Europe

• 28 May 2004
  EUROPE/POLAND - "Carrying love to the Whole World": two day Missionary Childhood Congress in Poland Częstochowa (Fides Service) - The 5th National Missionary Childhood Congress Pontifical Mission Societies in Poland is being held 28 and 29 May at Jasna Gora, Częstochowa. The theme of the congress is "Carrying ...
• 27 May 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “We are the Church precisely because we send missionaries…missionaries are most obvious proof that we are Church ” says Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Ma Rouco Varela, in a pastoral letter for Diocesan Mission Day in Madrid. Madrid (Fides Service) -Madrid Archdiocese will celebrate Diocesan Mission Day on Sunday 6 the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity and Pro Orantibus Day for persons consecrated to the contemplative life who offer their life f ...
• 26 May 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “New evangelisation will be possible only when Christians let themselves be filled by the Holy Spirit with love for Jesus to enable them to become builders of ecclesial communion, overcoming activism and willing to be a reflection of the Risen Lord at every moment of life””. Pentecost Sunday Day of Lay Catholic Apostolate Madrid (Fides Service) - On Pentecost Sunday 30 May the Church in Spain will celebrate a Day of the Apostolate of the Laity and Catholic Action with the motto "Christian laity, builders of hope". This invitation is addre ...
• 25 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Pope who acted to save Jews. Vatican Secret Archives reveal the whole truth about Pius XII. Book by Matteo Luigi Napolitano and Andrea Tornielli. Fides Service met one of the authors Rome (Fides Service) - “The Pope who saved Jews” is the title of a book on Pope Pius XII based on hitherto hidden facts preserved the Holy See’s Secret Archives will be presented on May 31 at 4pm at LUMSA Catholic ...
• 24 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Religious music is language everyone understands: a people which no longer sings is no longer a people Rome (Fides Service) - “Extreme care must be taken to preserve and increase the patrimony of sacred music and to promote scholæ cantorum, while encouraging active participation on the part of the faithful”, Sacrosan ...
• 24 May 2004
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - “Do not hide your faith!”: Bishops of central Europe voice 7 requests at the end of “Pilgrimage of Peoples” to Our Lady of Mariazell Mariazell (Fides Service) - Last weekend an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 Catholics from eight different central European countries made a Pilgrimage of Peoples to the shrine of Our Lady of Mariazell in Austria (see Fides ...
• 21 May 2004
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Austrian Shrine of Mariazell spiritual heart of central Europe: about 50.000 to 80.000 Catholics expected to walk on Pilgrimage of Peoples marking the end of “Katholikentag Mitteleuropeo” Mariazell (Fides Service) - About 50.000 to 80.000 Catholics are expected to take part in the Pilgrimage of Peoples to Mariazell one of Austria’s most venerated Marian Shines for celebrations to mark the end of “Kath ...
• 18 May 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - New national director of Pontifical Mission Societies-Munich takes office. For Cardinal Wetter, Germany needs to “renew its spirit of mission”. München (Agenzia Fides) - The new national director of Pontifical Mission Societies-Munich-Germany Father Eric Englert OSA, appointed last October 16 by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evan ...
• 14 May 2004
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - “50 years of atheism failed to extinguish the flame of the faith among these people”: Father Marco Mikalonis, missionary from Argentina shares with Fides his first Easter in Lithuania. Pumpenai (Fides Service) - “It was deeply moving to see the Easter sun rise on a land where 50 years of atheism failed to extinguish the flame of the people’s faith” Father Marco Mikalonis a young missionary from A ...
• 11 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missionaries of Africa, White Fathers start 26th General Chapter: how to meet the new challenges of mission in Africa Rome (Fides Service) - The 26th General Chapter of the Society of the Missionaries of Africa, known also as the White Fathers, opened on May 10 at the general House in Rome with a solemn Concelebration of the Eucharist p ...
• 10 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY -246 million of the world’s children work, 60% in Asia, 29% in Africa, 8% in Latin America and 3% elsewhere: first Children’s World Congress on Child Labour Rome (Fides Service) - Children are exploited in labour not only in developing countries but also countries in Europe including Italy and it is one of the most serious problems in the world of work. To address the probl ...
• 10 May 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Europe has the necessary resources to build brotherhood united under the banner of love Stuttgart (Fides Service) - Two words summarise the event which took place in Stuttgart, Germany on May 8: brotherhood and unity. At a decisive moment in history for the present and the future of Europe, Catholic, Protes ...
• 8 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Why the Church”: Fides interviewed Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos about Mons. Luigi Giussani’s latest literary labour. Rome (Fides Service) - In occasion del 50th anniversary of the founding of the church Movement “Communion and Liberation”, the most recent work of its Founder Mons. Luigi Giussani a book titled “Perché la Chiesa� ...
• 6 May 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “The Church, a life which encounters other lives”: presentation of a new book by Mons. Luigi Giussani “Perché la Chiesa”. Rome (Fides) - “Perché la Chiesa” (Why the Church) is the title of book by Mons. Luigi Giussani which was presented to the public on 5 May at the Sala della Maternità in Rome. The event was organised by the Catholi ...
• 28 April 2004
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - “The red flag of Communism has gone and the flag of Christ flies once again in Lithuania”: Father Marko Mikalonis from Argentina tells Fides about his mission in Pumpenai, Lithuania. Pumpenai (Fides Service) - “It was Divine Providence which led our Congregation to this lands which is living a crucial moment in its history. Twelve years after the country was freed of Soviet occupation the Catholic ...