Asia

• 13 January 2005
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Diocesan Justice and Peace commission seminar calls on media to giver more attention to the weaker members of society Hong Kong (Fides Service ) - The justice and Peace commission of Hong Kong diocese recently organised a seminar for scholars, experts and members of various associations to discuss the range and type of questions highlig ...
• 13 January 2005
  ASIA/THAILAND - This report received by Fides is a testimony of concrete help offered by local religious free of prejudice or discrimination to all tsunami victims; it will discredit opinions that Christian missionaries have other aims than that solidarity with people whatever their religion Bangkok (Fides Service) - Father Paul Cherdchai Lertjitlekha, Vice Provincial of the Camillian Fathers Thailand sent this report on aid to victims of the 26 tsunami: “Dear confreres and friends I am sure you have had ...
• 12 January 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - “Stop Funding Hate”: aid for tsunami victims must not go to Hindu fundamentalist groups Calcutta (Fides Service) - Donations in aid of tsunami victims must not find their way to the pockets of Hindu fundamentalist groups which spread religious hatred and social discriminate, Indian citizens resident in the ...
• 12 January 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Don Bosco school pupils in Pakistan send help to children victims of the tsunami Lahore (Fides Service) - In Pakistan pupils at Don Bosco in Lahore were quick to forget their own troubles and turn to helping children victims of the December 26 tsunami, organising charity raffles to collect money to s ...
• 11 January 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Islamic fundamentalists warn Catholic priest humanitarian helper not to try to convert Muslim orphans Banda Aceh (Fides Service) - Father Chris Riley, an Australian Catholic priest who arrived in tsunami-ravaged Indonesian province of Aceh on 7 January to set up an orphanage, sparked a warning from hard-line Islamic grou ...
• 11 January 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - “Platinum Jubilee” for St Charles Borromeo Sisters who first came on mission to India 75 years ago Bangalore (Fides Service) - It all started when, in response to a call from Pope Pius XI “for missionaries to go to every corner of the earth”, in 1929 a group of five Sisters of St Charles Borromeo set out from Belg ...
• 11 January 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - UN High Commission for Refugees starts relief operations in Aceh Banda Aceh (Fides Service) - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and other UN agencies have started relief operations along the west cost of the Indonesian province of Aceh, the area worst hit by the ...
• 10 January 2005
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic Missionaries and Muslim faithful work side by side in relief work: one good result of tsunami disaster Manila (Fides Service) - The Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate OMI have started a campaign to collect money for the people affected by the December 26 tsunami in south Asia among the Philippines deeply saddened by t ...
• 10 January 2005
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Why did the tragedy push peace in Sri Lanka further away? What if the tsunami fails to stop the war … Colombo (Fides Service) - Everyone hoped the tsunami tragedy would unite the people of Sri Lanka where for decades the two main ethnic groups Sinhalese (74%) and Tamil (12,5%) have fought a war of hatred and reciprocal ...
• 10 January 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Why are arms in Banda Aceh not silent? The tsunami and guerrilla warfare Jakarta (Fides Service) - In northern Sumatra the tsunami hit a situation which was already difficult, marked by conflict and violence. For more than a year the Indonesian army has launched a massive offensive against re ...
• 8 January 2005
  ASIA/INDIA - Families and refugees tsunami victims will be protagonists in rebuilding their future Madras (Fides Service) - The Conference of Catholic Religious in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu seriously affected by the December 26 tsunami, has formed a study team to plan how to involve people made homeless by the di ...
• 8 January 2005
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Aid to devastated area of Aceh comes also from the people of the Moluccas Islands still intent on rebuilding after disastrous ethnic clashes Ambon (Fides Service) - Solidarity knows no boundaries and very often the poor are more generous than the rich when it comes to helping those in need. Despite their present post civil conflict situation and struggle to r ...
• 8 January 2005
  ASIA - UN High Commission for Refugees among the organisations assisting tsunami affected people in south east Asia Jakarta (Fides Service) - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR whose mandate is for refugees fleeing persecution and violence immediately responded to the emergency in south east Asia following the Dec ...
• 8 January 2005
  ASIA/THAILAND - Thai Bishop: “We will take aid to places not reached by government organisations” Surat Thani (Fides Service) - At Phang-nga operative centre which co-ordinates aid for homeless tsunami victims in the diocese of Surat Thani, Catholic lay volunteers, and men and women religious and priests are fully e ...
• 7 January 2005
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Believers unite to counter the tsunami tragedy: together Christians and Muslims pray for victims Lahore (Fides Service) - Over the past few days in various parts of Pakistan Christian and Muslim communities came together to pray for all the victims of the recent tsunami disaster, Franciscan Fr Francis Nadeem, secret ...