Asia

• 3 May 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - HOPE Campaign for Honest and Peaceful elections launched by local Church in view of May 10 vote Manila (Fides Service) - A HOPE campaign for Honest and Peaceful Elections has been launched in view of May 10 elections in the Philippines by Cardinal Ricardo Vidal, Archbishop of Cebu City, and Archbishop Gaudencio Ros ...
• 30 April 2004
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Caritas Hong Kong assists victims of major train disaster in North Korea Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) -Caritas-Hong Kong has organised a collection of funds to provide medical supplies and other relief goods for the victims and their families to Ryongchon in North Korea where on 22 April 2004, t ...
• 30 April 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Alarm in Indonesia: members of radical Muslim paramilitary Laskar Jihad group land in Moluccas to defend “brother Muslims” and join the “holy war” Jakarta (Fides Service) - There is a red alert in Indonesia’s Moluccas islands where local Muslims and Christians are engaged in new clashes: reliable sources contacted by Fides confirm that members of the Muslim param ...
• 29 April 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Mission of dialogue and service for two new deacons in a mainly Muslim district of Mindanao Kidapawan (Fides Service) - Two new deacons are about to start a mission of service and dialogue in the diocese of Kidapawn, a mainly Muslim area near Cotabato, on the Island of Mindanao. The local Catholic community he ...
• 29 April 2004
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Occult actors in Moluccas conflict: “Tension and fear in Ambon; Moluccas are paying for the electoral campaign in Jakarta ”, Bishop of Amboina told Fides Ambon (Fides Service) - Christian and Muslim city districts rigidly separated, fear reigns and a new conflict threatens: Moluccas is paying for the electoral campaign in Jakarta, Bishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi, Bishop of ...
• 28 April 2004
  ASIA/THAILAND - Motives behind violence in southern Thailand are political not religious Apostolic Administrator of Surat Thani diocese told Fides Bangkok (Fides Service) - “This uprising is political not religious. Radical Islamic groups launched attacks on the government accusing it of thwarting certain Muslim leaders in the past. They want revenge for reasons ...
• 28 April 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “Every open door, even only a crack may be an opening for peace” Archbishop of Gulu told Fides Gulu (Fides Service)- “Every open door, even only a crack may be an opening for peace” ” said Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu, commenting a possible intervention of mediation ib the conflict between the gover ...
• 28 April 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Bishop issues message for “Labour Day” Seoul (Fides Service) - Unemployment, illegal work, illegal immigrants are some of the problems afflicting South Korea which the local Catholic Church is committed to helping to solve in the light of the Church’s Socia ...
• 27 April 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - “Terrorism is a threat to Muslims as well” Father Nizar told Fides Baghdad (Fides Service)- “Western diplomacy must make every effort to help democratic forces in the Arab world voice loud and clear condemnation of extremism ” Rev. Nizar Semaan, Iraqi Catholic priest in Mosul told F ...
• 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 ...