Europe

• 12 July 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Heart of St. Camillus travels from Rome to Ireland Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Order of Ministers of the Sick (Camillians) have begun celebrating the 400th anniversary of the death of San Camillo (1614 - 2014). Among other activities is also provided for the public expo ...
• 12 July 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 63rd Missiology Week begins in Burgos: Priesthood and Ecumenism for the Mission Burgos (Agenzia Fides) – Today marks the opening day at the 63rd Missiology Week in Burgos. The event is being held at the Archdiocese's Faculty of Theology. After words of greeting from the Archbishop of Burgos, Arch ...
• 10 July 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Pilgrimage tour of Founder's relic helping Comboni Missionaries' prepare for 19th General Chapter Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Comboni Missionaries (Pious Mothers of Nigrizia) are preparing for their General Chapter XIX which will open at their Mother House in Verona, on September 1, 2010 and will end October 5. Insp ...
• 6 July 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “The missionaries who work to bring together two great abandoned people: Jesus in the Tabernacle and man in the world" Malaga (Agenzia Fides) – The Eucharistic Missionaries are preparing to celebrate their 90th anniversary of foundation. Sister Antonia Moreno, Superior of the house in Marques Valdecañas in Spain, wrote to Fides, empha ...
• 6 July 2010
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Personal encounter with God is the source of every vocation, especially the vocation to the priesthood Esztergom (Agenzia Fides) - “Come and See. The Priest: Witness and Servant of Vocations” was the theme for the annual meeting of the EVS (European Vocations Service), which was held in Esztergom, Hungary, July 1-4. I ...
• 6 July 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missionary institutes in Italy reaffirm: “the culture of respect, equality and promotion of diversity, able to see migrants as bearers of values and resources” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – "In the phenomena of migration as well, we missionaries propose a vision full of faith and hope because, beyond the dramatic implications that accompany the stories of immigrants, their faces and ...
• 1 July 2010
  EUROPE - Spanish and Portuguese bishops encourage use of new technologies for the mission Malaga (Agenzia Fides) – Members of the Bishops' Commission for Social Communications of Portugal and Spain, together with the President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Archbishop Claudio Maria Cel ...
• 25 June 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Ordination or priests and deacons, from mission for mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Three priests and two deacons of the Fraternity of the Missionaries of St Charles Borromeo will be ordained on Saturday 26 June in Rome at the Papal Basilica of St Mary Major. The ordination wil ...
• 25 June 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Young people “missionaries” to young people: 4th National Eucharistic Meeting Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “Mission by young people for young people” centred around all night Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: this 4th National Eucharistic Meeting will take place in Rome at the Circus Maximus durin ...
• 25 June 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - In August, 8th National Week of Missionary Formation and Spirituality Rome (Agenzia Fides) – 30 June is the closing date for registration to take part in Italy's 8th National Week of Missionary Formation and Spirituality in Assisi, 26 - 31August. In a letter of invitation, Rev Gianni C ...
• 23 June 2010
  EUROPE/FRANCE - "With Therese, we too love peace": 5,000 children attend mission meetings in Lisieux Lisieux (Agenzia Fides) – Once again this year some 5,600 secondary school pupils (aged 11-13) belonging to chaplaincies of the eight diocese of Ile de France, accompanied by almost 700 adults and animators, answered a ...
• 23 June 2010
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - With 5 years to go: Millennium Development Goals Report 2010 assesses progress Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - A report on the Millennium Development Goals, "MDG 2010: Keeping the promise" will be released this afternoon. Made public a few months before a meeting of world leaders in September in New Yor ...
• 22 June 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - New handbook on promoting missionary spirit among children Valencia (Agenzia Fides) – The Missions Commission of the Archdiocese of Valencia has issued a new handbook to encourage the formation of more Missionary Childhood groups and offer existing groups guidelines for activi ...
• 22 June 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Standing Committee of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Spain CEE to discuss missionary cooperation Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – A statement from the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Spain CEE, a copy of which was sent to Fides, said that the 216th Meeting of the CEE Standing Committee, a meeting of three days, will disc ...
• 21 June 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Diritti alla meta”: protecting the rights of children and adolescents in countries in the south of the world Milan (Agenzia Fides) - According to UNICEF about 150 million children in the world aged 5 - 14 years are employed in illegal labour, a cause and consequence of the poverty which jeopardises their education and their fut ...