Europe

• 12 January 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - January 31 Pontifical Salesian University inaugurates new Don Bosco Library 700.000 volumes for students and general public Rome (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the feast of Saint John Bosco founder of the Salesians and root of a vast spiritual and educational service for young people, on 31 January a new Don Bosco Library will be inaugu ...
• 12 January 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Alliance of Italian Hospitals: Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital one of first to join project for integration and improvement of Italian hospitals and medical centres all over the world Rome (Fides Service) - The 3rd Conference of Alliance of Italian Hospitals held recently in Naples at the Royal Palace in Caserta connected 33 of the best hospitals in Italy with 34 Italian hospitals in various other co ...
• 11 January 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Rome, departure point for 3rd European Ecumenical Meeting: a “pilgrimage” to encounter the riches of Christian traditions and rediscover the Christian roots of Europe Rome (Fides Service) - From 24-27 January 2006, 150 delegates from Europe’s churches, Bishops’ Conferences, ecumenical bodies, communities and movements will gather in Rome for the start of the process of the Third E ...
• 11 January 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The Archbishop of Valencia invites the Bishops of the world to 5th World Meeting of Families: pilgrims from 25 countries enrol, 1.5 million visit official web site Valencia (Fides Service) - Preparations continue for the 5th World Meeting of Families in Valencia 1-9 July 2006. The Archbishop of Valencia, Archbishop Agustín García - Gasco, has sent a personal invitation to more th ...
• 9 January 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Legionaries of Christ present in twenty countries with over 600 priests and 2,500 seminarians Rome (Fides Service) - The Institute of the Legionaries of Christ today is present in twenty countries with more than 600 priests and 2500 seminarians. The Legion of Christ has 92 centre of formation and apostolate in t ...
• 22 December 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Stars Singers “messengers of charity and peace”: “even children can do something to change the world and to help other less fortunate children” Berlin (Fides Service) - “You are messengers of charity and peace” Angela Merkel, the new Chancellor of Germany told a group of Holy Childhood children, known here as Stern Singers, who visited her at the Federal Ch ...
• 20 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Children “together for mission”: Holy Childhood mission kit for mission every day with joy and responsibility Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Italian national Holy Childhood Office has produced a Mission Kit to teach children to live mission in daily life. The kit ‘Missionary Kid’, available on request suggests little ways for ch ...
• 20 December 2005
  EUROPE/RUMANIA - OMI mission in Târgu Jiu grows around the Word of God: monthly meetings of the Bethany School of the Word at St. John of Capestrano parish Târgu Jiu (Fides Service) - “Living the Gospel in the present moment” was the theme of the 3rd Meeting of the School of the Word held on Sunday 18 December in preparation for Christmas at St John of Capestrano paris ...
• 16 December 2005
  EUROPE/POLAND - Holy Childhood Poland, now present in almost every diocese, dedicates annual Christmas aid campaign to Indonesian children victims of last year’s tsunami Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Polish branch of the Pontifical Society of Holy Childhood now present in every diocese will send the proceedings of its annual Christmas fund raising campaign Kolednicy Misyjni, to children v ...
• 16 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - 2 million of the world’s children suffer sexual exploitation ‘perhaps the most invisible of all’ Rome (Fides Service) - In its annual State of the World’s Children Report 2006 ,Excluded and Invisible,, UNICEF the United Nations Fund for Children analyses the situation of children and adolescents living in the most ...
• 15 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Conference to mark the 100th anniversary of Saint Pope Pius X’s “Compendium of Catholic Doctrine” Riese Pio X (Fides Service) - In 1905 Pope Pius X presented Rome diocese with a “Compendio della Dottrina Cristiana”, known as “the Catechism of Pius X”. It consisted of a series of simply worded questions and a ...
• 13 December 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Star Sowers 2005: Holy Childhood Children in the streets to wish everyone a Blessed Christmas and thanks on behalf of missionaries Madrid (Fides Service) - In dioceses all over Spain the Pontifical Mission Societies will celebrate the Feast of Star Sowers, Holy Childhood children go into the streets to offer Christmas greetings on behalf of missiona ...
• 10 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - 4th European Convention for University Students opens tomorrow: “Christian humanism, path for more intense cooperation between Europe and Africa” Rome (Fides Service) - On Sunday 11 December 2005 the 4th European Convention for University Students will start with a solemn concelebration of Mass at 8pm in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. The Convention, held on th ...
• 9 December 2005
  EUROPE/ENGLAND - The introduction of same sex unions as a legal institution is bound to have a lasting social impact and erode the authentic understanding of marriage say Catholic Bishops of England and Wales London (Fides Service) - In a statement on Civil Partnership issued on December 6th from the Catholic Communications Network Archbishop Peter Smith, archbishop of Cardiff and President of the Commission for Christian res ...
• 7 December 2005
  EUROPE/POLAND - “Living the faith and communicating it to others” : 4th PMU National Meeting marks 85th anniversary of PMU Poland Czestochowa (Fides Service) - “We hope this meeting will leave the Church in Poland stronger in missionary spirit ready for greater effort for mission ad gentes” said National director of the Pontifical Mission Socie ...