Europe

• 27 June 2006
  EUROPE/POLAND - “The recent pastoral visit which Pope Benedict XVI made to our country gave new impulse to our efforts to focus more clearly on missionary cooperation” says PMS national director illustrating numerous mission activities in the coming months. Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - June in Poland was an eminently missionary month according to national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in that country Fr. Jan Piotrowski. The first major event was the 6th National ...
• 26 June 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - At the Family Fair at World Meeting of Families “Aid to the Church in Need” proposes Children’s Bible and Aid Campaign for Child Soldiers in Sudan Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - As part of initiatives for the 5th World Meeting of Families in Valencia, Spain, 1-9 July, the Catholic agency Aid to the Church in Need, through its local Spanish branch will present two stan ...
• 23 June 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Awareness of the importance and the urgency of mission ad gentes, as the primordial duty of the Church, is ever deeper”: says Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe takes part in Days for Diocesan Mission Delegates Javier (Agenzia Fides) - The Days for Diocesan Mission Delegates and Diocesan Directors of Pontifical Mission Societies organised in Javier Navarra, Spain to mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Saint Francis Xavie ...
• 23 June 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Italian missionaries in Angola: “The fundamental objective is evangelisation so the message of the Gospel may progressively fecund the different areas of political, economic and cultural life of Angolan society ” Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church in Angola can enrich the pastoral renewal of the Church in Italy with its joyful and festive and actively participated liturgies; commitment of the laity, catechists in particular; ...
• 22 June 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Religious and musical events and an exhibition on the Legacy of Saint Ignatius of Loyola to mark the 450th anniversary of the death of Saint Loyola (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the 450th anniversary of the death of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, July 31 2006, who founded the Society of Jesus, as part of Jesuit Jubilee Year celebrations all over the year to mark 50 ...
• 21 June 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “The Pope’s visit will encourage the families of the world to be what they are meant to be, the seed of a new society ” says president of the Spanish Family Policy Institute Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The encounter with the Pope will be a great encouragement for families all over the world, subject to repeated and ever more aggressive threats and attacks, according to president of the Spanish ...
• 20 June 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Orionini: first steps for a new English speaking Missionary Delegation Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Orionini confreres of the General Council and the Representatives of the English speaking countries, met from 16th to 18th June in view of a new English speaking missionary delegation. Rev. Flavio ...
• 19 June 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - First Peruvian Coordinator General of the Dominican Missionary Sisters of the Rosary: “I have always tried to be available to work wherever the need arose... now in this spirit I accept this new service” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - During their 18th general chapter held in Madrid the Dominican Missionary Sisters of the Rosary elected a new General co-ordinator Peruvian born Mother Dominga Esther Garro Pérez, the first Lati ...
• 19 June 2006
  EUROPE/SLOVENIA - General Secretaries of Europe’s Bishops’ Conferences meet to discuss collaboration in urgent pastoral concerns and issues connected ecumenism and with the process of European unification Ljubljana (Agenzia Fides) - The General Secretaries of Europe’s 34 Bishops’ Conferences are to meet in Ljubljana (Slovenia) from 24 - 27 June 2006. Items for discussion by the representatives of the Bishops’ Confer ...
• 17 June 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - National Days for Diocesan Missions Delegates and Diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies Meeting in the framework of the 5th centenary of the birth of Saint Francis Xavier Javier (Agenzia Fides) - From 20 -22 June in Javier in the framework of the 5th centenary of the birth of Saint Francis Xavier there will be the National Days for Diocesan Missions Delegates and Diocesan Directors of the ...
• 16 June 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Meeting of Italian Missionaries in Angola ends today: two Churches listen to each other to grow in mission sensitivity Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - A Meeting for Italian Missionaries in Angola organised by the Italian Bishops’ office for missionary collaboration between Churches and the Angolan Bishops’ Conference closes today. Some 60 m ...
• 14 June 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - “We want to find new paths for our missionary activity” says director of the Mission Office of the archdiocese of Trent which has years of mission experience in Chad Rome (Agenzia Fides)- “We are determined to continue our missionary work despite difficulties connected with the general crisis in vocations in Europe” says Rev. Carlo Speccher director of the Mission Office of the a ...
• 14 June 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - 4th European Symposium for University Docents: 250 docents from 25 different countries will discuss “Enterprise and Building a new Humanism” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “Enterprise and Building a new Humanism” is the title of the 4th European Symposium for University Docents to be held in Rome 22 - 25 June 2006 promoted by the Rome diocese office for Universit ...
• 13 June 2006
  EUROPE/ITALY - Legionaries of Christ Semper Altius Foundation builds a school for poor children in Guatemala Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A school being built in a poor district of Guatemala by the Semper Altius Foundation www.altius.org of the Legionaries of Christ should be ready by January 2007. It joins 23 other schools with a to ...
• 13 June 2006
  EUROPE/SPAIN - ‘Mission Young People’ launched in Madrid aims to help young practising Catholics to strengthen their faith and draw other young people back to Jesus Christ Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - ‘Mission Young People’, a fruit of the 3rd diocesan Synod in Madrid celebrated last year, is the title of an initiative launched by Cardinal Antonio Mª Rouco Varela Archbishop of Madrid on P ...