Europe

• 20 June 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Among the Italian Bishops’ Cultural Plan for the Pauline Year, is a website dedicated to St. Paul’s Letters Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the Pauline Year, the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI) has drawn up an entire schedule for the year, for all the local Churches, that offers a new and intelligent way to liv ...
• 19 June 2008
  EUROPE/GERMANY - German Catholic Bishops’ Conference launches a new website for the Pauline Year: “Let’s journey with the Apostle Paul!” Bonn (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the Pauline Year announced by the Holy Father Benedict XVI, upon the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of Saint Paul, from June 28, 2008 to June 29, 2009, the German Catholic Bi ...
• 19 June 2008
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Religious communities make an appeal for World Refugee Day: “As Christians and Jews, we are called to ensure that those who need our protection are admitted and can build their own lives.” Bern (Agenzia Fides) – “World Refugee Day, June 20, 2008, is an opportunity to focus on the destiny of all those who are forced to abandon their country,” said a statement issued by various religious communities on ...
• 18 June 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - Initiatives of the Catholic Weekly “Niedziela” for the Pauline Year: publish 180,000 copies of the “Autobiography of Saint Paul,” a photo exposition, a new website Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – In honor of the Pauline Year, the Polish Catholic Weekly, “Niedziela,” the most widely-read magazine in Poland with headquarters in Częstochowa, is proposing various different pas ...
• 18 June 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - June 21: priestly and deaconate ordinations for the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, June 21, Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy, will preside the ordination Mass for four priests and two deacons of the Priestly Fraternity of the ...
• 17 June 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Four events with satellite connection to Sydney at El Rocio, Santiago de Compostela, Madrid, and Javier, for youth unable to attend WYD in Australia Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Many youth are making preparations for the World Youth Day encounter in Sydney, Australia with the Pope, on July 15-20, with the theme: “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon ...
• 13 June 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Letter from the Bishop of Cartagena on the Pauline Year: a time of conversion, an opportune moment to speak of vocations, a time for missions and renewal Cartagena (Agenzia Fides) – “It is an opportune moment for the entire Church, with our eyes fixed on the life and writings of the Apostle to the Gentiles, to grow in her knowledge of her Lord and in the desire to com ...
• 12 June 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Letter from the Archbishop of Toledo on the obligatory course, “Education for Citizenship” scheduled for the coming academic year: “it is just that you, parents, use all legitimate means in your power to defend your right to determine the moral education of your children.” Toledo (Agenzia Fides) – “This is a very important issue, which must be faced with lucidity, truth, responsibility, and freedom, and in conformity with the duties and rights that parents have regarding education. The ...
• 11 June 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - Study done on the religious practices of Polish Catholics: 44.2% regularly attend Sunday Mass, 17.6% receive Communion Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – “Niedzela,” the most widely-read Catholic weekly in Poland, today published a study on religious practices in Poland. The study was performed by the Institute for Catholic Church Stati ...
• 11 June 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - 7th National Missionary Congress in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Holy Childhood Association’s establishment in the country: “towards a missionary collaboration that is more active in every area of the Church in Poland” Krakow (Agenzia Fides) – On June 6-7, the city of Kraków-Łagiewniki (Krakow) became the missionary heart of Poland, with the celebration of the 7th National Missionary Congress in honor of the 150th anniversary o ...
• 10 June 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - First World Congress for Student’s Parents Associations: “parents have the primordial and preferential right to educate their children according to their own principles and convictions” Zaragoza (Agenzia Fides) – “The universal values for education in the 21st Century, for a better world,” was the theme of the First World Congress for Student’s Parents Associations, held by the National Catholic ...
• 9 June 2008
  EUROPE/ITALIA - Strengthening the network on a national and regional level, creating an international network to face up to the treatment of human beings. “I do not think that any country can wash its hands of the issue,” Sr. Victoria Gonzales de Castejon tells Fides Rome (Agenzia Fides) – During their Plenary Congress celebrated in 2001, the International Union of Superior Generals (UISG) made the commitment to take action in facing the spreading plague of human trafficking. Since ...
• 6 June 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Conclusion of the High-Level Conference on World Food Security in Rome, with substantial allocations of funds to meet the most urgent needs; many questions remain Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The High-Level Conference on World Food Security sponsored by the FAO in Rome from June 3 to 5, has finally concluded. It has been an intense meeting that has had to address many urgent issues on ...
• 6 June 2008
  EUROPE/IRELAND - “A community that is founded on purely economic self interest will not last,” Bishops say, in regards to the referendum to be held on the Treaty of Lisbon Dublin (Agenzia Fides) – In preparation for the referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon set to take place on June 12, the Irish Bishops have published a Pastoral Letter entitled, “Fostering a community of values.” Irela ...
• 5 June 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - FAO Conference: farmers from poorer nations ask to be heard; the problem of bio-fuels, protectionism, and trade access among other themes Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The FAO Conference underway in Rome concludes today. The world summit meeting is certainly not expected to offer definitive solutions to the many problems on a global spectrum, interrelated among ...