Europe

• 26 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Day of Prayer for the Church in China: Chinese Catholics in Spain pray the Rosary with other faithful from their country and Taiwan Huesca (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, May 24, at the Shrine of Torreciudad, a small Chinese Catholic community in Spain celebrated the Day of Prayer for the Church in China, in response to the general appeal made by the ...
• 23 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholics in Spain will celebrate the Day of Prayer for the Church in China at the Shrine of Torreciudad Huesca (Agenzia Fides) - The community of Chinese Catholics in Spain will flock to the Shrine of Torreciudad (Huesca, Spain) on Saturday, May 24, to celebrate the Day of Prayer for the Church in China. The encounter will ...
• 21 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Benedictus”: a professor that places his intelligence at the service of modern man, that the truth may be known and acknowledged Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “It would be rash to think of writing a biography of the Pope, especially in the case of Benedict XVI.” These were the words of Giuseppe De Carli, Vatican expert and head of Rai Vaticano, on th ...
• 21 May 2008
  EUROPE/ENGLAND - The Church defines the creation of hybrid embryos as “intrinsically immoral” because it “violates the human rights of the unborn and can give way to monstrous aberrations.” London (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Great Britain expressed its disapproval of the House of Commons’ decision to approve the controversial government proposal allowing scientific research using “hybrid” ...
• 19 May 2008
  EUROPE/IRELAND - Conference on cluster bombs, “lethal devices,” begins today in Dublin Dublin (Agenzia Fides) - Today, May 19, a Conference is being held in the Irish capital city of Dublin, on cluster bombs. It is a type of mechanism that causes grave humanitarian problems, whose consequences can last dec ...
• 19 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The Bishops of Castilla-Leon defend the primordial right of parents to a conscientious objection to “Education for Citizenship” Valladolid (Agenzia Fides) - The Presidential Councilor and spokesman for the Castilla-Leon regional government declared that conscientious objections to the school course entitled, “Education for Citizenship” (EpC), ...
• 16 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - The “communication revolution” of Pope John Paul II Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “Correct me if I make a mistake” (“Se mi sbaglio mi corrigerete”). This was famous phrase spoken by Cardinal Wojtyla, minutes after being elected Pope John Paul II, on the balcony of St. Pe ...
• 16 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALIA - “We should learn to transmit trust and hope in the future to our young people”: professors of Rome’s universities reflect on Benedict XVI’s Letter on the urgent task of education Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “The urgent task of education: the universities of Rome reflect on the Letter from Benedict XVI.” This was the theme of a seminar that was held May 14, in Rome, organized by the Office for Camp ...
• 14 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishop of Tarazona shows concern for the religious freedom law that could lead to radical secularism Tarazona (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Demetrio Fernandez of Tarazona (Spain), in his most recent Pastoral Letter, showed his concern for the reform of the religious freedom law that the government has announced will soon tak ...
• 8 May 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - “My Rainbow Newspaper,” a children’s bi-monthly publication, dedicates its most recent issue to the Church’s mission Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - The most recent issue (May/June 2008) of the Catholic bi-monthly publication “My Rainbow Newspaper” (in Polish: Moje Pismo Tecza) for children presents the theme of the missions. The pe ...
• 8 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Pentecost Vigil in the Cathedral of Rome on the theme of World Youth Day, with Confirmations of 185 university students and presentation of the delegation that will travel to Sydney Rome (Agencia Fides) - On Saturday, May 10 at 7:30pm in the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, the Cathedral of Rome, there will be a Pentecost Vigil with the theme of World Youth Day (WYD): “You will receive the power of ...
• 8 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishops of Cuba on their Marian pilgrimage: “The Church in Cuba made it their priority to be a prayerful Church in an atheist country and a missionary Church although the faith was restricted to places of worship.” Illescas (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Guillermo Dionisio Garcia of Santiago de Cuba presided the Mass yesterday held at the Shrine of “La Virgen de la Caridad” in Illescas (Toledo), in honor of the establishment of t ...
• 7 May 2008
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Presentation of the report on “The Evolution of the Family in Europe 2008”: a need for establishing an authentic and effective, integral family policy of universal character Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - The European Network of the Institute for Family Policy (IPF) presented a report in the European Parliament, May 7, 2008, at 10:30am, on “The Evolution of the Family in Europe 2008,” coinci ...
• 5 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 3,000 Latin American residents living in Spain celebrate the 8th Marian Encounter of American Peoples in the Shrine of Torreciudad Huesca (Agencia Fides) - The Shrine of Torreciudad welcomed some 3,000 Latin America residents living in Spain, during the celebration of the 8th Marian Encounter of American Peoples. The event that takes place every fir ...
• 3 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Our mission…is on all human frontiers”: Interview with Monsignor Massimo Camisasca, Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo, founded in 1985 by Monsignor Massimo Camisasca, today has a hundred members who are priests, as well as some thirty seminarian ...