Europe

• 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 ...
• 26 July 2007
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - St John of God Foundation backs young people in East Timor supporting education and professional training Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The St John of God Foundation and the Hospital Mission in East Timor have launched a development programme based on the "human capital", young people especially. In July and August the Foundation ...
• 25 July 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - New Chair of Missiology at Madrid's San Dámaso Theology Faculty in entrusted to National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The San Dámaso Theology Faculty in Madrid has instituted a Chair of Missiology to be inaugurated for the coming academic year 2007-2008. The Grand Chancellor of the Faculty, Cardinal Antonio M. ...
• 24 July 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Assisi will host young Franciscans from all over the continent for a European Franciscan Meeting Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - Assisi is ready to welcome young people to the European Franciscan Meeting organised by the Union of Friars Minor of Europe. The meeting with the slogan “Go Francis, repair my … Europe” wil ...
• 24 July 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Education to Citizenship: “Every responsible family has the obligation to refuse this school subject. This is a matter of freedom, to defend the basic and highest right to educate our children in keeping with our own principles” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - As from September every school in Spain will include the new Education to Citizenship subject as part of the compulsory curriculum set by the Ministry of Education. The subject involves the forma ...
• 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 ...