Asia
30 April 2004
ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Caritas Hong Kong assists victims of major train disaster in North Korea
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) -Caritas-Hong Kong has organised a collection of funds to provide medical supplies and other relief goods for the victims and their families to Ryongchon in North Korea where on 22 April 2004, t ...
30 April 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - Alarm in Indonesia: members of radical Muslim paramilitary Laskar Jihad group land in Moluccas to defend “brother Muslims” and join the “holy war”
Jakarta (Fides Service) - There is a red alert in Indonesia’s Moluccas islands where local Muslims and Christians are engaged in new clashes: reliable sources contacted by Fides confirm that members of the Muslim param ...
29 April 2004
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Mission of dialogue and service for two new deacons in a mainly Muslim district of Mindanao
Kidapawan (Fides Service) - Two new deacons are about to start a mission of service and dialogue in the diocese of Kidapawn, a mainly Muslim area near Cotabato, on the Island of Mindanao. The local Catholic community he ...
29 April 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - Occult actors in Moluccas conflict: “Tension and fear in Ambon; Moluccas are paying for the electoral campaign in Jakarta ”, Bishop of Amboina told Fides
Ambon (Fides Service) - Christian and Muslim city districts rigidly separated, fear reigns and a new conflict threatens: Moluccas is paying for the electoral campaign in Jakarta, Bishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi, Bishop of ...
28 April 2004
ASIA/THAILAND - Motives behind violence in southern Thailand are political not religious Apostolic Administrator of Surat Thani diocese told Fides
Bangkok (Fides Service) - “This uprising is political not religious. Radical Islamic groups launched attacks on the government accusing it of thwarting certain Muslim leaders in the past. They want revenge for reasons ...
28 April 2004
AFRICA/UGANDA - “Every open door, even only a crack may be an opening for peace” Archbishop of Gulu told Fides
Gulu (Fides Service)- “Every open door, even only a crack may be an opening for peace” ” said Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu, commenting a possible intervention of mediation ib the conflict between the gover ...
28 April 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Bishop issues message for “Labour Day”
Seoul (Fides Service) - Unemployment, illegal work, illegal immigrants are some of the problems afflicting South Korea which the local Catholic Church is committed to helping to solve in the light of the Church’s Socia ...
27 April 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - “Terrorism is a threat to Muslims as well” Father Nizar told Fides
Baghdad (Fides Service)- “Western diplomacy must make every effort to help democratic forces in the Arab world voice loud and clear condemnation of extremism ” Rev. Nizar Semaan, Iraqi Catholic priest in Mosul told F ...
26 April 2004
ASIA/KOREA - Auxiliary Bishop of Seoul issues message for national Day for Persons with a Disability
Rome (Fides Service) - On April 20 the National Day for the Disabled was celebrated in Seoul and Auxiliary Bishop Lucas Kim Woon-hoe issued a message urging local Catholics to work to overcome discrimination with regard ...
26 April 2004
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Apostolic Nuncio thanks Catholics in Korea for aid to support missionaries on Bangladesh
Rome (Fides Service) - Korean born Archbishop Paul Tschang In-nam, Papal Nuncio to Bangladesh, recently wrote to his home diocese of Cheongju in Korea to express gratitude for spiritual and material help given by the loc ...
23 April 2004
ASIA/INDIA - India and Pakistan to discuss peace, nuclear disarmament, disputed Kashmir region and persisting problem of drug trafficking
New Delhi (Fides Service) - While the people of the Republic of India are focussing on legislative elections now taking place, positive signals of peace come from the leaders of India and Pakistan, the two main political ...
20 April 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - Christians in Mosul send humanitarian aid to Muslims in besieged city of Falluja
Baghdad (Fides Service)- “We want to show that we are one with all Iraqis whatever their beliefs, and in joy and in sorrow ” Catholic priest Father Nizar Semaan, in Mosul diocese told Fides explaining a new humanita ...
17 April 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - Dossier Fides: Iraq religion yesterday and today
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In view of the tragic situation in Iraq and the growing weight of several Muslim leaders on the scene Fides re-proposes
today its Dossier "Iraq and Religions", produced in March 2003,
o ...
16 April 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - Today 16 April in Baghdad children make their first Holy Communion. Archbishop Athanase Matti Shaba Mattoka, of Syrian Catholics in Baghdad told Fides: “Iraqis of different faiths can live side by side
Baghdad (Fides Service) - “We ask all Christians to pray for the people of Iraq at this difficult time” Archbishop Athanase Matti Shaba Mattoka, Archbishop of the Catholic Syrian Church in Baghdad, told Fides. “All ...
16 April 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Progressive party wins general elections, President Roh entrusted with the re-launching of the economy
Seoul (Fides Service) - Korea begins a new political era with the victory of the liberal-progressive Uri Party which defeated a coalition of conservative and moderate parties. The results were announced by the South Kore ...
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