Europe

• 21 November 2007
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - Catholic Church leaders issue statement on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill: “a dangerous and unnecessary precedent which does not respect the dignity of the human person.” Glasgow (Agenzia Fides) - Leading members of the Catholic Church in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, and Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow, who is also Chairman of the Joint C ...
• 20 November 2007
  EUROPE/CROATIA - 6th Missionary Childhood Congress in Mediterranean and East European countries: sharing the same educational mission each in different realities in the name of the Church Dubrovnik (Agenzia Fides) - The 6th Missionary Childhood Congress in Mediterranean and East European countries was held 12 to 15 November in Dubrovnik. These events, held every two years, have always produced increased i ...
• 14 November 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - “La vita familiare cristiana & il Magistero della Chiesa”: a book on the illumination and formation of the conscience proper to the Magisterium Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “The issue of marriage and the family is ever more central in the present debate on the foundations of civil society. The voice of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church is the bearer of a messag ...
• 13 November 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Pilgrimages, “frontier of evangelisation”: Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi holds International Co-ordination Meeting L’Aquila (Agenzia Fides) - Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi ORP is holding an International Co-ordination Meeting at Forte Spagnolo de L’Aquila with about 300 ORP collaborators from Italy and other countries, including Hol ...
• 9 November 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - TODAY ON THE INTERNET: Italian Bishops' message for Thanksgiving Day 11 November: "the environment is a garden to be cultivated not something to be possessed" Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “Custodians of a land to love and to serve" is the title of a Message issued by the Catholic Bishops of Italy (CEI), on the annual occasion of Thanksgiving Day, Sunday 11 November. In the messag ...
• 9 November 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Start of a pilgrimage of the relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux through Italy on the occasion of a triple anniversary of the Patron Saint of the Missions Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the last months of this year 2007, three important anniversaries connected with the life of Saint Therese of Lisieux occur (born Alençon 1873 - died Lisieux 1897): the 120th anniversary of youn ...
• 6 November 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - The Pope encourages the use of the media to evangelise Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI recently encouraged initiatives promoted by the Communications Office of the Italian Bishops' Conference. He did this on Sunday 4 November, during his midday Ange ...
• 3 November 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - The legacy of Rev Oreste Benzi: “We are part of the Church and the Church has assigned to us a role in the world of slavery, poverty and abuse ” Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “We are part of the Church and the Church has assigned to us a role in the world of slavery, poverty and abuse”: Rev Oreste Benzi, a priest of the diocese of Rimini, founder in 1968 of the Com ...
• 31 October 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - A most positive experience, the days in Rome for the beatification of 498 Spanish martyrs, “the treasure of the Church of the 20th century” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The beatification in Rome on Sunday 28 October of 498 Spaniards was an extraordinary experience, memorable days. This was said by the spokesman of the Catholic Bishop's Conference of Spain Fr. Mart ...
• 31 October 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Report on Immigration in the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Europe, composed of states with millennial traditions, is now inhabited by citizens from many other countries. In the EU-27, an area with around a half a million people, immigrants with foreign cit ...
• 30 October 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - A computer per child in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Forty years since the Encyclical Populorum Progressio, with which Pope Paul VI underlined the importance of education for justice and development, underlining the growing disparity between rich and ...
• 29 October 2007
  EUROPE/POLAND -Mission Week in the archdiocese of Czestochowa closes with the sending of a priest on mission to Zambia Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 28 October, at the end of Mission Week in Czestochowa, in the church of St. Adalbert, bishop and martyr, principal patron saint of Poland Fr Maciej Oset received the missionary man ...
• 26 October 2007
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Volunteer Mission Day promoted by 51 NGOs Aveiro (Agenzia Fides) - "Communicating 2015” is the slogan of Volunteer Mission Day to be celebrated on Sunday 28 October in Aveiro, Portugal organised by an association of 51 of Portuguese NGOs active in the field of ...
• 25 October 2007
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - Saturday 27 October at 4pm Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Moscow, Ordination of new Catholic Archbishop of Mother of God diocese in Moscow Roma (Agenzia Fides) - “With trepidation I learned of the Holy Father's decision to appoint Rev Paolo Pezzi Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Mother of God archdiocese in Moscow. With my confreres of the Fraternity of ...
• 24 October 2007
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Pontifical Mission Societies close Missionary Month with a concelebration of the Eucharist, some guests from mission territories Eichstätt (Agenzia Fides) - With a solemn concelebration of Mass in Eichstätt Cathedral , the Pontifical Mission Societies Germany - missio - will conclude on Sunday 28 October the Month of Mission. With the motto “G ...