Europe

• 19 September 2007
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Germany's Holy Childhood Christmas Carol 'Sternsingers' help more than 1.6 million children all over the world: theme of 50th collection “Sternsingers For a United World” Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - Germany's 500.000 Holy Childhood Christmas Carol 'Sternsingers' “Sternsinger” can be rightly proud of their efforts to help less fortunate children: in last year's campaign, the 49th, the sum ...
• 18 September 2007
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “The future of Mission Ad Gentes - prospects for the 21st century” theme of Mission Days 2007, Fatima will host National Mission Congress 2008 Fatima (Agenzia Fides) - " The future of Mission Ad Gentes - prospects for the 21st century " was the theme for reflection during the annual Mission Days 2007 held 14 - 16 September, promoted jointly by the National Offi ...
• 17 September 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - International Symposium on Child Abuse to mark centenary of don Calabria Society Verona (Agenzia Fides) - From 4 al 6 October Verona will host the 1st International Symposium 'Children in the Shadows', on the issue of child abuse organised by the Opera (Society) Don Calabria to mark its centenary. Th ...
• 15 September 2007
  EUROPE/POLAND - National Meeting for diocesan directors of the PMS and mission delegates of various religious communities on the theme “Let us carry on the work of serving the Church ”, inspired by the Encyclical Fidei donum Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - From 16 to 18 September in Niepokalanów, Poland, some 120 diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Poland, their collaborators and mission delegates of various religious communi ...
• 15 September 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Made public acts of Continental Meetings for Italian Fidei Donum missionaries; to re-launch in Italy this missionary experience an official Study on 50 years of Fidei Donum in Italy will be presented at 4th National Meeting for Directors of Diocesan Mission Centres Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “To the ends of the earth. From fecund memories to bold prospects ”: is the title of a Paper issued by the secretariat of the Italian Bishops Conference CEI on three Meetings held respectively ...
• 14 September 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Associations promoters of conscience objection present list of practical criteria for parents who do not wish their children to attend lessons in Education to Citizenship Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the beginning of the school year, 31 associations and civil platforms, promoters of objection of conscience have prepared a Decalogue of practical criteria for parents in view of Ed ...
• 11 September 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - “Pilgrimages and Shrines, paths of peace, places of mercy: 5th European Congress for Pastoral Care of Pilgrimages and Shrines opens in Lourdes on the eve of Jubilee Year to mark the 150th anniversary of the Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) - In Lourdes, France, on Monday 10 September in the presence of about one hundred directors of pilgrimages and rectors of Shrines in 20 European different countries of Europe the 5th European Cong ...
• 10 September 2007
  EUROPE/POLAND - IACM Missiological Conference and Third Plenary Assembly: Indian Divine Word Missionary Fr Lazarus Stanislaus Thanizraj elected new President Pieniezno (Agenzia Fides) - The International Association of Catholic Missiologists (IACM) hold a missiological conference from August 28 to September 2 at the SVD Seminary in Pieniężno, Poland. The theme of th ...
• 5 September 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Discovering the Face of Christ in every Prisoner”: 12th International Congress of the International Commission for Catholic Prison Pastoral (ICCPPC) Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From 5 to 12 September the 12th International Congress of the International Commission for Catholic Prison Pastoral is taking place in Rome at the Casa La Salle in via Aurelia Nuova 472-476) on th ...
• 5 September 2007
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Austria, former confessor of Mother Teresa of Calcutta speaks of the holy woman in a series of daily radio programmes: “to everyone she met she gave the same attention, care, respect and love” Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - The September 5th 2007 is the 10th anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, beatified by Pope John Paul II on 19 October 2003, only six years after her death. The only non member o ...
• 5 September 2007
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - “Just one moment with Missio …look at Cristo, open your hearts and give love ”: Pontifical Mission Societies Austria ready to greet Pope Benedict XVI and take the opportunity of the Papal Visit to promote a programme to help former child soldiers in Uganda to return to a normal life Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - With a new web site (www.missio.at), a short video-clip to be broadcast on Friday 7 September in the frame of the Papal Visit, and a campaign with 400 posters put up all over the capital of Austr ...
• 4 September 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Renewal in the Holy Spirit: goals attained by 2007 Summer formation programme Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “You will receive power from the Holy Spirit who will come down on you and you will be my witnesses …” (Acts 1,8) is the theme of a 6 day course in Spiritual exercises for priests, deacons an ...
• 4 September 2007
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly: Sibiu Europe's ecumenical capital from 4 to 9 September Sibiu (Agenzia Fides) - The Romanian city of Sibiu, in central Transilvania, proclaimed, together with Luxembourg, European capital for culture 2007, from 4 to 9 September will also be the “capital” of all the Christ ...
• 3 September 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sister Maria Teresa Crescini elected Superior general of the Maestre Pie Venerini Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The order of religious Sisters Maestre Pie Venerini, during its recent 12th general Chapter elected as new Superior General Sisterr Maria Teresa Crescini, who had previously worked for the Pontific ...
• 27 July 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Official Comboni Missionary Sisters web site www.comboniane.org, now in English Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “If the world of today travels via the web, mission will carry the Word along the same way”. With these words on March 15 the Comboni Missionary Sisters announced the inauguration of the Congr ...