Europe

• 18 May 2005
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Meeting of General Secretaries of European Bishops' Conferences: on the agenda the role of Christianity and the Churches in Europe, bio-ethical issues, urgent pastoral themes St Gallen (Fides Service) - From 26th - 30th May 2005, the CCEE Secretariat at St Gallen is organising a meeting of the General Secretaries of Europe's 34 Bishops' Conferences. The representatives from the Bishops' Confe ...
• 18 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Monfort Missionaries elect new Superior General Santino Brembilla the first ever Italian to lead the Missionaries of the Company of Mary. Rome (Fides Service) - On 15 May Pentecost Sunday, the General Chapter of the Monfort Missionaries of the Company of Mary, meeting in Rome 1 to 21 May elected as new superior general Italian Father Santino Brembilla, age ...
• 18 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Prelate of Opus Dei will ordain 42 new priests from 13 different countries on 21 May Rome (Fides Service) - Saturday 21 May at St Eugenio Basilica, Valle Giulia, Rome, the Prelate of Opus Dei Bishop Javier Echevarría will ordain 42 new priests: 28 Europeans (Spanish, Italian, French, German, Portuguese ...
• 17 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish Family Forum: There is nothing to prove that adoption by a same sex couple is innocuous for the development of the minor Madrid (Fides Service) - The Spanish Family Forum, an association representing more than 4 million families in Spain, has stated that reports presented to the Spanish parliament on the consequences for minors adopted by ...
• 16 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "Children have rights": Professionals of ethics launch a campaign to prevent children being adopted by same-sex couples Madrid (Fides Service) - “Children have Rights” is the title of a campaign lunched by the Federation of Associations of Professionals of Ethics FAPE to prevent the proposed amendment to Spain’s civil code to allow ...
• 14 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish NGO starts youth cultural centres to serve 280,000 people including 110,000 children Rome (Fides Service) - INTERVIDA a Spanish NGO which works to improve the living standard of children supporting various programmes in Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Ecuador, India, Philippines and Mal ...
• 14 May 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE PMS Assembly - Over 80.000 seminarians in mission territories prepare for the priesthood thanks to funds from the Pontifical Mission Society St Peter Apostle Lyon (Fides Service) - The purpose of the Pontifical Mission Society St Peter Apostle is to support the formation of local clergy in mission territories. Last year 2004, the Society supported the formation of 80,297 semi ...
• 14 May 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE - PMS Assembly - Report on the past year’s activity of Holy Childhood Society, closes the Annual Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies Lyon (Fides Service) - The annual Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies closed on Friday 13th May, feast of Our Lady of Fatima with a solemn Mass presided by Archbishop Henryk Hoser, President of the Societies and ...
• 12 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital and Umana Mente Foundation join forces to fight autism, violence against minors and food behaviour disturbances. Since 1999 over 25,000 calls for help to “Girasole 2” project Rome (Fides Service) - An operative nucleus operative 24 hours a day faces the spreading phenomenon of physical and psychological abuse and violence against minors very often at home. They are the experts of the Girasole ...
• 12 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sixty years since the death of Father Pfeiffer Salvatorian Fathers open “On Mission in Rome” Exhibition to commemorate the Catholic priest who saved hundreds of lives during Nazi occupation Rome (Fides Service) - To mark the 60th anniversary of the death of German born Fr Pancratius Pfeiffer (12 May 1945), the Society of the Divine Saviour of which he was a member has opened an exhibition in Rome in Via del ...
• 12 May 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE - PMS Assembly: the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith distributes offerings collected on Mission Sunday for the needs of the Church in mission territories Lyon (Fides Service) - The offerings collected on the last World Mission Sunday 2004, the fruit of the generosity of Catholics all over the world, increased compared to the previous year and they were distributed during ...
• 11 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - It is necessary to make people realise that “we are all missionaries” children especially, who are “the missionaries of tomorrow” says national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain Madrid (Fides Service) - While the annual general assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies is being held in Lyon, France, we publish an interview with the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spa ...
• 11 May 2005
  EUROPE/GREECE - “Christians should not remain silent in front of the contemporary tendencies of some modern secularised states that try to impose on their people standards and values which are foreign to them, they should not give up witnessing to the values of the Gospel ” the highest authority of the Orthodox Church of Greece His Beatitude Christodoulos said at the 13th WCC Conference on World Mission and Evangelism Athens (Fides Service) - The highest authority of the Orthodox Church of Greece His Beatitude Christodoulos Archbishop of Athens and all Greece in his address to more than 700 participants and the Conference on World Mis ...
• 10 May 2005
  EUROPE/GREECE - With the arrival by sea of a 4 mt high cross of olive wood sent from Jerusalem the 13th Conference on World Mission and Evangelism organised by the World Council of Churches opens in Athens today Athens (Fides Service) - From 9 al 16 May the 13th Conference on World Mission and Evangelism, the 1st in the 21st century, organised by the World Council of Churches WCC will take place at the Agios Andrea Recreational ...
• 9 May 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE - PMS Assembly - The Saintly Cure d’Ars and Pauline Jaricot: two models for Mission Lyon (Fides Service) - On Sunday 8 May the participants at the general annual assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies, taking place in Lyon, made a pilgrimage to Ars, not far from Lyon, where Saint Jean Marie Vianne ...