Europe

• 19 January 2005
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Missio Austria supports rescue and aid work by Dalit self-help organisation: the poorest of the poor involved in assisting seaquake victims in India Vienna (Fides Service) - When the December 26 tsunami disaster hit coastal villages in the Tamil Nadu state of India, among the first to offer assistance to the victims were the Dalits, the poorest of the poor, the “un ...
• 18 January 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - With regard to “the challenge of life” Catholics are not alone in their position, their opinions are endorsed by many, including non believers equally concerned for our common future: Cardinal President’s prolusion to Standing Council of Italian Bishops Conference CEI Bari (Fides Service) - The present public debate in Italy with regard to a referendum on amendments to the law on Assisted Reproduction was mentioned by Cardinal Camillo Ruini the President of the CEI the Italian Bishop ...
• 14 January 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Murdered at 21 for refusing to be a prostitute. Papa Giovanni XXIII Association which tried to save her plans prayer vigil this coming Thursday Rome (Fides Service) - A prayer vigil in memory of Lauretta Kikia murdered for refusing to prostitute herself has been organised by the Papa Giovanni XXIII association for Thursday 20 January 2005 at 9pm at Marinella Sar ...
• 14 January 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Notes of the Heart - Healthcare for Solidarity” and fighting AIDS and drug abuse in Africa and south east Asia Rome (Fides Service) - Yesterday 13 January the 3rd ‘Notes of the Heart - Healthcare for Solidarity’ Concert was held in aid of the struggle against AIDS and drug abuse Africa and South East Asia organised by Hyppocr ...
• 14 January 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Information at the service of the people with no hint of politicisation based on the teaching of the Gospel says rev. Giorgio Zucchelli, newly elected president Italian Federation of Catholic Weeklies Rome (Fides Service) - “Our diocesan papers are on the side of the people with no hint of politicisation ” Rev Giorgio Zucchelli, editor of the diocesan newspaper issued by Crema diocese ‘Il Nuovo Torrazzo’ and n ...
• 13 January 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Prayer can change us and the world”: 3rd annual ecumenical prayer campaign promoted by Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany Aachen (Fides Service) - A religious service at the head offices of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany - missio Aachen - marked the start on 11 January of the annual Ecumenical Prayer Campaign 2005. This is the ...
• 12 January 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Open your eyes to mission”: Sunday 23 January Missionary Childhood Day in Spain aims to open the eyes of children to see the needs of their brothers and sisters all over the world Madrid (Fides Service) - "We rely on our children" says National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain Bishop Francisco Pérez in an interview on the occasion of Missionary Childhood Day in Spain 23 Janua ...
• 11 January 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Our aim is to help Spanish children realise that so many other children are less fortunate and in great need, and this year the children of Asia in particular” says National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies. Spanish missionaries in affected countries in front line to help seaquake victims Madrid (Fides Service) - In Spain the annual Holy Childhood Day is celebrated on 23 January. In view of this important occasion the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain, Bishop Francisco Perez i ...
• 10 January 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - The Church in Germany hosts ecumenical service for victims of South East Asia seaquake tragedy. “Love is stronger than death!” says Cardinal Lehmann, president of the German Bishops’ Conference Berlin (Fides Service) - At an ecumenical service at the Berlin Catholic cathedral on Sunday 9 January Germany prayed for the victims of the tragic seaquake which struck south east Asia in which many German holiday maker ...
• 8 January 2005
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Missionary Childhood children in Switzerland help their brothers and sisters in tsunami affected countries Friburg (Fides Service) - In Switzerland as in all German speaking countries and some other countries, every year on and around the Feast of the Epiphany January 6 children members of Missionary Childhood love to take pa ...
• 8 January 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - In tsunami stricken south east Asia children one third of the dead and one third of the homeless and also the most exposed to possible outbreaks of preventable diseases: malaria and hepatitis A, typhoid fever and cholera. Rome (Fides Service) - The tragic toll of the tsunami on 26 December which affected countries in south east Asia has now reached a total of 165,000 dead and several million homeless: 1/3 of the victims were children, ove ...
• 7 January 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Banquet for Everyone” was the slogan chosen for the annual Catechists Day celebrated Yesterday by the Church in Spain Madrid (Fides Service) - Yesterday, in the context of the year of the Eucharist and on the solemn liturgical feast of the Epiphany a clearly missionary feast, the Church in Spain celebrated its annual Day for Catechists ...
• 5 January 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “We remain united with the families of more than 400 Spanish missionaries who suffer the anguish of uncertainty but know that one of their loved ones is spending his or her life for those in need” : report from Pontifical Mission Societies Spain Madrid (Fides Service) - According to the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain there were no victims among the 441 Spanish missionaries of 23 different congregations working in countries affected by the December 26 seaq ...
• 5 January 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - International adoption? Better to help children in their own country than deprive South East Asian of a whole generation say Missionaries on the spot - Adoption at a distance is the right answer Rome (Fides Service) - According to the Milan based Italian association Amici dei Bambini, (Friends of Children), “since the December 26 seaquake hundreds of Italian families have offered to adopt children who lost the ...
• 5 January 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Suffering teaches us not only to pray but also to give a helping hand”. Open Letter from the National Directors of the PMS in Germany Aachen/München (Fides Service) - “Suffering teaches us not only to pray but also to give a helping hand” the presidents of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany- missio Aachen e missio München - said in an Op ...