Europe

• 28 January 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish Bishops declare 2009 the “Year of Prayer for Life” beginning February 2 Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Upon the proposal made by the Bishops' Subcommittee for the Family and Defense of Life, Chaired by Bishop Juan Antonio Reig Pla of Cartagena, and upon the approval of the Executive Committee of ...
• 26 January 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishops make a declaration on the atheist-secularist attack on God: “Using public areas to insult God in the presence of believers is an abuse and an infringement on the right to religious freedom.” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “A publicity statement that infringes on religious freedom, on public buses,” is the title of the statement from the Spanish Bishops' Conference in which they express their disapproval of the ...
• 26 January 2009
  EUROPE/POLAND - “The conversion and evangelizing mission of Saint Paul”: Archdiocese of Czestochowa's pilgrimage for the Year of St. Paul Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - “The conversion and evangelizing mission of Saint Paul” was the main theme for the pilgrimage organized by the Archdiocese of Czestochowa, to the Cathedral of the Holy Family of Nazareth ...
• 23 January 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - New ideas and projects for the future of youth in the First International Festival of Itineraries of the Spirit: International Day of Prayer with the theme: “We Want Peace in the Holy Land.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – A new collaboration has been established between the most important “Vacation Schools” in Europe, the “Accademia Britannica” and the youth of the National Association “Papa Boys,” fr ...
• 23 January 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Preparations for World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid begin with a youth encounter February 7 in the Diocese of Granada Granada (Agenzia Fides) – In view of preparations for World Youth Day, which Pope Benedict XVI will preside in Madrid in 2011, the Youth Delegation of the Diocese of Granada has organized a series of encounters for the ...
• 22 January 2009
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Interview with a missionary priest - from a Asian country … to Belgium (correspondence from Belgium, Luca De Mata - 12) Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - I arrived in Belgium a few days ago and, with the help of the local Caritas office, have already met immigrants of various nationalities. On Sunday I went to the ethnic market in a tunnel close ...
• 22 January 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “With the children of Asia...we seek Jesus”: theme for the Holy Childhood Day, this Sunday, January 25 Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “With the children of Asia...we seek Jesus” is the theme of the Holy Childhood Day this year, being celebrated on Sunday, January 25. Holy Childhood is thus starting a project that will last ...
• 21 January 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 442,000 Euros raised in the “Supporting China's Forgotten Catholics” Campaign sponsored by the COPE and “Aid to the Church in Need” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The solidarity campaign “Supporting China's Forgotten Catholics,” which was organized by the COPE Group and the association “Aid to the Church in Need” at Christmas, raised 442,000 Euro ...
• 15 January 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sunday, January 18: 95th World Day of Migrants and Refugees dedicated to Saint Paul, “Apostle of migrants and a migrant himself” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “St Paul migrant, ‘Apostle of the peoples’ - No longer strangers nor guests, but family of God”: it is from the letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians that the 95th World Day of Migrants and ...
• 14 January 2009
  EUROPE/POLAND - Third “window of life” in Poland inaugurated in Czestochowa, where mothers can place their newborns that they do not want to or cannot care for Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – The “Window of Life of Blessed Edmund Bojanowski” was inaugurated in Czestochowa during the Feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth, by Archbishop Stanislaw Nowak of Czestochowa, the Arch ...
• 5 January 2009
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “The condominium, the Turkish district and an Italian woman pensioner - fears and hopes” (correspondence from Luca De Mata in Germany- part 11) Germany (Agenzia Fides) - I am in Germany. Where, is of little importance. This is one of Germany's main cities, one of those which did not experience Communism and whose growth is due also to the work of numerous immigr ...
• 23 December 2008
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Agenzia Fides interviews an illegal immigrant in Germany on the tariffs and the fears of someone trying to enter Europe (Luca de Mata writes from Germany) Cologne (Agenzia Fides) – An interview with an illegal Filipino immigrant normally involves a gathering of the large Filipino community. All of them want to tell their story. The trip. Humiliations and the debts that h ...
• 22 December 2008
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “ Whereas in Italy one hears about Italians all over the world promoting 'made in Italy' , here we have an Italian community in need of assistance.” - if the Mafia is one channel of illegal immigration, on the other it forces many poor people to emigrate from southern Italy to other countries-: testimonial from Scalabrini Fr. Ermenegildo Baggio, parish priest for the Italian community in Cologne (correspondence from Luca De Mata in Germany- part 9) Cologne (Agenzia Fides) - "I have been in Cologne for sixteen years now, as parish priest for the immigrant Italian community. In the city, here in Cologne, there are about twenty thousand Italians and in the mission ar ...
• 20 December 2008
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Believing in Jesus Christ is a decision that demands awareness, especially in the nations with a larger number of immigrants and a greater confrontation between peoples and cultures, in peace and in mutual respect.” Agenzia Fides interviews Fr. Silvio Vallecoccia, Scalabrinian missionary (Luca de Mata writes from Germany) Cologne (Agenzia Fides) – Father Silvio Vallecoccia, Scalabrinian missionary works as head of the International Youth Ministry program in Cologne. Fr. Silvio, finding missionaries not in Africa, nor in Asia, but her ...
• 19 December 2008
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Make the love of Christ visible”: a reflection by Cardinal Meisner Cologne (Agenzia Fides) – Several months ago, I was in Germany for my research on the immigration phenomenon, as a guest of the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner. On Sunday, I took a tape recorder with me ...