Europe

• 15 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - European Meeting of national directors of Pontifical Mission Societies and mission pastoral Palermo (Fides) - “The meeting was one of varied content and intense activity but I am confident that we all return home enriched by what was heard and lived in the Church in Sicily and its missionary commitment” sai ...
• 13 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Comboni Missionaries numbers of students and newly professed members Rome (Fides Service)- The Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus also known as the Comboni Missionaries have issued information on the number of students and new members. Aspirants and pre-postulants: 196, including 116 se ...
• 10 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - European National Directors Pontifical Mission Societies discuss missionary pastoral on the old continent Palermo (Fides Service) - A Meeting of national Pontifical Mission Societies offices and Offices for missionary cooperation in Europe opens today 10 March at S. Giovanni Battista Comvent in Baida, Palermo, Italy. These E ...
• 10 March 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - International Conference on Catholic Television 10 to 12 October will discuss what it means to be Catholic in TV and how to form a network of Catholic TV for evangelisation Madrid (Fides Service) - "Rapid Development” is the slogan of an International Conference on Catholic Television to be held in Madrid. The slogan was the title of an Apostolic Letter addressed to operators of social co ...
• 9 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Religious called to “put out into the deep” in the ocean of the Internet Rome (Fides Service) - Prof. Vincenzo Comodo who teaches Sociology and Communications Science at the Regina Apostolorum college and the Claretianum College recently published a book in Italian “Cons@crati on line. Int ...
• 8 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - 4th Day for European University Students, meeting with Pope Benedict XVI: “May the Gospel open new ways for cooperation among the peoples of Europe and Africa” Rome (Fides Service) - Speaking after the midday Angelus prayer on Sunday March 5, Pope Benedict XVI mentioned that next Saturday, 11 March, at 5 p.m. in the Paul VI Audience Hall, a Marian Vigil will be held, organised ...
• 7 March 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "Let us put aside the fear and false modesty which many times paralyse us, let us put aside commodities which often make us act against our conscience, let us take a step forward like Francis of Xavier”: says Archbishop of Pamplona at first ‘Javierada’ for the 5th centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier Pamplona (Fides Service) - Over 10,000 people braved icy temperatures last Sunday 5 March to make the first of the traditional 'Javierada' pilgrimages in the framework of celebrations for the 5th centenary of the birth o ...
• 6 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital opens new Patients’ Family Home Rome (Fides Service) - A new Home for family members of child patients in need of a long period of hospital treatment at Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital will be opened on Thursday 9 March.. The Home, not far from th ...
• 3 March 2006
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Movemos algo or, Let’s make something move! Swiss Holy Childhood ‘Starsinger’ children collect almost one million Swiss Francs to spend for children in need Fribourg (Fides Service) - “Movemos algo!” or, let’s make something move, was the motto for the annual Starsinger collection taken by children members of the Pontifical Holy Childhood Mission Society in Switzerland ...
• 3 March 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - European Meeting for National Pontifical Mission Societies Offices (PMS) and National Offices for Missionary Cooperation 10 to 14 March. Focus: 50th anniversary of Fidei donum, Encyclical, PMS youth experience at WYD Cologne, dialogue with Islam Palermo (Fides Service) - A European Meeting for National Pontifical Mission Societies Offices (PMS) and National Offices for Missionary Cooperation will be held from 10 to 14 March at the Convento S. Giovanni Battista d ...
• 3 March 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Sunday 5 March Latin America Day: “In our day the material needs of poor countries still press us to share what we have, but faith must always be the basis and principle object of missionary activity” Madrid (Fides Service) - In Spain Sunday March 5 is Latin America Day an initiative organised by the Missions Commission of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference. In a letter to present the Day the president of the Commissio ...
• 2 March 2006
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Lent 2006: “Sharing the Fullness of Life” motto of German Bishops’ Lenten Solidarity Campaign focused on establishing equal rights for women particularly in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America Hamburg (Fides Service) - The archdiocese of Hamburg representing all the Catholic dioceses of Germany, will officially open the Lenten fundraising Campaign 2006 promoted by Misereor the aid agency of the German Bishops� ...
• 1 March 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Fifth centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier: “Go out into the whole world” slogan of Xavier pilgrimages ‘Javieradas’ 5 and 11 March. The Saint’s relics in Spain on March 3 Pamplona (Fides Service) - This year the annual Xavier pilgrimages in Javier, Pamplona, will be marked by special joy for the 5th centenary of the birth of Saint Francis Xavier patron saint of missions and patron of the ...
• 1 March 2006
  EUROPE/GREECE - Annual Meeting of the Bishops’ Conferences of South East Europe will focus on the Social Doctrine of the Church Corfu (Fides Service) - From 3-5 March 2006 the sixth meeting of the Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences of South East Europe, accompanied by expert advisors, is scheduled to take place in Corfu (Greece). Six Bishop ...
• 24 February 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Approved Law on Assisted Human Reproduction meets with protests: “the unborn child is reduced to matter for experimentation and goods at the mercy of pharmaceutical economic interests and ambitions in certain scientific circles” Madrid (Fides Service) - A new recently approved Law on Assisted Human Reproduction has met with protest from various sides. The law is denounced for going against Natural Law, allowing the ‘production’ of human pers ...