Europe

• 13 April 2005
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - “It is our holy duty to pray to God that during the election the Holy Spirit will show the college of Cardinals who is to guide the boat of Peter, the Church, in the future on the tumultuous waves of this beginning of the 21st century”, Archbishop Kondrusiewicz said to Catholics in Russia in view of the imminent opening of the Conclave Moscow (Fides Service) - “We mourn a Pontiff open to humanity and to the world, a man who defended the dignity of the human person, and human rights and freedom”, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of the Archdiocese o ...
• 12 April 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “His words touched hearts, his journeys brought the breath of hope wherever he went, his writings expressed his profound and faithful love for Christ and his Church": John Paul II, a tribute by National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain Madrid (Fides Service) - “John Paul II was an extraordinary gift to the Church and to humanity " Archbishop Francisco Perez Gonzalez, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain said in a tribute to ...
• 11 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “The role of persons with a disability in rehabilitation and integration”: Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau collaborates with Disability and Rehabilitation department of the World Health Organisation Rome (Fides Service) - In collaboration with the department for Disability and Rehabilitation of the World Health Organisation WHO the Italian association Amici di Raoul Follereau AIFO organised an international meeting ...
• 11 April 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - On WYD 2005 web site young people of the world write messages about Pope John Paul II. German Bishops call Catholics to give generously to support World Youth Day and help renew missionary spirit. Cologne (Fides Service) - Young people of all ages and from all over the world are signing the book of condolence opened by the official World Youth Day web site (www.wjt2005.de) and leaving messages about Pope John Paul ...
• 8 April 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Crowds of young people take part in Rosary for the Pope in Madrid Cathedral Madrid (Fides Service) - More than 2000 young people gathered in Almudena Cathedral in Madrid to pray the Rosary yesterday evening before the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Many more had to stay outside to pray in the Squ ...
• 8 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Focolarini: Chiara Lubich, the foundress, unable to attend the funeral for reasons of health. Thousands of Focolarinin watch funeral on large screens at Tor Vergata and Circuì Maximus Rome (Fides Service) - Chiara Lubich due to health reasons was unable to attend the funeral of Pope John Paul. The Focolari movement was represented by Oreste Bruno, co-president and Grisella Cagliari and Giorgio Marchet ...
• 8 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - S. Egidio: thousands in St Peter’s Square for funeral of Pope John Paul II Rome (Fides Service) - At the funeral of Pope John Paul II in St Peter’s Square, the S. Egidio Community was represented by its founder Andrea Riccardi, its president Marco Impagliazzo, and Bishop Vincenzo Paglia of Te ...
• 8 April 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Sick pilgrims in Lourdes mourn for John Paul II “a sick man among the sick who restored dignity to human suffering”. The last international journey to the feet of Our Lady Lourdes (Fides Service) - Thousands of sick pilgrims in Lourdes are mourning the passing of Pope John Paul II as they pray at the grotto of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The pilgrims are accompanied by doct ...
• 7 April 2005
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - “I thank God for having given us John Paul II in such an important time for the history of the Church and the world. He has been God’s blessing for us all” says Msg. Burcher, Auxiliary Bishop of Lausanne Lausanne (Fides Agency) - “My first feeling, after the death of Pope John Paul II, is of thanks to God for having given him to us” says Msg. Pierre Burcher, Auxiliary Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Freeburg and Presi ...
• 7 April 2005
  EUROPE/RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Pope John Paul II’s funeral will be shown live on large screens in Moscow’s Catholic Cathedral Moscow (Fides Service) - Pope John Paul II’s funeral will be shown live on Friday 8 April on large screens in the Catholic Cathedral of Moscow, according to Cathnews in Moscow. The Funeral Mass will be broadcast thanks ...
• 7 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - A minute of communion Friday 8 April at 10 in the morning Rome (Fides Service) - “If there was ever a moment in which the word communion assumed depth and beyond all measure it was the time which elapsed from Wednesday 30 March, the last appearance of John Paul II at his stud ...
• 6 April 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “For our association the Pope was like a father” says Secretary General of Aid to the Church in Need Königstein (Fides Service) - “For Aid to the Church in Need the Pope was like a father” said Ms Antonia Willemsen, Secretary general of this Catholic association which assists the pastoral activities of the Church ...
• 6 April 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Grief for the death of the Pope but hope in the certainty that he is in heaven” says president of the Conference of Religious Father Ignacio Zabala Madrid (Fides Service) - Marianist Father Ignacio Zabala, President of the national Conference of Religious said this about John Paul II: “he was a Pope who transmitted a great sense of God the Father’s love for man ...
• 6 April 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “The youth of the world loses one it its greatest advocates” says secretary general for World Youth Day 2005 Cologne (Fides Service) - The secretary general for the organisation of the 20th World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, in August this year, Rev. Fr Heiner Koch, said on behalf of the local committee “Weltjugendtag gGmb ...
• 6 April 2005
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Austria recalls Pope John Paul II’s great “human warmth” and ability to establish a profound relationship even in the briefest of meetings Vienna (Fides Service) - The National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria, Rev. Fr. Leo Maasburg sent a statement to Fides in which he recalls especially Pope John Paul II’s “human warmth”. “O ...