Europe

• 19 April 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY “New wine in new skins” : Xaverian Missionaries in Italy open 12th regional Chapter Ravenna (Fides Service) - At 5pm on Sunday 18 April in the St Peter in Chains House in Ravenna, 31 delegates of Italian Xaverian missionaries gathered in church to pray and to invoke the Holy Spirit for the 12th Chapter ...
• 14 April 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Union of Major Superiors in Italy holds National Assembly: “Making hope visible in a changing world...” Rome (Fides Service) - About 500 General and Provincial Superiors of religious institutes from all over Italy have gathered in Rome at the Pontifical Urban University Roma, 13 to 16 April 2004, to discuss the role of con ...
• 7 April 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Trade in minors :trade without frontiers. The present situation according to Italian Magistrate who has opened an investigation: “These are not matters to tackle now and again just to quieten consciences”. Rome (Fides Service) - No one sees, one knows and yet human trafficking is an international business with mind-boggling profits. The 21st century has its merchants just like those two or three hundred years ago, without ...
• 7 April 2004
  EUROPE/FRANCE - East and West celebrate Easter in Lyon: Christians of all denominations will meet at dawn on Easter Sunday for an ecumenical prayer service. Lyon (Fides Service) - The leaders of different Christian Churches in Lyon, France have invited Christians of all denominations in the city to take part in an open air ecumenical dawn prayer meeting on Easter Sunday morn ...
• 31 March 2004
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - The Church in Europe and new religious movements: seminar promoted by Council of Catholic Bishops' Coferences of Europe (CCEE) Baar (Fides Service) - The Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) organised a seminar 25-28 March for representatives of Bishops’ Conferences on “alternative” religions in Europe, including New Age group ...
• 30 March 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Infective diseases in infancy, problems, treatment and prevention: Italian Society of Pediatric Infectivology 4th National Congress Rome (Fides Service) - The Italian Society of Pediatric Infectivology will hold its 4th National Congress in Rome 1 - 3 April 2004 to discuss problems connected with infective diseases in infancy, treatment and preve ...
• 29 March 2004
  EUROPE/UNITED NATIONS - Task-force to promote Right to Development: Franciscans and Dominicans appeal to UN Geneva (Fides Service) - Franciscans and Dominican, present as NGOs at the 60th assembly in Geneva of the United Nations Commission for Human Rights, pressed the United Nations to set up a high-level UN task-force, to pr ...
• 26 March 2004
  EUROPE/KOSOVO - “Could it be that to create more violence someone is trying to turn ethnic clashes into religious conflict?” preoccupied people in Kosovo are asking after destruction of Serb Orthodox churches Pristina (Fides Service)- There is growing concern in Kosovo after recent clashes between Serbs and Albanians during which Albanians destroyed several Serb Orthodox churches. According to local sources “the violence ca ...
• 26 March 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Children helping Children… across all five Continents”: a CD-ROM to fund 5 solidarity projects with the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood. Rome (Fides Service) - “Children Helping Children”, the motto of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood, is the title of a CD-ROM with the song ‘Eccomi, manda me!’, performed by the ‘Le Matite Colorate� ...
• 22 March 2004
  EUROPE/KOSOVO - “Education and economic development, priorities for Kosovo, antidote to ethnic and religious violence”: Fides speaks with AVSI Kosovo humanitarian project leader Pristina (Fides Service) - “Steps must be taken to promote education and cultural growth of the people and to build up Kosovo’s economy in view of economic and social development to reduce unemployment and poverty. T ...
• 22 March 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Pray!”: a book of prayers written by the young for the young in preparation for World Youth Day in Germany 2005 Cologne (Agenzia Fides) - It is estimated that as many as one million young people will travel to Cologne in Germany for the 20th World Youth Day in 2005, an event which is being carefully prepared by young Christians al ...
• 22 March 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Aid to the Church in Need” soon to open national office in Poland the first in a former Communist country Königstein (Fides Service) - In the coming month of May “Aid to the Church in Need” (ACN) Catholic aid agency, will open an office in Poland. The decision was reached during a meeting in Warsaw with the Polish Bisho ...
• 22 March 2004
  EUROPE/SCOTLAND - Concerned about speedier divorce proceedings proposed in new Family Law Bill, Scotland’s Cardinal urges for more counselling to protect marriage, the traditional building block of every society Rome (Fides Service) - Responding to reports that the Scottish Executive plan to introduce legislation to speed up divorce proceedings, on 21 March, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference o ...
• 18 March 2004
  EUROPE/LUXEMBOURG - “Together on the roads of the world” : European Delegates of the Pontifical Society for Missionary Childhood will meet 21 - 24 March in Luxembourg. Luxembourg (Fides Service) - “Together on the roads of the world: elements for a proposed missionary catechesis”, is the theme chosen for the next meeting of European Delegates of the Pontifical Society Missionary C ...
• 18 March 2004
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Cardinal König “The Friend of the Missions”. The Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria will dedicate the next issue of their missionary magazine to the Cardinal Archbishop emeritus of Vienna who died recently. Vienna (Fides Service) - As a mark of deep gratitude to Cardinal Franz König, emeritus Archbishop of Vienna, who died on Saturday 13 March at the age of 98, the Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria, Missio Austria, w ...