Europe

• 9 October 2004
  EUROPE/UNITED NATIONS - Following Pope John Paul’s repeated appeals to abolish capital punishment, Franciscans and many other Catholic groups say once again “no death penalty” Geneva (Fides Service) - Capital punishment violates the most important of human rights, the right to life. It is not only contrary to the values of love and forgiveness it violates the international declaration of human ...
• 7 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY -Yet another lethal heritage of modern warfare: Campaign to ban Cluster bombs reaches Italy Rome (Fides Service) - An international Campaign to ban cluster bombs has reached Italy. Cluster bombs, yet another lethal heritage of modern warfare, are small explosive bomblets carried in a large cannister that opens ...
• 5 October 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “This is the hour of mission and missionary commitment,” says national Director Pontifical Mission Societies Archbishop Pérez. “We must work harder to achieve God’s plan and to meet the many needs of the world today” Madrid (Fides Service) - “It is time for your missionary commitment”: is the slogan chosen by the Church in Spain for World Mission Day 2004. In a dossier prepared for the occasion, a copy was sent to Fides, national ...
• 5 October 2004
  EUROPE/ENGLAND - CCEE Bishops discuss the significance of Christianity in Europe: a new Commission for “Evangelisation and Dialogue” with other Churches, religions, beliefs and cultures Leeds (Fides Service) - The event - a four-day assembly of the Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe (CCEE) at Hinsley Hall, Leeds - was the biggest gathering of senior Catholic bishops in Britain since the Synod ...
• 1 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Closing message from National Mission Congress: “time for the Church in Italy to start a new stage on its missionary journey” Rome (Fides Service) - “In recent decades the Church in Italy has made a missionary journey rich in fruits but the time has come to start a new missionary stage”. This statement is part of a Message issued at the end ...
• 1 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - new European University of Rome: Fides puts three short questions to Father Paolo Scarafoni, Rector of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical College Rome (Fides Service) - The eternal city has its first European University of Rome a private college with full state recognition. The promoters are the Legionaries of Christ, a religious institute of men founded in Mexico ...
• 1 October 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Eucharist: source and summit of mission”, 1st European Meeting of Eucharistic Adoration Youth Groups in preparation for the Year of the Eucharist Rome (Fides Service) - From 6 to 10 October Eucharistic Adoration Youth Groups from all over Europe, a fruit of the 15th Word Youth Day held in Rome in 2000, will be in Rome for the 1st European Meeting. At the end of t ...
• 29 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Freshly committed to being “witnesses of hope” Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate conclude 34th General Chapter Rome (Fides Service) - The Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate closed their 34° General Chapter yesterday freshly committed to being “witnesses of hope” witnesses of Christ evangelising the poor in keeping with ...
• 29 September 2004
  EUROPE/ENGLAND - Presidents of Europe’s Bishops’ Conferences discuss role of Christianity and the Church in present-day Europe, urgent ethical questions and World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne Leeds - (Fides Service) - The Presidents of the 34 Episcopal Conferences that make up the Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE) are to meet in Leeds, England, at the invitation of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Co ...
• 29 September 2004
  EUROPE/FRANCE - “Round the world prayer” touches all latitudes on World Mission Day Lyons (Fides Service) - Once again this year on the occasion of World Mission Day, the Pontifical Mission Societies in France have invited PMS offices all over the world to join in a “round the world prayer” to live ...
• 28 September 2004
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “I have heard my people cry!”: Portugal’s theme for World Mission Day is a call to respond to the cries of the peoples with mission without frontiers Lisbon (Fides Service) - ‘I have heard my people cry’ is the theme chosen for World Mission Day by the Church in Portugal, taken from the Liturgy of that Sunday. This local Church is preparing to celebrate the missi ...
• 27 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - National Mission opens today: first conference - “a changing world” - by Senegal’s minister of scientific research Rome (Fides Service) - Some 1600 people have gathered for Italy’s 3rd National Mission Congress at Montesilvano, Pescara, 28-30 September on the theme “Communion and Co-responsibility for Mission”. The congress is ...
• 27 September 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “His salvation for all nations. The Church’s universal mission”: German Bishops issue a ‘Bischofswort’ to promote a stronger sense of universal mission Bonn (Agenzia Fides) - “His salvation for all nations. The Church’s universal mission” is the title of a 74 page ‘Bischofswort’ (Bishops’ Word) issued by the Catholic Bishops of Germany at the end of their Au ...
• 24 September 2004
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “Inculturating the faith in Europe means opening spaces for transmitting the faith, launching programmes to revitalise Christianity in the cultural spaces of our societies”: National Mission Days conclusions Lisbon (Fides Service) - Europe is fragmented, oblivious of God, dominated by the idolatry of power and possession, according to a statement at the conclusion of the National Mission Days event in Lisbon which this year ...
• 24 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Italian St John of God Brother, the first surgeon to help African children with polio, among winners of 2004 Cuore Amico annual missionary award to be presented on 23 October Brescia (Fides Service) - Until now “Cuore Amico” Fraternity Onlus started in 1991, has assigned its annual missionary award to a priest, a nun and a layperson. This year a Brother has been added to the list. The awa ...