Asia

• 16 July 2004
  ASIA/CHINA - Pilgrimage and charity: Tian Jin pilgrims to Cang Zhou offer spiritual and material help to local orphans Tian Jin (Fides Service) - Recently a group of 220 people from Xi Kai parish in Tian Jin, not far from Beijing, went on a pilgrimage to Cang Zhou in Hebei province led by assistant parish priest Father Li Dong. According ...
• 15 July 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Catholic Church in France engages in mission via web site run by lay Catholics Paris (Fides Service) - The Mission of the Chaldean Catholic Church born of the preaching of St Thomas the Apostle and which has its cradle in Iraq, has begun a mission via the Internet with a new web site www.mission-ch ...
• 15 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Scalabrini International Migration Institute offers theological and sociological formation on themes of Migration and a new Masters Rome (Fides Service) - “We are very happy that our Institute has been recognised by the Congregation for Catholic Education. We intend to continue our work of studying the different migratory realities, from two approa ...
• 15 July 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “The law is unjust and it should be abolished”: Archbishop President of Pakistan’s Conference of Bishops speaks to Fides about law on blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - “I am not very optimistic about promises to revise the blasphemy law.. There us strong opposition from extremists groups. What is more any amendment must be examined and passed by the Council o ...
• 14 July 2004
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Tajikistan, with its troubles and hopes, communicates with the world through new Caritas web site www.caritas.tj Dushanbe (Fides Service) - Attention for children in need, help to families, assistance to the sick: these are the commitments courageously undertaken by Caritas in Tajikistan, for Soviet territory where the Catholic com ...
• 14 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Floods and drought in various parts of India - Summary of complex situation where desperate impoverished farmers see suicide as only way out: Caritas commitment New Delhi (Fides Service) - Two distinct tragedies affect the life of people in various parts of India, floods and drought. In the northeast the land is flooded after heavy monsoon rains while in the northwest and south ...
• 14 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic education commitment increases in highly scientific field: new Catholic College run by Pallotine Fathers will train engineers in west India Nagpur (Fides Service) - Education has always been an important field of service for the Catholic community in India. All over the country Catholic schools province high level of education appreciated and sought after an ...
• 13 July 2004
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Music is climbing over the West Bank Barrier in the Holy Land: Israeli and Palestinians play side by side in the World Youth Orchestra with its music for hope Jerusalem (Fides Service) - Music is climbing over the West Bank Barrier in the Holy Land. Just when the World Court in the Hague was declaring illegal Israel’s wall built to keep Palestinians out or in, an orchestra o ...
• 13 July 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Promote a culture of honesty, take part in the process of national transformation, build conditions for peace and intensify struggle to uproot corruption: jobs for Catholics in post election Philippines Manila (Fides Service) - Recently in Manila, after the Congress of the Clergy, the Catholic Bishops of the Philippines gathered in assembly to discuss the Catholic community’s role in the country after the 10 May elect ...
• 12 July 2004
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop Zen and the entire Catholic community criticise the new education law passed by parliament Hong Kong (Fides Service) - After Hong Kong’s parliament approved a new education law on July 8, the Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong, Bishop Zen, has openly voiced his disappointment. The Church in Hong Kong had already p ...
• 12 July 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Beatification cause of 124 Korean martyrs officially opened in Seoul Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - On July 5 at the offices of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea in Seoul the beatification cause for the Servant of God Paul Yun Ji-chung and 123 companions was officially opened. July 5 w ...
• 12 July 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Building peace and reconciliation, showing solidarity to the suffering: symposium on the role and challenges of priests in an area of tension among different communities Guwahati (Fides Service) - Closeness to God, solidarity towards others are the characteristics of a good priest, said Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, President Indian Bishop Conference at a recent symposium on the priestly li ...
• 10 July 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - A STUDY - Harmony and religious freedom: the paths of peace for civil development and the progress of peoples SRI LANKA (society and religion) Colombo (Fides Service) - Peace and religious freedom, two of the highest values of civil harmony are threatened in Sri Lanka. A recent suicide bombing in the centre of the capital Colombo and a Bill presented in Parliam ...
• 10 July 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Political, social and religious forces must unite to guarantee peace and reconciliation necessary for progress and prosperity Colombo (Fides Service) - In Sri Lanka tension is high, but the time is ripe for a change; the country’s political, social and religious forces must commit themselves to guaranteeing peace and religious freedom imperat ...
• 10 July 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The roots of the ethnic conflict which has shed the country’s blood and strangled the economy Colombo (Fides Service) -Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) since 1984 has lived an inter-ethnic conflict between the Sinhalese majority (about 74% of the population) and the Tamil majority of Indian origin (about 13%). Anothe ...