Europe

• 16 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALIA - “We should learn to transmit trust and hope in the future to our young people”: professors of Rome’s universities reflect on Benedict XVI’s Letter on the urgent task of education Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “The urgent task of education: the universities of Rome reflect on the Letter from Benedict XVI.” This was the theme of a seminar that was held May 14, in Rome, organized by the Office for Camp ...
• 14 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishop of Tarazona shows concern for the religious freedom law that could lead to radical secularism Tarazona (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Demetrio Fernandez of Tarazona (Spain), in his most recent Pastoral Letter, showed his concern for the reform of the religious freedom law that the government has announced will soon tak ...
• 8 May 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - “My Rainbow Newspaper,” a children’s bi-monthly publication, dedicates its most recent issue to the Church’s mission Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - The most recent issue (May/June 2008) of the Catholic bi-monthly publication “My Rainbow Newspaper” (in Polish: Moje Pismo Tecza) for children presents the theme of the missions. The pe ...
• 8 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - Pentecost Vigil in the Cathedral of Rome on the theme of World Youth Day, with Confirmations of 185 university students and presentation of the delegation that will travel to Sydney Rome (Agencia Fides) - On Saturday, May 10 at 7:30pm in the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, the Cathedral of Rome, there will be a Pentecost Vigil with the theme of World Youth Day (WYD): “You will receive the power of ...
• 8 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishops of Cuba on their Marian pilgrimage: “The Church in Cuba made it their priority to be a prayerful Church in an atheist country and a missionary Church although the faith was restricted to places of worship.” Illescas (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Guillermo Dionisio Garcia of Santiago de Cuba presided the Mass yesterday held at the Shrine of “La Virgen de la Caridad” in Illescas (Toledo), in honor of the establishment of t ...
• 7 May 2008
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Presentation of the report on “The Evolution of the Family in Europe 2008”: a need for establishing an authentic and effective, integral family policy of universal character Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - The European Network of the Institute for Family Policy (IPF) presented a report in the European Parliament, May 7, 2008, at 10:30am, on “The Evolution of the Family in Europe 2008,” coinci ...
• 5 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 3,000 Latin American residents living in Spain celebrate the 8th Marian Encounter of American Peoples in the Shrine of Torreciudad Huesca (Agencia Fides) - The Shrine of Torreciudad welcomed some 3,000 Latin America residents living in Spain, during the celebration of the 8th Marian Encounter of American Peoples. The event that takes place every fir ...
• 3 May 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Our mission…is on all human frontiers”: Interview with Monsignor Massimo Camisasca, Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo, founded in 1985 by Monsignor Massimo Camisasca, today has a hundred members who are priests, as well as some thirty seminarian ...
• 2 May 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Celebration for the Diocesan Missionary Day with a “missionary sending” Mass: “The Diocese that is not generous with those most in need, will not receive the God-given graces it needs.” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, May 4, the Diocese of Madrid will celebrate Diocesan Missionary Day, with the theme: “The Diocesan Church...open to the missions.” The central event of the celebration will be the ...
• 30 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - 31st National Charismatic Convention, May 1-4: “Reborn through the Word of God” Rimini (Agenzia Fides) - From May 1 - 4, the 31st National Convention for the Groups and Communities of Renewal in the Holy Spirit (“RnS”) will be held at the “Fiera di Rimini” (Italy), with the theme: “Reborn ...
• 29 April 2008
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Spring Scalabrini-Fest on “Let He who is ‘the first of all: Christ, the Head of the Body’ find us and send us” Solothurn (Agenzia Fides) - On April 25-27, the Scalabrinian Secular Missionaries hosted the Scalabrini Spring Fest, in the Swiss town of Solothurn, where they are based. The event was open to anyone interested in findin ...
• 24 April 2008
  EUROPE/POLAND - The “Missionary Labs” in preparation for the 7th National Congress of the Holy Childhood Association Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - A group of nearly 80 catechists, priests, religious men and women, missionary workers, members of missionary volunteer groups, and heads of the Pontifical Mission Societies from the parishes ...
• 24 April 2008
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Native Vocations Day: "although these are not easy times for vocations, we should make the effort not to let ourselves be overcome by discouragement and anxiety" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Native Vocations Day helps us to be realists and live with a greater sense of responsibility towards others...in a society that is contaminated by secularism and oppressed by consumerism, the co ...
• 23 April 2008
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Lourdes, city of peace Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to a girl named Bernadette, the small French village of Lourdes is organizing a series of events, in hopes of becomin ...
• 17 April 2008
  EUROPE/ITALY - 18,815 Jesuits worldwide; largest representation and youngest members in south Asia, with the most novices Roma (Agenzia Fides) - According to statistics made available to Agenzia Fides from the General Curia of the Society of Jesus, dated January 1, 2008, the total number of Jesuits in the world is 18,815. They are subdivide ...