Europe

• 27 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - “CUORE AMICO” AWARD TO THREE ITALIAN MISSIONARIES FOR LIFE TIME OF MISSION IN SOUTH AMERICA, AFRICA AND ASIA Brescia (Fides Service) - On Saturday 25 October in Brescia the 13th edition of “Cuore Amico” awarded was given to three Italian missionaries: Father Lorenzo Franzoni, who has worked in Brazil for more than forty ye ...
• 27 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - THE DISTINCTIVE NATURE OF CATHOLICISM IN ITALY COMPARED TO OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: ASSISI MEETING COMES TO A CLOSE Assisi (Fides Service) – A Congress on “Italian Catholicism from 1958 to today”, held 23 to 25 October at the Sacred Convent of Assisi promoted by various Universities (Sacred Heart Catholic Unviesrity in Milan, Ro ...
• 25 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - SPECIAL ITALIAN POST MARK FOR DON ORIONE CENTENARY Rome (Fides Service) – On Sunday 26 October 2003 a special post mark will be issued to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of Don Orione Society. The news was given by the Post and Telegraph Office of Alessand ...
• 24 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - “CIVIL SERVICE, PEACE SERVICE”: GROWING NUMBERS OF CARITAS “WHITE BERETS” OPERATING IN CRISIS OR CONFLICT AREAS THROUGH PREVENTION, DIALOGUE AND RECONCILIATION Sotto il Monte (Fides Service) – Since the first members were recruited in 2001 some 666 young Italians have volunteered for civil service in diocesan Caritas structures all over Italy and beyond. A remarkable figure ...
• 24 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CARDINAL CAMILLO RUINI AND EDUCATION MINISTER LETIZIA MORATTI SIGN “SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES” FOR TEACHING THE CATHOLIC RELIGION IN INFANT AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS Rome (Fides Service) – The President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), Cardinal Camillo Ruini, and the Italian minister for education, universities and research Letizia Moratti, signed yesterday, 23 October, ...
• 23 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - HOLY SEE DELEGATION AT INTERNATIONAL DONOR CONFERENCE FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF IRAQ Madrid (Fides Service ) – The Holy See has sent a delegation to a major conference to raise money for the reconstruction of Iraq taking place in Madrid 23 and 24 October. More than 70 countries and multilateral organis ...
• 23 October 2003
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - FIRST CARMELITE CONVENT OPENED AND BLESSED: ONE YOUNG ALBANIAN CARMELITE TAKES THE HABIT Sapë (Fides Service) - In Nenshat parish on 29 September the first convent of Discalsed Carmelites in Albania dedicated to the Holy Family and St Michael was inaugurated and blessed. The six Carmelite nuns, four Croats ...
• 23 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - INTENSIVE MISSIONARY FORMATION COURSE: BOOST SPANISH CHURCH’S MISSIONARY COMMITMENT WITH BETTER PREPARATION OF PASTORAL WORKERS Madrid (Fides Service) – Provide all the missionary forces of the Church in Spain with the opportunity for missionary reflection and formation is the objective of an Intensive Course in Missionary Formation promoted by ...
• 22 October 2003
  EUROPE/FRANCE - ALARMING INCREASE OF ALCOHOL AND ILLICIT DRUG USE AMONG YOUNG EUROPEANS Rome (Fides Service) – “Young people are often at the leading edge of social change, and upward trends in alcohol and illicit drug use by young people constitute an important social development in the EU” according ...
• 22 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - TO MARK 25 YEARS OF JOHN PAUL II’S PONTIFICATE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS MORAL THEOLOGY ON 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF “VERITATIS SPLENDOR” ENCYCLICAL Murcia (Fides Service) – As part of celebrations to mark the 25th year of Pope John Paul II’s pontificate, the Sant’ Antonio Catholic University in Murcia (Spain) has organised an international Congress on Moral T ...
• 22 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - YOUNG BOYS FROM MURCIA GIVE UP THEIR JOBS TO GO ON MISSION FOR A YEAR TO BOLIVIA AS SALESIAN LAY MISSIONARIES Murcia (Fides Service/ANS) - On October 11 at San José Obrero di Yecla parish in Murcia, Spain, two boys Pablo Muñoz and Ramón David Sánchez, received the missionary cross during a Mass presided by Father Mario Pard ...
• 22 October 2003
  EUROPE/UNITED KINGDOM - 46664: GIVE ONE MINUTE OF YOUR LIFE TO AIDS: NELSON MANDELA SPONSORS MUSIC PROGRAMME TO KEEP ATTENTION ON THE PLAGUE OF AIDS Rome (Fides Service ) – Music to fight Aids. This is the aim of “Album 46664” a collection of funds for the fight against AIDS. “In the last twenty years – says Nelson Mandela – Africa has been struck by a t ...
• 22 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - THE PERSON ENGAGES IN SCIENCE, THE PERSON HAS FAITH, THERE IS NO CONTRADICTION SAYS MGR GUTIERREZ INTERVIEWED BY FIDES AFTER “MIRACLES AND CAUSES OF SAINTS: MEETING OF SCIENCE AND FAITH” SYMPOSIUM Rome (Fides Service) – “Miracles in the Causes of Saints: Meeting of Science and Faith” was the theme of a Symposium held recently at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum College in Rome. Mgr Jose Luis Gutierrez a re ...
• 18 October 2003
  EUROPE/IRELAND - MISSION SUNDAY: GO RECONCILE, PROCLAIM THE LORD OF PEACE! Dublin (Fides Service) – A special Mission Mass on national TRE television, a seminar and workshop on the “Relationship between Evangelisation and Development” with main speaker Archbishop Darmuid Martin, newly app ...
• 18 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “POPE JOHN PAUL II: THE BEAUTY OF A SOUL IN LOVE WITH GOD AND THE HUMAN PERSON” – REFLECTION BY BISHOP FRANCISCO PEREZ FOR THE 25TH YEAR OF POPE JOHN PAUL II’s PONTIFICATE Madrid (Fides Service) – “With his testimony, perhaps today the Pope is writing an encyclical equally important as those he has written on paper … young people admire him not for his appearance but for his inward ...