Asia
3 September 2008
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “Working together to build peace, through love for God and neighbor”: the Sisilah Dialogue Movement sends out a message on the occasion of Ramadhan
Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) – Moved by respect and goodwill, the members of the Silsilah Islamic-Christian Dialogue Movement, who have been present in South Philippines for 25 years thanks to the efforts of PIME ...
3 September 2008
ASIA - New document released by Asian Bishops on Social Communications
Manila (Agenzia Fides) – A document on communications was recently published by the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC), meant to deepen and update the relationship between the Church and communications i ...
2 September 2008
ASIA/CHINA - Catholics in the Diocese of Lin Yi help poor students at the start of a new academic year
Lin Yi (Agenzia Fides) – In light of the beginning of the new school year, Catholics in the Diocese of Lin Yi (Province of Shan Dong), led by Bishop Fang Xing Yao, have raised 2,000 yuan each for about 20 university an ...
2 September 2008
ASIA/TAIWAN - After 30 years and nearly a dozen Chinese priests on the job, the Chinese translation of the “Summa Theologica” of Saint Thomas Aquinas is finally published
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – With the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the evangelization of the island of Taiwan, and after 30 years, a team of Chinese priests having been led by the late Director of Studium S. Pi ...
2 September 2008
ASIA/INDONESIA - First encounter of the Charismatic Movement in Asia and Oceania to take place in Bogor
Bogor (Agenzia Fides) – The first international encounter of members of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Asia and Oceania will take place in the Diocese of Bogor (Indonesia), September 14-18. The faithful will meet ...
2 September 2008
ASIA/INDIA - “The anti-Christian attacks in Orissa have been the worst in recent years,” the spokesman of the Indian Catholic Bishops’ Conference tells Agenzia Fides; no Catholic priests or religious have been reported dead, although some have been severely wounded
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – “We are extremely concerned. This has been the worse attack on Christians in India in the last few years. The fundamentalists have gone after all the Christian faithful, places, and symbol ...
1 September 2008
ASIA/CHINA - After 100 years without a church, the community of Lu Dong, of the Diocese of Tong Zhou (present-day Wei Nan) joyfully witnesses the consecration of two new churches
Wei Nan (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic community of Lu Dong, of the Diocese of Tong Zhou (present-day Wei Nan), of the Province of Shaan Xi, has lived its last 100 years without a single church. This era came to an end ...
1 September 2008
ASIA/TAIWAN - “Christian Life Weekly” becomes “Catholic Weekly”: a more professional and modern publication on spirituality, evangelization, and service
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – For years now, our readers have accompanied us in following the news pieces taken from “Christian Life Weekly.” Today the Catholic bulletin of the Archdiocese of Tai Pei, after 56 years of ...
1 September 2008
ASIA/INDIA - An initial balance of the victims of anti-Christian violence in Orissa, as the Church in India prepares for a “Day for Fasting and Prayer” on September 7
Bhubaneshwar (Agenzia Fides) – The toll of victims of anti-Christian violence in Orissa (Northeastern India) in recent days has reached 26. Hundreds of Christian families were attacked by Hindu fundamentalists who dest ...
1 September 2008
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Catholic University in Icheon opens the Diocesan Center of the John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Marriage and the Family
Incheon (Agenzia Fides) – The John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Marriage and the Family hopes to open a Korean campus, which is why it has recently begun a Diocesan Center in the Catholic University of Incheon. It ...
1 August 2008
ASIA/INDONESIA - “I have seen how God’s presence has truly lit my path”: vocational story of a young Camillian Brother from Indonesia
Flores (Agenzia Fides) – Below is a vocation story sent to Agenzia Fides from a young Camillian Brother from Indonesia who is in formation in the Philippines:
“Ever since I was a child I always enjoyed participatin ...
31 July 2008
ASIA/CAMBODIA - Recognition of Catholic Center for terminally-ill patients
Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – Among the terminally-ill (with cancer, AIDS, and other incurable diseases) are those patients in the last stages of their illness, which medicine has been unable to cure, and they approach ...
29 July 2008
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “The Word of God in the Life of the Church in the Philippines”: Catholics prepare for Synod of Bishops
Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Priests, religious, laity, heads of associations and movements, all met in Manila to reflect on the relationship between the Word of God and the life of the Filipino people. The initiative took ...
25 July 2008
ASIA/HOLY LAND - The University of Bethlehem, hope for the youth that dream of peace
Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - In the Holy Land, in the poor and afflicted city of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus that is now split in two by a wall of separation, lies a Catholic academic institution for the formation ...
25 July 2008
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The “WYD Effect”: a catalyst in youth ministry and evangelization in Korea
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The “aftershock” of World Youth Day is still being felt in Korea, where 1,000 Catholic youth have returned from Sydney. “It is an event that will give fresh strength to youth ministry in Kor ...
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