Asia

• 1 July 2003
  ASIA/MYANMAR - ARCHBISHOP OF YANGON: THE LITTLE CHURCH OF MYANMAR GROWS DESPITE TRIALS AND DIFFICULTIES, ALSO THANKS TO COMMITTED LAITY Vatican City (Fides Service) – “We are a very close knit community and despite difficulties and trials we praise God, we pray, we evangelise and engage in social and charity work”. This is how Archbishop Charles Ma ...
• 30 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - CATHOLIC CITY YOUTH ON MISSION AMONG RURAL YOUTH – PREPARATION FOR ASIAN YOUTH DAY CONTINUES Diphu (Fides Service) – “Young people on mission to other young people” initiatives are being undertaken by a number of Indian dioceses in preparation for Asian Youth Day in Bangalore 9-16 August 2003. The major yo ...
• 27 June 2003
  ASIA/JAPAN - PRIESTS IN TEAMS PROVIDE BETTER PASTORAL SERVICE AND FORMATION FOR YOUTH AND LAITY Yokohama (Fides Service) – To improve pastoral work priests of Yokohama archdiocese in Japan, have told their Bishop that they would like to form “common administration parishes” in the different areas of the archd ...
• 27 June 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - DEATH OF FIRST FILIPINO VICAR APOSTOLIC OF CALAPAN Manila (Fides Service) – On 23 June at Quezon City Seminary after a long illness, which afflicted him for three years, Bishop Simeon Valerio, Divine Word Missionary, passed away. The Bishop, who was 86 will be remem ...
• 27 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - VOCATIONS AMONG TRIBAL PEOPLES: ADIVASI VILLAGE IN EASTERN INDIA REJOICES OVER ORDINATION OF FIRST LOCAL PRIEST Ranchi (Fides Service) – Tribal peoples in India are very open to the message of Christ and they embrace the faith with joy. In remote villages in eastern India there are Catholic communities which live the faith with ...
• 27 June 2003
  ASIA/NEPAL - JAPANESE NOTE DAME TEACHING SISTERS RESUME MISSION HIGH IN NEPAL MOUNTAINS Tokyo (Fides Service) – For over twenty years the School Sisters of Notre Dame taught poor children in Bandipur village in the mountains of Nepal. In 2001, because of disorder and danger due to spreading violence on th ...
• 26 June 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - JUNE 29 BEIJING CHURCHES OPEN AFTER SARS NIGHTMARE, CATHOLICS CAN GO TO MASS AGAIN Beijing (Fides Service) – June 29 will be a day to remember for believers in Beijing. That day places of worship, closed for the SARS scare, will once again open their doors. Some parishes have already resumed daily ma ...
• 26 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - FUNDAMENTALISM HAS NO FUTURE IN INDIA ARCHBISHOP TELESPHORE TOPPO PRESIDENT OF LATIN RITE BISHOPS IN INDIA Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Religious fanaticism has no future in India. I am optimistic: India is a great nation with millenary tradition of tolerance. Fanaticism hides questions of political, social and economi ...
• 25 June 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - IN POST WAR IRAQ CARITAS AND UNHCR HELP ASSIST PEOPLE EXHAUSTED BY YEARS OF WAR AND SANCTIONS Baghdad (Fides Service) – Caritas is increasing efforts to provide assistance to the people of Iraq, exhausted by years of war and sanctions. One of the new programmes is an assistance project for 285 Palestinian refug ...
• 25 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - JESUITS IN AFGHANISTAN TO REBUILD SCHOOL SYSTEM AND WORK FOR EDUCATION OF YOUTH New Delhi (Fides Service) – The Jesuit Fathers hope soon to work in Afghanistan. The war ravaged country is undergoing a long process of consolidating political institutions, economic reconstruction, social harmonisati ...
• 24 June 2003
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - CATHOLIC MISSION OPENS FEEDING CENTRE FOR 60 CHILDREN, CATHOLICS AND MUSLIMS, AT DUSHANBE Dushanbe (Fides Service) – The Catholic Mission of Tajikistan has opened a feeding centre for needy children to serve at least 60 little ones. The centre was inaugurated on 18 June by the Apostolic Nuncio for Central A ...
• 24 June 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - IRAQ SWINGS FROM EMERGENCY TO NORMALITY: IN THE NORTH SCHOOL PUPILS PREPARE FOR EXAMS, IN THE CENTRE CLASHES AND ATTACKS CONTINUE Baghdad (Fides Service) – “Despite the lack of security in most of Iraq people are trying to return to normal day to day living ” says Father Nizar Semaan of Ninive diocese. “At Karakoush, a Christian town of 25, ...
• 24 June 2003
  ASIA/HONG KONG - SARS NIGHTMARE OVER: “ SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMEN, POLITICIANS, FILM STARS FADE AWAY, POPULAR HEROES NOW EIGHT DOCTORS WHO DIED TO SAVE OTHERS” MISSIONARY TELLS FIDES SERVICE Hong Kong (Fides Service) – SARS was a shock for Hong Kong. But it changed people’s view of life and the city took a turn for the better” says Father Gianni Criveller, PIME mission in Hong Kong hours after the spec ...
• 23 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - LIFE STORY OF MOTHER TERESA NOW AVAILABLE IN KANNADA LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY 33 MILLION INDIANS Bangalore (Fides Service) – Also Kannada speaking Indians living mainly in central southern India will be able to learn more about Mother Teresa of Calcutta: on the occasion of the beatification of the white clad siste ...
• 23 June 2003
  ASIA/TURKEY - ECUMENICAL SERVICE AND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM FOR THE FEAST DAY SAINTS PETER AND ST PAUL Antioch (Fides Service) – To mark the Feast Day of Saints Peter on Paul on June 29 an ecumenical Liturgy of the Word and an international symposium will be held in Antioch. The ecumenical service, attended by represent ...