Europe

• 29 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Violence in the name of God: debate in the Muslim world programme on Italian television Rome (Fides Service)- People are still being killed in the name of a God who never asked for human sacrifices. Unarmed hostages are abducted and executed by improvised courts, which pass death sentences on the basis of s ...
• 29 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Ten Commandments today: ‘thoughts’ shared by Luigi Bobba, President Italian Christian Workers Association Rome (Fides Service) - The idea of dedicating a television programme to the Ten Commandments was certainly original and provoking. Provoking because our culture is heavily affected by an eleventh commandment: “do not f ...
• 27 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - The ten commandments today: Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolari Movement exclusive comment for Fides. Rome (Fides Service) - ‘God’s Law for a New World’: this is how Chiara Lubich presents the Ten Commandments when she addresses children. Encouraging them to build a new world she poses a question. “To build a new ...
• 23 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Mission as pastoral exchange between local Churches: Italian National Director of PMS reports on meetings with local Churches where there are Italian missionaries Rome (Fides Service) - Albania, Lebanon, Philippines, Thailand, Argentina, Senegal, Kenya, Guinea Bissau: these countries have been the laps of the past two years of meetings between the Church in Italy and the Church in ...
• 21 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Consolata Missionaries propose Street missionary animation at Ostia, to give back their voice to the Roraima indigenous people, to the people of Sub-Saharan Africa with HIV/AIDS and to the Colombian campesinos forced to cultivate cocaine. Rome (Fides Agency) - “The Street” is an experience of missionary and street animation, tested during the summer of the two previous years in two beach sites. With this initiative, together with the voluntary workers ...
• 16 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - First volume of “ Dictionary of the History of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate” Rome (Fides Service) - The Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate have published the first volume in French of “Dictionary of the History of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate: France at the time of the Founder ...
• 15 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Focolari Movement recalls Vincenzo-Eletto Folonari, who lived thirty three years under the banner of love for Christ. Rome (Fides Service) - “To Eletto we owe above all the birth of the Youth Movement. This can be confirmed by the boys of those days to whom with his sister Camilla he devoted special attention with a very special love ...
• 15 July 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Already 20,000 enrolments for European Youth Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela with the theme: "Witnesses of Christ for a new Europe of Hope" Santiago de Compostela (Fides Service) - " Witnesses of Christ for a new Europe of Hope " is the theme of the 2004 European Youth Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela which draws young people from all over the continent. ...
• 13 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Women of the Gospel for Mission ad gentes today” -22 August 30 September 18th general chapter of the Comboni Missionary Sisters on Evangelisation Rome (Fides Service) - “What is important for me (and this has been the one and only passion of my whole life, and it will be until my death and of which I am not in the least ashamed) is the conversion of Africa, and ...
• 9 July 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Mission and Missionaries in the Church today - “to evangelise with authenticity demands radical following of the crucified Christ ” National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain tells Culture Forum in Barcelona Madrid (Fides Service) - “Evangelising with authenticity means radical following of Christ crucified. It is here that we find the guarantee of ecclesial fecundity” said Archbishop Francisco Pérez, National Director ...
• 9 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Monasticism builds bridges between religions - Conference on Islam and Christianity organised in Assisi by European Monastic Interreligious Dialogue Commission Rome (Fides Service) - A Conference ‘Islam and Christianity’ organised by the Italian branch of the Commission for Monastic Interreligious Dialogue will take place for 15-18 July at St Joseph’s Benedictine Monaster ...
• 9 July 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Multi Festival David 2004: a Christian encounter of modern music and art “to translate the Gospel into the language of music” Oviedo (Fides Service) - "Generation Hope" is the slogan of the 19th Multi Festival David 2004 which opened on 8 July in the Spanish town of Los Cabos and will close on Sunday 11. The first Multi Festival David was firs ...
• 8 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Italian Movement to Fight World Hunger points finger at difficult access to IT resources. Pilot programme in Rwanda Rome (Fides Service) - “Counter the digital divide and promote social inclusion for young people in Muhura” in Rwanda is a joint initiative undertaken by the Italian Movement to Fight World Hunger with the METID Cent ...
• 8 July 2004
  EUROPE - European Vocations Service meeting concludes: “offer young people courageous and bold ideas that will help them hear Jesus' call to "come and follow me” Strasbourg (Fides Service) - Europe's national delegates for vocations ministry met in Strasbourg from 1st to 4th July 2004 to study the theme Good Master, What should I do? (Lk 18.1): Accompanying young people on the th ...
• 6 July 2004
  EUROPE/SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO - International Symposium opens celebrations to mark Carmelite centenary at Sombor Sombor (Fides Service) - To mark 100 years of Carmelite presence in Sombor, a town with a population of 50,000 in the Vojvodina region situated about 150 km north west of Belgrade, 18 speakers from 4 different countries ...