Asia

• 11 December 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Bishops defend Muslim communities and demand a report on socio-economic conditions of religious minorities New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of India have appealed for justice for the country’s Muslim minority about 130 million about 10% of the whole population, in recent years targeted by Hindu fundamentalis ...
• 11 December 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Christians guardians of human rights Catholic Bishops message for Human Rights Sunday Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the 25th Human Rights Sunday on December 10, Bishop Boniface Choi Ki-San, president of the Korean Bishops’ Commission for Justice and Peace issued a message urging society to ...
• 9 December 2006
  FIDES SPECIAL FEATURE INSTRUMENTUM MENSIS NOVEMBRIS PRO LECTURA MAGISTERII SUMMI PONTIFICI BENEDICTI XVI, PRO EVANGELIZATIONE IN TERRIS MISSIONUM Annus II - Numerus XI, November A.D. MMVI The month of November for Pope Benedict XVI was marked by preparation for his fifth international pastoral visit which began on 28 with his departure for Turkey. A journey of meetings with the Catholic community in Turk ...
• 7 December 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - A new Catholic church inaugurated in the state of Tamil Nadu: India’s Catholics propose a message of dialogue, peace and harmony New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A new church as a symbol of openness to God and to the world as a place of prayer and dialogue, encounter and promotion of peace: in this spirit on Sunday December 3 Archbishop Anthony Anandar ...
• 7 December 2006
  ASIA/VIETNAM - For mission in Asia we must “rediscover the spirit of Saint Francis Xavier”: in Ho Chi Minh City Indian Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, presides celebrations for the 5th centenary of the birth of the Patron Saint of the Missions Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - To give new impulse to evangelisation in Asia “Catholics must rediscover the spirit of Saint Francis Xavier” Indian Card. Telesphore Toppo, Archbishop of Ranchi, said in a special M ...
• 6 December 2006
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - First Symposium on Preservation and Management of Cultural Heritage of the Church Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in South Korea must seek alternative ways of preserving and managing its cultural heritage, which can also be a channel of evangelisation. This emerged from a 1st Symposium on ...
• 6 December 2006
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Salesian day of missionary reflection and animation: the courage to go to new places, to people who have never heard the Good News Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - Where is mission going? How to be a missionary? What is the mission for young religious in Vietnam? These were some of the questions proposed at a Day of Missionary Reflection and Anima ...
• 5 December 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - After recent episodes of violence, normal pastoral activity continues but Catholics demand more state protection New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A lay Catholic killed in Kashmir; a Catholic school sacked in Tamil Nadu: in recent days various attacks on Indian Catholics have caused tension and fear. “However we continue our pastoral a ...
• 5 December 2006
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Missionaries of Charity open new professional training centre for girls Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - The Sisters of Mother Teresa, the Missionaries of Charity have opened a new professional training centre for girls in Tajikistan, a mainly Muslim country. The community, two Indian sisters, one ...
• 5 December 2006
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Typhoon Durian: “God’s messages in natural disasters”, Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, president of Bishops’ Conference Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Typhoon Durian was a message from God “a warning about what happens when natural resources are misused and maltreated by human negligence”. Archbishop Angel Lagdameo of the diocese of Jaro, p ...
• 4 December 2006
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - At least 3,000 Catholics attend closing celebrations for 450 years presence of the Catholic Church in Cambodia; Apostolic Blessing from the Pope and Message from Card. Dias Kompong Cham (Agenzia Fides) - At least 3,000 Catholics from all over the country gathered in central Cambodia on Sunday 3 December to celebrate with joy the closing of Jubilee celebrations to commemorate 450 years of th ...
• 4 December 2006
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Jesuit mission helping the poor, the disabled, the marginalised Phnom Pen (Agenzia fides) - Assisting families, disadvantaged communities; assisting war victims, people mutilated by mines, and the disabled: there are the goals of the Jesuit Social Service in Cambodia, sponsored by th ...
• 4 December 2006
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Typhoon Durian, east Philippines, at least 1000 lives lost Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas and other Catholic aid organisations are in front line to assist the victims of typhoon Durian which recently hit east Philippines in the area of the Mayon volcano. The International Red ...
• 2 December 2006
  ASIA/INDIA - On Sunday 3 December in Ollur beatification of Sr Eufrasia Eluvethingal “the Mother who prays” Ollur (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday 3 December there will be the beatification of Sr Eufrasia Eluvethingal, (nee Rosa Eluvethingal), of the Sisters of the Mother of Mount Carmel. Born in the Indian diocese of Trichur in 1877, ...
• 1 December 2006
  VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI in Turkey - Divine Liturgy on the Feast of Saint Andrew: “Our efforts to build closer ties between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches are a part of this missionary task” Istanbul (Fides Service) - On the feast day of Saint Andrew the Apostle, patron saint of the Church of Constantinople, Thursday 30 November, Pope Benedict XVI was invited by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I to atte ...