Asia
3 October 2007
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Silsilah Movement for Dialogue plans new Centre of Harmony and Peace in southern Philippines and support for Filipinos abroad, messengers of dialogue and peace
Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - Silsilah Movement for Dialogue started 23 years ago in Zamboanga, Mindanao by an Italian PIME missionary Fr Sebastiano D’Ambra plans to intensify efforts for dialogue and peace in the countr ...
2 October 2007
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Archbishop Elias Chacour urges Christians of the world :“Visit the living stones of the Holy Land, the Christians who live there”
Londra (Agenzia Fides) - A call for peace and brotherhood was launched by Greek Melkite Catholic Archbishop recently in Westminster Cathedral in London. Celebrating a Mass for the 60th anniversary of the Catholic aid ass ...
2 October 2007
ASIA/IRAQ - New academic year at Babel Catholic College of Theology in Ankawa, Iraq: hope for seminarians, catechists and lay faithful
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - With a special Liturgy the new academic year was opened at Babel Catholic College of Theology in Ankawa , the only Catholic college for theology in Iraq run by the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate ...
2 October 2007
ASIA/TAIWAN “Our Family of Immigrants” theme of 11th Immigrants Day organised by the Catholic community following the teaching of Pope John Paul II
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - Every year Immigrants Day in the diocese of Tai Pei is an opportunity for the people to encounter and share different cultures and customs, food and dancing and songs. 'Our Family of Immigrants ...
1 October 2007
ASIA/MYANMAR - Local Christian Churches request government permission to hold special week of prayer for the nation
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar's Christians, like the rest of the population, are suffering because of the difficult situation in the country and wish to pray to God for the gift of reconciliation and peace. To do this ...
1 October 2007
ASIA/HONG KONG - Active participation in diocesan Mission Sunday initiatives on 26 September continue to World Mission Sunday and beyond
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “The celebration of the diocesan Mission Sunday 26 September is moved by the desire to foster active participation of the faithful”. This was said by Italian PIME missionary Fr Renzo Mila ...
1 October 2007
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Fr Nicholaspillai Packiyaranjith killed on 26 September was a diocesan priest not a Jesuit
Mannar (Agenzia Fides) - Fides was informed by the local Church that Fr Nicholaspillai Packiyaranjith, killed on 26 September in an attack on the diocese of Mannar, (see Fides 27/9/2006), was not a Jesuit as previously r ...
1 October 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Progress in North - South dialogue for North Korea's de-nuclearisation: the Church prays for peace and stability
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Korean people, civil associations and Christian Churches welcomed the news of an agreement reached in talks between United States, Russia, China, Japan and the two Koreas with regard to North ...
28 September 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Formation of lay missionaries especially young people in Kerala, key to the future of the Church
Cochin (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to form Catholic lay persons, young people especially to enable them to play a more active part in the life of the Church in India and be evangelisers in society: this is a priority ...
28 September 2007
ASIA/MYANMAR - Caritas Internationalis launches appeal for peace in Myanmar
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Internationalis has called for violence in Myanmar to end, for human rights to be respected and for a peaceful solution to the crisis in that country. In an appeal made yesterday th ...
27 September 2007
ASIA/INDONESIA - Newsroom 68H, first radio station in Indonesian Papua
Jayapura (Agenzia Fides) - People in Indonesian Papua - also called Irian Jaya province in the far east of the Indonesian archipelago- are welcoming the opening of a new means of communication, a local radio station. In ...
27 September 2007
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Diocesan priest involved in humanitarian work killed in civil war
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest is the latest victim of civil war in Sri Lanka: Father Nicholaspillai Packiyaranjith, coordinator of Jesuit Refugee Service in the district of Mannar, was killed when a bomb ex ...
27 September 2007
ASIA/MYANMAR - Myanmar Catholics intensify prayers for peace and national reconciliation
Rangoon (Agenzia Fides) - At this difficult time for the nation the small Catholic community in Myanmar turns with trust to God, praying for peace, reconciliation and the safety of the people: this was said in a message ...
26 September 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Justice and peace subcontinent of India: experts and theologians discuss social inequality and discrimination
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Social discrimination, economic inequality, cultural exclusion, marginalisation from public life for religious or ideological reasons are some of the debated topics in the subcontinent of Indi ...
26 September 2007
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - La Salle University in Manila and Interreligious Dialogue: 2008 National Conference on Interreligious Dialogue
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A college famous for its research and initiatives to promote dialogue between cultures and religions: De La Salle University in Manila, opened by the Congregation of the Brothers of Christian Sch ...
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