AND PALAU
Tokyo (Fides Service ) – The Church in Japan is ever more committed to mission ad gentes: recently five lay missionaries aged between 26 and 62 set out for mission in Russia, Cambodia, East Timor and Palau. After a sev ...
17 December 2003
ASIA/INDIA - “THE CHURCH MUST COMMUNICATE THE GOOD NEWS, AT ALL TIMES AND WITH ALL MEANS ”, ARCHBISHOP BASELIOS, PRESIDENT OF THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE OF INDIA TOLD MEETING OF CATHOLIC COUNCIL
New Delhi (Fides Service) – The Church has to engage in social communications at all times and by all means because her very existence has relevance only if she is a proclaiming and an evangelising Church” said the ...
16 December 2003
ASIA/PHILIPPINES – FOR CHRISTMAS GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNIST GUERRILLA IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES CALL A TRUCE
Davao (Fides Service) – Peace talks between the Philippines government and rebel groups fighting for secession in the southern Islands have not yet started but for Christmas there will at least be a truce for the marty ...
16 December 2003
ASIA/INDIA - RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS MEET TO DISCUSS WAYS AND MEANS OF PROMOTING ETHNIC PEACE IN NORTH EAST INDIA
Guwahati (Fides Service) – Promote united efforts to stop ethnic violence in north east India, particularly in Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, where hundreds of victims have been reported in recent weeks. This was ...
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