Europe

• 5 December 2005
  EUROPA/SPAIN - Society of Jesus starts Jubilee Year for 5th centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier and Blessed Pedro Fabro and to commemorate St Ignatius of Loyola 450 years after his death: a year of Christian renewal in the footsteps of the great Spanish missionary Pamplona (Agenzia Fides) - Saturday 3 December the Society of Jesus opened a Xaverian Year to mark three important dates for Jesuits: 5th centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier and Blessed Pedro Fabro (1506) and to ...
• 2 December 2005
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - The light of Christ illuminates Europe: theme for 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly Sangallo (Agenzia Fides) - The Conference of European Churches KEK and the Council of European Episcopal Conferences CCEE and announced the winner of a competition for a Logo for the 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly AEE3 ...
• 2 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Pope Benedict XVI and Holy Childhood Rome (Fides Service) - Children all over Italy are getting thank you letters from Pope Benedict XVI. In recent months the children had written to the new Pope to tell him about their love for the Gospel and deep desire t ...
• 29 November 2005
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - First Catholic/Muslim Theological Conference marks 40th anniversary of Vatican II declaration “Nostra aetate” on relations with non Christian religions Moscow (Fides Service) - Speaking at a conference ‘Islam and Christianity: on the path of dialogue’ held in Moscow, 24 November, to mark the 40th anniversary of the Vatican II Declaration Nostra aetate on Relations ...
• 29 November 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - International Conference ‘Africa for Life. Africa without death penalty’ organised by S. Egidio Community is a success says Italian president Rome (Fides Service) - The Liberian minister of justice Kabineh Ja’neh has asked the European Union and S. Egidio Community to help “the new Liberia to undertake constitutional reforms to introduce natural respect fo ...
• 28 November 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “On the paths of Mission”: Convention on the founder of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate Saint Eugene de Mazenod ten years after his canonisation Catanzaro (Fides Service) - To mark the tenth anniversary of the canonisation of Eugene De Mazenod, Bishop of Marseilles who founded the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate, OMI, the OMI community in Catanzaro, the ...
• 24 November 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sunday 27 November, 1st Sunday of Advent, World Day of Prayer for Great Lakes region of Africa Rome (Fides Service) - Sunday 27 November 1st Sunday of Advent will be a world day of prayer for the Great Lakes region of Africa (Burundi, Rwanda, DR. Congo). A day on which the Church is called to pray for peace in tha ...
• 23 November 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - November 30 ‘Cities against the death penalty world day’ promoted by S. Egidio Community Rome (Fides) - On 30 November some 300 cities and 30 capitals all over the world will be connected with Rome for the greatest ever international mobilisation to stop capital punishment. At the beginning of December 2005 ...
• 22 November 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Campus Bio-Medic: opens academic year 2005-2006 with celebrations for new hospital under construction and start of building on research centre Rome (Fides Service) - Wednesday 23 November at 11.30, to mark the opening of the academic year 2005-2006, Campus Bio-Medico University will celebrate only 11 months after the laying of the foundation stone, the closing ...
• 22 November 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Temptation to believe”: 9th Festival of Spiritual Cinema opens today Rome (Fides Service) - “Temptation to believe” is the theme of the 9th Tertio Millennio Festival of Spiritual Cinema which opens this evening in Rome. According to the organisers cinema has often attention given to t ...
• 21 November 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Don Oreste Benzi denounces: “month after pill RU486 plays into the hands of those who exploit prostitutes … this is slaughter” Rome ( Fides Service) - Don Oreste Benzi, founder of the Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII, has no doubts: “Tests on RU486, ‘month after pill, are yet another insult to Italian women and an act of violence against the un ...
• 21 November 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - On 3 December Jesuits start celebrations for 5th centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier and Blessed Pedro Fabro and 450 years since the death of St Ignatius Pamplona (Fides Service) - December 3 will mark the beginning of a Jubilee year for the Society of Jesus to commemorate three events: the 5th centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier and Blessed Pedro Fabro (1506) and ...
• 18 November 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - 40th anniversary of ELIS Centre: beating unemployment with good quality formation Rome (Fides Service) - On Sunday 20 November in Rome in Via Sandro Sandri the Prelate of Opus Dei, Bishop Javier Echevarría will celebrate a Mass for the 40th anniversary of ELIS Centre (Education, Work, Instruction, S ...
• 18 November 2005
  EUROPA/ITALY - First international conference “Relationships in Law: is there a place for fraternity?” promoted by Communion and Law Association of the Focolari starts today with more than 600 participants from 35 countries Castelgandolfo (Fides Service) - From 18-20 November at Maropoli Centre in Castelgandolfo there will be the 1st international conference “Relationships in Law: is there a place for fraternity?” promoted by the “Co ...
• 17 November 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “The Church is called to carry on the great work of discerning and prophetic orientating undertaken so fruitfully by Vatican II”: Message to youth from Italian Bishops to mark the Council’s 40th anniversary Assisi (Fides Service) - In a special message to mark the 40th anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Council the Catholic Bishops of Italy entrusted the heritage of the Council to the new generations. “We fe ...