Europe

• 15 September 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 69TH MEETING OF JESUIT PROCURATORS IN LOYOLA TO EXAMINE PRESENT STATE OF THE SOCIETY Loyola (Fides Service) – The 69th Meeting of Jesuit Procurators will begin in Loyola, Spain, on Thursday 18 September. This meeting, convoked by the Father General every four years, is attended by representatives of th ...
• 15 September 2003
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - THE POPE CONCLUDES HIS FOUR DAY VISIT TO SLOVAKIA ENTRUSTING TO MARY: A CHURCH, RICH IN HOLINESS, BOLD IN GOOD WORKS AND STRONG IN WITNESS Bratislava (Fides Service) – Sunday 14 September was the fourth and final day of the Pope’s third apostolic visit to Slovakia 11-14 September. Welcomed everywhere by enthusiastic flag waving crowds, including many y ...
• 12 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CUORE AMICO AWARD TO FATHER FRANZONI, MISSIONARY AMONG YOUTH IN BRAZIL; SISTER FOSCA IN MIDDLE EAST WITH A SCHOOL FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE; LAY WOMAN IVANA COSSAR 29 YEARS OF TEACHING AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA Brescia (Fides Service) – Father Lorenzo Franzoni, an Italian Missionary aged 74, who has worked for 46 years in brazil; Comboni Sister Fosca Berardi, aged 78, in the Middle East since 1954 and lay missionary Ivana Cos ...
• 12 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CLEARLY AFFIRM VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE, SAY NO TO DRUGS, OPPOSE ANY FORM OF LEGALISATION OR EASY, HASTY, SOLUTIONS: SOME OBJECTIVES OF 5TH GLOBAL DRUG PREVENTION CONFERENCE Rome (Fides Service) - The 5th Global Drug Prevention Conference, will be held 22-26 September in Pomezia, near Rome. Among the participants Archbishop Javier Lozano Barragan President of the Pontifical Council for the P ...
• 12 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - VICE PRESIDENT OF CATHOLIC ACTION IN ITALY SAYS: RENEWAL FOR BETTER PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL Rome (Fides Service) – A special meeting of Catholic Action Italy (ACI) opened on 12 September at Domus Pacis, Rome. Over 800 delegates and 171 auditors and from all over Italy have gathered to discuss changes in the ...
• 12 September 2003
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - POPE ON THIRD APOSTOLIC VISIT TO SLOVAKIA: “DO NOT BE SATISFIED WITH THE SOLE QUEST FOR ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES. GREAT AFFLUENCE IN FACT CAN ALSO GENERATE GREAT POVERTY” Bratislava (Fides Service) – “I thank the Lord for granting me the joy of treading the third time onto the beloved land of Slovakia. I come as a pilgrim of the Gospel to bring to everyone greetings of peace and hope� ...
• 11 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - COMBONI MISSIONARIES END GENERAL CHAPTER FIRST STAGE: “EITHER WE ARE MISSIONARIES OR WE ARE NOTHING” Rome (Fides Service) – On September 11 the Comboni Missionaries, meeting in Rome for the 16th general chapter, concluded the first stage of their work of “looking” consisting in listening and reflecting on interven ...
• 11 September 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS IN BURGOS: “THIS IS THE HOUR OF MISSION” – WE ARE ALL CALLED TO PROCLAIM THE SAVING LOVE OF GOD TO A RESTLESS AND UNSATISFIED WORLD Madrid (Fides Service) – From 18 al 21 September Burgos the Church in Spain will hold the National Mission Congress on the theme “This is the hour of mission”. The Congress is expected to draw participants from al ...
• 10 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - WHO PROMOTES SARS DIAGNOSIS TEST PRODUCED BY DEPARTMENT FOR INFECTIVE DISEASES AT ITALIAN HIGHER INSTITUTE OF HEALTH. Rome (Fides Service) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that a test to diagnose SARS produced by the Department for Infective Diseases at the Italian Higher Institute of Health is highly specific and sensi ...
• 10 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - MONASTICISM’S CONTRIBUTION TO DIALOGUE AND BUILDING EUROPE IN SPIRIT Rome (Fides Service) – From 17-22 September representatives of numerous monastic orders, male and female present in European countries, will meet in Assisi, which has become the capital of dialogue since it began to ho ...
• 10 September 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - S. EGIDIO MEETING CLOSES: “DIALOGUE NEEDS STRONG HEARTS” SUGGESTED A COMMON CELEBRATION AMONG CHRISTIAN CHURCHES TO COMMEMORATE MARTYRS OF 20TH CENTURY – APPEAL FOR PEACE: “DIALOGUE IS NOT FOR THE FEARFUL” Aachen (Fides Service) – At the final press conference for the Interreligious Meeting in Aachen, the founder of the S. Egidio Community, Andrea Riccardi, thanked the Germans for their participation and announced that d ...
• 9 September 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND VALUES AT “PEOPLES AND RELIGIONS MEETING”: “EUROPE MUST BE A LEADER IN ACTIVE POLICY FOR WORLD PEACE” Aachen (Fides Service) – In view of the imminent approval of a European Constitution, the ‘old continent’ is called to play a central role in international politics. This opinion was voiced by various speakers at t ...
• 9 September 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - HEAD OF DELEGATION FROM MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE AT “PEOPLE AND RELIGIONS MEETING” SAYS: “IT IS TIME TO CHANGE THE PRESENT SITUATION OF DIFFICULTY BETWEEN MOSCOW AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH” Aachen (Fides Service) – “This is a time in which dialogue, over and above the misunderstandings of the past, is possible” said Metropolita Kyrill of Smolensk and Kalilinigrad, head of the delegation from the Ortho ...
• 9 September 2003
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - VICTIMS OF COMMUNIST PERSECUTION TELL THEIR STORY: FOR YEARS VATICAN RADIO ONLY CONTACT WITH UNIVERSAL CHURCH AND FREE WORLD Bratislava(Fides Service) – To give an idea of what happened in Slovakia during 40 years of persecution under Communist atheism, we offer testimony from some eye witnesses taken from a television programme “Cristo ne ...
• 9 September 2003
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - CARDINAL KOREC TELLS FIDES: THE HOLY FATHER’S VISIT WILL GIVE US NEW THRUST FOR EVANGELISATION AND A DEEPER ROOTING OF THE FAITH, SO NECESSARY TODAY, FOR US AND FOR THE WHOLE WORLD. Nitra (Fides Service) – On the occasion of Pope John Paul II’s visit to Slovakia, the third, 11-14 September, Fides Service asked Cardinal Jan Chryzostom Korec, Bishop of Nitra to say something about the situation in ...