Europe

• 31 August 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - September 1: IV Day for the Protection of Creation: “let us reflect on the need to breathe clean air and on our personal contribution in making that possible” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – September 1, 2009 marks the IV Day for the Protection of Creation, promoted by the National Office for Social Affairs and Labor and the National Office for Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue o ...
• 31 July 2009
  EUROPE/POLAND - A special “holy card” for priests in honor of the Year for Priests Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – The Polish Catholic weekly magazine “Niedzela,” the most widely-read magazine in the country, based in Czestochowa, has recently prepared and published a special “holy card” of the ...
• 31 July 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Preparing for World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid: official logo presented Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Preparations are already underway for the 26th World Youth Day (WYD) in Madrid, August 15-21, 2011, with the theme: “Rooted and Built Up in Jesus Christ, Firm in the Faith.” Yesterday, July ...
• 28 July 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Letter from the Italian Missionary Institutes to the Bishops: “A diocese needs ad gentes missionaries, just as it needs priests and pastoral agents in the parishes.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – In thanksgiving for the “solicitude for all the Churches” shown by Fidei donum and the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Letter of the Permanent Bishops' Council of the CEI (Italian ...
• 23 July 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Different vacations” for university students helping Abruzzo earthquake victims Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Around one hundred university students from all over Italy will come together for a week in Abruzzo (Italy), to study economic ethics and work as volunteers in the tent camps set up for those who ...
• 15 July 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Italian Salesians launch sports program in response to educational emergency Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Salesians in Italy continue to sponsor sports programs and thus have launched a new national association entitled “CNOS Sport.” On July 13, the Superiors of the 6 Italian Provinces signed ...
• 14 July 2009
  EUROPE/POLAND - Nearly 150,000 copies of the encyclical “Caritas in veritate” in Polish distributed with the Catholic magazine “Niedzela” Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – The Polish Catholic magazine “Niedzela,” the most widely-read magazine in Poland, headquartered in Czestochowa, has recently published the third encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI on inte ...
• 10 July 2009
  EUROPE/MOLDAVIA - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase tied with string”: People who have suffered, are little inclined to speak about it, they want to forget, they are frightened. And who wouldn't be? Iargara (Agenzia Fides) – A unnamed persons tells us: “Here you often find yourself in traps invented by the engineers of financial crimes. Wholesale drug peddlers . Sex traders. Traffickers of death even in the name ...
• 10 July 2009
  EUROPE/POLAND - “Holidays with God” for children of poor families organised by the Pontifical Mission Societies, Caritas and Catholic Action Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - “Holidays with God” are an initiative organised by the Pontifical Mission Societies, Caritas and Catholic Action for about 1,800 children of poor families from Czestochowa and the whole ...
• 9 July 2009
  EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase tied with string”: poor people frighten us, because poverty can be just around the corner Rome (Agenzia Fides) – It is easy to judge a persons who holds out his hand begging for a coin, or the drunk who falls asleep on the pavement, of the drug addict who reels aimlessly here and there among the crowds. Po ...
• 9 July 2009
  EUROPE/GERMANY - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase tied with string”: “They promised me I would go to university here in Germany. But actually they took away my passport. They wanted me to be a prostitute and I was already pregnant …” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Prostitution, abuse … immigration besides being a dramatic reality is also a demonstration of the evil which grips the whole of the planet. Everywhere we heard terrible stories like this one ...
• 6 July 2009
  EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase tied with string” this evening on Raiuno: a Filipino immigrant tells how she reached Europe: “I was closed with two other girls in a container, without food, the air was unbreathable, the heat stifling. We reached a port in northern Europe …” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Testimony of a young Filipino woman: “I earned too little in my country. It was difficult to leave my family, my little girl and my husband, but I decide to come here to give her a better futur ...
• 6 July 2009
  EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase tied with string” this evening on Raiuno: travelling through the largest Rome communities in Europe, testimonial of young Rom girl under protection who had the courage to report her father for forcing her to steal Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Travelling through the largest Rom communities in Europe and not only Europe, comparing our fears, with them and among them, aware that only schooling for new generations can integrate different ...
• 6 July 2009
  EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase tied with string” this evening on Raiuno: “we are “Rommi” we are rich, I have three children. Some days I try to go to work in the green houses, I get 25 euro a day” Naples (Agenzia Fides) – – Travelling through the largest Rom communities in Europe and not only Europe, we continue our journey among people we call gypsies, a people who have migrated for almost a thousand years, m ...
• 6 July 2009
  VATICAN - The Pope's Message for World Mission Sunday 2009: “The nations will come to its light” (Rev 21, 24) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “The goal of the Church's mission is to illuminate with the light of the Gospel all peoples journeying through history towards God, so that in Him they may be fully realised and accompl ...