Asia
10 September 2003
ASIA/SRI LANKA - EVERY YEAR 300,000 SRI LANKAN CHILDREN VICTIMS OF PAEDOPHILIA: CATHOLICS COMMITTED TO ELIMINATING THIS HORROR AND OBJECT TO LEGALISATION OF PROSTITUTION WHICH FEEDS ABUSE AND CRIMINALITY
Colombo (Fides Service) – Catholics in Colombo are strongly objecting to a petition being circulated in the city to legalise prostitution and organise sexual trade in certain areas of the Sri Lankan capital. The city ...
10 September 2003
ASIA/CAMBODIA - MARIST BROTHERS OPEN CATHOLIC SCHOOL TO IMPROVE LIFE QUALITY OF DISABLED CHILDREN
Rome (Fides Service) – The Marist Brothers, whose charisma is care and teaching for youth, have opened a Catholic school for disabled children in Cambodia 8 km south of Phnom Penh, the capital. At present La Valla Scho ...
10 September 2003
ASIA/SINGAPORE - SARS VIRUS MAY BE CHANGING, WORLD ALARM GROWS
Singapore (Fides Service) – Ian Simpson, spokesman of the World health Organisation (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, has confirmed the suspected case of SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. However he also ...
9 September 2003
ASIA/THAILAND - CHRISTIANS, BUDDHISTS AND MUSLIMS JOIN FORCES TO ASSIST 217,000 HIV/AIDS PATIENTS AND 300,000 AIDS ORPHANS
Bangkok (Fides Service) – Religious communities can do a lot to prevent the spread of AIDS in Asia: this was said during a recent meeting of Christians, Buddhists and Muslims in Bangkok, Thailand.
The local Catholic ...
9 September 2003
ASIA/INDIA - MISSION IN CHINA: MOTHER TERESA HAD A DREAM AND IT WILL COME TRUE
Calcutta (Fides Service) – Mother Teresa of Calcutta dreamed of opening a Home for the poor in China. This did not happen during her life time but there is hope that it may soon come true. On 5 September, the 5th anniv ...
8 September 2003
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - FIRST BISHOP OF ULAAN BAATOR, THANKS CHURCH IN KOREA FOR MISSIONARIES AND SUPPORT TO GROWING CATHOLIC COMMUNITY IN MONGOLIA
Seoul (Fides Service) – “Mongolia, a world where in the past the Catholic faith was banned, has begun to taste the first fruits of evangelisation. For this we offer heartfelt thanks to the Church in Korea for her mis ...
8 September 2003
ASIA/INDIA - RELICS OF GREAT MISSIONARY ST FRANCIS XAVIER WILL BE SHOWN TO THE PUBLIC IN 2004
Goa (Fides Service) – The general public will be able to view the relics of the great Spanish missionary Saint Francis Xavier at the end of next year 2004 in Goa, India. This was announced with a decree signed by Archb ...
8 September 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - FATHER NIZAR IN IRAQ SAYS FIVE MONTHS AFTER THE “END “ OF THE WAR, THE SITUATION IS UNBEARABLE
Baghdad (Fides Service) – Five months have passed since the fall of Saddam Hussein and his regime and the Iraqi people who hoped for a better life than the one they left behind, are disappointed” Iraqi Catholic pries ...
5 September 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - STILL 200,000 MOLUCCAS PEOPLE WITHOUT HOMES: WAR MADE ISLANDS ONE OF INDONESIA’S POOREST REGIONS
Ambon (Fides Service) – Still 200,000 displaced persons, an economy which cannot find its legs, tourism still at the starting line, no public funds for rebuilding infrastructures, roads, schools, hospitals, universitie ...
5 September 2003
ASIA/INDIA - CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE NEVER ENDING BISHOP OF KASHMIR SAYS:
“ENOUGH WAR AND TERRORISM, CIVILIANS CANNOT TAKE ANY MORE!”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “People are too afraid even to leave the house. Civilians have had enough of war and terrorism, of this situation of tension and fear with army and police all over the place. Kashmir de ...
4 September 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - PADRE NIZAR SEMAAN. “THE NEW IRAQI GOVERNMENT IS NOT FAR FROM A RETURN TO NORMALITY”
Baghdad (Fides Service)- “The setting up of the new government is an important step on the way to normality for Iraq ” Catholic priest Father Nizar Semaan, of Ninive diocese in northern Iraq, tells Fides with regard ...
4 September 2003
ASIA/PAKISTAN - DESPITE TENSION WITH MUSLIMS CHRISTIANS OCCUPY GROWING SPACE ON RADIO AND NOT ONLY CATHOLIC COMPANIES
Lahore (Fides Service ) – The number of Christian commentators and personalities heard on the radio in Pakistan is growing steadily and not only on Catholic radios. Besides Radio Veritas in Urdu, which broadcasts an an ...
4 September 2003
ASIA/TAIWAN - INTENSE PREPARATION FOR 8TH CONGRESS OF THE FAMILY OF RELIGIOUS IN ASIA AND OCEANIA: MAJOR EVEN OF COMMUNION AND SHARING FOR LOCAL CHURCHES
Taipei (Fides) – The entire family of religious men and women in Asia and Oceania is preparing for the inter-continental Meeting of Religious 20-30 October in Taiwan. The Congress the 8th Asian-Oceania Meeting of Reli ...
4 September 2003
ASIA/INDIA - “MOTHER TERESA THE MOST PRECIOUS GEM”: SCHOOL CONTEST IN RAJASTHAN STATE, CHILDREN OF ALL AGES CHRISTIAN AND NON, BUSY PRODUCING ESSAYS, PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES ON MOTHER TERESA
Jaipur (Fides Agency) – Jaipur is known for its precious resources and production of gems, but the local people consider the most precious of all gems Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the little nun clad in a white sari who ...
4 September 2003
ASIA/PAKISTAN - “CATHOLICS HELPED FOUND OUR COUNTRY AND FORM NATIONAL IDENTITY SAYS FATHER BERNARD INAYAT
Lahore (Fides Service) – Speaking of recent tension between Muslims and Christians in Pakistan and denying the statements that Christianity is seen as a “foreign religion” Father Bernard Inayat, Head of the Pakist ...
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