Europe

• 26 June 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “It is not a question of ‘doing’ many things, however important they may be, but rather of spreading the spirit born from Christ’s command: Go and announce the Gospel to all men and women ” Spanish Diocesan Directors of the PMS say at the conclusion of their annual meeting Madrid (Fides Service) - A path of missionary formation for children and young people, reflection on mission ad gentes in the new cultural and social situations, integration of missionary work achieved by Church Movement ...
• 25 June 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - ACN Italian branch presents Report 2004 on Religious Freedom in the World Rome (Fides Service) - On Friday 25 June the Italian branch of Aid to the Church in Need ACN presented its 2004 Report on Religious Freedom in the World ,with the objective of speaking up for the victims of violence, abu ...
• 25 June 2004
  EUROPE/FRANCE - France’s annual national pilgrimage to Lourdes led by Cardinal Barbarin will include a special pilgrim this year, Pope John Paul II Paris (Fides Service) - Last year Pope John Paul II received an invitation from the Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes, Bishop Jacques Perrier and Bishop Jean-Pierre Ricard President of the French Bishops’ Conference, to vis ...
• 25 June 2004
  EUROPE/POLAND - Priests, men and women religious laity and seminarians reflect on missionary commitment in their respective communities in the light of the post synodal exhortation “Ecclesia in Europa”. Warsaw (Fides Service) - As in the past, the Pontifical Mission Societies in Poland will hold an annual Course of Missionary Animation Grade 2, from June 28 to July 4, Father Jan Piotrowski, national director of the Pont ...
• 24 June 2004
  EUROPE - A new historic responsibility for the Church in Africa and Europe: in November a Symposium in Rome of African and European Bishops Rome (Fides Service) - The Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE) and the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), with the patronage of the Congregation for the Evangelisation o ...
• 22 June 2004
  EUROPE/GT BRITAIN - «Authentic and lived Fraternity is the fruit of love which is capable of dialogue, relationship, of that love which far from closing itself proudly in its own world, opens to others and works with all people of good will to build unity and peace in the world» said Chiara Lubich, On June 19 at Westminster Central Hall in London during a meeting “Imagine a World enriched by Diversity” Rome (Fides Service) - «Authentic and lived fraternity is the fruit of love which is capable of dialogue, relationship, of that love which far from closing itself proudly in its own world, opens to others and works with ...
• 22 June 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Forty hours of prayer for the Church in Need”: from 24 June marathon of prayer and information for the Church all over the world Rome (Fides Service) - “Forty Hours of Prayer for the Suffering Church” is the title of an Marathon of prayer and information organised by the Italian branch of Aid to the Church in Need. The 40 hours of prayer will ...
• 22 June 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Returned missionaries on leave start course of renewal, updating and missionary spirituality Madrid (Fides Service) - Missionaries on leave have an opportunity for personal and vocational renewal offered by a course of renewal, updating and missionary spirituality which opened on June 19 in Madrid organised by t ...
• 21 June 2004
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Crowds gather for Corpus Christ Mass with Papal Nuncio in Moscow’s Catholic cathedral: for the sixth year running local authorities give permission for a public procession Moscow (Fides Service) - On Sunday 13 June as in many other countries, Catholics in Moscow celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi with deep devotion and solemnity. According to the local Catholic weekly “Svet Evangelia ...
• 21 June 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Angels in the Desert”: photograph exhibition fund raising campaign for Centre of Education and Culture for 80,000 people 58% poor children and adolescents in Peruvian diocese of Carabayllo. Rome (Fides Service) -“Angels in the Desert” is the title of an exhibition of photographs on life in one of the poorest suburbs of Lima, the capital of Peru. The exhibition is part of a campaign to collect funds to o ...
• 18 June 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - World Refugee Day: “ A Place to call home: Rebuilding lives in safety and dignity”. In 2003 the number of refugees fell by 18 %; Europe has 5.4 million and Italy about 23,000. Rome (Fides) - “What every refugee wants more than anything else in the world is a place to call home, no matter whether it is the old one or a new one” the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said in view ...
• 18 June 2004
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) mark 150th anniversary. “In the third millennium the Church will be the main source of hope and life for people.” said MSC Superior General, Father Michael Curran in an interview with Fides Rome (Fides Service) - Filled with a deep devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and aware that the human and divine Heart of Christ is the most perfect revelation of God’s love for mankind, in 1854 on December 8, Frenc ...
• 17 June 2004
  VATICAN - Papal Message to 95th Katholikentag in Germany: “Let us take the opportunities offered by united Europe to spread further the Gospel of Christ so that no one is denied God’s gift of salvation!” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Living in God”: is the motto, taken from the 2nd Letter of St Paul to the Corinthians, for the programme of Germany’s 95th «Katholikentag» being held in Ulm, diocese of Rottenburg ...
• 16 June 2004
  EUROPE - “Now is the time of a new discovery and proposal of the Gospel for our continent”. Conclusions of General Secretaries of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe CCEE Meeting in Belgrade Belgrade (Fides Service) - At the same time that the inhabitants of the 25 nations of the European Union were going to the polls for the election of Members of the European Parliament, the General Secretaries of the Bis ...
• 15 June 2004
  EUROPE/AFRICA - Dialogue with cultures and religions, particularly with Islam, building peace, fighting the AIDS pandemic, promoting African values: objectives discerned by White Fathers General Chapter which closes tomorrow. Fides interviewed new Superior General Father Gérard Chabanon. Rome (Fides Service) - Founded in 1868 in Algeria by Archbishop Charles Lavigerie of Algiers, the Missionaries of Africa came to be known as White Fathers because of the white habit they chose. Archbishop Lavigierie want ...