Europe

• 21 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - 24th National Eucharistic Congress opens this evening in Bari: “We cannot live without Sunday”. 29 May closing Mass presided by Benedict XVI Bari (Fides Service) - At 5pm this afternoon, Saturday 21 May in Bari, the 24 Italian National Eucharistic Congress will be officially opened by the Archbishop of Bari-Bitonto Mgr Francesco Cacucci who will welcome the ...
• 20 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “This amendment to the Civil Code masks one of the most serious aspects of the project: violation of the basic rights of the child. The government’s reaction to our Memorandum was a wall of silence not to say scorn " said Association of Professionals for Ethics chairman interviewed by Fides Madrid (Fides Service) - Fides spoke with Jaime Urcelay Alonso jurist and chairman of the Associations of Professionals for Ethics which strives to promote and defend ethic values in public life. To fight the law which ...
• 19 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “This law offends humanity and society and it will cause an unprecedented social rift. This is mistruth claiming to be truth" says Catholic Bishop of Tarazona in a Pastoral Letter to his people. Tarazona (Fides Service) - “Besides offending God and the institution of marriage as he intended it to be this law offends humanity and society on which it will inflict an unprecedented rift by using the same term to d ...
• 18 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Adoption of a child by same sex couples cannot be justified if we consider the rights of the child Madrid (Fides Service) - “To subordinate the interests of a child to the desires of adults is an ignoble experiment of social engineering which damages something which should be sacred for every legislator: the primary ...
• 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 ...