Europe

• 27 April 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Native Vocations at the Service of the Community”: title of World Day for Native Vocations, 29 April, that no vocation to the priesthood or the consecrated life be lost because of scarcity of means Madrid (Fides Service) - On Sunday 29 April on the occasion of the Church's world day of prayer for Vocations, the Spanish national office of Pontifical Mission Societies will launch a campaign and a Day for Native Vocat ...
• 27 April 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY “Missionaries of Prayer ” - A Contribution from the Abbess of the Benedictine Abbey of Rosano for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations Rosano (Fides Service) - The profound union which exists between contemplative life and missionary activity is a constant in the life of the Church and it draws its essential significance from the life of the Lord, who b ...
• 17 April 2007
  EUROPE/POLAND - A Symposium on the Fidei donum Encyclical, principal challenges and implementation in Poland with over 300 fidei donum priests and 55 lay missionaries working in 35 different countries Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - "Pius XII's Fidei donum Encyclical - Its principal challenges implementation in Poland" is the theme of a special Symposium being hosted today 17 April by the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University ...
• 17 April 2007
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - The Bishops of Portugal, in plenary assembly, reaffirm opposition to the new Bill on abortion: "the Church continues to be faithful to her mission to announce the Gospel of the fullness of life and denounce any attack on life" Fatima (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Portugal have reaffirmed their opposition to abortion denouncing a new Bill to de-penalise abortion in that country. This was said by Bishop Jorge Ortiga, president of the ...
• 13 April 2007
  EUROPE/GEORGIA - Redemptor hominis Catholic social and healthcare Centre offers free diagnosis and medical treatment as well as homecare and food and clothes for about 300 poor people Tbilisi (Agenzia Fides) - To address the healthcare and social needs of poor people in Tbilisi in 1998 Redemptoris Hominis medical centre was opened with the support of the then president of Georgia, Edvard Shevardnadze, ...
• 4 April 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “It is the duty of Catholics all over the world to sustain Christians in the Holy Land with spiritual and material assistance”: Bishop of Jerez Holy Week Pastoral Letter Jerez (Agenzia Fides) - "As Holy Week comes again, our minds and hearts go to the places where the central events of the Christian faith happened”, Bishop Juan del Río of the diocese of Adisona-Jerez, Spain in a pasto ...
• 2 April 2007
  EUROPE - “The family is the foundation of European society”: over 20 associations at European parliament sign a resolution on the Family in Europe, the result of an unprecedented international family movement which continues to grow Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - “In Europe we are witnessing an unprecedented international family movement which continues to grow" says Lola Velarde, president of the European network of Family Policy Institutes. In fact ...
• 30 March 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - “Neither Europe nor France can fail to act in the face of such suffering” Catholic Bishops conclude plenary assembly with an appeal for Darfur Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) - A general assembly of the Catholic Bishops of France closed yesterday, 29 March, a day earlier than planned to enable the Bishops to attend the funeral of Archbishop François Saint-Macary, arch ...
• 29 March 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “When a society accepts abortion it is preparing to eliminate freedom”: Conclusions of 1st international congress on “Women and Abortion” Caceres (Agenzia Fides) - "Abortion implicates denying the existence of the life of a human person" we read in the conclusions issued at the end of 1st international congress on “Women and Abortion” organised by the ...
• 28 March 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Families based on marriage, protection of life from conception to natural death, more equality in work opportunities and resources, respect and welcome for emigrants: Cardinal Ricard addresses French Bishops’ Conference Plenary Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) - In view of elections in France in April Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of France recalled certain basic principles. Addressing a plenary assembly ...
• 28 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - 40 Italian towns join 4th edition of “Forty Hours Prayer for the Church in Need” Rome (Fides Service) - The 4th edition of “Forty Hours Prayer for the Church in Need” 27 - 29 March started yesterday in the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus in Rome. The initiative is promoted by the officially reco ...
• 26 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Young Catholics of Rome diocese will gather round their Bishop, Pope Benedict XVI, for a Penitential vigil to prepare for Palm Sunday, 22nd Youth Day Rome (Fides Service) - On Thursday 29 March at 5.30pm, Pope Benedict XVI will meet thousands of young Catholics of Rome diocese in St Peter’s Basilica to prepare for the 22nd Youth Day on Palm Sunday, 1 April. As the P ...
• 26 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Rome Declaration on Family Rights to be presented to the United Nations: Family is a factor of “social balance and economic development” Rome (Fides Service) - At the end of the 17th International Congress on the “Family Rights and Responsibilities”, organised in Rome by the International Federation for Family Development (IFFD), representatives of 1 ...
• 26 March 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Believers and non consider the Catholic Church “the voice of human rights”: Spanish branch of Aid to the Church in Need mission in Eritrea Madrid (Fides Service) - One of many projects undertaken to mark the 60th anniversary of the foundation the Catholic aid agency Aid to the Church in Need ACN is a project to assist Eritrean Christians proposed by ACN Spa ...
• 23 March 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic Bishops denounce spreading culture of death which robs man of his fundamental rights and dilutes society’s awareness of the value of life and the dignity of every human person : Message for the annual Day for Life Madrid (Fides Service) - In a message for the national Day for Life in Spain, March 25th , the country’s Catholic Bishops write “As the Bishops of the ‘People of Life’ we denounce a spreading culture of death and ...