Europe

• 8 July 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Maria Voce, one of Chiara Lubich’s closest aides, elected new President of the Focolare Movement Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) – Maria Voce, one of Chiara Lubich’s closest aides, has been elected new President of the Focolare Movement. She was elected in Castel Gandolfo by the Movement’s General Assembly, co ...
• 7 July 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Missionaries today, St. Paul-style”: Missiology Week in Burgos, in honor of the Year of St. Paul Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Beginning today, July 7, until Friday, July 11, the Theology School in Burgos will host the 61st Spanish Missiology Week. The Missionary Week will be dedicated this year to the Year of St. Paul ...
• 4 July 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Evangelization missions on the beach: 300 young people of the Missionary Community of Villaregia will preach the Gospel and collect supplies for the soup kitchens in Lima Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “A Wave of Life” is the slogan for 2008’s evangelization missions on the beach, which will take place in the two well-known seaside resorts of Cesenatico and Terracina. The event will inclu ...
• 4 July 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - FAO’s latest alarming fact: the number of hungry people increased by about 50 million in 2007; entire nations are suffering from soaring prices Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The food crisis that has come as a result of soaring prices of certain products that form the staple food product for millions of people and the rising fuel cost, is causing an unprecedented cris ...
• 2 July 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The Family and Human Dignity Association is formed, to promote the protection of human rights, especially the defense of human life and the family based on marriage between a man and a woman Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, July 1, the Spanish association “Familia y Dignidad Humana” (Family and Human Dignity) officially began, made up of various members of Parliament and civil society working in defen ...
• 1 July 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Archbishop Perez Gonzalez, Nacional Director of the PMS in Spain following his reception of the pallium: “I was reaffirmed in the mission of service that I must fulfill in the heart of the Church and what it means to give one’s life for the others.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Among the Archbishops who received the pallium from the hands of His Holiness Benedict XVI last Sunday, was Archbishop Francisco Perez Gonzalez of Pamplona-Tudela (Spain), National Director of the ...
• 1 July 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - "We have no fear of the future certain that the Risen Christ is with us and that God is greater than any of our difficulties or limits": Archbishop Hoser is installed in the diocese of Warsaw-Praga Warsaw (Agenzia Fides)- "To we all wonder about the future, the future of our situation, of ourselves, our families the future of Poland, Europe, the whole world" Archbishop Henryk Hoser, of Warsaw-Praga said in his homi ...
• 27 June 2008
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Initiatives for the Year of St Paul: catechesis " Walking the Year with St Paul ", liturgical handbooks, study meetings and a travelling exhibition Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - This weekend Catholic dioceses all over Portugal will begin a variety of initiatives organised to celebrate the Year of St Paul, convoked by Pope Benedict XVI. A Bishops' Conference statement rec ...
• 25 June 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sunday 29 June in Rome ordination to the priesthood of 34 Legionaries from 10 different countries Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 29 June 2008, in the Chapel of the Centro di Studi Superiori in via degli Aldobrandeschi in Roma, 34 Legionaries of Christ will be ordained priests. The Mass will be presided by Archbisho ...
• 24 June 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 26 - 30 June European Bishops' Conferences General Secretaries discuss religious situation on the continent Oviedo (Agenzia Fides) - The annual meeting of General Secretaries of the European Bishops' Conferences will be held this year in Covadonga, Oviedo, Spain, 26-30 June. General Secretaries of the following Bishops' Confer ...
• 20 June 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Among the Italian Bishops’ Cultural Plan for the Pauline Year, is a website dedicated to St. Paul’s Letters Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the Pauline Year, the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI) has drawn up an entire schedule for the year, for all the local Churches, that offers a new and intelligent way to liv ...
• 19 June 2008
  EUROPE/GERMANY - German Catholic Bishops’ Conference launches a new website for the Pauline Year: “Let’s journey with the Apostle Paul!” Bonn (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the Pauline Year announced by the Holy Father Benedict XVI, upon the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of Saint Paul, from June 28, 2008 to June 29, 2009, the German Catholic Bi ...
• 19 June 2008
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Religious communities make an appeal for World Refugee Day: “As Christians and Jews, we are called to ensure that those who need our protection are admitted and can build their own lives.” Bern (Agenzia Fides) – “World Refugee Day, June 20, 2008, is an opportunity to focus on the destiny of all those who are forced to abandon their country,” said a statement issued by various religious communities on ...
• 18 June 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - Initiatives of the Catholic Weekly “Niedziela” for the Pauline Year: publish 180,000 copies of the “Autobiography of Saint Paul,” a photo exposition, a new website Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – In honor of the Pauline Year, the Polish Catholic Weekly, “Niedziela,” the most widely-read magazine in Poland with headquarters in Częstochowa, is proposing various different pas ...
• 18 June 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - June 21: priestly and deaconate ordinations for the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, June 21, Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy, will preside the ordination Mass for four priests and two deacons of the Priestly Fraternity of the ...