Europe

• 2 April 2007
  EUROPE - “The family is the foundation of European society”: over 20 associations at European parliament sign a resolution on the Family in Europe, the result of an unprecedented international family movement which continues to grow Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - “In Europe we are witnessing an unprecedented international family movement which continues to grow" says Lola Velarde, president of the European network of Family Policy Institutes. In fact ...
• 30 March 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - “Neither Europe nor France can fail to act in the face of such suffering” Catholic Bishops conclude plenary assembly with an appeal for Darfur Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) - A general assembly of the Catholic Bishops of France closed yesterday, 29 March, a day earlier than planned to enable the Bishops to attend the funeral of Archbishop François Saint-Macary, arch ...
• 29 March 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “When a society accepts abortion it is preparing to eliminate freedom”: Conclusions of 1st international congress on “Women and Abortion” Caceres (Agenzia Fides) - "Abortion implicates denying the existence of the life of a human person" we read in the conclusions issued at the end of 1st international congress on “Women and Abortion” organised by the ...
• 28 March 2007
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Families based on marriage, protection of life from conception to natural death, more equality in work opportunities and resources, respect and welcome for emigrants: Cardinal Ricard addresses French Bishops’ Conference Plenary Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) - In view of elections in France in April Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of France recalled certain basic principles. Addressing a plenary assembly ...
• 28 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - 40 Italian towns join 4th edition of “Forty Hours Prayer for the Church in Need” Rome (Fides Service) - The 4th edition of “Forty Hours Prayer for the Church in Need” 27 - 29 March started yesterday in the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus in Rome. The initiative is promoted by the officially reco ...
• 26 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Young Catholics of Rome diocese will gather round their Bishop, Pope Benedict XVI, for a Penitential vigil to prepare for Palm Sunday, 22nd Youth Day Rome (Fides Service) - On Thursday 29 March at 5.30pm, Pope Benedict XVI will meet thousands of young Catholics of Rome diocese in St Peter’s Basilica to prepare for the 22nd Youth Day on Palm Sunday, 1 April. As the P ...
• 26 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Rome Declaration on Family Rights to be presented to the United Nations: Family is a factor of “social balance and economic development” Rome (Fides Service) - At the end of the 17th International Congress on the “Family Rights and Responsibilities”, organised in Rome by the International Federation for Family Development (IFFD), representatives of 1 ...
• 26 March 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Believers and non consider the Catholic Church “the voice of human rights”: Spanish branch of Aid to the Church in Need mission in Eritrea Madrid (Fides Service) - One of many projects undertaken to mark the 60th anniversary of the foundation the Catholic aid agency Aid to the Church in Need ACN is a project to assist Eritrean Christians proposed by ACN Spa ...
• 23 March 2007
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic Bishops denounce spreading culture of death which robs man of his fundamental rights and dilutes society’s awareness of the value of life and the dignity of every human person : Message for the annual Day for Life Madrid (Fides Service) - In a message for the national Day for Life in Spain, March 25th , the country’s Catholic Bishops write “As the Bishops of the ‘People of Life’ we denounce a spreading culture of death and ...
• 23 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - On Sunday 25 March athletes will set out to carry the Torch of Lolek from Rome to Poland to mark the 2° anniversary of the dearly beloved Pope John Paul II Rome (Fides Service) - For the second year running in commemoration of the dearly loved Pontiff John Paul II who died on 2 April 2005, the Torch of Lolek, as Karol Wojtyla was called when he was a boy, will be carried fr ...
• 22 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Fr. Augustin Planque and the missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles Rome (Fides Service) - Fr. Augustin Planque was born in Chemy, in the north of France in 1826 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1850. Augustin felt called to the priesthood at an early age and he left his father’s ...
• 22 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Evangelisation, education and formation for women: missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles commemorate Founder on the centenary of his death Rome (Fides Service) - “Our spirituality is essentially apostolic, marked by the simplicity of our Founder: ‘to know and love God and to make Him known and loved - Superior General Eileen Curran of the Sisters of Our ...
• 22 March 2007
  EUROPE/ENGLAND - “Address spiritual hunger in mission work before material needs”: Annual European Meeting for National Directors of Pontifical Mission Societies Durham (Fides Service) - From 16 to 20 March 25 national directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Europe met for their annual assembly, this year hosted by St Cuthbert's College Ushaw, in the city Durham, in nort ...
• 21 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - Experts on the Family meet in Rome to discuss family policies and sign “Rome Declaration on Family Rights and Responsibilities” for presentation to the United Nations Organisation Rome (Fides Service) - Family Rights and Responsibilities is the theme of the 17th international meeting on the family organised by the International Federation for Family Development IFFD on the 23 and 24 March at the H ...
• 21 March 2007
  EUROPE/ITALY - English speaking Orionini missionary Delegation concludes meeting: vocations flourish in India, special pastoral care for Hispanic and Brazilian immigrants in Boston, United States Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A meeting for representatives of the ‘Mother of the Church’ English speaking Orionini missionary Delegation held at the Curia general Opera Don Orione in Rome concluded yesterday 20 March. The ...