Asia
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12 May 2003
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - CHINESE NUNS VISIT KOREAN SISTERS: AN ENRICHING EXPERIENCE OF SHARING
Seoul (Fides Service) – A visit to South Korea to meet other Catholic nuns, to learn from spirituality and their way of convent life: this was the experience lived by 13 Superiors of diocesan female religious communiti ...
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12 May 2003
ASIA/MONGOLIA - SARS WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION LIFTS TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS TO MONGOLIA
Geneva (Fides Service) - Mongolia was removed from the list of countries with recent local transmission. Twenty days had passed since the only case resulting from local transmission was appropriately isolated. Earlier, W ...
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12 May 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - CHALDEAN BISHOPS IN THE UNITED STATES READY TO WORK FOR NEW IRAQ AS CHALDEAN NEWS AGENCY FROM THE DIASPORA RESUMES ACTIVITY
San Diego (Fides Service) – “We are ready to work in harmony and collaboration with all the other religious and ethnic groups in Iraq” the Bishops of Chaldean tradition in the United States say in a recent report p ...
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9 May 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - “TWELVE YEARS OF UN SANCTIONS REDUCED THE IRAQI PEOPLE TO POVERTY BUT NOW WE LOOK WITH HOPE TO THE FUTURE” CATHOLIC PRIEST IN NINIVE LAUNCHES APPEAL TO HELP IRAQI CHRISTIANS
Baghdad (Fides Service) – “After 12 years of United Nations sanctions many people in Iraq are extremely poor” Father Nizar Semaan in the diocese of Ninive tells Fides Service when we asked about the present economi ...
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9 May 2003
ASIA/INDIA - CENTENARY FOR NIROPYA CATHOLIC MONTHLY VERY POPULAR WITH HINDUS
Pune (Fides Service) – Niropya (The Messenger) India’s second oldest Catholic magazine, published in Marathi, Pune diocese in Maharashtra state, this year is marking its centenary and is being congratulated by Catho ...
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8 May 2003
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS AND TRENDS HARMFUL TO CATHOLICS: A BOOKLET PUBLISHED BY THE CHURCH IN KOREA
Seoul (Fides Service) – “Movements and Trends Harmful to Healthy Faith Life” is the title of recent publication by the Church in Korea on new religious movements which threaten the Catholic faith and are a danger ...
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8 May 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - IN ACEH WHERE TENSION BETWEEN REBELS AND ARMY RISES, THE FRANCISCAN CATHOLIC COMMUNITY IS THE ONLY BULWARK
Jakarta (Fides Service) - As tension rises in the Indonesian province of Aceh, in the far north of the island of Sumatra, Father Ferdinando Severi OFM Conv. Franciscan Friar and parish priest of the church of the Sacred ...
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7 May 2003
ASIA/TAIWAN - DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES SAYS SARS HELPS LOOK BEYOND LABELS AND SEE PEOPLE AS CREATURES OF GOD
Taipei (Fides Service) – “The lesson we learn from this sudden phenomenon of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is that we must look at people beyond their religious, cultural or social group and see the dignit ...
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7 May 2003
ASIA/TAIWAN - SARS: THREE MORE PEOPLE DIE, BRINGING TOTAL NUMBER OF VICTIMS TO 14
Taipei (Fides Service) – In Taiwan three more people have died of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, SARS, bringing the total number of deaths to 14. Five new reported cases bring the number of infected persons to 125. ...
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7 May 2003
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - CHURCH IN KOREA SENDS MESSAGE TO HINDUS FOR CELEBRATIONS ON 2547TH ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH OF BUDDHA
Seoul (Fides Service) – Buddhists in Korea have just received a special message from the Conference of Catholic Bishops Korea for the 8 May Vesakh festival to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Buddha. The messa ...
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7 May 2003
ASIA/TAIWAN - CARD. SHAN: NO PANIC, PRAYER AND SOLIDARITY TO FIGHT SARS: SUNDAY MAY 11 DAY OF PRAYER IN TAIWAN
Taipei (Fides Service) – “We must avoid spreading panic over SARS among the public. Instead we must pray and show solidarity to doctors and patients” Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-hsi of Kaohsiung said this to Fides Servi ...
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6 May 2003
ASIA/VIETNAM - HE WAS A DOCTOR FOR LEPERS THEN HE ASKED HIMSELF, BESIDES CURING DISEASE HOW COULD HE TREAT SOLITUDE? TODAY HE IS A PRIEST
Hanoi (Fides Service) – Ten years ago he was a doctor, today he is a priest, but his life is still a service to the poor, the marginalised, the terminally ill, anyone needing material assistance and moral and spiritual ...
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6 May 2003
ASIA/SRI LANKA - AFTER TWENTY YEARS OF CIVIL STRIFE “TIGERS” AND “LAMBS” EAT AT THE SAME TABLE: IS PEACE REALLY POSSIBLE?
Colombo (Fides Service) – “Sri Lanka deserves peace, prosperity, dignity and equal rights for all: and we must work and pray unceasingly for peace” Archbishop Oswald Gomis of Colombo told Fides Service.
The Archb ...
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5 May 2003
ASIA/SRI LANKA - SINHALESE SEMINARIANS WILL SPEND TIME IN TAMIL DIOCESES TO PROMOTE RECONCILIATION AMONG ETHNIC GROUPS AFTER 20 YEARS OF CIVIL WAR
Colombo (Fides Service) – Sinhalese seminarians in Colombo archdiocese will spend a period of their formation in dioceses in North Sri Lanka where the people are mainly Tamil, as part of a scheme to increase the pastor ...
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5 May 2003
ASIA/NORTH KOREA - CARITAS APPEALS FOR MORE FOOD HEALTH AND AGRICULTURAL AID FOR NORTH KOREA
Hong Kong (Fides Service) – Caritas Hong Kong has made a new appeal for aid to North Korea, hoping to collect 2.6 billion US Dollars in 12 months, to meet North Korea’s needs for food supplies, health and agricultura ...
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