Asia
10 July 2003
ASIA/INDIA - SISTER JOURNALISTS TRAIN MEDIA WORKERS IN ELECTRONIC JOURNALISM
New Delhi (Fides Service) – Sister journalists teach communications to young people. The Notre Dame Communications Centre in Patna, Bihar State, run by the Saint Peter Claver Notre Dame Sisters is offering a new course ...
9 July 2003
ASIA/HOLY LAND - “ONLY CHANGED HEARTS CAN BRING PEACE AND SECURITY TO THE HOLY LAND” INTERVIEW WITH FATHER DAVID JAEGER OFM, FRANCISCAN CUSTODY SPOKESMAN
Jerusalem (Fides Service) – There is an atmosphere of new hope and optimism in the Holy Land since a cease fire was agreed in the Israel-Palestine war. In this critical stage which could open the way to a resuming of p ...
9 July 2003
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - CHURCH FOCUSES ON PASTORAL CARE FOR POLICEMEN: MORE THAN 200 OFFICERS RECEIVE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION
Seoul (Fides Service) – To be a professed Christian but with a job which often requires the use of arms is the spiritual challenge lived daily by members of police and security forces all over the world. In Korea, in 2 ...
9 July 2003
ASIA/NEPAL - FIRST OFFICIAL VISIT BY NEW NUNCIO ARCHBISHOP PEDRO LOPEZ QUINTANA: THE GOSPEL WILL TAKE ROOT ONLY IF IT HAS A PROFITABLE MEETING WITH CULTURES AND TRADITIONS OF THE PEOPLE AMONG WHOM IT IS PROCLAIMED
Kathmandu (Fides Service) – To see the country, meet the people and the authorities and encourage church personnel Archbishop Pedro Lopez Quintana, newly appointed Papal Nuncio to India and Nepal made a first official ...
8 July 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - CHALDEAN CHRISTIANS MOURN PATRIARCH RAPHAEL BIDAWID OF BAGHDAD
Beirut (Fides Service) – On July 7 in Beirut, Lebanon, His Beatitude Raphael I Bidawid, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, died at the age of 81, after some months in hospital. The Patriarch was born in Mosul, Iraq ...
8 July 2003
ASIA/HOLY LAND - BETHLEHEM WELCOMES GLIMPSE OF HOPE FOR PEACE: UNIVERSITY RESUMES SUMMER COURSES
Bethlehem (Fides Service) – The town of Bethlehem is living again hopes for peace. The Christian community and all Bethlehem people are confident. Franciscan Father Ibrahim Faltas, superior of the Nativity Church tells ...
8 July 2003
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - DIALOGUE AND RECONCILIATION: PROGRAMME OF NEWLY CHOSEN HEAD OF BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE, ARCHBISHOP FERNANDO CAPALLA OF DAVAO
Davao (Fides Service) – “My programme is dialogue. I have always worked for peace and reconciliation in Mindanao and I will continue to do so” , these were the first words entrusted to Fides Service by the new pres ...
7 July 2003
ASIA/PAKISTAN - COMMUNITY MOURNS MURDERED PRIEST FATHER IBRAHIM: SOLIDARITY FROM MUSLIMS, BUT CHRISTIANS FEAR MORE FUNDAMENTALIST ATTACKS
Faisalabad (Fides Service) – “We Christians are persons of peace. People know us and respect us. We call on the civil authorities to prevent fundamentalism which threatens us and to bring to justice those responsible ...
7 July 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - REFUGEE EMERGENCY HUMANITARIAN ALARM IN ACEH: 35,000 PEOPLE IN DESPERATE NEED OF FOOD AND MEDICINE
Jakarta (Fides Service) – In a report called “Anywhere but War” the Jesuit Refugee Service describes the tragic situation of displaced persons in Aceh, the Indonesian Province in the north of the island of Sumatra ...
4 July 2003
ASIA/INDIA - DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY PRODUCE PEACE AND HARMONY: A SALESIAN’S EXPERIENCE IN MADHYA PRADESH
New Delhi (Fides Service) – Father Stanny Ferreira who came to work in Madhya Pradesh six years ago set work immediately to improve the living conditions of the local people in Alirajpur and lessen tension between the ...
4 July 2003
ASIA/VIETNAM - PARISH PROVIDES COMPUTERS AND INTERNET FOR YOUTH IN RURAL AREAS
Hanoi (Fides Service) – Young people in a rural area of North Vietnam are taking a look at the world thanks to a course on how to use computers and the Internet offered by the local Catholic parish. Lien Phu parish in ...
3 July 2003
ASIA/TURKEY - NEW ECUMENICAL IMPULSE FROM SYMPOSIUM ON SAINT PAUL IN TARSUS AND ANTIOCH
Antioch (Fides Service) – “The symposium opened new prospects for ecumenical and interreligious dialogue; encouraged debate among various university professors, students, religious and civil leaders including Mrs iri ...
3 July 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - EVANGELISATION AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE VIA RADIO AT YOGYAKARTA
Jakarta (Fides Service) – Yogyakarta is the city with the most radio stations in the whole of Indonesia. Fifty two local radios have been opened since a new telecommunications law was passed in 2002 by the Indonesian g ...
2 July 2003
ASIA/INDIA - NO TO THE CULTURE OF ANTAGONISM YES TO DIALOGUE WITH HINDUS: JESUITS WORK TO SAFEGUARD INDIA’S TRADITIONAL INTERRELIGIOUS CO-EXISTENCE
New Delhi (Fides Service) – Love your enemies. To obey commandment of Jesus in these times of interreligious tension in India, the Jesuits Fathers in Madhya Pradesh state have decided to travel all the possible paths t ...
1 July 2003
ASIA/PAKISTAN - LARGEST NUMBER OF NEW PRIESTS ORDAINED IN LAHORE: FIVE CAPUCHINS WILL MINISTER IN PUNJAB
Lahore (Fides Service) – “The Lord has chosen you to be his messengers. You are called to carry out your pastoral duties with zeal and dedication”. With these words Archbishop Lawrence Saldhana of Lahore, encourag ...
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