Europe

• 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 ...
• 13 October 2006
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Pontifical Mission Societies in Switzerland choose Madagascar as symbol country for missionary month of October and Mission Sunday Fribourg (Agenzia Fides) - “In every country the month of October must be considered the month of universal mission. The penultimate Sunday, called Mission Sunday, is the apex as the feast of Catholicity and universal ...
• 12 October 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - World Congress of Catholic TV: “Cooperation is essential and urgent to build the Church of our day " says Fr. Lombardi; “Catholics from all over the world have come to this Congress to discuss how to make Television a channel of evangelisation” says Cardinal Rouco Varela Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The second day of the World Congress of Catholic Television in Madrid, 10 - 13 October being attended by representatives from about 50 different countries, started with an intervention by Prof. F ...
• 11 October 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “We must be co-workers of the truth so as to offer the Good News of Our Lord in the multiple formats of audiovisual media, while also witnessing to the beauty of creation.": Papal Message to Congress of Catholic Television Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict sent a message on the occasion of the Congress on Catholic Television being held in Madrid, 10-12 October in which he affirmed "it is necessary without fear of technology, to promo ...
• 10 October 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “We urgently need professional Catholic communicators in the field of television…We need Catholic television!”: World Congress of Catholic TV Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The first World Congress of Catholic Television 10 -12 October opened today in Los Negrales, Madrid presided by Cardinal Antonio Mª Rouco Varela, Archbishop of Madrid, and Archbishop John P. Fol ...
• 10 October 2006
  EUROPE/RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Presidents of European Bishops Conferences attend Plenary Assembly in St Petersburg: new presidency elected San Petersburg (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time ever, the Presidents of Europe’s 34 bishops’ conferences met in Russia, in Saint Petersburg, from 4th - 8th October 2006. “We have come here from all over Europ ...
• 9 October 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Catholic Bishops issue message in view of the 4th National Catholic Church Meeting: being witnesses of hope not only in word “hope which accompanies and sustains evangelisation” Roma (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the 4th National Catholic Church Meeting in Verona, 16-20 October which will reflect on the theme “Witnesses to the Risen Jesus, hope of the world” the Italian Bishops have issued a ...
• 9 October 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Divorce rate has rocketed since new law came into force: Family Policy Institute reports on first year Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - In the first year of the application of the new law on divorce July 2005-2006 no less 163,444 marriages have been ended. Presenting a study by Spain’s Family Policy Institute IPF, the Institute ...
• 6 October 2006
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “Mary, we entrust to you the Cause of Life”: International Pro-Life Congress in Fatima. Sunday 8 October World Day of Prayer for Life Fatima (Agenzia Fides) - “Holy Mary, we entrust to you the Cause of Life" is the theme of the International Pro-Life Congress being held in Fatima organised by the Austrian branch of Human Life International and the Ap ...
• 6 October 2006
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “I will not leave you nor forsake you” Tragedy of HIV/AIDS in east Africa Pontifical Mission Societies October mission aid focus Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - For Catholics all over the world the month of October is dedicated to remembering missionaries and putting into practice the reciprocal responsibility of every local Church to support missionary ...
• 4 October 2006
  EUROPE/RUMANIA - Missionary Month of October: Oblates Missionaries of Mary Immaculate help children to understand and live the Pope’s message Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - “Charity soul of mission” is the theme chosen for Mission Sunday this year, on 22 October, by Pope Benedict XVI who in his special Message for the occasion urges Christians to live and con ...
• 2 October 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cause opens for beatification and canonisation of Oblate Missionary of Mary Immaculate Fr. Mario Borzaga, OMI, killed in 1960 in Laos with a young catechist Trent (Agenzia Fides) - Saturday 7 October feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, Trent diocese will open the local stage of the process for the canonisation of Fr. Mario Borzaga, an Oblate Missionary of Mary Immaculate (OMI), ...