Asia
15 December 2003
ASIA/HOLY LAND - CHRISTMAS 2003: YOUNG MUSICIANS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD CARRY MESSAGE OF PEACE WITH CONCERTS IN JERUSALEM AND SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN MUSIC STUDENTS
Jerusalem (Fides Service) – Peace in the Holy Land can be launched by youth: with this conviction, this Christmas 28 people aged between 16 and 26 from 21 different countries, “will stage a peaceful invasion of the H ...
15 December 2003
ASIA/SRI LANKA - HEALING WAR TRAUMA: MISSIONARIES WORK TO RESTORE HARMONY IN SOCIETY: CHURCH CONTINUES TO WORK TO PROTECT PEACE PROCESS
Colombo (Fides Service) – “Healing War Trauma” is the theme of Seminar for Formation Staff organised by the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate OMI in Sri Lanka from 14 to 21 December. About 20 participants, rel ...
15 December 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - WITH REGARD TO WHO SHOULD JUDGE SADDAM HUSSEIN, “MOST OF US WERE VICTIMS OF HIS DICTATORSHIP, WE ALL APPLAUDED HIM WHEN HE WAS IN POWER” IRAQI PRIEST TOLD FIDES
Rome (Fides Service) -“The news that Saddam Hussein had been captured was welcomed with great joy by the people of Iraq despite uncertainty about the future because we know that behind the repeated acts of terrorism in ...
12 December 2003
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - THE ATROCITY OF THE DEATH PENALTY IS NO RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES LIKE KIDNAPPING: BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT IN THE CHURCH AFTER MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY IS LIFTED
Manila (Fides ) – There is bitter disappointment among Filipino Catholics since Gloria Arroyo Philippine President Gloria Arroyo lifted a moratorium on the death penalty, opening the way for executions to resume in Jan ...
12 December 2003
ASIA/INDIA - CATHOLIC NGO WINS AWARD FOR EDUCATION OF TRIBALS
New Delhi (Fides Service) – A Catholic NGO “Gram Mangal” has received the Maschio Memorial Award, in memory of an Italian Salesian priest Aurelio Maschio who distinguished himself for his service to promote the dev ...
12 December 2003
ASIA/TAIWAN – VIRTUES OF FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY MAIN THEMES FOR EVANGELISATION CHOSEN BY TAIWAN CHURCH FOR PASTORAL YEAR 2004
Taipei (Fides Service) – The Christian virtues of Faith Hope and Charity will be the main themes of a plan for evangelisation drafted by the Church in Taiwan for 2004. This was decided during the Autumn plenary meeting ...
11 December 2003
ASIA/INDIA – NOW THERE IS A CEASE FIRE CATHOLICS HOPE TO RETURN TO KASHMIR
Jammu (Fides Service) – After the cease fire signed on 25 November Catholics who fled Kashmir hope soon to return to their homes. Hundreds of Catholic families left Kashmir in 1989-90 when terrorism entered the valley ...
10 December 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - I HOPE IRAQI COURTS WILL NOT TURN INTO TOOLS FOR REVENGE. RELIGIOUS LEADERS SHOULD PROMOTE THE LOGIC OF FORGIVENESS
Baghdad (Fides Service)- “Only the logic of forgiveness can free Iraq from the spiral of violence” Father Nizar Semaan of Ninive diocese told Fides with regard to the latest terrorist attacks and bloodshed in Iraq. ...
10 December 2003
ASIA/HOLY LAND - IN NAZARETH JEWISH, CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM STAFF WORK IN HARMONY AT HOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL RUN BY ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITALLER BROTHERS
Rome (Fides Service) – Despite the hostility of former regimes, wars with related military occupation, damage due to earthquakes, the activity of the Catholic Holy Family Hospital in Nazareth run by the St John of God ...
10 December 2003
ASIA/NEPAL - PROGRAMME FOR HEALTH-CARE AND DEVELOPMENT IN VIEW OF PROMOTING ROLE OF WOMEN
Rome (Fides Service) – In Nepal the health situation is alarming: more than 60% of the people live in areas where malaria is endemic; tuberculosis affects 4-5% of every 1.000 people and 7.2 out of every 1.000 people a ...
9 December 2003
ASIA/INDIA - HOW TO PROTECT THE ASIAN FAMILY: VARIOUS RELIGIONS AND ORGANISATIONS ATTEND STUDY WEEK
Chennai (Fides Service ) – How to protect families in Asia from fragmentation and threats such as abortion, divorce, superficial and temporary relationships. This was the objective of a study week promoted by the Servi ...
5 December 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - NEW CATHOLIC “CRISIS AND RECONCILIATION SERVICE” CONCERNED BY TENSION IN FLORES
Jakarta (Fides Service) – The Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia recently inaugurated a Crisis and Reconciliation Service CRS to monitor events in possible areas of violence including Aceh, Moluccas, Sulawesi, Papua, B ...
5 December 2003
ASIA/INDIA - FROM NORTH EAST INDIA TO BRAZIL: FOUR SISTERS FROM ASSAM DEPART FOR MISSION
Guwahati (Fides Service) – Mission ad gentes is undeterred in the face of difficulties, violence or conflict. Fides has been informed that four Catholic Sisters from Assam state north east India, where ethnic violence ...
5 December 2003
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - BEATIFICATION PROCESS STARTS FOR 124 KOREAN MARTYRS
Seoul (Fides Service) – The Catholic Church in Korea is rejoicing: the Holy See has approved the opening of the beatification process for Korea’s 124 martyrs, Paul Yun Ji-Chung and 123 companion martyrs, tortured and ...
4 December 2003
ASIA/HOLY LAND - HOLY LAND CHRISTIANS SAY NO TO VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM, YES TO DIALOGUE WITH DIALOGUE JEWS AND MUSLIM ARABS TO PROMOTE PEACE
Jerusalem (Fides) – Violence and terrorism, relations between Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land, are the main issues of a statement issued by the Theological Commission of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusale ...
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