Europe

• 17 February 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Through its New Evangelisation Fund the Spanish Bishops Conference provides 300,000 Euro for pastoral programmes in 21 mission territories Madrid (Fides Service) - During a recent meeting in Madrid the Standing Committee of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference CEE approved a proposal put forward by the Consultant Commission of the New Evangelisation Fund to gr ...
• 16 February 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Charity of Christ towards migrants: ethnic mobility calls religious life to reflect on mission ‘at home’ Rome (Fides Service) - At the end of an annual course on Pastoral for Migrants women religious participants of various nationalities affirmed “We cannot simply choose to ignore the immigrants in our towns and in our pa ...
• 15 February 2005
  EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - The social situation, stability and solidarity focus of 5th annual meeting of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of South East Europe Sarajevo (Fides Service) - The Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences of South East Europe are to meet in Sarajevo from 25-27 February. The nations represented - Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Sain ...
• 14 February 2005
  EUROPA/ITALY - Meeting for Italian missionaries in Peru: Church in Italy and Church in Peru dialogue on mission Lima (Fides ) - A meeting for Italian missionaries in Peru will start this afternoon at the Neocatechumen Santa Rosa Centre in Lima. “About 120 men and women missionaries have signed up for the meeting - Mgr. Giuseppe ...
• 14 February 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Mission of communities of consecrated life central topic of German Bishops plenary Assembly Stapelfeld/Cloppenburg (Fides Service) - From 14 to 17 February the Catholic Bishops of Germany will gather in Stapelfeld/Cloppenburg for their annual Spring plenary assembly. Within the framework of the assembly the Bis ...
• 8 February 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - German Bishops launch annual Lenten Campaign: “United we share. United we fight disease” Friburg (Fides Service) - “United we share. United we fight disease” is the theme of the annual Lenten Campaign launched by Misereor, the humanitarian agency of the Catholic Bishops of Germany, which will open offici ...
• 7 February 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Preparations for 5th World Meeting of Families in 2006 in Valencia Valencia (Fides Service) - Preparations are underway for the 5th World Meeting For Families to be held in Valencia, Spain, in 2006, the archbishop’s office in Valencia told Fides. The event to be held in July next year ...
• 7 February 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Missio Institute of Missiology positive annual activity: more offerings for study grants and students of philosophy and theology 2004 Aachen (Fides Service) - The year 2004 was a positive one for the Missio Institute of Missiology (Missionswissenschaftliches Institut, MWI) of Aachen, Germany. According to a report sent to Fides, donations were 3% highe ...
• 4 February 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - S.Egidio community spokesman tells Fides about celebrations for Community’s 37th anniversary. Rome (Fides Service) - “An anniversary celebrated with the Church in Rome and with the universal Church to reaffirm our ‘yes’ to the Church and to re-launch the work of evangelisation in every corner of the world ...
• 3 February 2005
  EUROPA/SPAIN - "The entire diocesan church says yes to evangelisation": missionary dimension of 3rd Diocesan Synod in Madrid Madrid (Fides Service) - "The 3rd diocesan Synod in Madrid aims to be a confirmation of commitment to evangelisation, apostolic work impregnated with the faith of our fathers who for generations renewed with unswerving f ...
• 2 February 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Day for Consecrated Life - entering a convent at the age of twenty for love of God: testimonial from Michaela. Rome (Fides Service) - How did you hear God’s call ? We asked this of Sister Michela, postulant at Carmel San Giuseppe in via Nocetta a Rome. Michaela is twenty and she has just joined an enclosed order of nuns at the ...
• 31 January 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Opened in Rome celebrations for the Scalabriniano Centenary. Attention for migrants: unchanging importance of the charisma of Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini Rome (Fides Service) - On the recurrence of the Centenary of the death of Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Secretary of State, presided on Sunday 30 January a solemn concelebration for the o ...
• 28 January 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Germany has 2,800 Catholic missionaries at the service of evangelisation all over the world Bamberg (Fides Service) - According to the Catholic Missions Council Deutscher Katholischer Missionsrat, DKMR there are 2,816 Catholic priests, religious and lay persons engaged in mission all over the world. Most of the ...
• 21 January 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Inter-active internet video game helps children develop spirit of mission Madrid (Fides Service) - On the occasion of Missionary Childhood Day (in Spain 23 January) the Pontifical Mission Societies PMS in Spain are promoting an inter-active video game elaborated by the local Holy Childhood Mi ...
• 20 January 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Help the poor and the abused bearing witness to the Gospel. Rev. Oreste Benzi founder of the Papa Giovanni XXIII Association joins FOSCIV and Caritas Italy in the Millennium Goals Campaign speaks with Fides Rome (Fides Service) - “We are part of the Church and the Church has assigned to us a role in the world of slavery, poverty and abuse. Therefore we are happy to take part in the Millennium Campaign with other Catholic ...