Asia
8 March 2007
ASIA/THAILAND - 8 March: Jesuit Refugee Service says displaced women need protection and assistance
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Many women refugees from various countries, from neighbouring Myanmar and Laos, but also from as far away as Sudan seek shelter in Thailand. Some are alone but many come with children seeking a ...
8 March 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Catholic women play an important part in the life of the Church, especially for evangelisation
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - At the first Mass early this morning March 8 International Women’s Day, at Beijing’s Holy Saviour Catholic parish church the priest expressed best wishes to all women and said: “I wish to ...
8 March 2007
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bible groups for prayer and study involve young and old
Lahore (Fides Service) - Thanks to the activity of the Catholic Bible Commission of Pakistan a thriving movement of Bible Apostolate to encouraged study, interpersonal sharing and prayer on the basis of the Word of God i ...
8 March 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Salesian web site helps find missing children
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Salesians of Don Bosco have launched a web site to trace missing children in India. According to SAR NEWS the Don Bosco National Forum for Youth at Risk in association with UNICEF maintain ...
6 March 2007
ASIA/INDONESIA - Earthquake in Sumatra, society mobilised. Catholic Bishop of Padang: “With trust in Divine Providence let us help our brothers and sisters in difficulty”
Padang (Fides Service) - “It was unexpected and terrible and left the people prostrate”, said a local church source in Padang with regard to the impact of a 6.3 Richter scale earthquake which struck the island of Sum ...
6 March 2007
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Pastoral activity and budding vocations in the tiny Catholic community in vast central Asian step lands
Karaganda (Fides Service) - Pastoral work is proceeding well for the first two priests ordained after theological studies at the Catholic Seminary in Karaganda, the only Catholic seminary in Central Asia. The inter-dioce ...
6 March 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Harmony Forums to be launched in Gujarat to counter communalism
Gandhinagar (Fides Service) - To foster a more harmonious society the Indian Bishops’ Commission for Interreligious Dialogue and the Commission for Inter-Religious Dialogue, western region, will launch Harmony Forums i ...
6 March 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Wu An parish sends 100 lay missionaries to surrounding villages
Han Dan (Fides Service) - The parish of Wu An in the diocese of Han Dan, which has a long and glorious tradition in evangelisation, at the beginning of Lent celebrated a solemn rite to confer the missionary mandate to re ...
5 March 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Meeting to plan National Mission Congress for next year 2008
Bangalore (Fides Service) - The Conference of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India CCBI through its Commission for Proclamation, is planning to bring together regional secretaries of the Commission, diocesan direc ...
5 March 2007
ASIA/EAST TIMOR - “May Lent be for every Christian a renewed experience of God’s love given to us in Christ, a love that each day we in turn must ‘re-give’ to our neighbour”, Catholic Bishops’ issue Lenten Appeal for Peace
Dili (Fides Service) - In an appeal for Peace the Bishops of East Timor draw inspiration for Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for Lent 2007 stressing the need to “recognise the wounds inflicted upon the dignity of the hum ...
3 March 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Conversion means turning our hearts to God: Lenten Message from Cardinal Nicholas Cheong, Archbishop of Seoul
Seoul (Fides Service) - ‘Convert your hearts and believe in the Gospel’ is the title of a Lenten Letter issued by the Archbishop of Seoul Cardinal Nicholas Cheong focussed on conversion, repentance, prayer, works of ...
3 March 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholics end celebrations for Lunar New Year in a spirit of Christian charity and evangelisation
Beijing (Fides Service) -Lunar New Year festivities lived by Catholics in a spirit of Christian charity and evangelisation in communion with Chinese Catholics all over the world close tomorrow Sunday 4 January with Yuan ...
2 March 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Young Catholics from South Korea pray with World Youth Day Cross at frontier with North Korea
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Young Catholics of South Korea lived an intense and significant moment of prayer and recollection recently when they carried the visiting Youth Day Cross as far as Freedom Bridge which marks the ...
2 March 2007
ASIA/TAIWAN - Spiritual books best sellers at International Book Fair in Tai Pei where twelve Catholic communications groups were present
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - For the past eight years the Catholic community in Taiwan has been a regular participant at Tei Pei’s traditional International Book Fair. At this 15th edition of the Fair 12 Catholic communic ...
1 March 2007
ASIA/TAIWAN - Anonymous elderly Buddhist lady of modest means donates 23 million Taiwan dollars to Catholic Cancer Care organisation
Tai Chung (Agenzia Fides) - A love which knows no boundaries between faiths was how Kao Hsiung diocesan ShanTao Catholic Weekly describes the generosity of an elderly Buddhist lady, who signs herself simply, a disciple ...
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