Asia

• 21 September 2006
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Bishop of Jaffna launches appeal to find priest and lay man who disappeared a month ago Jaffna (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Thomas Savundaranayagam of the diocese of Jaffna, in north of Sri Lanka has launched an appeal for a more thorough investigation into the disappearance of a Catholic priest and lay man las ...
• 21 September 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Another Catholic school comes under attack: Salesian institute in north east India is completely sacked Itanagar (Agenzia Fides) - Another Catholic school in India has come under attack. After the recent attack on a school run by the Loreto Sisters in Luknow, Uttar Pradesh, another episode of violence has been reported to ...
• 21 September 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA - “Three Catholics to be executed ‘in haste, while 86 more Indonesians have been waiting on death row for years”: Fides spoke with Fr Ismartono, co-ordinator of humanitarian and inter-religious affairs for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - “We are filled with sadness. We have lost all hope of saving the lives of three Catholics. The extremists appear to have won”, Jesuit Father Ignazio Ismartono, co-ordinator of humanitarian a ...
• 20 September 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Three Indonesian Catholics to be executed in 36 hours time, dawn 22 September. The world hopes for a suspension, Indonesia’s Christians immersed in prayer call on President to grant reprieve Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - There is little hope of saving the lives of Fabianus Tibo, Domingus Da Silva, and Marinus Riwu, three Indonesian Catholics facing a death sentence. The execution has been set for dawn on 22 Sept ...
• 20 September 2006
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Local Catholic village community in Kompong Tom province welcomes new church Phnom Pen (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in the village of Preik Sbaw, province of Kompong Tom, in the Apostolic Prefecture of Battambang have a new church. The blessing and inauguration of the new place of worship in Augus ...
• 19 September 2006
  ASIA/LAOS - An Oblate ordained to the priesthood in Laos, the first in over 30 years Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in over 30 years, an Oblate has been ordained to the priesthood in Laos. The details of the Ordination are on the www.omiworld.org, web site run by the OMI office for commu ...
• 19 September 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Association of Catholic laity re-elects chairman and confirms loyalty to Pope Benedict XVI News Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The All India Catholic Union, an association for lay Catholics was formed 87 years ago as a body of committed lay Catholics in a society where Christians are a small minority and where in rec ...
• 19 September 2006
  ASIA/JAPAN - Local Church grateful to missionaries ready to take its future and the work of evangelisation in its own hands Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - The missionaries brought the seed of the Gospel to Japan. Today the local Church must stand on its own feet and take its future and the work of evangelisation in its own hands according to Rev. Sh ...
• 18 September 2006
  ASIA - “We are called to take back to our dioceses the precious indications we are receiving ”, say Asian Bishops taking part in Study-Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To learn, to absorb precious indications and experiences and then return to the ministry in their own dioceses: with this spirit Asian Bishops are taking part in the Study Seminar for newly ...
• 18 September 2006
  ASIA/THAILAND - Programme of Asian Mission Congress 18-22 October in Chiang Mai, Thailand Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - The programme has been released for the First Asian Mission Congress organised by the Office for Evangelisation of the FABC Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences with the support of the Con ...
• 16 September 2006
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Re-evangelising Europe: ‘Asia to West’ mission for Franciscan Friar Anthony Cho Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - “Saint Francis Xavier came as a missionary from Europe to bring the Gospel to the Far East. Today we must go as missionaries from East to West to re-evangelise Europe” says Franciscan Fria ...
• 16 September 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Caritas South Korea and north Korean authorities hold first meeting to plan humanitarian AID in 2007 Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Members of Caritas South Korea had a first meeting with authorities of North Korea to make contact with regard to the flow of humanitarian aid South-North. The meeting is part of a North Korea Aid ...
• 15 September 2006
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - Minute Catholic community in a land of first evangelisation, despite little religious freedom and no place of worship, dreams of building its own church one day soon Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) - In a country which is 90% desert land, the Gospel is beginning to flower thanks to the work and prayers of Fr. Andrzej Madej, an Oblate Missionary of Mary Immaculate(OMI), Superior of the Catho ...
• 15 September 2006
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Muslim religious leaders and intellectuals call for a reprieve for three Indonesian Catholics condemned to death Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Muslim religious leaders and intellectuals who took part in the recent Inter-religious Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi organised by the S. Egidio Community, addressed a letter to the president of ...
• 14 September 2006
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Vietnam cradle for vocations to the religious life has new Salesian Novitiate Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - In Vietnam vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life continue to flourish and seminaries are filled as an increasing number of young people decide to dedicate their lives to ...