Asia

• 26 January 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Seoul opens School for the Religious Formation of the Laity Seoul(Agenzia Fides) - A School for the Laity, specialised in formation of lay Catholics in theology, Catholic Social Doctrine, catechesis, and a course on the Second Vatican Councilm is the latest project launched by th ...
• 25 January 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Youth Volunteer Service in Cambodia Phnon Penh (Agenzia Fides) - An experience of poverty, suffering, hardship. An experience of profound humanity which revealed the sense of mission. This was how young Koreans described their recent participation in an In ...
• 25 January 2007
  ASIA/FILIPPINES - “Mission essential in formation of clergy”: 1st National Conference of St Peter Apostle Society organised by local Pontifical Mission Societies Naga City (Agenzia Fides) - In the formation of seminarians and clergy orientation to mission is most important. This emerged during the 1st National Conference of St Peter Apostle Society held in Naga City in the dioces ...
• 23 January 2007
  ASIA/ SRI LANKA - Conflict spirals, thousands more flee for their lives, surge of civilian suffering Colombo (Agenzia Fides) -Recrudescent civil strife in Sri Lanka is causing widespread suffering among the local people. For weeks the regular army has been trying to flush out from their bases Liberation Tigers of Tamil ...
• 23 January 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Electoral motives prompt approval of anti-conversion law in Himachal Pradesh New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - There are political motives behind the approval of the anti-conversion law in the north west Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. A local Church source told Fides that the local governing Congres ...
• 22 January 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Italian Sisters of Charity of Saint Bartolomea Capitanio and Saint Vincenza Gerosa mark 170 years at the service of the Gospel in India Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - The Italian Sisters of Maria Bambina (the Child Mary), or Sisters of Charity of Saint Bartolomea Capitanio and Saint Vincenza Gerosa, the first to evangelise in the Indian state of West Benga ...
• 22 January 2007
  ASIA/NEPAL - New temporary Constitution fails to placate tension and protest. The local Catholic community drafts a new pastoral plan looking ahead with hope Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - “Tension and protests cannot be placated The country is still blocked by a farmers strike in the east of the country. The farmers are protesting against the new constitution which they say ...
• 22 January 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Fr. Lucio Bula, Scalabrini missionary who disappeared on 31 December alive and well Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Scalabrini missionary Fr. Lucio Bula who disappeared 31 December 2006 in the area of Cagayan de Oro, Mindanao, has been seen in Manila alive and well, according to local Church sources. The same ...
• 22 January 2007
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Catholic Justice and Peace Commission says national doctors strike must stop "an agreement must be reached because the people are the ones who are suffering” Harare (Agenzia Fides)- Ever more serious the consequences of a strike of medical staff in Zimbabwe. While the authorities have decided to send army doctors and nurses to serve in civil hospitals, the Justice and Peace C ...
• 20 January 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholics mourn Archbishop Major Cyril Baselios, leader of the Syro-Malankar Community New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - He will be remembered and missed by all. His Beatitude Major Archbishop Cyril Mar Baselios Malancharuvil of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara Catholics died on 18 January at the age of 71. At t ...
• 20 January 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Community of the Missionaries of Jesus, new evangelising reality Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Community of the Missionaries of Jesus, MJ, is an international and multicultural missionary community founded in the Philippines on 12 June 2002 by a group of forty-one men called and inspir ...
• 19 January 2007
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Social and political uncertainty, country needs reconciliation and improvements in education: Xaverian missionary reports Dacca (Agenzia Fides) - “This situation of uncertainty is expected to last for several months until the elections, the date of which has yet to be set. The state of emergency and interim government continues, and tensi ...
• 19 January 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop Oswald Gracias of Mumbai calls for “more participation of lay Christians in politics and society” Kochi (Agenzia Fides) - It is important to help lay Catholics realise that they have great relevance in the pastoral activity of the Church and its mission to carry Christian values to the fields of politics, media, soci ...
• 18 January 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Diocesan stage of process for the beatification of lay missionary martyred during the Korean War starts in Incheon Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan stage of the Beatification process of John Song Hae-bung a lay missionary martyred during the Korea War (1950-1953) has been officially opened in the diocese of Incheon. This is the f ...
• 18 January 2007
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Carrying the Gospel to the heart of the rain forest: local Catholic Church celebrates 125 years in Borneo Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in the area of Sarawak, in Malay Borneo, is celebrating the arrival of the first missionaries in this rain forest area 125 years ago. The missionaries were British Mi ...