Asia

• 31 March 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - New nation wide plan to stop the advance of AIDS launched by fully committed local Catholic Church New Delhi (Fides Service) - A new nation wide plan to stop the advance of HIV/AIDS has been launched by the Catholic Church in India involving priests, religious, laity and seminarians, formation houses, religious congre ...
• 31 March 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic schools mark “Pakistan Day”: commitment to build a modern, liberal and tolerant country Lahore (Fides Service) - Christian and Muslim Catholic school pupils recently made a public commitment to building a country which is open, liberal and tolerant. The commitment was taken by some 300 boys and girls on the ...
• 30 March 2004
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Programme of new government led by Abdullah Badawi: eliminate corruption promote transparency, give special attention to ethnic and religious minorities Kuala Lumpur (Fides Service) - Eliminate corruption and promote transparency in public administration, start economic reforms, attention to ethnic and religious minorities, development in rural areas: these are the main ...
• 30 March 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A “new mission” in the Church and society: Korean Catholic Lay movement valorises contribution of the elderly Seoul (Fides Service) - Life does not end at 60, the age when many men and women retire from active working life: senior citizens have a lot to offer the Church and society with their experience, patience, wisdom and abi ...
• 30 March 2004
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Reconciliation and national harmony: Bishop elect Alberto Ricardo da Silva of Dili tells Fides about his mission Dili (Fides Service) - “I intend to intensify efforts to promote national harmony: in East Timor the Church has always striven to do this especially in times of difficulty and crisis. Today a greater effort must be mad ...
• 29 March 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - In the name of truth, local Catholic Churches in Korea and Japan write a new history of their countries to heal wounds inflicted in the past and promote reconciliation Seoul (Fides Service) - To build bridges of reconciliation between the people of Korea and Japan the local Churches in these two Asian countries are about to publish a new History of Korea and Japan. During a recent plen ...
• 27 March 2004
  DOSSIER ASIA/MYANMAR - Only education can rehabilitate former child soldiers in this country with a sad record number of tiny troops: Archbishop Charles Bo of Yangon talks to Fides Yangon (Fides Service) - The South East Asian country of Myanmar, has the sad record of the highest number of child soldiers, more than 75,000. In Myanmar rebel groups of many different ethnic origins are fighting the re ...
• 27 March 2004
  DOSSIER ASIA/SRI LANKA - Yesterday brutalised and indoctrinated, today loved and educated to love: “Some former child soldiers are now teachers. This is our peace process, not talking at a table but acting in daily life, ” Father Pinto Humer told Fides. Anuradhapura (Fides Service) - Nirmal is a Tamil boy. When he was 12 he saw his father killed in combat between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil separatist troops. The rebels gave the boy a gun telling him to take reven ...
• 26 March 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholics in Aizawl celebrate centenary of the first local baptism and community: it was the Salvatorian Fathers who first planted the seed of the Gospel among these peoples Shillong (Fides Service) - Exactly one hundred years ago a small group of missionaries went to a remote area of Assam state in north east India to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with the local people. “It was the ...
• 26 March 2004
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - A Catholic seminarian in Jerusalem describes daily life in the Holy Land Jerusalem (Fides Service) - A Polish seminarian studying in Jerusalem tells Fides about life in the Holy Land: “We are sort of semi-clandestine and often have to stay inside the seminary to avoid being arrested and rep ...
• 25 March 2004
  ASIA/THAILAND - Solemn blessing of Saint Joseph’s of Ayutthaya, first mission church in Siam, now newly restored: the little church stands as a witness to the work of missionaries Bangkok (Fides Service) -The first Catholic mission church in Thailand, the newly restored 17th century St Joseph’s in Ayutthaya was blessed and re-opened to the public on March 20 by Cardinal Michael Michai Kitbunchu, ...
• 25 March 2004
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The challenge of migration in Asia and the Church’s solutions Chiesa: Scalabrini fathers organise Week of Formation Manila (Fides Service) - What challenges does migration put to the Church in Asia? What are the most effective means of pastoral care? These questions were the focus of “Exodus - Week of Formation” for pastoral worke ...
• 24 March 2004
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - European Religious Leaders appeal for peace in the Middle East: “Jewish, Muslim and Christian leaders in the region must play a direct role to resume peace process” Moscow (Fides Service) - Put an end to violence, reopen paths of dialogue restore hope in a situation of hatred and desperation: this was the appeal for Peace in the Middle East launched by members of the Council of Eur ...
• 24 March 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Refugees on Pakistan-Afghanistan border assisted by international agencies and Salesian Fathers Islamabad (Fides Service) - There are still Afghan refugees in the Pakistan province North West Frontier on the border with Afghanistan, an area in the eye of international attention at the moment because it is here that ...
• 24 March 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Beatification cause of Korea’s second Catholic priest who could become the country’s first non martyr Saint Seoul (Fides Service) - The Church in Korea has received permission from Rome to begin the cause of beatification of Confessor Thomas Choe Yang-eop, who died in 1861 and was Korea’s second Catholic priest. This will be ...