Europe
7 July 2003
EUROPE/HUNGARY - APPEAL FROM BUDAPEST AT THE CONCLUSION OF CONGRESS FOR PASTORAL CARE OF GYPSIES: FULL INTEGRATION CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED WITH FULL RECOGNITION OF RIGHTS AND VALORISATION OF RESOURCES
Budapest (Fides Service) – Full recognition of the rights of Gypsies or Romany peoples and their fundamental freedoms as sanctioned by the European Convention; same identity papers as other citizens; commitment by gove ...
7 July 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - FINAL MESSAGE FROM ITALIAN PMS NATIONAL MEETING: REDISCOVERING
IDENTITY OF ANIMATORS IN LOCAL CHURCH AND FUNDAMENTAL MISSION VOCATION OF THE FAMILY
Rome (Fides Service) – “The present day calls the entire Church to listen to what the Spirit is saying through this time of epochal changes which must not be borne but rather oriented with the power of the Spirit tow ...
4 July 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED CHILDREN’S BIBLE “GOD SPEAKS TO HIS CHILDREN” REACHES 40 MILLION MARK AND 135 LANGUAGES
Rome (Fides Service) – From its Vatican office the Catholic association Aid to the Church in Need, reports that its children’s bible, “God speaks to his Children”, has reached the 140 million copy mark.. The boo ...
2 July 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - WOMEN OF COMMUNION, IN DIALOGUE WITH MUSLIMS IN AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE: NEW SUPERIOR OF MISSIONARERY SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF THE APOSTLES SPEAKS TO FIDES SERVICE
Rome (Fides Service) – “We believe in dialogue, relations and communion. We share day to day life with the poor and the excluded, working above all for the promotion of the dignity of women”. Sister Eileen Cummins, ...
2 July 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - EURO-AFRICAN PACT TO WIPE OUT MALARIA
Rome (Fides Service) – In a few weeks time a European project based on partnership with Africa will begin testing drugs and vaccines to treat and prevent the diseases of the poor: malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis. Over t ...
1 July 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - MALARIA STILL FOUGHT WITH INEFFECTIVE TREATMENT TO WHICH THE DISEASE HAS BECOME RESISTANT
Rome (Fides Service) – “Too many in Africa and Asia still die of a curable disease, malaria. And yet there is a cure: to ignore the fact that there is a cure for malaria, to forget it or pretend that it does not exis ...
1 July 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - FROM SERVICE TO SERVANTS: IDENTITY AND ROLE OF LAY LEADERS FOCAL POINT OF MEETING OF ITALIAN PMS STARTING TODAY
Rome (Fides Service) – This afternoon, July 1, at Frattocchie (Rome), the Pontifical Mission Societies in Italy will start their general assembly, which brings together regional leaders, diocesan directors and lay dioc ...
30 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - THE FIGHT AGAINST MALARIA: NEW STRATEGIES, MEETING ORGANISED BY THE ITALIAN HEALTH MINISTRY AND MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES
Rome (Fides Service) – Malaria is a growing threat. According to recent estimates every year malaria kills as many as two million people. In this situation it is increasingly urgent to form a global alliance against ma ...
27 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - A FRUIT OF THE GREAT JUBILEE: INAUGURATION OF JOHN PAUL II HOME FOR DISABLED PILGRIMS TO ROME
Rome (Fides Service) – On Sunday June 29, feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the patron saints of Rome, the John Paul II Home for the Disabled - Opera Don Orione will be officially inaugurated. The Home is situated in Rom ...
27 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - MISSION AND YOUNG CHURCHES AGENTS OF NEW EVANGELISATION: INTERVIEW WITH FATHER PIERO GHEDDO ON HALF A CENTURY OF PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS IN THE MISSIONARY WORLD
Milan (Fides Service) – Father Piero Gheddo, missionary of PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions) is one of the most known “missionary faces” in Italy and abroad. Ordained a priest on 28 June 1953 by Card ...
26 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - DRUG ADDICTION IS SUBORDINATED TO THIRST FOR LOVE, LATENT SUFFERING, INNER FRAGILITY AND LACK OF EDUCATION TO LIFE
Rome (Fides Service) – Many questions were tackled during the International Symposium “Caring for Others: drug addiction, experience and ethics” held 23-25 June in Rome. From the conclusions presented by Rev. Egidi ...
26 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - ST JOHN OF GOD BROTHERS WORK FOR HEALTH CARE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
Rome (Fides Service) – The St John of God Hospitaller Brothers have reached an agreement for health cooperation in Cameroon. The president of the Association of the Brothers for Distant Sick, AFMAL Brother Pietro Cicin ...
26 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - HARAMBEE 2002 AFRICA PROJECT WHICH MARKED CANONISATION OF JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA, WILL FUND 18 PROJECTS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Rome (Fides Service) – Out of 122 education projects in 20 countries presented to the Harambee 2002 Office (a solidarity programme started to mark the canonisation of the founder of Opus Dei, Saint Josemaria Escriva) 1 ...
25 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - FIRST LITURGICAL FEAST OF SAINT JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA WILL BE MARKED WITH SOLEMNITY ALL OVER THE WORLD AND A NEW WEB PAGE OFFERS INFORMATION ON THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE “SAINT OF EVERY DAY LIFE”
Rome (Fides Service) – Nine months after the canonisation of the Founder of Opus Dei, presided by Pope John Paul II on October 6 last year, 2002, the feast day of the new Saint June 26, the day he died in Rome in 1975, ...
24 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - RELIGIOUS FORMATION AT A DISTANCE: ON LINE INFORMATION ON NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS, SECTS MODERN SPIRITUAL TENDENCIES
Rome (Fides Service) – Successful the first project of formation at a distance on the “Fenomeno religioso in Italia” organised by the Centro Consulenza on line on sects religions and spirituality SRS in collaborati ...
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