Europe

• 25 January 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Mission territories deserve more media attention say Italian missionaries EUROPE/ITALY - Mission territories deserve more media attention say Italian missionaries Rome (Fides Service)- “We are dismayed by the way in which Italian media ignore problems in mission territories”: this lament ...
• 21 January 2006
  EUROPE - United and co-ordinated to fight Aids: Meeting for Catholic organisations which care for 25% of the world’s AIDS patients Geneva (Fides Service) - Share resources and know-how, improve cooperation in the fight against AIDS: these are the objectives of a meeting in Geneva 23-26 January of representatives of Catholic organisations involved in ...
• 19 January 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Feel mission in your heart”: Sunday 22 January Holy Childhood Day in Spain: concern for millions of children ill, exploited, deprived of rights, many have never heard about Jesus Christ Madrid (Fides Service) - “We must feel mission in our heart because if it is something cold and lacks the warmth of love and charity our experience would be absurd and useless” says Archbishop Francisco Pérez Gonzá ...
• 18 January 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spain’s families ever stronger and ready for the future: great expectations for 5th World Meeting of Families: family movements ever more committed Madrid (Fides Service) - As Spain’s families react vigorously to recent attacks against the institution of the family they are gaining strength and support and are ready to face any challenges in the future according t ...
• 16 January 2006
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Once again this year Germany’s Holy Childhood Sternsingers win ‘donation seal’ for responsible donation management issued by German Central Institute for Social Issues Aachen (Fides Service) - For accurate and responsible management of donations received, once again this year the Holy Childhood initiative Sternsingers (Star Singers) campaign has won the ‘donation seal’ given by the ...
• 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 ...