Europe

• 2 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Celebration for the Diocesan Missionary Day with a “missionary sending” Mass: “The Diocese that is not generous with those most in need, will not receive the God-given graces it needs.” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, May 4, the Diocese of Madrid will celebrate Diocesan Missionary Day, with the theme: “The Diocesan Church...open to the missions.” The central event of the celebration will be the ...
• 30 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - 31st National Charismatic Convention, May 1-4: “Reborn through the Word of God” Rimini (Agenzia Fides) - From May 1 - 4, the 31st National Convention for the Groups and Communities of Renewal in the Holy Spirit (“RnS”) will be held at the “Fiera di Rimini” (Italy), with the theme: “Reborn ...
• 29 April 2008
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Spring Scalabrini-Fest on “Let He who is ‘the first of all: Christ, the Head of the Body’ find us and send us” Solothurn (Agenzia Fides) - On April 25-27, the Scalabrinian Secular Missionaries hosted the Scalabrini Spring Fest, in the Swiss town of Solothurn, where they are based. The event was open to anyone interested in findin ...
• 24 April 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - The “Missionary Labs” in preparation for the 7th National Congress of the Holy Childhood Association Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - A group of nearly 80 catechists, priests, religious men and women, missionary workers, members of missionary volunteer groups, and heads of the Pontifical Mission Societies from the parishes ...
• 24 April 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Native Vocations Day: "although these are not easy times for vocations, we should make the effort not to let ourselves be overcome by discouragement and anxiety" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Native Vocations Day helps us to be realists and live with a greater sense of responsibility towards others...in a society that is contaminated by secularism and oppressed by consumerism, the co ...
• 23 April 2008
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Lourdes, city of peace Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to a girl named Bernadette, the small French village of Lourdes is organizing a series of events, in hopes of becomin ...
• 17 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - 18,815 Jesuits worldwide; largest representation and youngest members in south Asia, with the most novices Roma (Agenzia Fides) - According to statistics made available to Agenzia Fides from the General Curia of the Society of Jesus, dated January 1, 2008, the total number of Jesuits in the world is 18,815. They are subdivide ...
• 14 April 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - Survey from Catholic periodical Niedziela on priestly and religious vocations Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - The most widely-read Catholic periodical in Poland, “Niedziela,” based in Czestochowa, has published today (April14) the results of a survey on priestly and religious vocations in John P ...
• 10 April 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - Theological symposium on Christian hope according to the teachings of Benedict XVI Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - “The true image of Christian hope” was the theme of the theological symposium that took place on April 5 in Czestochowa, in the John Paul II Auditorium, in the Archdiocesan Major Seminar ...
• 8 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALIA - Franciscans organize “Third Chapter of the Poor” Bari (Agenzia Fides) - “In a changing world, there are always poor,” is the theme for the reflections that will be made during the “Third Chapter for the Poor,” an event organized by the Franciscan Friars Minor o ...
• 8 April 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Presentation of the new Catechism for Christian Initiation “Jesus is Lord”: “more than a book, it is a treasure because it contains the Good News that our Holy Mother Church teaches us.” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Javier Salinas Viñals of Tortosa, Vice-President of the Bishops’ Committee on Education and Catechesis for the Spanish Bishops’ Conference (CEE), yesterday presented the catechetical ...
• 3 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Natalia Dallapiccola, the first companion Chiara Lubich, also ends her earthly journey: it was she who promoted the Focolari Movement in eastern Europe Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Natalia Dallapiccola, the first to join Chiara Lubich on earth in 1943, is the first to reach her, only a few days later, in eternal life. Natalia was 83. She died, due to weakening of heart and lu ...
• 2 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - The heroic acts of a simple man: Giovanni Palatucci, the last police chief in Fiume Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Giovanni Palatucci was a young man from the province of Avellino (Italy) who gave up his medical carrier to become a policeman, as a vocation. During the Second World War, while he was in charge of ...
• 2 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALIA - “Remembering Karol”: John Paul II, three years after his death Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Three years after the passing of our beloved John Paul II, and on the occasion of the publishing of the paperback version of the book, “A Life with Karol” written by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, ...
• 28 March 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Presentation of a 25-year investigation on the history of theology in Latin America, made by 29 specialists from 19 universities Navarra (Agenzia Fides) - The Theology Department at the University of Navarra (Spain) has seen the close of a 25-year-long investigation on the history of theology in Latin America, from its beginning in 1493 to 2001. T ...