Europe

• 21 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Young people of www.comunicanto.it: new portal at the service of Christian music on-line world wide Rome (Fides Service) - Music and evangelisation through this universal language is the objective of a new portal www.comunicanto.it. opened by a group professional musicians working on the international market for the pr ...
• 21 September 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Disappointment and concern in the local Church and Pro-Family Associations after the approval of a proposed Bill to change the country’s Civil Code with regard of divorce Madrid (Fides Service) - The Church in Spain is deeply distressed after the Spanish cabinet approved a bill to propose changes in Civil Law with regard to divorce. The Bill suppresses the former period of one year of sep ...
• 21 September 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Mission central focus of German Bishops’ Autumn Plenary Fulda (Fides Service) - From 20 to 23 September the Catholic Bishops of Germany are meeting in Fulda for the Autumn Plenary Assembly of the Bishops’ Conference DBK. One of items on the agenda is an ample refle ...
• 17 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Today we realise that our liberty is a little poorer unless it is shared by all” Luigi Bobba, President of the Association of Christian Workers in Italy told Fides at the end of a Post-Global Meeting in Orvieto. v ...
• 16 September 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Peace demands a positive attitude which respects the identity of immigrants while safeguarding the cultural heritage of the hosting people”. Spanish Bishops issue letter for National Migration Day: “Similar or different but in peace” Madrid (Fides Service) - In a pastoral Letter to mark the National Migration Day 26 September, with the title “Similar or different in peace”, the Catholic Bishops of Spain say “our attitude towards people who are ...
• 16 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Benedictine monks in Congress will also discuss globalisation Rome (Fides Service) - Some 230 Abbots of the oldest monastic order of the Church in the West will gather in Rome for a Congress from 21 to 29 September. Benedictine abbots meet every four years to discuss matters concer ...
• 16 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Communion co-responsibility for Mission”: National Mission Congress 27 to 30 September aims to help the Church in Italy renew its missionary spirit Rome (Fides Service) - ‘Communion and Co-responsibility’ is the title of a National Mission Congress organised by the Italian Bishops Conference’s Office for Missionary Cooperation in Montesilvano, Pescara 27 to 30 ...
• 16 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Padre Steckling re-elected Superior general of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate for another six years - “He sent me to evangelise the poor” the motto Saint Eugenio de Mazenod chose for his missionaries Rome (Fides Service) - The Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate have re-elected Father. Guglielmo Steckling Superior General for another six year term. On 15 September the General Chapter meeting in Rome, confirmed Fat ...
• 15 September 2004
  EUROPE/POLAND - Aid to the Church in Need on Pilgrimage 16 to 20 September to important shrines in Poland including Jasna Góra and Nowa Huta Rome (Fides Service) - From 16 to 20 September Aid to the Church in Need will hold an International Pilgrimage in Poland. For five days benefactors from 16 European countries, from North and South America and Australia w ...
• 14 September 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Living mission - daring to meet others”: German PMS launches mission campaign for October 2004 to encourage Catholics to go out and meet people who are different, Muslims especially. Aachen (Fides Service) - “Living mission - daring to meet others” is the theme of a campaign launched in view of the missionary month of October 2004 by the national office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Germ ...
• 10 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - 2nd Day of Inter-dependence: individuals, peoples, and nations for a more united world. “Dialogue in diversity is possible” says Lucia Fronza a member of the Focolari Movement Rome (Fides Service) - The 2nd edition of the Day of Interdependence, an initiative of Benjamin Barber professor Maryland University USA, will be held this year in Rome on 11 and 12 September with a day of interreligio ...
• 10 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Andrea Riccardi, founder of the S. Egidio community reports on the 18th International Meeting Religions and Culture, the courage of a new humanism, held in Milan 5-7 September. Rome (Fides Service) - “Men and women of different religions came together to show they would not be dominated by fear. This did not mean kind thoughts, abstract ideas, detachment from reality. It was a looking reality ...
• 9 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Luigino Bruni, Docent Economy at the Bicocca and Bocconi Universities in Milan, presents International Meeting “New Horizons of the Economy of Communion”, organised by the Focolari movement 10-12 September in Castelgandolfo Rome (Fides Service) - “Since 1991 we have promoted a culture of giving” professor Luigino Bruni, docent in economy at the Bicocca and Bocconi universities in Milan who is the co-ordinator of an international meeting ...
• 8 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Comboni Missionary Sisters fully immersed in general chapter: the vitality of a charism which continues to unleash the power of the Gospel as it becomes part of different cultures. Rome (Fides Service) - The Comboni Missionary Sisters are now fully immersed in their 18th General Chapter, the first of the new millennium, which opened in Rome on 22 August under the protection of the Founder, Saint Da ...
• 6 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “I wish to say thank you to the Vatican and also to the people of Italy for important moral support in these days. All together in fact we must say “no” to terrorism”: statement by Orthodox Bishop Feofan of Ossezia opens 18th Meeting of “Religions and cultures: the courage of a new humanism” organised by S. Egidio Community Milan (Fides Service) - An unexpected address opened the 18th Meeting of “Religions and cultures: the courage of a new humanism” organised by S. Egidio Community being held at Arcimboldi Theatre in Milan until tomor ...