Europe

• 25 November 2009
  EUROPE/FRANCE - “Missionaries of 8” prepare for Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception in Lyon: churches open until midnight, prayer meetings, welcoming visitors Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - From December 5 to 8, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the city of Lyon will welcome, as it does every year, thousands of visitors and pilgrims who will visit the Marian shrine o ...
• 24 November 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Urgent aid requests from Caritas have increased by 40.7% in first half of year, demonstrating the emergence of new forms of poverty Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The data collected in the third observation report of Caritas, on the evolution of urgent requests for help received by the organization's network of Hospitality and Primary Care in the first h ...
• 23 November 2009
  EUROPE / ITALY - "For the school of the XXI century: community life, training, professionalism" XXIII National Congress of professional association of Catholic teachers, managers and trainers Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The UCIIM, a professional association of Catholic teachers, managers and trainers, next 5 to 7 December will hold its XXIII National Congress in Rome on the theme: "For the school of the XXI centur ...
• 23 November 2009
  EUROPE/GERMANY - In light of upcoming Copenhagen Summit, Catholic aid agencies request financial support for victims of climate change: “It is not a matter of almsgiving but justice!” Freiburg (Agenzia Fides) – Today, November 23, Environmental Affairs Ministers of Europe will meet in Brussels to agree a common position in light of the UN Summit on Climate Change to be held in Copenhagen in two week ...
• 19 November 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Day of the Child: 200 million children under 5 in danger of death from malnutrition Rome (Agenzia Fides) – November 20, 2009 marks the International Day of the Rights of the Child and Adolescent declared by the United Nations to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the ...
• 19 November 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Website for WYD in Madrid presented, for organization and information leading up to August 16, 2011 Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - During the presentation of the website for World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid, the Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, announced that the Congress of Deputies has declared Worl ...
• 18 November 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - “The Good News travels without a passport” - The missionary path towards Holy Childhood Day, January 6, 2010 Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “The Good News travels without a passport” is the slogan that accompanies the preparation for the Holy Childhood Day, January 6, 2010, promoted by the National Directorate of the Pontifical Mis ...
• 16 November 2009
  EUROPE/GERMANY - For dignity and justice for all people on the margins of society: Caritas Germany's plan to help children who collect garbage in Brazil Friburg (Agenzia Fides) – On the evening of Saturday, November 14, in 54 cities throughout Germany, a sea of candles were lit for the initiative entitled “A Million Stars.” Caritas Germany, accepting the invitation ...
• 12 November 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Combating child malnutrition: FAO summit on food security likely to fail if governments continue spending little Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Funds from wealthy countries towards combating malnutrition has remained unchanged for seven years, according to the report, "Malnutrition: what has been spent? - An analysis of financial flows t ...
• 12 November 2009
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - The Conference of Bishops will hold a Symposium dedicated to the last encyclical of the Pope to examine ethical and social situation of the country; Commission for the centenary of the birth of the Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Tirana (Agenzia Fides) – At the Fall Plenary Assembly of the Albanian Bishops' Conference (CEA), which met in Tirana on November 9-10, the Bishops reflected on the Encyclical "Caritas in Veritate.” After a brief exp ...
• 10 November 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Revolutionizing volunteer training; inauguration of the 3rd cycle of the 4-year School of Italian NGO “Vosvim” for training agents of Life and Mission Development Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A completely new and revolutionary school for training is what is being offered by the Italian group “Associazione Italia Solidale” for training agents of Life and Mission Development. The goa ...
• 10 November 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Bagnasco opens CEI General Assembly by recalling Synod for Africa, which saw the emittance of "strong words that may not have been heard so well" and "ad gentes dynamism" which “should mark all our pastoral work” Assisi (Agenzia Fides) – Recalling the “shocking news” of the seven young Christians “horribly killed in southern Sudan in a grisly parody of crucifixion” and the recent Synod for Africa, which saw the emittanc ...
• 10 November 2009
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - After the fall of the wall, with "Missio Pro Europe," the Pontifical Mission Societies of Austria continue building bridges between Western and Eastern Churches Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - To mark the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria, "Missio Austria", Fr. Leo M. Maasburg, in a note sent to Fides, ...
• 9 November 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - A century after the birth of Don Luigi Cocco, a missionary in the heart of the Amazon forest among the Yanomami Indians, who carried out "an impressive work of civilization and evangelization" Grugliasco (Agenzia Fides) - Salesian Missionary Don Luigi Cocco was born in Grugliasco (Turin) February 12, 1910 and died in Turin on 11 February 1980. He is remembered for his intense missionary work conducted among Ya ...
• 6 November 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - A Permanent Coordination Table for National Associations promoted by CNOS - National Center for Salesian Societies Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The national associations promoted by the CNOS (National Center for Salesian Societies) has established a Permanent Coordination Table for create a tighter bond among the various organizations of ...