Asia

• 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 ...
• 20 October 2003
  ASIA/CHINA – PASTORAL LETTER OPENS DIOCESAN YEAR OF EVANGELISATION: BISHOP ZEN CALLS CATHOLICS TO BE MORE MISSIONARY Seoul (Fides Service) – “Proclaiming the Gospel: a joy par excellence” is the title of a Pastoral letter issued by Bishop Zen of Hong Kong for World Mission Sunday, which this year marks the beginning of a Diocesan ...
• 18 October 2003
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - MISSION SUNDAY: GO RECONCILE, PROCLAIM THE LORD OF PEACE! Colombo (Fides Service) – The theme for Mission Sunday 2003 chosen by the Pontifical Mission Societies in Sri Lanka was “Go reconcile, proclaim the Lord of Peace!” Material for the occasion, leaflets, collection bo ...
• 18 October 2003
  ASIA - MISSION SUNDAY: LAY CATHOLICS, ROSARY IN HAND, IN FRONT LINE FOR MISSION Rome (Fides Service) – In Asia lay Catholics, rosary in hand, are in front line for mission. From Korea to the Philippines, to Taiwan and Malaysia, local Churches prepared to celebrate Mission Sunday on October 19. I ...
• 18 October 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - PHOTOS AND VIDEO OF MOTHER TERESA’S BEATIFICATION DISTRIBUTED IN REAL TIME AMONG THE POOR THANKS TO HIGH-TECH DON BOSCO YOUTH Rome (Fides Service) – Mother Teresa’s beloved “poorest of the poor”, bedridden invalids, lepers, will be able to see pictures of her Beatification in Rome almost in real time thanks to an initiative by young mem ...
• 17 October 2003
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - THE POPE REASSURED ME: “TAKE COURAGE! I AM PRAYING FOR SRI LANKA” PMS NATIONAL DIRECTOR TELLS FIDES OF MEMORABLE MEETING WITH POPE JOHN PAUL II Colombo (Fides Service) – “To the tens of millions of people, many of whom are not Roman Catholics Pope John Paul II is the great figure of our time, the defender and principle embodiment of a moral force that has le ...