Europe

• 16 June 2003
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - FREEING PEOPLE FROM POVERTY IS A MORAL OBLIGATION FOR THE CONSCIENCE OF HUMANITY: HEAD OF HOLY SEE DELEGATION ADDRESSES WORLD LABOUR CONFERENCE Geneva (Fides Service) – “Poverty is not longer a fatality! To free people from it is therefore a moral obligation for the conscience of humanity”. This quote from Pope John Paul II’s Message for World Peace Day ...
• 13 June 2003
  EUROPE/TURKEY - ALSO TURKEY SUFFERS FROM TOURISM CRISIS: CAPUCHIN MISSIONARIES CALL FOR A CONCRETE ANSWER Antioch (Fides Service) – With the war in Iraq, Turkey is living another economic crisis because of the decline in tourism: this increases poverty particularly among the lower social classes which find themselves plung ...
• 13 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITALLER ORDER SERVES POOR SICK CHILDREN IN AFRICA Rome (Fides Service) – The Italian charity association “Uniti per Tanguieta e Afagnan” UTA supports hospitals in Tanguieta in Togo and Afagnan in Benin opened respectively in 1961 and 1970 by the Italian Lombardo-V ...
• 13 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - TOMORROW 7,000 CHILDREN WILL RECEIVE MISSIONARY MANDATE FROM THE POPE TO MARK 160TH ANNIVERSARY OF PONTIFICAL SOCIETY MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD Rome (Fides Service) – On June 14 Pope John Paul II will meet boys and girls, members of Missionary Childhood society, on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the society’s founding (1843-2003). At least 7,000 ch ...
• 12 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - ITALIAN MUSLIMS ASK FOR ITALIAN IMAM – AL WAHID PALLAVICINI, PRESIDENT OF MUSLIM RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY IN ITALY MAKES STATEMENT TO FIDES SERVICE Rome (Fides Service) – “We take our distance immediately from the violent words pronounced by Imam Ibrahim Moussa of the Rome Mosque. Those words derive from Islam immigrated into Italy, they are not part of native I ...
• 12 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - RECTOR OF PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE FOR ARAB AND ISLAMIC STUDIES, FATHER LACUNZA, MAKES STATEMENT TO FIDES SERVICE WITH REGARD TO PREACHERS OF HATRED: “HAVING DEDICATED 30 YEARS TO THE STUDY OF ISLAMIC WRITINGS, PERHAPS I TOO AM CONSIDERED AN ENEMY OF ISLAM?” Rome (Fides Service) – “There can be no place for people who encourage hatred and incite to kill. This is insanity. It is a matter of public order which the government must face. To use institutional places such as c ...
• 11 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - OBJECTS OF FOOD IMPORTED FROM COUNTRIES WITH SARS EPIDEMICS ARE NOT DANGEROUS; THERE IS NO THREAT OF INFECTION What are Corona virus-Type of diagnosis-Therapy specific-Possibility of a vaccine-Avoid useless alarm By Prof. Antonino Aceti and Dr Simone Lanini of La Sapienza University in Rome Rome (Fides Service) – An analys ...
• 11 June 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - COLOGNE: “TRUSTING IN GOD’S WORD”: THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES PRESENT CAMPAIGN FOR OCTOBER MISSIONARY MONTH IN YEAR OF THE BIBLE Aachen/Munich (Fides Service) – On June 16 in Cologne, the Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany, with head offices in Aachen and Munich, will present their sensitivity campaign for the missionary month of October. B ...
• 10 June 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - PROMOTE MISSIONARY SPIRIT AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, WHO ARE THE HOPE OF HUMANITY: PMS SPECIAL SUMMER EVENTS Madrid (Fides Service) – It is important to promote among children and young people a spirit of mission to plant the seed which will enable them to become the missionaries of tomorrow: “We must promote the missionary ...
• 10 June 2003
  EUROPE/CROATIA - THE POPE CONCLUDES HIS 100TH APOSTOLIC JOURNEY: “WORDS AND EXAMPLE OF MARY A SUBLIME SCHOOL OF LIFE FOR FORMATION OF APOSTLES YESTERDAY AND TODAY” Zadar (Fides Service) – “As my Apostolic Journey to Croatia draws to an end, I am happy to join you, the faithful of the Archdiocese of Zadar and neighbouring areas, here in Forum Square, in the shadow of the Cathedr ...
• 9 June 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “LAY CHRISTIANS BUILDERS OF PEACE”: BISHOPS’ MESSAGE FOR DAY OF CATHOLIC ACTION AND LAY APOSTOLATE Madrid (Fides Service) – “To make the Church, the home and school of communion (Novo Millennium Ineunte 43) is the challenge facing us as Christians if we want to be faithful to God’s plan and respond to the greate ...
• 9 June 2003
  EUROPE/CROATIA - THE POPE SAYS: THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IS ALWAYS GATHERED IN THE UPPER ROOM IN PRAYER, AND AT THE SAME TIME, DRIVEN BY THE POWERFUL WIND OF THE SPIRIT, SHE IS ALWAYS ON THE STREETS PREACHING Rijeka (Fides Service) – On Sunday 8 June, Pope John Paul II went to Rijeka’s Delta Square which takes its name from the delta of the Rifecina River, where he presided the celebration of the Mass of Pentecost. “The ...
• 9 June 2003
  EUROPE/CROATIA - THE POPE VISITS OSIJEK/CEPIN: “AT THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM GOD IS CALLING BELIEVERS, AND THE LAITY IN PARTICULAR, TO A RENEWED MISSIONARY OUTREACH” Osijek/Cepin (Fides Service) – A vibrant call to respond with generosity to the missionary vocation proper to every baptised person was launched by the Pope during the solemn concelebration of Mass which he presided on ...
• 6 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - “HERE I AM LORD, SEND ME!” LITTLE MISSIONARIES TO VISIT POPE FOR 160TH ANNIVERSARY OF MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD PONTIFICAL SOCIETY Rome (Fides Service) – On Saturday 14 June, to mark the 160th anniversary of the founding of the Pontifical Society for Missionary Childhood, (1843-2003) thousands of children members of Missionary Childhood will pay a ...
• 5 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - FATHER JOSE RODRIGUEZ CARBALLO NEW MINISTER GENERAL OF THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR – PAPAL MESSAGE Assisi (Fides Service) – Father Jose Rodriguez Carballo is the new minister general of the Order of Friars Minor. He was elected on June 5 by the Chapter gathered in Assisi from May 25 to June 21 to reflect on the them ...