Asia

• 16 June 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - WILL FUNDAMENTALIST EXTREMISM BRING ARMY OF SUICIDE BOMBERS TO THE PHILIPPINES? A RESPONSE BY FATHER D’AMBRA PIME MISSIONARY IN MINDANAO Zamboanga (Fides Service) – “The only possible way to end the conflict in southern Philippines is to promote dialogue and marginalise the more radical rebel fringes”. This is the opinion of Father Sebastian D’Amb ...
• 13 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - AGENDA FOR NEXT ASIAN YOUTH DAY: GLOBALISATION, WAR ON TERRORISM, AIDS, DRUG ABUSE, ENVIRONMENT IMBALANCE, UNEMPLOYMENT, FUNDAMENTALISM, CONSUMERISM, VALUES CRISIS Bangalore (Fides Service) - More than one thousand youth delegates from various dioceses in many Asian countries will attend Asian Youth Day in Bangalore India, 9-16 August 2003 at the invitation of the Indian Bishops’ ...
• 12 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - SANSKRIT, CLASSICAL LANGUAGE OF THE VEDAS, TODAY TAUGHT BY JESUITS New Delhi (Fides Service) – It serves to understand and study ancient Indian poetry and prose : Sanskrit is a language which helps to probe the Hindu religion and culture. With this in mind the Jesuit Fathers who run S ...
• 11 June 2003
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - EAST TIMOR PRESIDENT XANANA GUSMAO, ACTIVIST FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION, RECEIVES PATH TO PEACE AWARD FROM HOLY SEE’S MISSION TO UN New York (Fides Service) – On June 12, in New York President Xanana Gusmao of East Timor received the Path to Peace award promoted by the Holy See’s mission of permanent observation to the United Nations. Among those ...
• 11 June 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 200 CYCLIST CATECHISTS ATTEND TO CHRISTIANS IN MUSLIM VILLAGES IN LAHORE ARCHDIOCESE: VIGOROUS LABOUR FORCE AT THE SERVICE OF EVANGELISATION Lahore (Fides Service) – They are the “ Workers in the Lord’s vineyard”: the 196 catechists in Lahore archdiocese are a formidable labour force for evangelisation. Each of them follows the formation, growth diffi ...
• 10 June 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - LAY EXAMPLE AND COMMITMENT IN THE CHURCH CAN BUILD BRIDGES TO NEIGHBOUR JAPAN AND DISTANT AMERICA Seoul (Fides Service) – The Catholic Church in Korea is striving to build ever closer relations of communion with the Church in the United States and in Japan. New agreements have been reached with regard to the pastor ...
• 10 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - CHRISTIANS TARGETED IN KASHMIR ACCUSED OF FORCING CONVERSIONS: BISHOP DEFENDS FREEDOM OF BELIEF AND RELIGION Jammu (Fides Service) – “We fear for the future. Christianity has been present in Kashmir for 200 years and has never had any difficulty with Muslims or Hindus. The Catholic Church has always been accepted and apprec ...
• 9 June 2003
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - BORNEO, CROSSROADS OF CIVILISATIONS, PEOPLES AND TRADITIONS: JESUITS WORK TO PRESERVE THE CULTURE OF THE NATIVE PEOPLE Kuala Lumpur (Fides Service) – Every year in May the people of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo hold their traditional Rice Feast, when they thank their ancient rice spirit for a good harvest in their customary way. The prese ...
• 9 June 2003
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - ECUMENICAL NETWORK FOR SOLIDARITY WITH THE POOR AND THE MARGINALISED IN THE MIDDLE EAST Amman (Fides Service) – To foster ecumenism is the aim of the Middle East Council of Churches, based in Amman Jordan. MECC represents the various Christian confessions present in the region. During a meeting in May hel ...
• 9 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - IN DELHI CATHOLICS OF ORIENTAL RITE NOW HAVE THEIR OWN PARISHES New Delhi (Fides Service) – Catholics of Oriental Rite in the Latin-rite archdiocese of Delhi will now have their own parish communities. Archbishop Vincent Michael Concessao issued a Decree of Creation of Personal par ...
• 9 June 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - YOUNG ITALIAN MISSIONARY TELLS OF APPALLING INCREASE IN SUICIDE IN TAIWAN WHICH KILLS MORE THAN SARS Taipei (Fides Service) – “Here in Taipei the situation with regard to SARS is improving but since it is a mysterious disease which escapes control people are still afraid because they feel defenceless and helpless” ...
• 6 June 2003
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - THIS IS THE HOUR OF PEACE: A HISTORY-MAKING OPPORTUNITY NOT TO BE LOST! ARCHBISHOP GOMIS URGES GOVERNMENT AND TAMIL MOVEMENT TO RESUME TALKS Colombo (Fides Service) – “We must not lose this opportune moment, this history-making opportunity to build peace! The Christian community strongly supports the hope for peace which is truly within reach”: Archbish ...
• 6 June 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - CATECHESIS AND COMMUNICATIONS IN FORMATION OF PRIESTS FOR MORE EFFECTIVE MISSION Bangalore (Fides Service) – The new Rector of St Peter’s major seminary in the Indian diocese of Bangalore, Rev Sebastian Periannan, plans to give special attention to ‘communications’ in the formation programme ...
• 6 June 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - WAVE CATHOLIC CENTRE LAUNCHES CATECHESIS VIA AUDIO CASSETTES FOR PARISH AND FAMILY Lahore (Fides Service) – The National WAVE Recording Studio in Lahore, established by the Commission for Social Communications of Lahore archdiocese, has issued a new SEEKHO AUR SIKHAO cassette containing Basic Catholi ...
• 5 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - KILLER HEAT: NO WATER, HARVEST LOST – CATHOLIC ARCHISHOP OF HYDERABAD APPEALS FOR HELP Hyderabad (Fides Service) – “People have no access to clean water. In the villages where people are mainly Catholic tribals, pepople are dying and the harvests are scorched. But also here in the capital Hyderabad we ...