Europe
14 November 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - “Communicating Africa” Harambee Award 2nd edition, winners from Nigeria and Ireland
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - This morning at the Mayor’s Office in Rome, Nigerian Gabriel Otonoku, and Irish Jim Fahy, were awarded the International Harambee Award respectively in the categories: “African Productions” ...
14 November 2006
EUROPE/CYPRUS - Presented to Pope Benedict XVI photographic documentation on the transformation for other purposes of churches in the Turkish part of Cyprus
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - During the official visit to the Vatican on November 10 by the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Pope Benedict XVI was presented with photographic documentation of how hundreds of churches on th ...
10 November 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Final days for SMS to support Comunità Giovanni XXIII Association
Roma (Agenzia Fides)- Until 7 January there is still time to join an important initiative of solidarity with the Comunità Giovanni XXIII run by Rev Oreste Benzi. An SMS sent to number 4858323 gives one Euro in aid of th ...
10 November 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - 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 5 October 2006 appointed a new National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Italy for a fiv ...
30 October 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - “It is impossible to foster or even to respect the common good, without putting the value and sublime value of every human person at the centre” 4th International Conference on Bio-Ethics, Human Dignity and Common Good
Cordova (Fides Service) - “It is impossible to promote or even to respect the common good, without putting the value and sublime value of every human person at the centre of the interest and decision making of all, pub ...
27 October 2006
EUROPE/BELGIUM - "Brussels, All Saints 2006": 4th Congress on Evangelisation reflects on faith and modern culture to render the Church visible and close to all
Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - From 28th October to 5 November Brussels will host a Congress on Evangelisation. The aim is “to render the Church visible and close to all” Cardinal Godfried Danneels Catholic Archbishop o ...
25 October 2006
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “If we demand a state law which defends human life from its conception it is because it is a universal value, of natural ethics, not only a moral religious precept”: Bishops and upcoming referendum on abortion
Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The standing committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Portugal has called on the country’s Catholics to vote against lifting restrictions on abortion in the upcoming referendum. On 19 ...
25 October 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic Bishops warn that proposed Bill on biomedical research “fails to guarantee proper protection of life opening the door to legal practice of more abuses against the dignity of the human person”
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “The Proposed Law On Bio-Medical Research Fails To Protect Life And Allows Human Cloning” is the title of a statement issued by the Standing Committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of ...
23 October 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - Beatification of Sr. Margarita María López de Maturana, foundress of the Mercedarian Missionaries of Bérriz: she turned a cloistered convent into a missionary institute
Bilbao (Agenzia Fides) - On Mission Sunday 22 October, in Bilbao, Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and Papal Envoy for the occasion, presided Mass for the Beatificatio ...
13 October 2006
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Pontifical Mission Societies in Switzerland choose Madagascar as symbol country for missionary month of October and Mission Sunday
Fribourg (Agenzia Fides) - “In every country the month of October must be considered the month of universal mission. The penultimate Sunday, called Mission Sunday, is the apex as the feast of Catholicity and universal ...
12 October 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - World Congress of Catholic TV: “Cooperation is essential and urgent to build the Church of our day " says Fr. Lombardi; “Catholics from all over the world have come to this Congress to discuss how to make Television a channel of evangelisation” says Cardinal Rouco Varela
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The second day of the World Congress of Catholic Television in Madrid, 10 - 13 October being attended by representatives from about 50 different countries, started with an intervention by Prof. F ...
11 October 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - “We must be co-workers of the truth so as to offer the Good News of Our Lord in the multiple formats of audiovisual media, while also witnessing to the beauty of creation.": Papal Message to Congress of Catholic Television
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Benedict sent a message on the occasion of the Congress on Catholic Television being held in Madrid, 10-12 October in which he affirmed "it is necessary without fear of technology, to promo ...
10 October 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - “We urgently need professional Catholic communicators in the field of television…We need Catholic television!”: World Congress of Catholic TV
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The first World Congress of Catholic Television 10 -12 October opened today in Los Negrales, Madrid presided by Cardinal Antonio Mª Rouco Varela, Archbishop of Madrid, and Archbishop John P. Fol ...
10 October 2006
EUROPE/RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Presidents of European Bishops Conferences attend Plenary Assembly in St Petersburg: new presidency elected
San Petersburg (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time ever, the Presidents of Europe’s 34 bishops’ conferences met in Russia, in Saint Petersburg, from 4th - 8th October 2006. “We have come here from all over Europ ...
9 October 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Catholic Bishops issue message in view of the 4th National Catholic Church Meeting: being witnesses of hope not only in word “hope which accompanies and sustains evangelisation”
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the 4th National Catholic Church Meeting in Verona, 16-20 October which will reflect on the theme “Witnesses to the Risen Jesus, hope of the world” the Italian Bishops have issued a ...
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