Asia
18 May 2007
ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Basilica of the Annunciation offers Personal Light and Prayer service via the Internet
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - To give Christians all over the world the joy of lighting a candle and receiving a special blessing from one of most loved Holy Places in the world, the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth ...
16 May 2007
ASIA/CAMBODIA - “Emergency School ”: open air lessons for children of displaced families
(Phnom Penh) - To provide schooling for poor children in danger of growing up unable to even read or write Catholic religious and laity connected with the Salesian Community in Cambodia promote initiatives for basic scho ...
16 May 2007
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Voluntary return to Batticaloa
Batticaloa (Fides Service) - While civil war continues to produces more violence and victims every day there are timid attempts to help people in Sri Lanka, especially in the north and north east, return to normal life. ...
15 May 2007
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - After elections marred by violence with 126 dead, civil society monitors guarantee transparency and prevent fraud in vote-counting
Manila (Fides Service) - Violence was present, despite a non-violence campaign launched by civil society and the local Catholic Church - in elections held 14 May throughout the country. Over 45 million voted to elect par ...
15 May 2007
ASIA/PAKISTAN - High institutional tension and social disorder: harsh repression by the army
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Tension is rising in Pakistan, especially in Karachi with days of disorder and protest against President Musharraf' s decision to dismiss supreme court president Iftikkhar Chaudhry known for his ...
15 May 2007
ASIA/THAILAND - Increase in vocations to the religious life among Karen peoples exposed to suffering and deportation
Bangkok (Fides Service) - Vocations to the religious life are increasing among Catholic communities of Karen peoples living in north west Thailand and in Myanmar despite a situation of persistent hardship, poverty and di ...
14 May 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Education Week 21 to 27 May
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - “Jesus Christ, true Master" is the title of a message issued by the Catholic Bishops of Korea on the occasion of the 2nd Catholic Education Week to be held 21 to 27 of this month. The message, s ...
12 May 2007
ASIA/HONG KONG - Local Year of the Family: 25 families attend "Parents to Children handing-on the faith" meeting; family building web site opens new page
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - “The Family Hands on its Treasure” was the title of a meeting of formation in the faith in the family organised recently at St Benedict parish by Hong Kong's diocesan commission for catech ...
10 May 2007
ASIA/INDIA - “Promoting journalism based on authentic values” Fr Adolf Washington new president of the Indian Catholic Press Association
Bangalore (Fides Service) - Journalism which is neither scandalistic nor sensationalistic; which fosters respect for the human person, human dignity and rights, promotes justice and solidarity, fights to eliminate discri ...
10 May 2007
ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Ramos-Horta will be the new President of East Timor, official elections results still to be announced
Dili (Agenzia Fides) - Outgoing Prime Minister, Nobel peace prize winner José Ramos-Horta, will be the new president of the Republic of East Timor. Temporary results of the 8 May election announced with 90% of the votes ...
9 May 2007
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Emmanuel Delly says “Iraqi Christians must be guaranteed full rights of citizenship ”
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - A strong appeal in favour of Iraqi Christians was addressed to political and religious authorities in Iraq and the rest of the world by Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Mar Emmanuel III Delly during ...
9 May 2007
ASIA/TAIWAN - Young Catholics in Immaculate Heart of Mary parish call peers to mission: “Come let's proclaim the Gospel!”
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - “ Come let's proclaim the Gospel ” is the call launched by young Catholics of Immaculate Heart of Mary parish, in the 7th deanery of Tai Pei archdiocese to their peers during a recent meetin ...
8 May 2007
ASIA/TAIWAN - At Miao Li Convent diocese of Hsin Chu Cardinal Shan inaugurates a Holy House of Loreto, the third in the world and the only one in Asia
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) -A special Mass presided by Cardinal Paul Shan to inaugurate a perfect reproduction of the shrine of the "Holy House of Loreto" was attended by more than 2,000 people. About fifty bishops and prie ...
4 May 2007
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society protests against 'Talebanisation' and spreading religious fundamentalism
Lahore (Fides Service) - To affirm civil society's desire to remain secular, democratic and pluralist associations, movements, unions, religious minority groups staged a street demonstration in Lahore demanding that grow ...
2 May 2007
ASIA/MYANMAR - Apostolic Delegate visits diocese of Kengtung, which has just held diocesan synod
Kengtung (Fides Service) - The Catholics of the diocese of Kengtung, east Myanmar recently had the joy of a visit by the Apostolic Delegate Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio. The Delegate was warmly welcomed to the Cathedr ...
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