Europe

• 4 July 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Africa, a challenge for the world and for the Church” theme of 60th Burgos Missiology Week: 50 years since the publication of the Fidei Donum encyclical Burgos (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa, a challenge for the world and for the Church” is the theme of theme of 60th Missiology Week, 50 years since the Encyclical Fidei Donum, which will take place in Burgos 9 to 13 July. Th ...
• 4 July 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - October Mission Week 14 - 21: an opportunity for every baptised Catholic to give new impulse to prayer and offerings in support of the Church's missionary activity Paris (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in France are preparing for 'World Mission Week' 14 - 21 October which culminates on Mission Sunday 21 October. Parishes and church movements all over the country, each according to its ...
• 3 July 2007
  EUROPE/CROATIA - Vocations in Europe: sowing seeds of hope. Final statement of European Vocations Service Conference Baške Uštarije (Agenzia Fides) - The European Vocations Service EVS held its annual conference at Baške Uštarije in Croatia from 28 June to 1 July. The dioceses of Zadar and Gospić welcomed some 50 directors of ...
• 3 July 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - More family and more formation: challenge for Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Italy Rinnovamento nello Spirito Santo Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Formation throughout the country: from the family to animation, from prayer to social commitment. These are the guidelines of the formative proposal of Rinnovamento nello Spirito Santo (RnS) for 20 ...
• 2 July 2007
  EUROPE/GEORGIA - "John XXIII Community arrived ten days ago and is and already in action ”: Fides speaks with project leader Tbilisi (Agenzia Fides)- The John XXIII Community has only just arrived in Georgia but it is already at work to provide assistance and promote development. “We started our activity about 10 days ago at Georgia's main p ...
• 2 July 2007
  EUROPE/GEORGIA - “The Catholic community in Georgia is small but active and united ” says Mgr. Giuseppe Pasotto, Apostolic Administrator of the Caucuses of the Latins Tbilisi (Agenzia Fides)- “I invited the John XXIII Community to work in Georgia to put its special charisma at the service of the marginalised in the light of the love of Christ and at the disposal of our Church and lo ...
• 30 June 2007
  EUROPE - Last year Aid to the Church in Need funded 5,100 projects in parishes and diocese in 137 different countries and supported 16,724 seminarians all over the world Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - In the year 2006 the Catholic aid agency Aid to the Church in Need received more than 81 million Euro in donations, 10% more than in the previous year, according to a recent ACN Report. In a lett ...
• 27 June 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - On the feast day of its founder Saint Josemaria Opus Dei announces stable activity of members of the Prelature in Russia Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “My soul is filled with great joy which I wish to share with you. Today the feast of Saint San Josemaria, members of the Opus Dei Prelature in Russia have begun stable work in those lands which e ...
• 26 June 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Caffarra presides ordinations of priest and deacons members of the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo: “The awareness you have of this evening and of yourselves must be filled to the brim with your mission” Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “Dear ordinands, you will soon say and repeat the greatest word a person can say: ‘Yes, I will". The supreme act of your freedom; this act give birth to your I. Because the I is generated not ...
• 25 June 2007
  EUROPE/RUMANIA - First Don Orione Piccolo Cottolengo opened in the suburbs of Bucharest Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - The first Don Orione Piccolo Cottolengo in Rumania was recently opened in the Bucharest suburb of Voluntari (population 130.000). In the vast area where a Charity Village is under construction ...
• 23 June 2007
  EUROPE/CROATIA - “The Family: a place of vocation” - European Vocations Service Annual Meeting Zadar (Croatia) - From 28 June to 1 July in Zadar (Croatia), there will be the Annual Meeting of the European Vocations Service (EVS), which brings together the national Vocations' Offices of the 34 Bishops' Conferences ...
• 23 June 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Bertone will preside Mass for the 4th edition of the “Festa del Papa” organised by the Orionini Fathers and the Movimento dell'Amore Familiare on the theme: "The Pope Guide of the Family" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday 28 June at midday at the church of Traspontina, Via della Conciliazione in Rome, the Pope's Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone will preside a solemn Mass on the occasion of ...
• 22 June 2007
  EUROPE/AZERBAIJAN - After the opening of the only Catholic Church in the country a Catholic web site has been opened to provide information and news Baku (Agenzia Fides) - Salesians from della Slovenia, serving at the "Missio sui iurus" in Azerbaijan, have just opened a web site which offers information on the Catholic Church. The initiative, coordinated with the he ...
• 22 June 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “When what is at stake is a fundamental right like freedom of conscience and teaching - everyone, Catholics in particular, must unite in its defence": Bishops' second statement on new education law Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - A second statement on Spain's new education law was issued by the country's Catholic Bishops at the end of a Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Bishops Conference held in Madrid 19 to 21 Ju ...
• 22 June 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Prospects for mission among Italian emigrants: Symposium in Nice Roma (Agenzia Fides) - The National Office for the Pastoral Care of Italians abroad of the Fondazione Migrantes, in collaboration with National Coordinators of Italian Missionaries in emigration, promoted a Symposium on ...