Europe

• 9 April 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - “Gift of the Heart”: the family home wished for by John Paul II, inaugurated Skawina (Agenzia Fides) - “Gift of the Heart” opened its doors to eight adolescents and children entrusted to the Guanellians by a court in Krakow. The children are aged 4 to 17 years. “Gift of the Heart” is the ...
• 5 April 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - 26 June: Beatification of Fr Clemente Vismara, PIME missionary, “Patriarch of Burma” Milan (Agenzia Fides) – The Beatification of Father Clemente Vismara, PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions), will be celebrated in Piazza del Duomo in Milan, Sunday, 26 June. He is known as the “Patriarch ...
• 2 April 2011
  EUROPE - CCEE Presidency: solidarity of all peoples and European institutions for African refugees St Gallen (Agenzia Fides) – Confronted with the mass of African refugees who are reaching Europe via Italy's coasts, we need “the solidarity, and institutional solidarity, too, of all peoples on the European continen ...
• 28 March 2011
  EUROPE/GERMANY - German and African Bishops discuss African migration to Europe Munich (Agenzia Fides) - German Bishops and a delegation from the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) are holding a five-day joint meeting on migration with particular reference to African migrants in ...
• 26 March 2011
  EUROPE - The CCEE, forty years at the service of the Church in Europe St Gallen (Agenzia Fides) – Forty years ago, on 25 March 1971, the first directive rules of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE) were approved. On the anniversary, the President of the CCEE, Card. Péte ...
• 21 March 2011
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Muslim-Christian meditation and Eucharistic Adoration on the 15th anniversary of the abduction of the monks of Tibhirine Lyon (Agenzia Fides) – At about 1.30 am on Wednesday, 27 March 1996, seven French Trappist monks were kidnapped from the convent of “Notre Dame de l’Atlas” in Tibhirine, south-eastern Algeria by a group of about ...
• 21 March 2011
  EUROPE - Crucifixes in schools: “the culture of human rights of course must not exclude Christian civilisation,” declares Card. Erdő St Gallen (Agenzia Fides) – Satisfaction was expressed by Card. Péter Erdő, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, President of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE), about the verdict from the Grand C ...
• 16 March 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - Free access to childbirth and infant care in 15 hospitals in Africa Padova (Agenzia Fides) – Since 1950 the Doctors with Africa Cuamm organisation has worked side by side with the Africans, facing emergencies but with the end goal of maintaining a health service. Day after day, volunte ...
• 16 March 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - The martyrs, sign and source of hope: 24 March - XIX Day of Prayer and fasting for missionary martyrs Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “Enlisting the martyrs under the sign of hope is certainly an audacious undertaking: the martyr is by definition one whose circle of life is brought to an abrupt halt, often a life full of wisd ...
• 11 March 2011
  EUROPA/AUSTRIA - The missionary Church in Europe facing the signs of the times Gottweig (Agenzia Fides) – The meeting of National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) begins today (11/03/2011) at the Abbey of Gottweig in Austria. Its theme is “The missionary Church in Europe: res ...
• 5 March 2011
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - “Water and peace” campaign begins at Lent Geneva (Agenzia Fides) – For World Water Day on 22 March, the Ecumenical Network for Water has launched the “water and peace” campaign. Over a seven week period, beginning Monday, 7 March, weekly Lenten reflections ...
• 5 March 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - Free access to childbirth and newborn care: initiative by 'Doctors with Africa Cuamm' for the women of Africa Padova (Agenzia Fides) – There are 265,000 women who die each year in Africa due to pregnancy and childbirth related problems. To ensure the natural right of these mothers to give birth to their children, for the upcom ...
• 5 March 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Studying new ways to support missionary work Burgos (Agenzia Fides) – The main goal of the XXV Symposium of Missiology in Burgos, Spain, from 2 to 4 March, was to find new ways to support missionary work: so said the director of the Institute of Missiology for th ...
• 3 March 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - Twenty years after the first landing of Albanian refugees on the Italian coast Otranto (Agenzia Fides) – On 3 March 1991 the first ship docked in the port of Otranto, carrying many desperate escapees from the Albanian coast. The local community, at all levels of society, immediately responded to ...
• 2 March 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - New Missionary and Marian Centre for the Archdiocese of Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – At the desire of Archbishop Stanislaw Nowak, Metropolitan Archbishop of Czestochowa, the Missionary and Marian Centre of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa will be built in Myszków – Mrzygl ...