Europe

• 3 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - In Milan 18th World Interreligious Meeting organised by St. Egidio Community: “Religions and culture: the courage of a new humanism”. Rome (Fides Service) - The first Interreligious Day of Prayer for Peace was held in Assisi on 27 October 1986 convoked by Pope John Paul II. It was attended by 50 representatives of different Christian Churches and 60 re ...
• 3 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Theological update on challenges facing mission today: 9th Course of ongoing Formation for men and women Missionaries promoted by the Pontifical Salesian University UPS starts on 20 September Rome (Fides Service) - The theology faculty of the Pontifical Salesian University UPS is holding the 9th Course of Missiology which offers qualified updating of topical themes which challenge missionary activity and witn ...
• 3 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - As part of the Festivities and Papal pilgrimage/visit to Loreto: a Hundred Metres for Peace: 4.500 km relay race to offer the world a message of peace and hope Loreto (Fides Service) - Yesterday afternoon, 2 September in Loreto runners began the first lap of a special relay race which will conclude with the arrival of Pope John Paul II on Sunday. This ‘record’ relay race or ...
• 2 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Our Meeting shows that Christianity, that is Christ, has an infinite ability to reach the heart of every human person and give value to human questions and aspirations” Mgr Massimo Camisasca told Fides a few days after the 25th edition of the Communion and Liberation Meeting in Rimini. Rome (Fides Service) - Mgr Massimo Camisasca, founder of the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St Charles Borromeo and the author of various works, saw the birth and growth of the Rimini Meeting, which for year ...
• 2 September 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Making Mission ad gentes a priority in local Churches” - Valencia hosts 6th inter-diocesan day of missionary reflection Valencia (Fides Service) - To make missionary animation an major element of ordinary pastoral work in the local Churches and ensure that the year of the International Eucharistic Congress and of the 150th anniversary of ...
• 1 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Duc in altum, Catholic Action. Take hold of the future with courage”. Catholic Action International Congress opens in Rome Rome (Fides Service)- “Duc in altum, Catholic Action. Take hold of the future with courage!” This call which the Pope John Paul II addressed to delegates attending the 11th Assembly of Catholic Action Italy on 26 Apr ...
• 1 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Go out with enthusiasm to embrace your mission!” Cardinal Sepe said during the Mass to open the Catholic Action International Congress. “You are missionaries of daily life and bearers of hopes which are strong and founded” Rome (Fides Service) - “The task of announcing Jesus Christ Church falls to the Church as such, the whole Church and therefore to each one of her sons and daughters. Therefore we all, because of baptism are sent like C ...
• 1 September 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Living a year with a difference” with Jesuit European Volunteers JEV: 32 young people start commitment as Jesuit Volunteers which will take them to various parts of the world Munich (Fides Service) - “A year with a difference” starts today, 1 September 2004, for 32 young adults who have signed up for a preparatory Course to work with the Jesuit European Volunteers JEV. According to a repo ...
• 31 August 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Making a fresh start from Loreto with new vigour for our missionary work”: presentation of Pope John Paul s meeting on Sunday in Loreto with Catholic Action members from all over the world Rome (Fides Service) - During a press conference to present a special meeting next Sunday, September 5, in Loreto, of Catholic Action members from all over the world with Pope John Paul II, Paola Bignardi president of Ca ...
• 31 August 2004
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Catholic Bishops voice the closeness of the entire Church in France to the journalists taken hostage in Iraq, to their families and to all journalists: “we share their anxiety and their hope”. A call to French Catholics to unite in prayer. Paris (Fides Service) - Solidarity with the French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot taken hostage in Iraq has been voiced by the Catholic Bishops of France in two different statements. The President of ...
• 30 August 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate start their 34th General Charter. Urgent challenges include: evangelisation of secularised world, interreligious dialogue and reconciliation and healing, speaking for the poor, first evangelisation in former Communist countries Rome (Fides Service) - “Witnesses of Hope: a call, our mission” is the theme of the 34th general chapter of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate which starts today, Monday 30th August. The Chapter, which will l ...
• 30 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Ten Commandments today: “They should be applied, lived and interpreted in their old and ever new vitality and wisdom says Paola Bignardi, national president of Catholic Action Italy in exclusive article for Fides Rome (Fides Service) - “The times we are living appear ever less capable of “adapting the walls of the earthly city to those of the heavenly Jerusalem ”, to use an expression dear to the heart of Giorgio La Pira. I ...
• 30 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Ten Commandments Today: reflection by Giovanni Cantoni, Italian national regent of Catholic Action: association of lay Catholics to encourage the study and diffusion of the Church’s Social Teaching Rome (Fides Service) - “1. «If you love me, keep my commandments» (Jn. 14, 15). The rule given by the Lord Jesus is susceptible to a descriptive historical transcription on the part of a «non protagonist»: observer ...
• 30 July 2004
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “Mission and Europe of the Future” theme of three National Mission Days organised by the Church in Portugal 17 to 19 September Lisbon (Fides Service) - “Mission and Europe of the Future” is the theme of three National Mission Days which the Church in Portugal will celebrate 17-19 September at the Paul VI Pastoral Centre in Fatima. The Missio ...
• 30 July 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Summer holidays under the banner of solidarity and mission: numerous initiatives involving adolescents, university students and Holy Childhood children Madrid (Fides Service) - Every year more young people in Spain decide to spend their holidays in activities of solidarity and mission. Various initiatives are organised all over the country; here we mention a few involvi ...