Europe

• 30 May 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - Holy Childhood Association meets in anticipation for the National HCA Congress commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Association’s presence in the country Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) – On May 27, at Warsaw’s John Paul II Museum, a gathering for children of the Holy Childhood Association was held with representatives from the city’s grammar schools. A report on the event w ...
• 29 May 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Church in Poland celebrates the Day of Prayer for the Church in China Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) – The Church in Poland gladly responded to the appeal of the Holy Father Benedict XVI and that of Bishop Wiktor Skworc of Tarnów and President of the Polish Bishops’ Commission for the Mission ...
• 29 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY -Meeting for Friendship Among the Peoples in Rimini, August 2008; Recalling the 28th Meeting Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Meeting for Friendship Among the Peoples in Rimini is a grand social event, a festival of encounters, culture, music, and shows that takes place every year at the end of August, and that over ...
• 29 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The 10th General Ordinary Assembly of the Spanish Foreign Missions Institute (IEME) concludes. New President elected. Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – On May 12, the 10th General Ordinary Assembly of the Spanish Foreign Missions Institute (IEME) met in Madrid. The event was attended by 26 representatives from missionary groups in 14 differen ...
• 28 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - 36 new priests from the Prelature of Opus Dei Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, May 24, the Prelate of Opus Dei, Bishop Javier Echevarria ordained 36 men from the Prelature in the Basilica of San Eugenio, in Rome. The new priests are from 15 different countries: ...
• 27 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - First virtual seminar in Spanish on on-line journalism and third on-line seminar on radio at the Gregorian University Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Interdisciplinary Center for Social Communications (CICS) at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome is offering for the first time, a virtual seminar in Spanish on on-line journalism, gear ...
• 26 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - “I ragazzi di via Sandri”: champions of life in Rome’s lower-class suburbs Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Via Sandro Sandri, a street in Casal Bruciato, is one of the many locations on Rome’s outskirts where the social unease, pain and suffering, the escape from everything, the violence, the crime, a ...
• 26 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Symposium on “The mission of the Church” and the re-birth of the missionary spirit, sponsored by the Missiology Department of the Theological Institute of San Damaso in Madrid Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Missiology Department of the Theological Institute of San Damaso in Madrid has organized a symposium on “The mission of the Church” and the re-birth of the missionary spirit, to take plac ...
• 26 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Day of Prayer for the Church in China: Chinese Catholics in Spain pray the Rosary with other faithful from their country and Taiwan Huesca (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, May 24, at the Shrine of Torreciudad, a small Chinese Catholic community in Spain celebrated the Day of Prayer for the Church in China, in response to the general appeal made by the ...
• 23 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholics in Spain will celebrate the Day of Prayer for the Church in China at the Shrine of Torreciudad Huesca (Agenzia Fides) - The community of Chinese Catholics in Spain will flock to the Shrine of Torreciudad (Huesca, Spain) on Saturday, May 24, to celebrate the Day of Prayer for the Church in China. The encounter will ...
• 21 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Benedictus”: a professor that places his intelligence at the service of modern man, that the truth may be known and acknowledged Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “It would be rash to think of writing a biography of the Pope, especially in the case of Benedict XVI.” These were the words of Giuseppe De Carli, Vatican expert and head of Rai Vaticano, on th ...
• 21 May 2008
  EUROPE/ENGLAND - The Church defines the creation of hybrid embryos as “intrinsically immoral” because it “violates the human rights of the unborn and can give way to monstrous aberrations.” London (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Great Britain expressed its disapproval of the House of Commons’ decision to approve the controversial government proposal allowing scientific research using “hybrid” ...
• 19 May 2008
  EUROPE/IRELAND - Conference on cluster bombs, “lethal devices,” begins today in Dublin Dublin (Agenzia Fides) - Today, May 19, a Conference is being held in the Irish capital city of Dublin, on cluster bombs. It is a type of mechanism that causes grave humanitarian problems, whose consequences can last dec ...
• 19 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The Bishops of Castilla-Leon defend the primordial right of parents to a conscientious objection to “Education for Citizenship” Valladolid (Agenzia Fides) - The Presidential Councilor and spokesman for the Castilla-Leon regional government declared that conscientious objections to the school course entitled, “Education for Citizenship” (EpC), ...
• 16 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - The “communication revolution” of Pope John Paul II Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “Correct me if I make a mistake” (“Se mi sbaglio mi corrigerete”). This was famous phrase spoken by Cardinal Wojtyla, minutes after being elected Pope John Paul II, on the balcony of St. Pe ...