Europe

• 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 ...
• 8 September 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “THE COURAGE TO FIRE OUR WORLD WITH HOPE, TO MAKE IT DREAM AND DREAM OF PEACE: S. EGIDIO 17TH ‘MEETING OF PEOPLES AND RELIGION’ Aachen (Fides Service) – With a solemn Mass for Peace presided by German Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, held at the Catholic cathedral of Aachen built ...
• 2 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - WE MUST THINK NOT ONLY OF DEMOLISHING, BUT OF COMMITTING OURSELVES TO BUILDING NEW MISSIONARY PATHS TO RESPOND TO TODAY’S WORLD: ITALIAN NATIONAL WEEK OF MISSIONARY SPIRITUALITY AND FORMATION IN ASSISI COMES TO AN END Assisi (Fides Service ) – Diocesan Missionary Centres become ‘fraternal teams’ of people able to transmit concretely to parishes the Church’s missionary dimension; parish communities strive to identify ways and w ...
• 2 September 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - RELIGIONS AND CULTURE IN DIALOGUE TO BUILD PEACE: 500 RELIGIOUS LEADERS FROM ALL OVER THE GATHER IN THE HEART OF EUROPE FOR A “PEOPLES AND RELIGIONS” MEETING Rome (Fides Service) - “Between war and peace: religions and cultures meet” is the theme of the “17th International Meeting of Peoples and Religions”, 7 - 9 September Aachen, Germany, promoted by the S. Egidio C ...
• 2 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - SPANISH BORN FATHER JOSEP ABELLA ELECTED NEW SUPERIOR GENERAL OF CLARETIAN MISSIONARIES Rome (Fides Service) – Father Josep Maria Abella Batlle, 53, born in Lleida (Catalonia-Spain) is the new Superior General of the Missionary Sons of the Heart of di Mary (Claretian Missionaries). He was elected yesterd ...
• 1 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - COMBONI MISSIONARIES START GENERAL CHAPTER TODAY: NEW PATHS OF MISSION FOR THIRD MILLENNIUM Rome (Fides Service) - The 16th General Chapter of the Comboni Missionaries opens today September 1st to reflect on “The Comboni mission at the beginning of the third millennium”. Father Juan Gonzalez Nunez, head of ...
• 1 August 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - COMBONI MISSIONARIES IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM: NEXT MONTH GENERAL CHAPTER WILL HAVE ITS CLIMAX IN THE CANONISATION OF BLESSED DANIELE COMBONI – FIDES INTERVIEW WITH FATHER JUAN GONZALEZ NUNEZ, HEAD OF THE CHAPTER PREPARATORY COMMISSION Rome (Fides Service) – Founded in 1867 by Blessed Daniel Comboni (1831-1881) who will be canonised on 5 October, the Comboni missionaries of the Heart of Jesus (MCCI) are today in all 1,823 working on four continents: ...
• 31 July 2003
  EUROPE/POLAND - EIGHT THOUSAND CATHOLIC SCOUTS AND GUIDES FROM 19 EUROPEAN NATIONS AT EUROJAM FOR THE FIRST TIME IN POLAND WHERE SCOUTING WAS BANNED UNTIL 1989 Zelazko (Fides Service) – More than 8,000 scouts and guides between 11 and 16 years of age are taking part in the 6th International Rally of Catholic Scouts from 1-12 August in Zelazko in Poland. This edition is specia ...
• 31 July 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “MARY STARTS EVANGELISATION FORMALLY WITH HER YES”: REFLECTION ON “MARY STAR OF EVANGELISATION” BY BISHOP FRANCISCO PEREZ GONZALEZ, NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES IN SPAIN Madrid (Fides Service) – “Is the Blessed Virgin Mary the Star of Evangelisation because she was with the Apostles in the Upper Room on the day of Pentecost? Was it only by chance that she was with them and therefore ...
• 30 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - AT RIVA DEL GARDA AN APPOINTMENT TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE MAJOR MEANS OF MASS COMMUNICATIONS FACE THE QUESTION OF COOPERATION IN DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY Rome (Fides Service) - From 24 to 29 August hundreds of people will gather at Riva del Garda (Italy) with important experts for the 14th Week of Education to Globalisation to reflect on the theme: “Information and Dev ...
• 29 July 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - FORMATION: “IS A RESPONSIBILITY FOR EVERY PERSON WHO DESIRES TO RESPOND TO THE CHALLENGES OF EVANGELISATION AND GOD’S CALL TO HOLINESS ”.- ORDINARY ASSEMBLY OF SPANISH INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS Madrid (Fides Service) – “Without these efforts for formation our life is impoverished and our work of evangelisation loses in quality”: this emerged from the ordinary assembly of the St Francis Xavier Spanish Inst ...
• 28 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - LIVING MISSION: YOUTH MISSION CAMP OPENS TODAY IN LORETO ORGANISED BY PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES ITALIAN BRANCH Loreto (Fides Service) – A National Youth Missionary Formation Camp opened on July 28 at the John Paul II Youth Centre in Loreto, Italy. The July 29-3 August camp organised by the Pontifical Mission Societies in Italy ...