Europe

• 5 June 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Statement from the Bishops of Galicia: “the State cannot legitimately impose a moral formation of students’ consciences without the free consent of their parents” Lugo (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of the Spanish region of Galicia (Santiago de Compostela, Tui-Vigo, Oruense, Mondoñedo-Ferrol, and Lugo) have issued a statement in light of the upcoming school year, on the subject ...
• 4 June 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Award bestowed on four organizations leading the fight against malaria in Africa Oviedo (Agenzia Fides) - The organizations leading the fight against malaria in Africa: the Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre (Tanzania), the Malaria Research and Training Centre (Mali), the Kintampo Health ...
• 4 June 2008
  EUROPE/ITALIA - 6th European Symposium for University Professors begins: 400 professors of 26 European countries address the theme of “Widen the horizons of rationality. Perspectives for philosophy.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “Widen the horizons of rationality. Perspectives for philosophy.” This is the theme for the 6th European Symposium for University Professors taking place in Rome June 5 – 8, organized by the ...
• 3 June 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - FAO Conference: the alarming statistics on the world food crisis. Climate changes, rise in fuel costs and speculative activity are the central points of the meeting Rome (Agenzia Fides) – 862 million of the world’s poor suffer from malnutrition or live on less than two dollars a day, the majority living in developing countries. This is the dramatic starting point for the FAO’s ...
• 3 June 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - After two years, “Misión Joven” concludes in Madrid with a consecration to the Heart of Jesus in Cerro de los Angeles Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – On Friday, June 6, the Ecclesiastical Province of Madrid (which includes the Dioceses of Madrid, Alcala de Henares, and Getafe) will celebrate the closing ceremony for “Misión Joven” (Yout ...
• 2 June 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The Diocese of Toledo will renew its consecration to the Heart of Jesus on the Solemnity of Christ the King, “an act of profound adoration, in gratitude towards our Redeemer” Toledo (Agenzia Fides) – In a statement signed May 30, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, Archbishop of Toledo (Spain) and Primate of Spain, announced that on the Solemnity of Christ the King, the Archdiocese of Toledo will ...
• 30 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Religion Today Film Festival: the cinema at the service of dialogue among religions Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The 9th Religion Today Film Festival will begin October 16, in Bolzano (Italy). The Festival began in 1997 in the city of Trent, dedicated to the subject of dialogue among religions. This charact ...
• 30 May 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - Holy Childhood Association meets in anticipation for the National HCA Congress commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Association’s presence in the country Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) – On May 27, at Warsaw’s John Paul II Museum, a gathering for children of the Holy Childhood Association was held with representatives from the city’s grammar schools. A report on the event w ...
• 29 May 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Church in Poland celebrates the Day of Prayer for the Church in China Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) – The Church in Poland gladly responded to the appeal of the Holy Father Benedict XVI and that of Bishop Wiktor Skworc of Tarnów and President of the Polish Bishops’ Commission for the Mission ...
• 29 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY -Meeting for Friendship Among the Peoples in Rimini, August 2008; Recalling the 28th Meeting Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Meeting for Friendship Among the Peoples in Rimini is a grand social event, a festival of encounters, culture, music, and shows that takes place every year at the end of August, and that over ...
• 29 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The 10th General Ordinary Assembly of the Spanish Foreign Missions Institute (IEME) concludes. New President elected. Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – On May 12, the 10th General Ordinary Assembly of the Spanish Foreign Missions Institute (IEME) met in Madrid. The event was attended by 26 representatives from missionary groups in 14 differen ...
• 28 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - 36 new priests from the Prelature of Opus Dei Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, May 24, the Prelate of Opus Dei, Bishop Javier Echevarria ordained 36 men from the Prelature in the Basilica of San Eugenio, in Rome. The new priests are from 15 different countries: ...
• 27 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - First virtual seminar in Spanish on on-line journalism and third on-line seminar on radio at the Gregorian University Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Interdisciplinary Center for Social Communications (CICS) at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome is offering for the first time, a virtual seminar in Spanish on on-line journalism, gear ...
• 26 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - “I ragazzi di via Sandri”: champions of life in Rome’s lower-class suburbs Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Via Sandro Sandri, a street in Casal Bruciato, is one of the many locations on Rome’s outskirts where the social unease, pain and suffering, the escape from everything, the violence, the crime, a ...
• 26 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Symposium on “The mission of the Church” and the re-birth of the missionary spirit, sponsored by the Missiology Department of the Theological Institute of San Damaso in Madrid Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Missiology Department of the Theological Institute of San Damaso in Madrid has organized a symposium on “The mission of the Church” and the re-birth of the missionary spirit, to take plac ...