Europe

• 18 December 2006
  EUROPE/SLOVENIA - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 27 October 2006, appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Slovenia for a five ...
• 15 December 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic Bishops concerned for treatment of Religious Instruction in schools. New subject “Education to Citizenship” is state interference with the moral education Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Spain have expressed concern for treatment of Religious Instruction and the new subject of Education to Citizenship introduced by the government. In a statement dated 14 December i ...
• 7 December 2006
  EUROPA/ITALY - 50th anniversary of the encyclical Fidei Donum: Meeting for Missionary Families Bellaria (Agenzia Fides) - “Missionary Families” will be at the centre of a meeting for lay missionaries 8- 10 December at the Centro Congressi Europeo di Bellaria, in Rimini, organised by the Italian Bishops’ Conf ...
• 27 November 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Moral guidelines for the present situation in Spain”: Bishops offer contribution for necessary discernment in complex times Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “Moral guidelines for the present situation in Spain” was the title of a Pastoral Instruction issued by the Catholic Bishops of Spain at the end of a plenary assembly in Madrid, 20-24 Novembe ...
• 23 November 2006
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “God becomes man in the Neapolitan art of Nativity Scenes”: from Naples to his homeland an exhibition in honour of Pope Benedict XVI Traunstein (Agenzia Fides) -An exhibition of 35 Neapolitan Nativity Scenes organised in honour of Pope Benedict XVI, will open on Saturday 25 November in Kunstraum Klosterkirche in Traunstein in Bavaria, Germany. The ini ...
• 22 November 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - “One who loves life in fact instead of taking it, gives it, instead of it keeping it for self, puts it at the service of others. Loving life means not denying it to anyone, not even to the smallest and most defenceless person, the unborn child, even the child with serious a disability”: Italian Bishops’ message for 29 Pro Life Day Rome (Fides Service) - “Life to be Desired and Loved” is the title of a message in view of the 29th Day for Life in Italy first Sunday of February, 4 February 2007 issued by the Standing Council of the Italian Bishop ...
• 14 November 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Communicating Africa” Harambee Award 2nd edition, winners from Nigeria and Ireland Rome (Agenzia Fides) - This morning at the Mayor’s Office in Rome, Nigerian Gabriel Otonoku, and Irish Jim Fahy, were awarded the International Harambee Award respectively in the categories: “African Productions” ...
• 14 November 2006
  EUROPE/CYPRUS - Presented to Pope Benedict XVI photographic documentation on the transformation for other purposes of churches in the Turkish part of Cyprus Rome (Agenzia Fides) - During the official visit to the Vatican on November 10 by the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Pope Benedict XVI was presented with photographic documentation of how hundreds of churches on th ...
• 10 November 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Final days for SMS to support Comunità Giovanni XXIII Association Roma (Agenzia Fides)- Until 7 January there is still time to join an important initiative of solidarity with the Comunità Giovanni XXIII run by Rev Oreste Benzi. An SMS sent to number 4858323 gives one Euro in aid of th ...
• 10 November 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 5 October 2006 appointed a new National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Italy for a fiv ...
• 30 October 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “It is impossible to foster or even to respect the common good, without putting the value and sublime value of every human person at the centre” 4th International Conference on Bio-Ethics, Human Dignity and Common Good Cordova (Fides Service) - “It is impossible to promote or even to respect the common good, without putting the value and sublime value of every human person at the centre of the interest and decision making of all, pub ...
• 27 October 2006
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - "Brussels, All Saints 2006": 4th Congress on Evangelisation reflects on faith and modern culture to render the Church visible and close to all Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - From 28th October to 5 November Brussels will host a Congress on Evangelisation. The aim is “to render the Church visible and close to all” Cardinal Godfried Danneels Catholic Archbishop o ...
• 25 October 2006
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “If we demand a state law which defends human life from its conception it is because it is a universal value, of natural ethics, not only a moral religious precept”: Bishops and upcoming referendum on abortion Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The standing committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Portugal has called on the country’s Catholics to vote against lifting restrictions on abortion in the upcoming referendum. On 19 ...
• 25 October 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic Bishops warn that proposed Bill on biomedical research “fails to guarantee proper protection of life opening the door to legal practice of more abuses against the dignity of the human person” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “The Proposed Law On Bio-Medical Research Fails To Protect Life And Allows Human Cloning” is the title of a statement issued by the Standing Committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of ...
• 23 October 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Beatification of Sr. Margarita María López de Maturana, foundress of the Mercedarian Missionaries of Bérriz: she turned a cloistered convent into a missionary institute Bilbao (Agenzia Fides) - On Mission Sunday 22 October, in Bilbao, Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and Papal Envoy for the occasion, presided Mass for the Beatificatio ...