Europe
16 January 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - Consecrated men and women are called to arrange their day around the prayer of the Church to enable them to announce to the world that “salvation is still present and comes from God through his Son”: Italian Bishops issue message for upcoming World Day for the Consecrated Life
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In a Message issued for the 11th annual Day for the Consecrated Life the Italian Bishops write: “February 2nd Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, the Church celebrates the Day for Consecrated ...
12 January 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishops’ message for Migration Day: "an opportunity to increase awareness of the situation and let it challenge us in the light of the word of God to make a new start with greater commitment "
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “You are 44 million members of one family... "you are members of the family of God " (Eph 2,19)", is the title of a message issued by the Catholic Bishops of Spain on the occasion of Migration ...
11 January 2007
ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Co-ordination of Bishops’ Conferences in Support of the Church of the Holy Land: A group of European and North American bishops is visiting the Holy Land from 12th to 18th January
Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - A group of European and North American bishops is visiting the Holy Land from 12th to 18th January this year. This is an established group, which was set up at the request of the Holy See in J ...
9 January 2007
EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish Family Policy Institute calls for National Plan to sustain the birth rate in a situation of social catastrophe of rising numbers of abortions
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Spanish Family Policy Institute IPF a growing number of Spanish women choose to abort their babies. IPF president Eduardo Hertfelder, said today 2 out of 10 pregnancies are termi ...
4 January 2007
EUROPE/FRANCE - Epiphany of solidarity with African Churches
Paris (Fides Service) - The poor of Africa will benefit from special collections in churches all over France on the Feast of the Epiphany (Sunday 7 January in France).
“We have asked Catholics to make a gesture of so ...
21 December 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Legionaries of Christ: ordination in Rome of 55 new priests from 10 different countries
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - With a solemn rite presided by Cardinal Franc Rodé C.M., prefect of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, on Saturday 23 December, 55 deacons of ...
21 December 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - It’s Christmas! Only after adoring Emmanuel in the stable at Bethlehem can we return to our normal surroundings to bring hope to the hopeless, sharing with them the joy of Christmas - A reflection by the Abbess of the Poor Clares Community, Otranto, Italy
Otranto (Fides Service) - The annual recurrence of Christmas is an invitation to meditate anew on the extraordinary event of the incarnation of the Son of God. Although our attention may be drawn to many other things, as ...
20 December 2006
EUROPE/GERMANY - “Children For Creation - Tianay ny Haritanan’Atra” 2007 Sternsinger Solidarity Campaign to protect the environment and the future of Malagasy children
Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - “Tianay ny Haritanan’Atra: “Children for Creation” is the title of the 2007 Sternsinger Solidarity Campaign. In Bamberg, Baviera, on Friday 29 December about 1,500 children representative ...
19 December 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - In the footsteps of Peter and Paul, young members of Opera Don Orione join 14th “New Year’s Eve with a Difference” dedicated to Pope Benedict XVI
Rome (Fides Service) - More than 500 young people aged 17 to 30 from Italy and other countries of Europe will take part in the 14th “New Year’s Eve with a Difference” event 29 December to 1 January 2007 promoted ...
18 December 2006
EUROPE/SLOVENIA - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 27 October 2006, appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Slovenia for a five ...
15 December 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic Bishops concerned for treatment of Religious Instruction in schools. New subject “Education to Citizenship” is state interference with the moral education
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Spain have expressed concern for treatment of Religious Instruction and the new subject of Education to Citizenship introduced by the government. In a statement dated 14 December i ...
7 December 2006
EUROPA/ITALY - 50th anniversary of the encyclical Fidei Donum: Meeting for Missionary Families
Bellaria (Agenzia Fides) - “Missionary Families” will be at the centre of a meeting for lay missionaries 8- 10 December at the Centro Congressi Europeo di Bellaria, in Rimini, organised by the Italian Bishops’ Conf ...
27 November 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - “Moral guidelines for the present situation in Spain”: Bishops offer contribution for necessary discernment in complex times
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “Moral guidelines for the present situation in Spain” was the title of a Pastoral Instruction issued by the Catholic Bishops of Spain at the end of a plenary assembly in Madrid, 20-24 Novembe ...
23 November 2006
EUROPE/GERMANY - “God becomes man in the Neapolitan art of Nativity Scenes”: from Naples to his homeland an exhibition in honour of Pope Benedict XVI
Traunstein (Agenzia Fides) -An exhibition of 35 Neapolitan Nativity Scenes organised in honour of Pope Benedict XVI, will open on Saturday 25 November in Kunstraum Klosterkirche in Traunstein in Bavaria, Germany. The ini ...
22 November 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - “One who loves life in fact instead of taking it, gives it, instead of it keeping it for self, puts it at the service of others. Loving life means not denying it to anyone, not even to the smallest and most defenceless person, the unborn child, even the child with serious a disability”: Italian Bishops’ message for 29 Pro Life Day
Rome (Fides Service) - “Life to be Desired and Loved” is the title of a message in view of the 29th Day for Life in Italy first Sunday of February, 4 February 2007 issued by the Standing Council of the Italian Bishop ...
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