Europe

• 6 June 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 5th World Day for Families programme includes novelties, International Family Fair and Family Rosary performed by children Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - The programme has been released for the 5th World Meeting of Families to be held 1 to 9 July in Valencia, Spain on the theme "Handing on the faith in the family". The event will have four main ...
• 5 June 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Youth and Family” meeting Regnum Christi Movement; 54 Legionaries of Christ deacons ordained Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “Youth and Family” was the title of a Meeting held at the Pontifical College Regina Apostolorum, in Rome, organised by the Legionaries of Christ and the Regnum Christi Movement. The slogan "Li ...
• 3 June 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Explaining the reason for mission”: theme of 25th Missionary Animation Meeting for diocesan priests Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Institute for Foreign Missions IEME has organised the 25th Missionary Animation Meeting for diocesan priests to be held 6 - 8 June in Madrid, as part of celebrations for the 5th cent ...
• 31 May 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - In Rome gathered around Pope Benedict XVI to live a new Pentecost: Charismatic Renewal starts preparations for 40th anniversary Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic Charismatic Renewal will be among the many movements which accepted with enthusiasm Pope Benedict XVI’s invitation to the Pentecost Prayer Vigil on June 3 in St Peter’s Square. For th ...
• 26 May 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Next Sunday annual Day “Madrid with its missionaries” with the slogan: " Diocesan Church, Missionary Family" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday 28 May the archdiocese of Madrid will mark the annual Day Madrid with its Missionaries 2006 which this year has the slogan “Diocesan Church, Missionary Family”. For the occasion Cardin ...
• 24 May 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - New general council for Hospital Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus who specialise in psychiatric care; lay co-workers participate at general Chapter for the first time Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Spanish born Sister María Camino Agós Munárriz has been re-elected superior general of the Congregation of the Hospital Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus founded by Saint Benedetto Menni, who ...
• 24 May 2006
  EUROPE/POLAND - “Carrying Christ to the world”: 6th National Holy Childhood Congress prepares to celebrate Society’s 150th anniversary Warsaw (Fides Service) - The Polish branch of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) is soon to hold the 6th National Holy Childhood Congress, we are told by National PMS Director Fr. Jan Piotrowski. The Congress will ha ...
• 22 May 2006
  EUROPE - Catholic women religious organise various initiatives of women to prevent prostitution during the World Football Championships in Germany Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Union of the European Conferences of Religious Major Superiors UCESM, is giving full support to initiatives promoted by a number of religious congregations of women to prevent sexual abuse an ...
• 20 May 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - CISRO International Centre for Studies and Research in Venice issues 3rd edition multilingual six-monthly review Oasis which offers space for debate on international terrorism Rome (Fides Service) - The third issue of Oasis review sponsored by the archdiocese of Venice opens with a reflection by the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn with the title “Paths of Mission” on the ...
• 20 May 2006
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Promotion and protection of the rights and living conditions of children and adolescents: International Interdisciplinary Conference on Children's Rights closes in Ghent Rome (Fides Service) - An International Interdisciplinary Conference on Children's Rights organised by the IAP Inter-University Attraction Poles in Ghent, Belgium has just ended. IAP members are the three most important ...
• 20 May 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - PMS organises first Holy Childhood Javierada as part of initiatives to mark 500th anniversary of the birth of St Francis Xavier : “Feel Mission in your Heart!” Navarra (Fides Service) - The Spanish office for Holy Childhood and the dioceses of Pamplona, Logroño, Bilbao, San Sebastián, Vitoria, Saragozza, Tarazona, Burgos, Barbastro and Huesca, invited PMS delegations and dio ...
• 19 May 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - New impulse to continue working for the poor, ecumenical statement on life, new Hospital in Kenya, fruits of 22nd International Congress of Catholic Doctors Barcelona (Fides Service) - About 1,000 doctors from 78 different countries took part in the 22nd International Congress of the International Federation of Catholic Doctors FIAMC (see Fides 12/5/2006) held 11 - 14 May in ...
• 16 May 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Resolution on homophobia in Europe represents a serious threat to marriage and family life and social order in Europe": Spanish Bishops’ statement Madrid (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Spain join other European Bishops’ Conferences expressing concern for a resolution passed by the European Parliament P6-TA (2006) 0018, on January on "homophobia in Eur ...
• 16 May 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Christian initiation, a process for becoming Christians: conclusions of 10th Meeting of Bishops and National Directors for Catechesis in Europe Rome (Fides Service) - The necessity of differentiated paths which faithfully reflect and meet the many situations of individuals, the decisive role of the family, the great utility of ecclesial movements where there exi ...
• 15 May 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - After the approval of Ley sobre Técnicas de Reproducción Humana Asistida: “the people who approved the law forget that the only possible progress is ethical and that history is filled with examples of abuse in the name of technological progress” Madrid (Fides Service) - The Spanish Congress approved the Ley sobre Técnicas de Reproducción Humana Asistida which allows therapeutic cloning, genetic selection and production of embryos and the faculty to destroy the ...