Asia

• 30 October 2003
  ASIA/NEPAL - LIFE DEDICATED TO LEPERS DRUG ADDICTS AND AIDS SUFFERERS: A COURAGEOUS PRIEST IN NEPAL Birganj (Fides Service) – People call the leprosy centre he runs Little Flower and it is a reality appreciated by all Nepalese. But today diocesan priest Father Christdas, aged 64, is also caring for drug addicts and ...
• 30 October 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - RECTORS OF SHRINES IN ASIA FORM INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO MAKE SHRINES FRONTIER POSTS OF EVANGELISATION AND HUMAN PROMOTION ON THIS VAST CONTINENT Manila (Agenzia Fides) – “We, the rectors of Shrines in Asia, gathered in Makati, Philippines, on October 20 – 25, after Mission Sunday of the year 2003, on the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s Pontificate ...
• 29 October 2003
  ASIA/NEPAL - “ONLY UNITED NATIONS INTERVENTION CAN MEDIATE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS”: PRO-PREFECT APOSTOLIC IN NEPAL LAUNCHES HEARTFELT APPEAL Kathmandu (Fides Service) – “The situation is precipitating, it calls for a third party to mediate. We ask for an intervention by the United Nations Organisation. Only this will restore dialogue”. This heartfelt ap ...
• 28 October 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - SAINT BENEDETTO MENNI DECLARED PATRON OF VOLUNTARY WORKERS IN TAYTAY APOSTOLIC VICARIATE: MODEL OF GENEROUS AVAILABILITY Taytay (Fides Service) - Bishop Edgardo Sarabia Juanich, Apostolic Vicar of Taytay, has obtained a decree from the Holy See declaring Saint Benedetto Menni patron of voluntary workers all over the Vicariate: Taytay is th ...
• 28 October 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - SOLIDARITY AMONG CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS FOR A RAMADAN OF PEACE IN THE MOLUCCAS– LOCAL CHURCH CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF SACRED HEART MISSIONARIES Ambon (Fides Service) – Ramadan offers an opportunity to consolidate peace in the Moluccas Bishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi of Amboina told Fides Service. The Bishop, who is member of the Congregation of Sacred Heart Mis ...
• 28 October 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - RAMADAN IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES COULD SEE STEPS FORWARD IN GOVERNMENT REBEL DIALOGUE - MINDANAO PREPARES FOR PEACE WEEK 2003 Manila (Agenzia Fides) – “We hope Ramadan will be a time for dialogue to move forward. In Mindanao Ramadan is deeply felt and celebrated by the local Muslims. Today many Muslims live in poverty and this challenges us ...
• 27 October 2003
  ASIA/KOREA - FAMILY AND PRIESTS PASTORAL PRIORITIES FOR CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF KOREA Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The determination to give more attention to families and clergy emerged from the recent annual Autumn Assembly of the Catholic Bishops of Korea held in Seoul. The Bishops will soon issue a Past ...
• 27 October 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - SIXTEEN BAPTISMS TO CELEBRATE WORLD MISSION SUNDAY AND 25 YEARS OF JOHN PAUL II’s PONTIFICATE Taiyuan (Fides Service) – Mission Sunday 19 October was a great day at Feng Sheng He parish in TaiYuan, ShanXi province central China: 16 catechumens received the Sacrament of Baptism. The parish priest and parishioner ...
• 27 October 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - A WEB OF LIFE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT: IN COMMUNION WITH GOD, NEIGHBOUR AND CREATION. SISTER CELIA CHUA, CHAIRS 13th CONGRESS OF RELIGIOUS WOMEN IN ASIA AND OCEANIA IN TAIPEI Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - "wang luo Chinese for web, symbolises communications at many different levels, directions and functions. Our aim is to weave a web of life filled with the Holy Spirit: in communion with God, neig ...
• 25 October 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - FIRST CHRISTIAN CONGRESS CONCLUDES WITH FORMATION OF INDEPENDENT CHURCH COUNCIL Rome (Fides Service) – The first Christian Congress in Iraq on the theme “Our unity and our Rights” held in Baghdad attended also by Patrick Kanadi, delegate of Paul Bremer civil administrator in Iraq. Kanadi said ...
• 24 October 2003
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - PEACE TALKS, FROZEN SINCE APRIL, TO RESUME IN 2004: GOVERNMENT WILL EXAMINE TAMIL TIGERS’ PROPOSAL Colombo (Fides Service) – Peace talks between the government of Sri Lanka and Tamil separatist rebels (LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) frozen in April, will resume early next year according to a government spoke ...
• 24 October 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - DENGUE INFECTS INDIA’S CAPITAL AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY: MORE THAN 1.700 TAKEN ILL AND 83 HAVE DIED New Delhi (Fides Service) - In the Indian capital New Delhi more than 1.700 people are ill with mosquito-borne Dengue fever (break bone) a viral disease which is spreading as insects breed on pools of water left over fr ...
• 24 October 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - PRESIDENT ARROYO SAYS WAR ON MUSLIM TERRORISM IS A GOVERNMENT PRIORITY: “IT IS THE MAIN DANGER FOR THE PHILIPPINES” Manila (Agenzia Fides) – During the traditional annual meeting with the media, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said the Philippines government’s new priority is war on al-Qaeda in south east Asia: “Muslim Jihad i ...
• 23 October 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - FIRST ASIAN MEETING OF RECTORS OF SHRINES: THE SHRINE, A PLACE OF WELCOME AND OF ENCOUNTER FOR DIFFERENT RELIGIONS AND A PLACE FOR EVANGELISATION Manila (Fides Service) – Pilgrimages and visits to shrines are one of the most important religious aspects of history and culture of religions in Asia and therefore also an environment of evangelisation which must be c ...
• 20 October 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA – NO TO N. KOREA’s NUCLEAR PROGRAMME: “PEACE IN THIS LAND”. KOREAN BISHOPS CALL FOR RECONCILIATION ON THE PENINSULA Seoul (Fides Service) – No to North Korea’s nuclear programme, yes to a resuming of peace talks and reconciliation between the two sides of the Korean peninsula, to lead in an era of peaceful and coexistence and harm ...