Europe
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23 February 2006
EUROPE/GERMANY - “The future starts here: marriage and the family”. German Bishops' three year programme to promote marriage and the family
Berlin (Fides Service) - Prospects and commitments with regard to a new family policy were the focus of a recent Forum on the theme “The future starts here: prospects for marriage and the family” held in Berlin part ...
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23 February 2006
EUROPE/FRANCE - Process opened for beatification of Louis Joseph Marie Querbes founder of the Clerics of Saint Viator present in 16 different countries
Lyons (Fides Service) - Today 23 February the diocese of Lyons in France opens the first session to investigate the life, heroic virtues and saintliness of Fr Louis Joseph Marie Querbes who founded in the earthly 19th ce ...
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23 February 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - First issue of new quarterly publication “L’Animatore Missionario” focuses on Day for the Commemoration of Martyred Missionaries promoted by Youth Movement of the Italian Pontifical Mission Societies
Rome (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Mission Societies in Italy have published the first issue of a new quarterly publication the Missionary Animator “L’Animatore missionario” for people who produce at the local, ...
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21 February 2006
EUROPE/POLAND - Diocesan directors of Pontifical Mission Societies at National Meeting identify goals and challenges, discuss methods and schedule for next five years 2006/2010
Warsaw (Fides Service) - “Missionary cooperation always a fruit of the Pontifical Mission Societies” was the theme of a national meeting for diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Poland held ...
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20 February 2006
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Building Europe after God’s own heart and meeting the most urgent needs of humanity today: conclusions of general assembly of Union of European Conferences of Religious Major Superiors
Fatima ( Fides Service) - “Men and women Religious, with trust in the life of the Spirit and in the Church can be present where new paths are being traced for Europe. This is an urgent call to build Europe after God’ ...
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16 February 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Deus caritas est and the secular man: a contribution on Benedict XVI's first encyclical by Nicola Bux
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - We publish a contribution on the first encyclical of Benedict XVI “Deus caritas est” by Rev. Nicola Bux, docent at the Pugliese Faculty of Theology, Vice director of the Ecumenical Institute of ...
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15 February 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Together to restore hope in Africa: Harambee 2006 campaign to meet and help a changing Africa
Rome (Fides Service) - Harambee, a fund started in 2002 on the occasion of the canonisation of the founder of Opus Dei Saint Josemaría, is collecting funds for four new development programmes in Africa: helping displace ...
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14 February 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Realty and fiction: Opus Dei press conference to present Harambee programme 2006, to denounce deformed image of the Catholic Church as presented in the film “The Da Vinci Code” soon to be released
Rome (Fides Service) - Today in Rome a press conference was held to present the 2006 edition of Harambee an Opus Dei initiative in aid of Africa first launched on the occasion of the canonisation of Saint Josemaría Escr ...
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13 February 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - Unless this law is altered it will go down in history as one of the first in the world to authorise therapeutic cloning and open the door for reproductive cloning: Catholic Bishops voice serious concern with regard to proposed “Law on methods of assisted human reproduction”
Madrid (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Spain have expressed serious concern with regard to a proposed Law on methods of assisted human reproduction to be discussed soon in Parliament. In a statement the Bishops ...
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8 February 2006
EUROPE/GERMANY - World Day for former Child Soldiers: China Keitesti tells of her sad experience at a meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies
München (Fides Service) - On the occasion of World Day for Child Soldiers 12 February the national office for Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany missio München has organised an ecumenical service on Saturday 11 ...
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8 February 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - National PMS Director says : “faith helps us believe the death of Fr Andrea will bear the fruit of more missionary vocations and service”. Archbishop of Trent says: “may inter-religious contact develop in full religious freedom, mutual respect, constructive dialogue and collaboration all over the world”
Rome (Fides Service) - “I am still in Brazil where I took part in the meeting of Italian ‘Fidei Donum’ in Latin America who all expressed the unanimous desire to continue their service to other Churches after the s ...
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2 February 2006
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “Religious life today: our spiritual life and the challenges facing Europe” theme of next general assembly in Fatima of the Union of European Conferences of Major Religious Superiors representing Europe’s 400,000 men and women Catholic Religious
Fatima (Fides Service) - “Religious life today: our spiritual life and the challenges facing Europe today” is the theme of next general assembly of the Union of European Conferences of Major Religious Superiors UCESM ...
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2 February 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - 5th World Meeting of Families in July 2006 in Valencia: official prayer and prayer intentions
Valencia (Fides Service) - The official prayer in view of the 5th World Meeting of Families WMF in July 2006 in Valencia can be seen at http://www.wmf2006.org. The prayer was composed by the Spanish Bishops’ commission ...
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30 January 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - New look and new contents for
Holy Childhood Society Italian branch monthly magazine Il Ponte d’Oro
Rome (Fides Service) - The January issue of “Il ponte d’oro” (the golden bridge) the monthly magazine issued by the Pontifical Holy Childhood Society has a new look and new contents. Interesting features include ...
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26 January 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - Report on the evolution of the family in Spain in the past 25 years: situation worsens, difficulties increase and public administration ever less present
Madrid (Fides Service) - Families in Spain face increasing problems while public administration is totally absent, according to a Report on the Evolution of Families presented by Eduardo Hertfelder, president of Spain’ ...
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