Europe

• 21 June 2004
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Crowds gather for Corpus Christ Mass with Papal Nuncio in Moscow’s Catholic cathedral: for the sixth year running local authorities give permission for a public procession Moscow (Fides Service) - On Sunday 13 June as in many other countries, Catholics in Moscow celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi with deep devotion and solemnity. According to the local Catholic weekly “Svet Evangelia ...
• 21 June 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Angels in the Desert”: photograph exhibition fund raising campaign for Centre of Education and Culture for 80,000 people 58% poor children and adolescents in Peruvian diocese of Carabayllo. Rome (Fides Service) -“Angels in the Desert” is the title of an exhibition of photographs on life in one of the poorest suburbs of Lima, the capital of Peru. The exhibition is part of a campaign to collect funds to o ...
• 18 June 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - World Refugee Day: “ A Place to call home: Rebuilding lives in safety and dignity”. In 2003 the number of refugees fell by 18 %; Europe has 5.4 million and Italy about 23,000. Rome (Fides) - “What every refugee wants more than anything else in the world is a place to call home, no matter whether it is the old one or a new one” the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said in view ...
• 18 June 2004
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) mark 150th anniversary. “In the third millennium the Church will be the main source of hope and life for people.” said MSC Superior General, Father Michael Curran in an interview with Fides Rome (Fides Service) - Filled with a deep devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and aware that the human and divine Heart of Christ is the most perfect revelation of God’s love for mankind, in 1854 on December 8, Frenc ...
• 17 June 2004
  VATICAN - Papal Message to 95th Katholikentag in Germany: “Let us take the opportunities offered by united Europe to spread further the Gospel of Christ so that no one is denied God’s gift of salvation!” Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Living in God”: is the motto, taken from the 2nd Letter of St Paul to the Corinthians, for the programme of Germany’s 95th «Katholikentag» being held in Ulm, diocese of Rottenburg ...
• 16 June 2004
  EUROPE - “Now is the time of a new discovery and proposal of the Gospel for our continent”. Conclusions of General Secretaries of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe CCEE Meeting in Belgrade Belgrade (Fides Service) - At the same time that the inhabitants of the 25 nations of the European Union were going to the polls for the election of Members of the European Parliament, the General Secretaries of the Bis ...
• 15 June 2004
  EUROPE/AFRICA - Dialogue with cultures and religions, particularly with Islam, building peace, fighting the AIDS pandemic, promoting African values: objectives discerned by White Fathers General Chapter which closes tomorrow. Fides interviewed new Superior General Father Gérard Chabanon. Rome (Fides Service) - Founded in 1868 in Algeria by Archbishop Charles Lavigerie of Algiers, the Missionaries of Africa came to be known as White Fathers because of the white habit they chose. Archbishop Lavigierie want ...
• 15 June 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Universal mission at Germany’s 95th ‘Katholikentag’ opening tomorrow in Ulm: funds collected will go to help street children in various parts of the world Ulm (Fides Service) - From 16 to 20 June in Ulm, in the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, the Church in Germany will celebrate its 95th “Katholikentag” with the motto “Drawing life from the Power of God”. The pro ...
• 14 June 2004
  EUROPE/IRELAND -Ireland rediscovers its rich missionary heritage through Mission Alive 2004: initiatives include three day Festival of Mission on evangelising activity Dublin (Fides Service) - A long term plan to help the country rediscover its rich missionary heritage is proving a success, the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Ireland, Father Edward Grimes C.S.S ...
• 12 June 2004
  EUROPE - Only by voting in these elections will Catholics be able to help build a European Union of men and women committed to bearing the fruit of Christian values, putting themselves at the service of all for the sake of a Europe of the human person, in which the face of God is reflected”: Europe’s Catholics Bishops issue statement in view of elections . Brussels (Fides Service) - “An opportunity to make our values real” is the title of a Statement of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community in view of the Elections to the European Parliam ...
• 12 June 2004
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - President Putin praises Catholic Church’s commitment for street children in Russia Königstein (Fides Service) - With the help of Aid to the Church in Need, pontifical right aid agency, a new church was recently opened in the small town Beresniki, in the Ural Mountains in European Russia. The church de ...
• 9 June 2004
  EUROPE - The role of Christianity and the Churches in Europe today: General Secretaries of European Bishops’ Conferences meet in Belgrade Belgrade (Fides Service) - From 10th to 13th June 2004, the general secretaries of Europe’s Bishops’ Conferences will meet at the invitation of Father Leopold Rochmes, who is the general secretary of the Bishops’ C ...
• 8 June 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “The aim of occult and satanic organisations is to try eliminate the presence of God from society” says Rev. Oreste Benzi, who for years has worked to rehabilitate young people caught in the trap of satanic sects Rome (Fides Service) - With regard to recent news of crimes committed by members of satanic groups in various parts of Italy, Fides asked the opinion of Rev. Oreste Benzi, Fonder of the Associazione Comunità Papa Giovan ...
• 8 June 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - King and Queen of Spain offer warm welcome to group of children members of Holy Childhood Society and are amazed to learn that every year with their efforts these missionary children help as many as 20 million less fortunate little ones all over the world Madrid (Fides Service) - Tuesday June 7 will surely be a day to remember for a lucky group of Spanish children, members of the Holy Childhood Society, who went to the Royal Palace in Madrid to visit the King and Queen. T ...
• 8 June 2004
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - “The Pope’s visit will certainly give fresh impulse to new evangelisation in Switzerland” Bishop Kurt Koch of Basle told Fides. Rome (Fides Service) - “The Pope’s visit will certainly give fresh impulse to new evangelisation in Switzerland” Bishop Kurt Koch of Basle told Fides. Switzerland and the whole of Europe need more than ever re-evan ...