Europe

• 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 ...
• 17 March 2004
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - The family must be a priority for the European Union: COMECE statement Brussels (Fides Service) - The COMECE Secretariat has today 16 March 2004 published detailed proposals for an EU Family Strategy designed to make the enlarged EU "the most family-friendly region of the world by 2010". ...
• 15 March 2004
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - The family: first school of solidarity: The more solidarity is lived in the family, the more hope there will be for a future with more solidarity Lisbon (Fides Service) - On the occasion of national Caritas Day in Portugal, 14 March, 3rd Sunday of Lent, the Bishops’ Commission for Social and Charitable Action issued a message on The Family: first school of solid ...
• 12 March 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Faced with the tragedy which struck Spain yesterday, new evangelisation should constantly underline the urgent need for conversion of heart, because only a heart which is converted, can open to forgiveness, love and respect for human rights and is therefore able to respect the lives of others”: Archbishop Francisco Pérez González, National Pontifical Mission Societies Director and Archbishop Military Ordinate speaks to Fides Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Francisco Pérez González, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain voiced to Fides his deep grief after the tragic terrorist attacks yesterday in Spain (with a ...
• 12 March 2004
  EUROPE/SCOTLAND/SPAIN - On behalf of the Bishops and Catholics of Scotland Cardinal Keith O'Brien expresses deepest sympathy to the people of Spain after the terrifying terrorist attacks yesterday in Madrid Rome (Fides Service) - Speaking from Rome this morning Cardinal Keith O'Brien, President of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland sent the following message to the Spanish Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the Bishops' ...
• 12 March 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “There can never be any moral justification for terrorism”: Spanish Bishops’ Conference voices firm condemnation of bomb blasts in Madrid yesterday Madrid (Fides Service) - “There can never be any moral justification for terrorism” the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Spain affirmed in statement issued immediately after the tragic bomb blasts in Madrid’s unde ...
• 6 March 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cause for the beatification of Opus Dei Prelate Alvaro del Portillo: opening diocesan stage in Rome Cardinal Ruini said: “An exemplary Bishop of extraordinary spiritual depth ”. Rome (Fides Service) - On 5 March in the Hall of the Conciliation at the Lateran Palace, in the Vicariate of Rome, Cardinal Camillo Ruini presided the opening session of the Ecclesiastic Court of the Vicariate of Rome fo ...