Europe

• 12 October 2007
  EUROPE/POLAND - “Love, the source of the missionary vocation” is the Mission Sunday theme in Poland chosen in keeping with the local Church's pastoral programme 2006/2007 Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies in Poland prepared material for animation and celebration of World Mission Sunday on the theme “Love, the source of the missionary vocation” which PMS nationa ...
• 11 October 2007
  EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC - Two thousand children take part in 3rd Holy Childhood Congress: “You not only listen to the Word of God and announce it, with your presence and example you announce God's love to the world” Brno (Agenzia Fides) - For the third time Holy Childhood children and adolescents in the Czech Republic celebrated their annual Day with a solemnity worthy of the best missionary tradition. About 2,000 children from Cath ...
• 9 October 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY- Regina Apostolorum Pontifical college offers video-conference Masters on the different Christian confessions, different religions and 'alternative' religious movements Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Why do Jehovah witnesses refuse blood transfusions? In what does their Sabbath consist ? It is true that followers of Scientology believe in reincarnation? What are imams? Why do some Christians re ...
• 8 October 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Sunday 28 October in Rome, the most numerous beatification in Church history: about 500 martyrs killed in Spain's 20th century religious persecutions Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 28 October in St Peter's Square in Rome there will be the most numerous beatification in Church history during which almost 500 martyrs of religious persecution in Spain in the 1930s of l ...
• 5 October 2007
  EUROPE - For 7 October World Rosary Day thousands all over the world will be praying the Rosary at the same hour for peace, life, the family , the Pope and vocations Roma (has been World Rosary Day. Thousands of Catholics all over the world will pray with rosary beads in hand at the same time. Religious institutes, lay movements, parishes, families are encouraged to pray the rosary o ...
• 5 October 2007
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Germany has 175 Fidei donum missionaries working in other countries and of these 140 are on mission in Latin America; the Bishops' mission agency Adveniat prepares, co-ordinates, and keeps them in contact Essen (Agenzia Fides) - The idea of opening an Office for the coordinate and provide information on the activity of the country's Fidei donum sent on mission to Latin America and Caribbean came to the Catholic Bishops of ...
• 4 October 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Cardinal Dias renders homage to the testimony of faith Saint Paul Tchen, in Holy Childhood Chapel in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris where the saint in buried Paris (Agenzia Fides) - On a visit to France Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, went on October 1 to Lourdes to take part in a National Meeting for French Fidei donum missio ...
• 2 October 2007
  EUROPE/IRELAND - Pontifical Holy Childhood Mission Society organises first National Day of Prayer for Children 12 October Dublin (Agenzia Fides) - The national office of the Pontifical Holy Childhood Mission Society in Ireland has organised the first National Day of Prayer for Children to be held on Friday October 12. The news was communica ...
• 2 October 2007
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Ecumenism, marriage and family on the working agenda for European Bishops as well as collaboration with Latin American and African Bishops Fatima (Agenzia Fides) - The Presidents of the bishops' Conferences of Europe are gathering in Fatima, Portugal from 4th to 7th October 2007, following an invitation by Mgr. Jorge Ferreira da Costa Ortiga, President of t ...
• 1 October 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Growing conscious objection to 'education to citizenship' school subject: every Catholic institution shares parents' delicate situation of conscience Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The new school year opened in Spain with the introduction of a new school subject 'Education to Citizenship', already in force in some Autonomous Communities. This highly controversial compulsory ...
• 27 September 2007
  EUROPE/BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA - 50 years of Fidei donum service and the missionary responsibility of the Church in Bosnia Herzegovina Sarajevo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Bosnia Herzegovina is also reflecting on the Fidei Donum encyclical and the call to missionary responsibility, in this the 50th anniversary of the document's promulgation ...
• 27 September 2007
  EUROPE - Family Policy Institute warns of demographic winter in Europe caused by abortion, fewer marriages and more divorces: new 2007 Report on the Evolution of the Family in Europe Barcelona (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, 26 September, in Barcelona, Spain Lola Velarde, President of the European network of Family Policy Institutes (IPF), presented the 2007 Report on the Evolution of the Family in Euro ...
• 26 September 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - CEI Standing Council approves statement on occasion of the 50th anniversary of Fidei donum Encyclical by Pius XII, “a precious opportunity to maintain mission awareness in our dioceses” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Standing Council of the CEI Italian Bishops' Conference, gathered for its Autumn session, 17-19 September, among other things approved a statement prepared by the Bishops' Commission for the Ev ...
• 25 September 2007
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - To help priests discover the missionary dimension of the daily life of the Church, Pontifical Mission Societies office organises Meeting for Priests on Fidei donum mission service Bratislava (Agenzia Fides) - In view of now imminent annual World Mission Sunday, this year 21 October, and in this the 50th anniversary year of the publication of the Fide Donum Encyclical by Pope Pius XII, the national ...
• 24 September 2007
  EUROPE - Family Policy Institute urges Europe's political leaders to stop talking and take action to support families and to make the family a priority issue in their respective countries Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - "It is an urgent priority for European countries to incorporate the family perspective in public policies as a social good which cannot be renounced and as a service to the nation " said Lola V ...