Europe
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27 April 2004
EUROPE - Together for Europe: international meeting for church Movements and Communities May 8 at Stuttgart “a soul for Europe”
Rome (Fides Service) - “All together in polyphony”: is the image used by Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Sant’Egidio, to present “Together for Europe” event in Stuttgart on May 8, which will bring together memb ...
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20 April 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Intercultural Dialogue a tool for peace: 14th African Film Festival, including films from Asia and Latin America. Fides meets one of the founders Annamaria Gallone
Rome (Fides Service) - From 22 to 28 March the 14th African Film Festival was held in Milan. This year’s edition included a “Window on the World competition of films from Africa but also Asia and Latin America. A ...
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20 April 2004
EUROPA/AUSTRIA - A future for child soldiers in Northern Uganda: “Missio Austria” launches a signature campaign for international commitment to reach peace after 18 years of civil war
Vienna (Fides Service) - An urgent appeal to the Austrian government and to Austrian members of the European parliament to press at the international level for commitment to help the suffering people of northern Uganda, ...
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19 April 2004
EUROPE/ITALY “New wine in new skins” : Xaverian Missionaries in Italy open 12th regional Chapter
Ravenna (Fides Service) - At 5pm on Sunday 18 April in the St Peter in Chains House in Ravenna, 31 delegates of Italian Xaverian missionaries gathered in church to pray and to invoke the Holy Spirit for the 12th Chapter ...
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14 April 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Union of Major Superiors in Italy holds National Assembly: “Making hope visible in a changing world...”
Rome (Fides Service) - About 500 General and Provincial Superiors of religious institutes from all over Italy have gathered in Rome at the Pontifical Urban University Roma, 13 to 16 April 2004, to discuss the role of con ...
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7 April 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Trade in minors :trade without frontiers. The present situation according to Italian Magistrate who has opened an investigation: “These are not matters to tackle now and again just to quieten consciences”.
Rome (Fides Service) - No one sees, one knows and yet human trafficking is an international business with mind-boggling profits. The 21st century has its merchants just like those two or three hundred years ago, without ...
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7 April 2004
EUROPE/FRANCE - East and West celebrate Easter in Lyon: Christians of all denominations will meet at dawn on Easter Sunday for an ecumenical prayer service.
Lyon (Fides Service) - The leaders of different Christian Churches in Lyon, France have invited Christians of all denominations in the city to take part in an open air ecumenical dawn prayer meeting on Easter Sunday morn ...
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31 March 2004
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - The Church in Europe and new religious movements: seminar promoted by Council of Catholic Bishops' Coferences of Europe (CCEE)
Baar (Fides Service) - The Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) organised a seminar 25-28 March for representatives of Bishops’ Conferences on “alternative” religions in Europe, including New Age group ...
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30 March 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Infective diseases in infancy, problems, treatment and prevention: Italian Society of Pediatric Infectivology 4th National Congress
Rome (Fides Service) - The Italian Society of Pediatric Infectivology will hold its 4th National Congress
in Rome 1 - 3 April 2004 to discuss problems connected with infective diseases in infancy, treatment and preve ...
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29 March 2004
EUROPE/UNITED NATIONS - Task-force to promote Right to Development: Franciscans and Dominicans appeal to UN
Geneva (Fides Service) - Franciscans and Dominican, present as NGOs at the 60th assembly in Geneva of the United Nations Commission for Human Rights, pressed the United Nations to set up a high-level UN task-force, to pr ...
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26 March 2004
EUROPE/KOSOVO - “Could it be that to create more violence someone is trying to turn ethnic clashes into religious conflict?” preoccupied people in Kosovo are asking after destruction of Serb Orthodox churches
Pristina (Fides Service)- There is growing concern in Kosovo after recent clashes between Serbs and Albanians during which Albanians destroyed several Serb Orthodox churches. According to local sources “the violence ca ...
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26 March 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - “Children helping Children… across all five Continents”: a CD-ROM to fund 5 solidarity projects with the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood.
Rome (Fides Service) - “Children Helping Children”, the motto of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood, is the title of a CD-ROM with the song ‘Eccomi, manda me!’, performed by the ‘Le Matite Colorate ...
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22 March 2004
EUROPE/KOSOVO - “Education and economic development, priorities for Kosovo, antidote to ethnic and religious violence”: Fides speaks with AVSI Kosovo humanitarian project leader
Pristina (Fides Service) - “Steps must be taken to promote education and cultural growth of the people and to build up Kosovo’s economy in view of economic and social development to reduce unemployment and poverty. T ...
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22 March 2004
EUROPE/GERMANY - “Pray!”: a book of prayers written by the young for the young in preparation for World Youth Day in Germany 2005
Cologne (Agenzia Fides) - It is estimated that as many as one million young people will travel to Cologne in Germany for the 20th World Youth Day in 2005, an event which is being carefully prepared by young Christians al ...
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22 March 2004
EUROPE/GERMANY - “Aid to the Church in Need” soon to open national office in Poland the first in a former Communist country
Königstein (Fides Service) - In the coming month of May “Aid to the Church in Need” (ACN) Catholic aid agency, will open an office in Poland. The decision was reached during a meeting in Warsaw with the Polish Bisho ...
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