Europe

• 14 September 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Associations promoters of conscience objection present list of practical criteria for parents who do not wish their children to attend lessons in Education to Citizenship Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the beginning of the school year, 31 associations and civil platforms, promoters of objection of conscience have prepared a Decalogue of practical criteria for parents in view of Ed ...
• 11 September 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - “Pilgrimages and Shrines, paths of peace, places of mercy: 5th European Congress for Pastoral Care of Pilgrimages and Shrines opens in Lourdes on the eve of Jubilee Year to mark the 150th anniversary of the Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) - In Lourdes, France, on Monday 10 September in the presence of about one hundred directors of pilgrimages and rectors of Shrines in 20 European different countries of Europe the 5th European Cong ...
• 10 September 2007
  EUROPE/POLAND - IACM Missiological Conference and Third Plenary Assembly: Indian Divine Word Missionary Fr Lazarus Stanislaus Thanizraj elected new President Pieniezno (Agenzia Fides) - The International Association of Catholic Missiologists (IACM) hold a missiological conference from August 28 to September 2 at the SVD Seminary in Pieniężno, Poland. The theme of th ...
• 5 September 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Discovering the Face of Christ in every Prisoner”: 12th International Congress of the International Commission for Catholic Prison Pastoral (ICCPPC) Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From 5 to 12 September the 12th International Congress of the International Commission for Catholic Prison Pastoral is taking place in Rome at the Casa La Salle in via Aurelia Nuova 472-476) on th ...
• 5 September 2007
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Austria, former confessor of Mother Teresa of Calcutta speaks of the holy woman in a series of daily radio programmes: “to everyone she met she gave the same attention, care, respect and love” Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - The September 5th 2007 is the 10th anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, beatified by Pope John Paul II on 19 October 2003, only six years after her death. The only non member o ...
• 5 September 2007
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - “Just one moment with Missio …look at Cristo, open your hearts and give love ”: Pontifical Mission Societies Austria ready to greet Pope Benedict XVI and take the opportunity of the Papal Visit to promote a programme to help former child soldiers in Uganda to return to a normal life Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - With a new web site (www.missio.at), a short video-clip to be broadcast on Friday 7 September in the frame of the Papal Visit, and a campaign with 400 posters put up all over the capital of Austr ...
• 4 September 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Renewal in the Holy Spirit: goals attained by 2007 Summer formation programme Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “You will receive power from the Holy Spirit who will come down on you and you will be my witnesses …” (Acts 1,8) is the theme of a 6 day course in Spiritual exercises for priests, deacons an ...
• 4 September 2007
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly: Sibiu Europe's ecumenical capital from 4 to 9 September Sibiu (Agenzia Fides) - The Romanian city of Sibiu, in central Transilvania, proclaimed, together with Luxembourg, European capital for culture 2007, from 4 to 9 September will also be the “capital” of all the Christ ...
• 3 September 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sister Maria Teresa Crescini elected Superior general of the Maestre Pie Venerini Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The order of religious Sisters Maestre Pie Venerini, during its recent 12th general Chapter elected as new Superior General Sisterr Maria Teresa Crescini, who had previously worked for the Pontific ...
• 27 July 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Official Comboni Missionary Sisters web site www.comboniane.org, now in English Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “If the world of today travels via the web, mission will carry the Word along the same way”. With these words on March 15 the Comboni Missionary Sisters announced the inauguration of the Congr ...
• 26 July 2007
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - St John of God Foundation backs young people in East Timor supporting education and professional training Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The St John of God Foundation and the Hospital Mission in East Timor have launched a development programme based on the "human capital", young people especially. In July and August the Foundation ...
• 25 July 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - New Chair of Missiology at Madrid's San Dámaso Theology Faculty in entrusted to National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The San Dámaso Theology Faculty in Madrid has instituted a Chair of Missiology to be inaugurated for the coming academic year 2007-2008. The Grand Chancellor of the Faculty, Cardinal Antonio M. ...
• 24 July 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Assisi will host young Franciscans from all over the continent for a European Franciscan Meeting Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - Assisi is ready to welcome young people to the European Franciscan Meeting organised by the Union of Friars Minor of Europe. The meeting with the slogan “Go Francis, repair my … Europe” wil ...
• 24 July 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Education to Citizenship: “Every responsible family has the obligation to refuse this school subject. This is a matter of freedom, to defend the basic and highest right to educate our children in keeping with our own principles” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - As from September every school in Spain will include the new Education to Citizenship subject as part of the compulsory curriculum set by the Ministry of Education. The subject involves the forma ...
• 24 July 2007
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Increasing numbers of young Catholics choose mission holidays: 263 ready to give a hand in Portuguese speaking missions Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - Missions are still on the horizon for young Catholics in Portugal. According to the Foundation for the Evangelisation of Cultures this year again many will be taking part in mission projects. In ...