Europe

• 24 July 2007
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Increasing numbers of young Catholics choose mission holidays: 263 ready to give a hand in Portuguese speaking missions Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - Missions are still on the horizon for young Catholics in Portugal. According to the Foundation for the Evangelisation of Cultures this year again many will be taking part in mission projects. In ...
• 23 July 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Messengers of Peace Association delivers 15 tons of toys for hospitalised children in Lebanon and brings two little patients back to Spain for special treatment Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Members of the Messengers of Peace Association, a Spanish NGO started by a Catholic priest Fr. Ángel García, have just returned from Lebanon where they distributed 15 tons of toys to children i ...
• 20 July 2007
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Youth without Frontiers (JSF) backs Summer mission: departures for Latin America and Africa, Mission Weeks in Portugal Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - In Portugal many young Catholics, members of JSF Youth Without Frontiers, plan their Summer in a missionary key with a foreign mission experience or taking part in one of Portugal's Mission Week ...
• 20 July 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Newness in continuity” Xaverian Missions following General Chapter Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The 15th general chapter of the Xaverian Missions ended on 19 July (see Fides 13/3/2007 and 12/7/2007). For a month 47 missionaries from 20 countries prayed, reflected and made decisions. In a rep ...
• 19 July 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spain helps considerably to promote development in Africa: 2,300 missionaries in Africa, support for 460 projects Burgos (Agenzia Fides) - Conscious of its missionary responsibility, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Spain never ceases to call attention to mission needs in Asia and in Africa, both in its Action Plan and through it ...
• 19 July 2007
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Many initiatives to prepare for Pope Benedict XVI visit in September: novenas of prayer, special Letter from the Bishops, youth pilgrimage, Pontifical Mission Societies prayer initiative: 4 September Fides Dossier on the Shrine of Mariazell Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - To mark the 850th anniversary of the Austrian Marian Shrine of Mariazell, Pope Benedict XVI will make a pastoral visit to the country 7 to 9 September. “Contemplating Christ” is the motto cho ...
• 18 July 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Xaverian Missionaries: to be ordained this Summer 13 young men from Indonesia, Mexico, Bangladesh, Cameroon and Spain Rome (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of a year of formation and study during the Summer 13 deacons of the Xaverian Missionaries will receive priestly ordination. The young men are from various different countries and comple ...
• 17 July 2007
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Over 80 per cent of the country's doctors have recourse to the right objection of conscience as abortion law comes into effect Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - Portugal's new law to de-penalise abortion came into effect on 15 July. The law was approved in an 11 February referendum despite more than 50% public abstention. This revealed that the governmen ...
• 17 July 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - In 50 years 1,300 France sends Fidei Donum priests: initiatives for the 50th anniversary of the Encyclical to culminate with October 1st National Meeting in Lisieux Paris (Agenzia Fides) - “The Fidei Donum Call: 50 years on” is the slogan for initiatives promoted by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of France and the national office of the Pontifical Mission Societies to celebrat ...
• 13 July 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “The Youth Mission has been a return to the essential, to the newness of the Faith, the newness of God. Our intention was not so much to do new things, but to make new the things that we do and live”: report on Youth Mission in the archdiocese of Madrid, and dioceses of Getafe and Alcalá de Henares Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Youth Mission organised by the archdiocese of Madrid together with its two suffragan dioceses Getafe and Alcalá de Henares, is nearing its conclusion. The Mission will have its culminating m ...
• 12 July 2007
  EUROPE/ENGLAND - Centenary Jamboree: 40,000 Scouts from all over the world will celebrate 100 years of the Scout Movement Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Forty thousand Scouts from all over the world will gather for the 21st World Jamboree in Hylands Park, Chelmsford, England 27 July 8 August to mark the centenary of the foundation of the Scout Mo ...
• 12 July 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Fr Benzoni re-confirmed Superior general of the Xaverian Missionaries: “we must look at the new which is coming more than the old which is passing. The Church is young because the Spirit keeps her young. This is why I think we need not fear challenges ” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The 15th general chapter of the Xaverian Missionaries (see Fides 13/3/2007), being held at Tavernerio (Como), re-elected Fr Rino Benzoni Superior general and Fr Luigi Menegazzo Vicar general, for s ...
• 11 July 2007
  EUROPE/GERMANY - St. Ottilien Archabbey 'firemen monks' mark foundation centenary St. Ottilien (Agenzia Fides) - The Volunteer Fire Brigade at St. Ottilien Archabbey in Germany will celebrate the centenary of its founding on 14 July. St. Ottilien's is a Benedictine monastery in Emming near Eresing and ...
• 10 July 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Rosminian Sisters of Providence conclude General Chapter awaiting with joy the Beatification of their Founder on 18 November Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Today is the closing day of the 10th General Chapter of the Rosminian Sisters of Providence which has been held in Rome on the theme “Entrusted to Providence, arise and walk”. The chapter confi ...
• 10 July 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Day of Prayer for release of Italian missionary abducted a month ago in the Philippines: "we must never forget to pray: we are all in the hands of God.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Today 10 July, people all over Italy will pray for the release Italian PIME missionary Fr Giancarlo abducted a month ago on June 10 in the southern Philippines district of Payao. The Day of intense ...