Europe

• 24 January 2007
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - Church leaders request that Catholic Adoption Agencies be exempt from the obligation to consider same sex couples as adoptive parents London (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster has written to the British government asking for Catholic Adoption Agencies to be exempt from the obligation to consider same sex couple ...
• 24 January 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Set out, you are a missionary!”: slogan for Holy Childhood Day on Sunday 28 January Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “Set out, you are a missionary!”: is the slogan chosen by the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain for Holy Childhood Day celebrated by that local Church on Sunday 28 January. “Set out” ...
• 23 January 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - It fails to admit the existence of truth and good, it ignores the existence of God and the transcendent, it imposes an ideology of gender: reasons for rejecting Education to Citizenship proposed new compulsory School Subject Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Professionals for Ethics Association warns that the subject Education to Citizenship which the Spanish government intends to make compulsory “interferes with the moral formation of childre ...
• 17 January 2007
  EUROPA/ITALY - 13th Scalabrini General Chapter in search of basic lines for next six years of mission Roma (Agenzia Fides) - The 13th General Chapter of the Missionaries of San Carlo (Scalabrini) opened in Rome on January 16th with three days of spiritual reflection guided by Bishop Luciano Monari of the diocese of Piac ...
• 17 January 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Ecumenism of holiness is the most effective. Only if obedient to the will of God Christian action in the world will bear fruit": Bishops’ message for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “Christ illuminates us all” is the title of a Message addressed to all Christians in Spain by the Catholic Bishops Conference in view of the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. In the ...
• 16 January 2007
  EUROPA/PORTUGAL - “Life is in your hands” Schoenstatt movement launches campaign of prayer and awareness building on the theme of life; Sunday 28 January March Pro Life March promoted by the Portuguese Large Families Association Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Portugal is mobilising Catholics in view of a February 11 referendum on the legalisation of abortion (see Fides 14/12/2006). To increase awareness of the seriousness of the ...
• 16 January 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Consecrated men and women are called to arrange their day around the prayer of the Church to enable them to announce to the world that “salvation is still present and comes from God through his Son”: Italian Bishops issue message for upcoming World Day for the Consecrated Life Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In a Message issued for the 11th annual Day for the Consecrated Life the Italian Bishops write: “February 2nd Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, the Church celebrates the Day for Consecrated ...
• 12 January 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishops’ message for Migration Day: "an opportunity to increase awareness of the situation and let it challenge us in the light of the word of God to make a new start with greater commitment " Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “You are 44 million members of one family... "you are members of the family of God " (Eph 2,19)", is the title of a message issued by the Catholic Bishops of Spain on the occasion of Migration ...
• 11 January 2007
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Co-ordination of Bishops’ Conferences in Support of the Church of the Holy Land: A group of European and North American bishops is visiting the Holy Land from 12th to 18th January Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - A group of European and North American bishops is visiting the Holy Land from 12th to 18th January this year. This is an established group, which was set up at the request of the Holy See in J ...
• 9 January 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish Family Policy Institute calls for National Plan to sustain the birth rate in a situation of social catastrophe of rising numbers of abortions Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Spanish Family Policy Institute IPF a growing number of Spanish women choose to abort their babies. IPF president Eduardo Hertfelder, said today 2 out of 10 pregnancies are termi ...
• 4 January 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Epiphany of solidarity with African Churches Paris (Fides Service) - The poor of Africa will benefit from special collections in churches all over France on the Feast of the Epiphany (Sunday 7 January in France). “We have asked Catholics to make a gesture of so ...
• 21 December 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Legionaries of Christ: ordination in Rome of 55 new priests from 10 different countries Roma (Agenzia Fides) - With a solemn rite presided by Cardinal Franc Rodé C.M., prefect of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, on Saturday 23 December, 55 deacons of ...
• 21 December 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - It’s Christmas! Only after adoring Emmanuel in the stable at Bethlehem can we return to our normal surroundings to bring hope to the hopeless, sharing with them the joy of Christmas - A reflection by the Abbess of the Poor Clares Community, Otranto, Italy Otranto (Fides Service) - The annual recurrence of Christmas is an invitation to meditate anew on the extraordinary event of the incarnation of the Son of God. Although our attention may be drawn to many other things, as ...
• 20 December 2006
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Children For Creation - Tianay ny Haritanan’Atra” 2007 Sternsinger Solidarity Campaign to protect the environment and the future of Malagasy children Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - “Tianay ny Haritanan’Atra: “Children for Creation” is the title of the 2007 Sternsinger Solidarity Campaign. In Bamberg, Baviera, on Friday 29 December about 1,500 children representative ...
• 19 December 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - In the footsteps of Peter and Paul, young members of Opera Don Orione join 14th “New Year’s Eve with a Difference” dedicated to Pope Benedict XVI Rome (Fides Service) - More than 500 young people aged 17 to 30 from Italy and other countries of Europe will take part in the 14th “New Year’s Eve with a Difference” event 29 December to 1 January 2007 promoted ...