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5 October 2004
EUROPE/SPAIN - “This is the hour of mission and missionary commitment,” says national Director Pontifical Mission Societies Archbishop Pérez. “We must work harder to achieve God’s plan and to meet the many needs of the world today”
Madrid (Fides Service) - “It is time for your missionary commitment”: is the slogan chosen by the Church in Spain for World Mission Day 2004. In a dossier prepared for the occasion, a copy was sent to Fides, national ...
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5 October 2004
EUROPE/ENGLAND - CCEE Bishops discuss the significance of Christianity in Europe: a new Commission for “Evangelisation and Dialogue” with other Churches, religions, beliefs and cultures
Leeds (Fides Service) - The event - a four-day assembly of the Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe (CCEE) at Hinsley Hall, Leeds - was the biggest gathering of senior Catholic bishops in Britain since the Synod ...
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1 October 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Closing message from National Mission Congress: “time for the Church in Italy to start a new stage on its missionary journey”
Rome (Fides Service) - “In recent decades the Church in Italy has made a missionary journey rich in fruits but the time has come to start a new missionary stage”. This statement is part of a Message issued at the end ...
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1 October 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - new European University of Rome: Fides puts three short questions to Father Paolo Scarafoni, Rector of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical College
Rome (Fides Service) - The eternal city has its first European University of Rome a private college with full state recognition. The promoters are the Legionaries of Christ, a religious institute of men founded in Mexico ...
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1 October 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - “Eucharist: source and summit of mission”, 1st European Meeting of Eucharistic Adoration Youth Groups in preparation for the Year of the Eucharist
Rome (Fides Service) - From 6 to 10 October Eucharistic Adoration Youth Groups from all over Europe, a fruit of the 15th Word Youth Day held in Rome in 2000, will be in Rome for the 1st European Meeting. At the end of t ...
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29 September 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Freshly committed to being “witnesses of hope” Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate conclude 34th General Chapter
Rome (Fides Service) - The Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate closed their 34° General Chapter yesterday freshly committed to being “witnesses of hope” witnesses of Christ evangelising the poor in keeping with ...
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29 September 2004
EUROPE/ENGLAND - Presidents of Europe’s Bishops’ Conferences discuss role of Christianity and the Church in present-day Europe, urgent ethical questions and World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne
Leeds - (Fides Service) - The Presidents of the 34 Episcopal Conferences that make up the Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE) are to meet in Leeds, England, at the invitation of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Co ...
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29 September 2004
EUROPE/FRANCE - “Round the world prayer” touches all latitudes on World Mission Day
Lyons (Fides Service) - Once again this year on the occasion of World Mission Day, the Pontifical Mission Societies in France have invited PMS offices all over the world to join in a “round the world prayer” to live ...
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28 September 2004
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “I have heard my people cry!”: Portugal’s theme for World Mission Day is a call to respond to the cries of the peoples with mission without frontiers
Lisbon (Fides Service) - ‘I have heard my people cry’ is the theme chosen for World Mission Day by the Church in Portugal, taken from the Liturgy of that Sunday. This local Church is preparing to celebrate the missi ...
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27 September 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - National Mission opens today: first conference - “a changing world” - by Senegal’s minister of scientific research
Rome (Fides Service) - Some 1600 people have gathered for Italy’s 3rd National Mission Congress at Montesilvano, Pescara, 28-30 September on the theme “Communion and Co-responsibility for Mission”. The congress is ...
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27 September 2004
EUROPE/GERMANY - “His salvation for all nations. The Church’s universal mission”: German Bishops issue a ‘Bischofswort’ to promote a stronger sense of universal mission
Bonn (Agenzia Fides) - “His salvation for all nations. The Church’s universal mission” is the title of a 74 page ‘Bischofswort’ (Bishops’ Word) issued by the Catholic Bishops of Germany at the end of their Au ...
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24 September 2004
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “Inculturating the faith in Europe means opening spaces for transmitting the faith, launching programmes to revitalise Christianity in the cultural spaces of our societies”: National Mission Days conclusions
Lisbon (Fides Service) - Europe is fragmented, oblivious of God, dominated by the idolatry of power and possession, according to a statement at the conclusion of the National Mission Days event in Lisbon which this year ...
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24 September 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Italian St John of God Brother, the first surgeon to help African children with polio, among winners of 2004 Cuore Amico annual missionary award to be presented on 23 October
Brescia (Fides Service) - Until now “Cuore Amico” Fraternity Onlus started in 1991, has assigned its annual missionary award to a priest, a nun and a layperson. This year a Brother has been added to the list. The awa ...
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24 September 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - General Charter of the Comboni missionary Sisters confirms Mother Adele Brambilla come Superior general for another term
Rome (Fides Service) - On 23 September the 18th Chapter of the Comboni Missionary Sisters being held in Rome, elected Mother Adele Brambilla Superior General for another six year term. After the election the chapter memb ...
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23 September 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - “Despite 14.000 missionaries and countless initiatives much remains to be done to ensure that in Italy mission is less preached and more practised”: Interview with Mgr. Giuseppe Andreozzi national Pontifical Mission Societies Director on the eve of the National Mission Congress
Rome (Fides Service) - More than 1,500 people are expected to attend the Italian national Mission Congress 27 to 30 September in Montesilvano, Pescara, to reflect on the present missionary situation of the Church in Ita ...
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