Europe

• 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 ...
• 24 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - General Charter of the Comboni missionary Sisters confirms Mother Adele Brambilla come Superior general for another term Rome (Fides Service) - On 23 September the 18th Chapter of the Comboni Missionary Sisters being held in Rome, elected Mother Adele Brambilla Superior General for another six year term. After the election the chapter memb ...
• 23 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Despite 14.000 missionaries and countless initiatives much remains to be done to ensure that in Italy mission is less preached and more practised”: Interview with Mgr. Giuseppe Andreozzi national Pontifical Mission Societies Director on the eve of the National Mission Congress Rome (Fides Service) - More than 1,500 people are expected to attend the Italian national Mission Congress 27 to 30 September in Montesilvano, Pescara, to reflect on the present missionary situation of the Church in Ita ...
• 22 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - First open air church dedicated to Rom gypsy Blessed Ceferino Giménez Malla: inauguration on Sunday 26 September Rome (Fides Service) - In the afternoon of Sunday 26 September the vice regent of Rome diocese Bishop Luigi Moretti, will bless the first open air church in Italy built for Rom and Sinti gypsies. The place of worship, si ...
• 22 September 2004
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - “The consequences of the enlargement of the European Union for the Church’s pastoral care for migrants in Europe”: theme of annual meeting of Europe’s National Directors for Migration held in Mechelen Belgium Mechelen (Fides Service) - The CCEE Commission for Migration and the European National Directors for the Pastoral Care of Migrants held their annual meeting at the diocesan pastoral centre in Mechelen (Malines), Belgium, ...
• 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 ...