Europe

• 2 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Mission brings fresh air to our communities, it fosters the lay ministry and develops the resource of youth”: Week of Missionary Formation and Spirituality addresses Letter to Parish Priests Assisi (Fides Service) - A “Letter to our Parish Priests” was issued at the end of the National Week of Missionary Formation and Spirituality held in Assisi 26 to 31 August organised by the Italian national office fo ...
• 29 July 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - At Porto Recanati holiday resort members of Missionary Youth Movement launch mission on the beach and in the streets Loreto (Fides Service) - About eighty young people who opted for a mission formation experience this Summer organised by the Missionary Youth Movement of the Pontifical Mission Societies gathered on 25 July in Loreto to ...
• 29 July 2005
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - In the Year of the Eucharist Portugal’s National Mission Days 16-18 September will reflect on “Eucharist and Mission” Lisbon (Fides Service) - In the framework of the Year of the Eucharist and on the threshold of the missionary month of October from 16 - 18 September the Paul VI Centre in Fatima will host National Mission Days on the th ...
• 28 July 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - A missionary adventure set to music: Legend of Toumai youth musical performed by young members of EuroMissio will go on stage as part of World Youth Day initiatives Rome (Fides Service) - Toumai was the nickname given to fossils discovered in 2002 in central Africa and said to belong to the earliest known ancestor of modern humans who lived seven million years ago! Today Toumai retu ...
• 27 July 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “How can we comunicate our faith to people of other nations and cultures unless we share it with those nearest to us?” A reflection on “Steps in Christian mission” in the latest book by Mgr. Massimo Camisasca Rome (Fides Service) - The apostles had the courage to go to India, Africa and other distant lands facing countless dangers and difficulties. Many centuries later numerous Christian missionaries still live the same movin ...
• 27 July 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Europe can hold aloft its titles and heraldry, its laws and arts but to little effect if it ignores its bi-millennial origin, its twenty centuries of history and forgets the builder: the Christian” said Bishop Jesús Sanz Montes of Huesca and Jaca commenting last Sunday’s call to Europe by Pope Benedict XVI Huesca (Fides Service) - Commenting Pope Benedict’s Angelus address last Sunday when he relaunched the call to Europe made by John Paul II in 1982: “Europe be what you are, never betray your Christian roots”, Bisho ...
• 26 July 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Day of Social Commitment” as part of the lead up to World Youth Day includes 620 projects: “Young people's social commitment to build a better world will also be a stand against terrorism ” Cologne (Fides Service) - For the Day of Social Commitment” on 12 August (see Fides 28/5/2005) as part of the activities for World Youth Day (11-21 August) young people from all over the world hosted in the dioceses of ...
• 26 July 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The family has far greater validity than mere juridical recognition. Today we are all responsible for the future of the future says Vice president of the Spanish Family Forum Benigno Blanco Madrid (Fides Service) - Benigno Blanco Jurist and vice president of the Spanish Family Forum FEF illustrates the situation in Spain with regard to the serious threats to marriage and the family posed by the approval of ...
• 25 July 2005
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - “Mobility can save and aid”: “Christopher 2005” donations of one cent for every kilometre travelled safely will purchase a means of transport for the missions Vienna (Fides Service-) - Every year on 24 July the feast day of St Christopher, patron saint of travellers, Austrian Catholics are asked to donate one cent for every kilometre travelled safely in order to purchase a mea ...
• 23 July 2005
  EUROPE/CROATIA - Council of European Bishops' Conferences in Zagreb examines Europe, Ecumenism and Dialogue with Islam of Meeting Zagabria (Fides Service) - The Presidency of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences (CCEE), the body comprising the continent’s 34 Conferences, met in Zagreb from 17-21 July. The CCEE Presidency planned the CCEE ...
• 22 July 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Young people are not indifferent to the Gospel they realise it helps them mature in their human experience which is a call to happiness in Christ. This Summer almost 11,000 young men and women will take part in annual mission initiatives or travel to mission countries” says national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Madrid (Fides Service) - At this difficult time Spain must be more united in efforts to regenerate society. We must “rediscover the meaning of life lifting our eyes to see what transcends life while keeping our feet on ...
• 21 July 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “They seem to want to impose the principle that any personal life style may be made a public institution” Benigno Blanco told Fides after Canada approves same sex “marriage” Madrid (Fides Service) - “What is happening in many parts of the world is a syndrome of our day as absolute relativism establishes its reign in more and more consciences in the West and people no longer know the truth ...
• 20 July 2005
  EUROPA/SPAIN - Spain will send about 50,000 young people and 47 Bishops to World Youth Day celebrations in Germany: from 15 August see WYD pilgrim’s diary on Spanish Bishops’ Conference official web site Madrid (Fides Service) - The Commission for Lay Apostolate of the Spanish Bishops Conference estimates that about 50,000 young people will travel from Spain to Cologne in Germany to take part in the 20th World Youth day ...
• 19 July 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “We cannot just passively accept such a serious attack on our traditions and our way of life”: Bishops of Spain defend authentic marriage and the family for the good of the nation and society Madrid (Fides Service) - Since the Spanish parliament approved amendments to the law to allow homosexual couples to “marry" and adopt children and to make divorce proceedings “express” the Catholic Bishops of Spain ...
• 19 July 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missionaries “Men and Women of Hope”: Italian national Pontifical Mission Societies issue theme and material for World Mission Sunday 23 October 2005 Rome (Fides Service) - “Men and Women of Hope” is the slogan for Mission Sunday 23 October 2005chosen by the Italian National office for the Pontifical Mission Societies. Material prepared by the national office to i ...