Asia
17 March 2006
ASIA/TAIWAN - Duns Scotus Centre organises initiatives to promote Bible study
Taipei (Fides Service) - To encourage the study of the Bible the John Duns Scotus Bible Reading Promotion Centre in Taiwan has started several new initiatives including a daily Mass at lunch time for office worker Cathol ...
16 March 2006
ASIA/TAIWAN - Profound educational significance of Lenten charity: joint open letter from Caritas and Bishops’ Commission for Social Development
Taipei (Fides Service) - The Taiwan Bishops’ Commission for Social Development and Caritas issued a joint open letter for Lent calling Catholics to exercise charity. “During Lent the faithful should be encouraged to ...
16 March 2006
ASIA/SINGAPORE - Archdiocese Singapore to open new Divine Mercy parish
Singapore (Fides Service) - Catholics in the tiny city-state of Singapore (166,000 in a population of 4.5 million) are celebrating the news that a new parish will be opened and it will be dedicated to Divine Mercy. The t ...
16 March 2006
ASIA/NEPAL - Peace ever more urgent for people ever more impoverished: Catholics help refugee families
Kathmandu (Fides Service) - “We need lasting peace. We continue to shelter homeless impoverished families in our churches, pastoral centres and schools. We are concerned for the people in the grip of poverty. We suf ...
16 March 2006
ASIA/INDIA - Migration in southern Asia : a challenge for society and for the Church
Bangalore (Fides Service) - Migration, globalisation, human rights, security and poverty were the main issues discussed at a recent seminar in Bangalore organised by the Indian Social Institute and local branch of the Je ...
15 March 2006
ASIA/TAIWAN - “Prayer deepens our relationship with God; fasting helps us draw closer to Him; charity makes us more like Him” says Archbishop of Taipei in Lenten Pastoral Letter
Taipei (Fides Service) - “Prayer deepens our relationship with God; fasting helps us draw closer to Him; charity makes us more like Him”, Archbishop Joseph Cheng of Taipei told his people in a Pastoral Letter for Len ...
15 March 2006
ASIA/CHINA - Catholic readers in China appreciate religious publications and want more says Faith bulletin
Shi Jia Zhuang (Fides Service) - Chinese Catholics say religious publications are valid channels for pastoral care and evangelisation and they are asking for more. This emerged in a survey made by the most widely read Ch ...
15 March 2006
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Wave Studio produces new music cassette for Lent 2006 in Urdu and Punjabi: 11 songs on the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus
Lahore (Fides Service) - “Lord of Life” is the title of a new religious music cassette produced and circulated for Lent 2006 by WAVE Studios in Lahore directed by Fr John Nadeem. The cassette is a collection of 11 hy ...
14 March 2006
ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic sister stabbed to death in Moluccas Islands convent
Ambon (Agenzia Fides) - A young Catholic nun resident in a convent at Jalan Pattimura near Ambon the main city of the Indonesian province of Moluccas was killed on March 10. The 33 year old Sister, a member of a communit ...
14 March 2006
ASIA/HONG KONG - “Be living tabernacles and witnesses of the Lord’s salvation Mgr Dominic Chan tells Catholic Hospital Pastoral workers
Hong Kong (Fides Service) -“Be living tabernacles, witnesses in daily life of the Lord’s Salvation. The mission of Hospital pastoral operators is to witness to the presence of Christ and build a relationship of suppo ...
14 March 2006
ASIA/TAIWAN - “Let us pray this community may be ever more mature in its faith and offer a service of evangelisation thanks to active participation of the laity”, says Bishop Wang at celebrations for 50th anniversary of Our Lady of Lourdes parish
Taipei (Fides Service) - “We pray this community may be ever more mature in the faith and offer a service of evangelisation thanks to active participation of the laity who are already of great help to the parish pries ...
13 March 2006
ASIA/TAIWAN - Hundred years of mission in China, an occasion to renew the Salesian spirit and carry on the work of God says Rev. Pascual Chavez, Salesian rector major
Taipei (Fides Service) - The Salesian family in Taiwan gave a warm welcome to Salesian rector major Rev Pascual Chavez, accompanied by Rev Savio Hon superior of the Chinese province after his visit to Macao and Hong Kon ...
13 March 2006
ASIA/MYANMAR - Commitment of the Catholic Church in Myanmar in the words and presence of Apostolic Delegate Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio
Yangon (Fides Service) - The Church in Myanmar recently celebrated two happy events with the presence in Yangon of Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, Apostolic Delegate for Myanmar.
The Archbishop visited Pennacchio Yang ...
10 March 2006
ASIA/CHINA - Ten years on seventy couples renew marriage promises during a special Mass centred on the Christian understanding of married life and the family
Beijing (Fides Service) - Seventy married couples recently renewed their promises 10 years on during a special mass at Gao Qing parish church in the diocese of Zhou Cun in Shang Dong coastal province of China. In the sa ...
9 March 2006
ASIA/CHINA - Poor country children in Shan Xi province go to school thanks to a group of city Catholics in Beijing
Beijing (Fides Service) - Thanks to a group of city Catholics in Beijing poor country children in Shan Xi province can now go to school.: “We do not have a lot to give, our contribution is small, a drop in the ocean, a ...
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