Europe

• 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 ...
• 3 July 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - A “Charter” to highlight the cultural and educative singularities which mark the identity of Catholic infant schools: initiative of the Archbishop of Bologna Bologna (Agenzia Fides) - The “Formative charter of Catholic Infant Schools” was personally elaborated by Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, Archbishop of Bologna. “This is a document - according to FISM, Italian Federation ...
• 3 July 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - First European Meeting for University students: “New disciples of Emmaus. Being Christians at university”; 11 July Papal audience Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The First European Meeting for University students: “New disciples of Emmaus. Christians at university” will be held in Rome 6 - 12 July (see Fides 17/6/2009). Organised by the Office for Uni ...
• 2 July 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Presentation of a new edition of the book “Il secolo del martirio” the century of martyrdom Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The 20th century was a century of genocide and totalitarianism, but also of new martyrs and great witnesses. The mystery of iniquity and the mystery of equity. This is the underlying theme of a n ...
• 1 July 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - The deaconate of the Word, the Eucharist and the Poor: homily of Archbishop Mauro Piacenza at the ordination of 38 deacons, Legionaries of Christ Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “The deacon is a prophet of a new world, the bearer of a message which sheds light on all the burning issues of society. He is also the principal collaborator of the priest in the celebration of ...
• 30 June 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Thirty eight Legionaries of Christ from 9 different countries ordained in Rome Roma (Agenzia Fides) – Today, 30 June, in the Chapel of the Centro di Studi Superiori di Roma, 38 Legionaries of Christ were ordained deacons. The Mass was presided by Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, Secretary of the Congre ...
• 26 June 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - “The suitcase with a string”, Migrants take the floor Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Rai Uno, from Monday 29 June and four Mondays running, in the second half of the evening, “ The suitcase with a string ” opens a different window on the universe of migrants, giving voice to ...
• 26 June 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Diplomas awarded to 250 immigrant students from 30 different countries at the Louis Massignon Italian School run by the Community of S. Egidio; in 20 years the school has been attended by 5.000 foreigners Napoli (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday 28 June at 5pm at the S. Egidio Community in Naples (via S.Nicola al Nilo 4), there will be a ceremony to award diplomas to 250 immigrant students of the Louis Massignon Italian School run ...