Asia
3 March 2005
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Orphans and abandoned children pray daily Rosary in spiritual communion with the Pope
Colombo (Fides Service) - Young inmates at Nochchiyagam Home and Training Centre a home for children in need in the diocese of Anhuradhapura, run by the Salesian Fathers are offering their daily rosary for the Pope: a m ...
3 March 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Old people, the sick and children pray for the Pope with the Sisters of St Joseph who ask Fides for latest news about the Pope
Shi Jia Zhuang (Fides Service) - The Sisters of the congregation of St Joseph and the old people and children and sick people in their care, continue to pray for a speedy recovery for the Pope Superior General Sr Chiara ...
3 March 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - Young Christians and Muslims worked together to prepare for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Christians in the Moluccas
Ambon (Fides Service) - The 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Christians in the Moluccas was not a motive of conflict, it was a time for encounter, friendship, collaboration, the Crisis Centre in the Catholic ...
3 March 2005
ASIA/INDIA - “Shalom Television”: new Catholic TV channel in Kerala, southern India
Cochin (Fides Service) - “Shalom Television” is the name of a new Catholic TV channel launched on 26 February in Kerala state in southern India. The programmes are in Malayalam and the TV is sponsored by the Syro-Ma ...
2 March 2005
ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Christians say they too are praying for the Pope's health
Baghdad (Fides)- “The Iraqi people are devoted to the Holy Father who has always called for peace in our country. And at this time when he is ill in hospital, we wish to say that despite the difficulties we encounter w ...
2 March 2005
ASIA/NEPAL - Although still traumatised and suffering orphans, former child soldiers and street children cared for in Catholic institutions offer special prayers for the Pope
Kathmandu (Fides Service) - The people of Nepal are traumatised by years of guerrilla warfare, the rebels are still strong and control various parts of the country. What is more the nation is still recovering from the la ...
2 March 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Two months after the tsunami solidarity effort of Catholic communities in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan continues
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Catholics in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have not forgotten the victims of the December tsunami disaster and are keeping up their solidarity efforts. In mid February the Kong Ko Bao b ...
2 March 2005
AMERICA/BRAZIL - In a Guarani Indian reserve 290 children suffer from acute malnutrition and 35% of those under age six is underfed. The death of six Guarani children brings to the fore the drama of Brazil’s forgotten people
Rome (Fides Service) - The deaths of six children caused by hunger in a Guarani Indian reserve bring to the fore the tragedy of Indians peoples in Brazil and the inefficiency of social assistance programmes.
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2 March 2005
ASIA/MALAYSIA - UNHCR in Malaysia to assist refugees: maxi government clamp-down on illegal immigration
Kuala Lumpur (Fides Service) - Malaysia has at least 400,000 illegal immigrants fleeing from poverty and war and coming mainly from Myanmar, Cambodia and the Aceh province of Indonesia working in highly industrial areas. ...
1 March 2005
ASIA/MONGOLIA - In Mongolia rescued street children at Catholic centre pray every day for the Pope who is a point of reference for their fledging faith
Ulan Bator (Fides Service) -Mongolian children rescued by Catholic missionaries from life on the streets and in the sewers of Ulan Bator, pray every day for the Pope. They know him and see him as a “grandfather”, a p ...
1 March 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Government ready to launch “direct attack on poverty”: financial law to promote development, attention for disadvantaged sectors of society
New Delhi (Fides Service) - The Catholic Church in India, other religious minorities missionaries, and social organisations have welcomed the new financial law presented today by the governing Congress Party. The law aim ...
28 February 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Death of ‘good and zealous Bishop Gao Kexian ’
Yantai (Fides Service) - On Monday 24 January Bishop John Gao Kexian of the diocese of Yantai, in Shandong mainland China, who had been ill for some time died at the age of 86. The Bishop was born in 1928 to a family wh ...
28 February 2005
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Example of a community in dialogue: Catholic priest receives a doctorate from Buddhist university
Seoul (Fides Service) - In South Korea inter-religious dialogue goes ahead also at the cultural and academic level, as it can be seen by the experience of Father Thomas Kwak Sang-hun of Seoul archdiocese recently awarded ...
28 February 2005
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Reconciliation between North and South Korea: wish of Archbishop of Seoul in Lenten message
Seoul (Fides Service) - Meditation and conversion of heart were the main topics in a Lenten Message issued by Archbishop Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk of Seoul. In the message “A Life of forgiveness and Reconciliation” the ...
28 February 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Attention for the Holy Father in mainland China: while Catholics pray for the Pope many more people are beginning to ask “who is John Paul II”
Beijing (Fides Service) - “Who is the Pope?” is the question heard every more frequently among young people in China and many address this question to their Catholic friends, one young Catholic in Beijing told Fides. ...
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