Asia

• 18 October 2007
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Sandakan diocese created and first Bishop of ordained Sandakan (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Malaysia recently celebrated an historic event the foundation of a new diocese of Sandakan and the ordination of the first Bishop of Sandakan, Mgr Julius Dusin Gitom. Sandakan, a c ...
• 18 October 2007
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Special anniversary Mass to mark 80th anniversary of Pyongyang diocese: commitment to revivify the Catholic community in North Korea New York (Agenzia Fides) - During a special anniversary Mass celebrated in New York to mark the 80th anniversary of the Catholic diocese of Pyongyang, capital city of North Korea, prayer intentions included a desire to b ...
• 18 October 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - On Mission Sunday in Bei Tang Cathedral five new priests will be ordained by the new Bishop of Beijing Pechino (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 21 October the diocese of Beijing, which will be celebrating the annual Mission Sunday in communion with the universal Church, will mark the date with a great event, the ordination of ...
• 17 October 2007
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Good cuisine promotes evangelisation and family unity Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - “The festival of good evangelising cuisine is the best way to promote harmony in the family and to evangelise the world” said a priest of Kow Loon deanery during Mission Sunday celebrated ...
• 16 October 2007
  ASIA/IRAQ - Catholic priests taken hostage in Mosul still detained, Pope Benedict XVI calls for their release Mosul (Agenzia Fides)- Fr. Pius Afas and Fr. Mazen Ishoa, the two Syrian-Catholic priests taken hostage in the Mosul, in northern Iraq, are still in the hands of their captors, but they are alive and in good condition th ...
• 16 October 2007
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Study Day: Priests, religious, deacons and seminarians discuss diocesan Social Communications methods, tools and strategies Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of September Catholic priests, men and women religious, deacons and seminarians attended a Study Day on diocesan social communication strategies. The diocesan bulletin Kong Ko Bao s ...
• 16 October 2007
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Second International Congress on Education in Love, Sex and Life aims to stop anti-birth organisations from promoting immoral policies throughout Asia Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Second International Congress on Education in Love, Sex and Life (www.edicongress.com) 19 to 21 November 2007 will bring together in Manila (Philippines), over 700 experts in pedagogy, schola ...
• 15 October 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Ji Ning diocese in Mongolia, celebrates consecration of new Cathedral dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary; the diocese hosts the continent's most famous Marian Shrine to Our Lady of the Rosary Ji Ning (Agenzia Fides) - “The Cathedral dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary is also a splendid symbol of the city. The church alone is a strong message of evangelisation", the parish priest said about the Ji Ning dio ...
• 12 October 2007
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Series of multimedia products for evangelisation in view of Mission Sunday and the 150th anniversary of the evangelisation of southern Taiwan Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - The executive Commission of the Voice of the Catholic Church Association of Taiwan, the Communications office of the Chinese Regional Bishops' Conference, asked Kuangchi Program Service and Guan ...
• 12 October 2007
  ASIA/IRAQ - Web site in memory of Chaldean Catholic priest Fr. Raghhed Ganni and three deacons killed recently, and to defend the presence of Iraqi Christians in their homeland Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Iraq's Chaldean Catholic community has announced the imminent opening of a web site in memory of Fr. Raghhed Ganni and three deacons killed by insurgents in Mosul. The web site will also defend ...
• 12 October 2007
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - South Korea is now “de facto” abolitionist of capital punishment, to the satisfaction of Christians and civil rights associations Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Since there have been no executions in South Korea for ten years the Republic is now an abolitionist “de facto”, although officially the death penalty is still part of the country's juridical ...
• 11 October 2007
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - From South America to the Central Asian steppe lands: women religious start new mission in Kazakhstan Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - Three Sisters, Servants of the Lord and the Blessed Virgin Mary of Matara (SSVM) a congregation founded in Argentina, have just opened a new mission in the diocese of Almaty in Kazakhstan, to be ...
• 11 October 2007
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholics in Nan An, in Fu Jian province make long 1 October national holiday a great feast in honour of the patron saint of the Missions Nan An (Agenzia Fides) - On the feast day of Saint Therese of Lisieux, patron saint of the missions Fr Lin Yong Quan, parish priest St Therese Catholic parish in Quan Zhou in the province of Fu Jian, in the south east of ...
• 11 October 2007
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Saint Columban Missionaries work despite difficulties and tension to announce and live the Word of God building bridges of peace Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Mission continues despite difficulties, tension and violence and the Good News comforts and changes the lives of many families especially in remote forgotten areas of the country thanks to Saint ...
• 10 October 2007
  ASIA/INDIA - 'Carmel and Asian Mission': Carmelite Mission Congress for Asia and Oceania “ "missions are an integral part of a Carmelite vocation” Mangalore (Fides Service) - 'Carmel and Asian Mission' was the theme of a Mission Congress for Asia and Oceania organised by the Discalced Carmelite Order at Ryshivana, the Institute of Indian Christian Spirituality at R ...