Europe
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 ...
4 June 2003
EUROPE/FRANCE - TO MARK 160 YEARS OF HOLY CHILDHOOD MISSIONARY CHILDREN’S PARTY AT LISIEUX, BIRTHPLACE OF SAINT TERESA
Nancy (Fides Service) – Last weekend 31 May – June 1, the Pontifical Mission Society of Missionary Childhood (MC) held special celebrations in Nancy and Lisieux, France, to mark the 160th anniversary of its foundatio ...
3 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - EUROPEAN YEAR FOR THE DISABLED: “COOPERATION AT THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL LEVEL MUST BE INTENSIFIED” DON ORIONE FATHERS SAY AS THEY PREPARE TO TAKE DISABLED TO MEET THE POPE
Rome (Fides Service) – On the occasion of the Year of the Disabled in Europe, on Wednesday 4 June, Don Orione “Persons with Different Abilities” Communities from all over Italy will meet Pope John Paul during the G ...
30 May 2003
EUROPE/SPAIN - COMMUNICATIONS DAY: SPANISH BISHOPS’ MESSAGE “COMMUNICATORS AT THE SERVICE OF THE GOOD OF SOCIETY AND DIGNITY OF EVERY HUMAN PERSON”
Madrid (Fides Service) – In a message issued for Communications’ Day (in Spain June 1) the Commission for Social Communications of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference has called on Catholic media workers to fulfil thei ...
30 May 2003
AFRICA/EUROPE - BISHOPS ASK G8 SUMMIT FOR NEW MOBILISATION FOR AFRICA
Berlin (Fides Service) – “Give practical support to the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) by increasing development aid and reducing the debt of developing countries” is the request made by Catholi ...
30 May 2003
EUROPE/UNITED KINGDOM - CHRISTIANS JOIN IN ECUMENICAL PRAYER FOR NORTH KOREA
London (Fides Service) – A ecumenical week of prayer in aid of North Korea in underway launched by the London based human rights organisation Christian Solidarity Worldwide CWS which promotes awareness of situations of ...
28 May 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - SARS – MISSIONARIES CALL FOR VACCINATION AGAINST EPIDEMIC; FIDES ASKED THE OPINION OF ITALIAN PROFESSOR AT LA SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY IN ROME
Lome (Fides Service) – Disquieting information on the number of cases of SARS and deaths continues to arrive, provoking inevitably an increase in anxiety. The most recent figures issued by the World Health Organisatio ...
28 May 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - DEHONIANS ELECT NEW SUPERIOR GENERAL, PORTUGUESE FATHER JOSE ORNELAS CARVALHO
Rome (Fides Service) - Father Jose Ornelas Carvalho has been elected new Superior General of the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart (Dehonians). He is the eighth successor of the founder Venerable Jean Leon ...
27 May 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD 142 BROTHERS OF SAINT FRANCIS DISCUSS HOW TO RESPOND TO THE CHALLENGES OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
Assisi (Fides Service) – They have come to Assisi to trace the face and the mission of the Order in the third millennium. Franciscans of the Order of Friars Minor are celebrating their third General Chapter of the thir ...
27 May 2003
EUROPE/GERMANY - CHURCHES IN GERMANY HOLD FIRST EVER “ECUMENICAL-DAY”; ENCOURAGING SIGNAL AND NEW IMPULSE FOR ECUMENISM
Berlin (Fides Service) - From 28 May to June 1 the Churches in Germany will hold an “Ecumenical-Day” with the motto: “May you be a Blessing!” This is the first time that lay representatives of the Catholic and L ...
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