Asia
14 June 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Tai Yuan diocese hold first Eucharistic Congress and celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral
Tai Yuan (Fides Service) - Recently the diocese of Tai Yuan main town in Shan Xi province of mainland China held its first Eucharistic Congress in the parish of Bei Gu Nian. According to the bulletin Faith published in H ...
13 June 2005
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Vox returns to give voice to solidarity in the Holy Land
Jerusalem (Fides Service) - It is a voice which speaks of Christian solidarity and recently it has once again begun to make itself heard. Vox, a monthly publication issued by Caritas Holy Land in collaboration with other ...
13 June 2005
ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop John Tong, Auxiliary of Hong Kong, presides opening of new parish for Korean Catholic immigrants
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Hong Kong diocese has given the local Korean Catholic community its own parish chapel. Kong Ko Bao diocesan bulletin reported that the new church which will serve as a parish for Catholic immi ...
8 June 2005
ASIA/HOLY LAND - New magazine for Palestine’s Christian youth “to instil hope and help them say no to hatred and war”
Bethlehem (Fides Service) - Juthouruna (Our Roots) is the name of a new magazine mainly for Christian youth presented yesterday 7 June in Bethlehem at the local Catholic Action Hall. “At last we have our first issue, a ...
8 June 2005
ASIA/HONG KONG - Long procession through the streets on Corpus Christi: the Eucharist helps us realise we are all one family
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - More than 700 special ministers of Holy Communion and hundreds of Catholic faithful took part in the Corpus Christi procession through the streets of Hong Kong led by Bishop Joseph Zen. Kong K ...
8 June 2005
ASIA/INDIA - For Catholics in Orissa threats are a daily reality, the situation is unbearable: Catholic Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar launches appeal through Fides
Bhubaneshwar (Fides Service) - “Our missionaries and our other church personnel are all afraid. It is dangerous to move about. Christians are jeered and boycotted every day amidst the total indifference of the civil au ...
8 June 2005
ASIA/CHINA - In a few years the Catholic community in Heng Shui has grown again to 300 members
Heng Shui (Agenzia Fides) - Some years ago one of the very few Catholics in the town of Heng Shui, in the northern mainland China Hebei province offered his home as a centre for prayer and other religious activity. Since ...
7 June 2005
ASIA/INDIA - In the world’s largest democracy 109 Christian homes are demolished to meet demands of RSS a movement of extremism neo-nationalist ever further from the spirituality and tolerance of a millennial creed
Bhubaneswar (Fides Service) - Tension and bewilderment in the state of Orissa, north east India after the Koraput district administration approved an order to demolish 109 homes belonging to Christian families. The episo ...
7 June 2005
ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong diocese starts school of evangelisation on-line
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - On Pentecost Sunday, 15 May, Hong Kong diocese officially inaugurated its new School of Evangelisation on-line an idea of the diocesan youth group supervised by Italian PIME missionary Fr. Gio ...
7 June 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Mgr Giuseppe Wang founder of the Chinese speaking Catholic community in Rome and father to all Chinese immigrants the Italian capital dies at the age of 79. Funeral 8 June at Santa Maria degli Angeli Basilica in Rome
Rome (Fides Service) - Mgr Giuseppe Wang founder the Chinese speaking Catholic community in Rome and father to all Chinese immigrants the Italian capital, died yesterday 6 June in Rome at the age of 79. Mgr Wang had been ...
6 June 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Bishop John Wang Xixian who spent 21 years in prison for the faith dies at the age of 79 after a long illness
Hohhot (Fides Service) - Bishop John Wang Xixian of the archdiocese of Hohhot in the Inner Mongolia region of China died of on Wednesday 25 May at the age of 79 after two years of suffering with bone cancer. John Wang wa ...
6 June 2005
ASIA - Migration in central Asia: questions, figures, prospects in a report by the International Organisation for Migration
Astana (Fides Service) - Migratory streams from Central Asia move towards the Russian Federation and also increasingly towards Europe and Canada according to a report issued by the International Organisation for Migrati ...
6 June 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Lay Catholics play important part in Church life in India agents di evangelisation, courageous witnesses of Christ even in hostile environments
New Delhi (Fides Service) - Lay Catholics play a major role in evangelisation in India, their specific role and charisma are fundamental in today’s context where Christians often face hostility and attacks by extremist ...
3 June 2005
ASIA/HONG KONG - In the Year of the Eucharist 400 people take part in pilgrimage on the history of Catholicism in Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Making a pilgrimage in the footsteps of the history of Catholicism in Hong Kong was a good way to celebrate the Year of the Eucharist and to build a closer bond with the Lord. This is why the ...
3 June 2005
ASIA/INDIA - First church dedicated to Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
New Delhi (Fides Service) - A new church in the village of Malvalayanvayal, Ramananthapuram district, in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu has been dedicated to Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The church was con ...
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