Asia
6 December 2005
ASIA/TAIWAN - Fu Ren Catholic University gives new students warm welcome in a spirit of Christian charity and brotherhood
Taipei (Fides Service) - Recently Fu Ren Catholic University in Taipei held a ceremony to welcome new students. The ceremony concluded with a blessing by the university chaplain.
According to Christian Life Weekly pub ...
6 December 2005
ASIA/INDIA - “Voice of Life”: new Catholic weekly in Kerala
Kochi (Fides Service) - Jeevanaadam or Voice of Life is the title of a new Catholic weekly in the local Malayalam language launched in Kerala. According to editor Fr. Feranandez the publication aims to promote cultural a ...
6 December 2005
ASIA/CAMBODIA - 450th anniversary of the presence of the Church in Cambodia: pastoral visit by Papal nuncio Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio
Phnom Penh (Fides Service) - The first missionary to set foot in Cambodia in 1555 and start evangelising was Dominican missionary Fr. Gaspar De Cruz. To celebrate 450 years of Catholic presence in this small nation in In ...
5 December 2005
ASIA/HONG KONG - Message from Bishop Zen after participation in the Synod on the Eucharist: may the family put the Eucharist at the centre of life
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - On his return from Rome where he took part in the Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist, Source and Summit of the Church’s Life and Mission Bishop Joseph Zen Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong shared ...
5 December 2005
ASIA/INDIA - New Catholic Directory of India: valuable aid for Catholic communities and tool for evangelisation
New Delhi (Fides Service) - The 2005 edition of the Catholic Directory of India was released recently in New Delhi by Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, archbishop of Ranchi and President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of ...
2 December 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - Salesian Novitiate prepares for new Sumba premises to include a youth centre
Sumba (Fides Service) - Salesians, teachers and pupils at Waipengali on the island of Sumba are happy that a first new building for Tigaraksa Novitiate at a new Salesian Centre is almost ready. The building will accommo ...
2 December 2005
ASIA/CINA - Catholic web sites blacked-out after reporting news of attack on nuns in Xi An now visible but no trace of news in question
Xi An (Fides Service) - Blacked out for several hours on November 30 for reporting breaking news of attacks on ‘helpless women religious in Xi An’ (to quote the Holy See press office), the most popular Chinese Cathol ...
2 December 2005
ASIA/TAIWAN - Tai Nan diocese holds solemn closing of Year of the Eucharist with special attention for young people
Kaohsiung (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday November 30, feast of Christ the King and the last Sunday of the Liturgical year the diocese of Tai Nan celebrated the solemn closing of the Year of the Eucharist. According to Chris ...
2 December 2005
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Handbook for Mission Groups in Argentina, “elements and guidelines for better organisation and evangelising activity ”
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “The Bishops’ Commission for Missions and the Pontifical Mission Societies considering that Mission Groups are a complex reality in the Church in Argentina have issued a handbook, fruit ...
1 December 2005
ASIA/MYANMAR - Church in Myanmar is giving more attention to youth pastoral with the help of religious congregations
Yangon (Fides Service) - The Church in Myanmar is giving more attention to youth pastoral: thanks to the presence of Salesians spiritual and pastoral activities involving young people, students and seminarians are multi ...
1 December 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle visits Pontifical Mission Societies in Pakistan: “at Sangla Hill. we prayed that from the ashes of the destruction new life would be born”
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - From Newcastle to Pakistan: Bishop Kevin Dunn, Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, recently set out with three priests and a BBC reporter on the same route travelled by many Pakistanis resid ...
1 December 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Kottar diocese in Tamil Nadu builds 2,600 new homes for tsunami survivors
Pondicherry (Fides Service) - Kottar diocese in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has built 2,600 new homes for fisherfolk and other people who lost everything in the tremendous sea quake on 26 December 2004. The w ...
1 December 2005
ASIA/TAIWAN - Chinese Dominican nuns commemorate founder, Dominican Mgr Theodore Labrador on 25th anniversary of his death.
Kaohsiung (Fides Service) - “Today I would like to thank Mgr Theodore Labrador OP rather than commemorate him. To thank him because through the working of the Holy Spirit he founded a congregation of Chinese Dominican ...
30 November 2005
ASIA/MYANMAR - Catholics in Myanmar hold first National Pastoral Meeting as part of celebrations for 50th anniversary of the institution of the hierarchy
Yangon (Fides Service) - The year 1995, Year of the Eucharist, has been very special Jubilee for Catholics in Vietnam, besides celebrating the 50th anniversary of the institution of the local hierarchy in 1955 they held ...
30 November 2005
ASIA/MYANMAR - “Abide in me”: Vision and Mission statement of the Church in Myanmar on the occasion of 1st National Pastoral Assembly
Yangon (Fides) - In a message at the end of the 1st National Pastoral Assembly of the Catholic Church in Myanmar the Bishops say the way forward is to be ‘Church as Communion through Reconciliation’ a people of the E ...
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