Asia

• 23 July 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - On a visit to her Sisters in several Asian countries superior general of the Missionaries of Charity visits Hong Kong for the first time Hong Kong (Fides Service) - After visiting her Sisters in South Korea and Mongolia on her journey to see Missionaries of Charity communities in various countries of Asia, on 11 July Sr Nirmala Joshi superior general of M ...
• 23 July 2005
  ASIA/MACAO - Macao city centre with its Catholic churches and seminary, Buddhist temple and protestant cemetery declared “world heritage” by UNESCO Macao (Fides Service) - Macao’s old city centre with its Catholic churches and other historic buildings is now “world heritage” for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. Monuments li ...
• 23 July 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - Evangelisation in Xi Kai Cathedral Tian Jin diocese bears abaundant fruit: rising annual numbers of baptised persons and catechumens, Cathedral opens Faith Information Office Tian Jin (Fides Service) - Between 1986 and 1999 the annual number of baptisms in Xi Kai cathedral Tian Jin diocese was less than a hundred. But since the year 2000 and the beginning of the new millennium the number of p ...
• 23 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - “Crime and Insecurity in Kenya Must be Halted Now!!!”: statement by Catholic Bishops of Kenya Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- We publish a Press statement issued 18 July by the Catholic Bihsops of Kenya with the title “Crime and Insecurity in Kenya Must be Halted Now!!!”, which can be summarised in the five points m ...
• 22 July 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The mission of women to meet the challenges of the 21st century: East Asian Meeting on Women Hong Kong (Fides Service) - The role of women to meet the challenges of the 21st century will be the theme of an East Asian Meeting on Women promoted by the Office of Laity Women’s Desk of the FABC (Federation of Asian ...
• 22 July 2005
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Honorary citizenship awarded to 8 missionaries of the Sisters of Mary of the Holy Cross on the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the first four women religious from Europe Tai Tung (Fides Service) - “They love Taiwan as if it were home and they have spent the best years of their life, some 20 and some 40 years, serving the people of Taiwan” This was the motivation for the honorary citi ...
• 22 July 2005
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Strike the demand and create programmes to reinsert victims of sexual exploitation: video conference at US Embaasy in Rome Rome (Fides Service)- On July 21 during a conference on “Supply and demand: Behind the Business of Trafficking in Persons” the director of the US State Deparment’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Person ...
• 22 July 2005
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Tajikistan Catholic mission organises Summer activities for children and young people: camps and excursion are opportunities for evangelisation and education to human and spiritual values Dushanbe (Fides Service) - Pastoral work in the Summer for the Catholic mission in Tajikistan does not take a holiday indeed it is even more intense. Besides routine pastoral activities the four Incarnate Word Missionari ...
• 21 July 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Catholic Bishops defend freedom of religion and human rights threatened by proposed anti-conversion laws: concern after the attack on Holy Cross church in Anuradhapura diocese Colombo (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Sri Lanka are profoundly concerned about a spreading anti-Christian movement among extremists groups of the the Buddhist majority and two prosposed laws which represent a ...
• 21 July 2005
  ASIA/IRAQ - “A clear sign of civilisation” says Iraqi priest Fr Nizar Semaan commenting the nation’s 3 minutes silence to commemorate victims of terrorism Baghdad (Fides Service)- “A clear sign of civilisation” said Iraqi Catholic priest Fr Nizar Semaan in Mosul with regard to yesterday’s 3 minutes silence held all over the country to commemorate the victims of terro ...
• 21 July 2005
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “We must offer hope to the world and promote a culture of life”: Bishops issue pastoral letter on bio-ethics and stem cell research Seoul (Fides Service) - “The embryo is life. We have all been embryos. We have no right to meddle with human life” Bishop Francis Xavier Ahn Myong-ok, president of the Korean Bishops’ Commission for the Doctrine of ...
• 21 July 2005
  ASIA/CHINA - The Sisters of the Immacolate Heart of Mary continue to welcome new vocations: three sisters make perpetual vows, eight others take temporary vows Lin Fen (Fides Service) - The Congregation of Sisters of the Immacolate Heart of Mary in Li nFen diocese, Shan Xi province of mainland China continues to welcome new vocations. Recently on the same day that three new Sis ...
• 20 July 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Catholic church in diocese of Anuradhapura sacked and torched - Buddhist fundamentalist extremists cause rising tension and concern Colombo (Fides Service) - A Catholic church in the diocese of Anuradhapura centre north Sri Lanka has been sacked and set on fire by a group of masked extremists. Fides only just received the news of the incident which h ...
• 20 July 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - This is the first attack on a church in Anuradhapura diocese. “We refuse to be trapped in the spiral of violence. Christians are for peace and harmony” the Bishop told Fides Anuradhapura (Fides Service) - It was Holy Cross church in Pulasthigama, diocese Anuradhapura which was sacked and burned to the gound on Saturday 16 July the local Bishop Norbert Andradi told Fides, adding that this unp ...
• 20 July 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Growing extremism in the Muslim majority in Pakistan: growing fear in Christian minority Lahore (Fides Service) - The July 7 terrorist attacks in London brought religious fundamentalism in Pakistan once again to the attention of international media. The government of Paksitan promised to exert stricter contr ...