Europe

• 20 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Children “together for mission”: Holy Childhood mission kit for mission every day with joy and responsibility Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Italian national Holy Childhood Office has produced a Mission Kit to teach children to live mission in daily life. The kit ‘Missionary Kid’, available on request suggests little ways for ch ...
• 20 December 2005
  EUROPE/RUMANIA - OMI mission in Târgu Jiu grows around the Word of God: monthly meetings of the Bethany School of the Word at St. John of Capestrano parish Târgu Jiu (Fides Service) - “Living the Gospel in the present moment” was the theme of the 3rd Meeting of the School of the Word held on Sunday 18 December in preparation for Christmas at St John of Capestrano paris ...
• 16 December 2005
  EUROPE/POLAND - Holy Childhood Poland, now present in almost every diocese, dedicates annual Christmas aid campaign to Indonesian children victims of last year’s tsunami Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Polish branch of the Pontifical Society of Holy Childhood now present in every diocese will send the proceedings of its annual Christmas fund raising campaign Kolednicy Misyjni, to children v ...
• 16 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - 2 million of the world’s children suffer sexual exploitation ‘perhaps the most invisible of all’ Rome (Fides Service) - In its annual State of the World’s Children Report 2006 ,Excluded and Invisible,, UNICEF the United Nations Fund for Children analyses the situation of children and adolescents living in the most ...
• 15 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Conference to mark the 100th anniversary of Saint Pope Pius X’s “Compendium of Catholic Doctrine” Riese Pio X (Fides Service) - In 1905 Pope Pius X presented Rome diocese with a “Compendio della Dottrina Cristiana”, known as “the Catechism of Pius X”. It consisted of a series of simply worded questions and a ...
• 13 December 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Star Sowers 2005: Holy Childhood Children in the streets to wish everyone a Blessed Christmas and thanks on behalf of missionaries Madrid (Fides Service) - In dioceses all over Spain the Pontifical Mission Societies will celebrate the Feast of Star Sowers, Holy Childhood children go into the streets to offer Christmas greetings on behalf of missiona ...
• 10 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - 4th European Convention for University Students opens tomorrow: “Christian humanism, path for more intense cooperation between Europe and Africa” Rome (Fides Service) - On Sunday 11 December 2005 the 4th European Convention for University Students will start with a solemn concelebration of Mass at 8pm in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. The Convention, held on th ...
• 9 December 2005
  EUROPE/ENGLAND - The introduction of same sex unions as a legal institution is bound to have a lasting social impact and erode the authentic understanding of marriage say Catholic Bishops of England and Wales London (Fides Service) - In a statement on Civil Partnership issued on December 6th from the Catholic Communications Network Archbishop Peter Smith, archbishop of Cardiff and President of the Commission for Christian res ...
• 7 December 2005
  EUROPE/POLAND - “Living the faith and communicating it to others” : 4th PMU National Meeting marks 85th anniversary of PMU Poland Czestochowa (Fides Service) - “We hope this meeting will leave the Church in Poland stronger in missionary spirit ready for greater effort for mission ad gentes” said National director of the Pontifical Mission Socie ...
• 6 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “ll Rischio Educativo” by Mgr Giussani: “This is a book which helps Christians discover reasons for faith and non Christians discover reasons for life” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Presented yesterday at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome the book “Il Rischio Educativo” (The Education Risk) by the late don Luigi Giussani. Speakers at the meeting organised by the se ...
• 6 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Orionina Family organises international mission congress : 8 - 11 December 90 delegates from 4 continents will reflect on the situation and prospects of orionina mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From 8 to 11 December at the Casa "Divin Maestro" in Ariccia (Rome), there will be an international Mission Congress “To the ends of the earth - La Piccola Opera on Mission: pastoral care and fr ...
• 5 December 2005
  EUROPE/GREECE - Appreciation of Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew for the Holy Childhood Meeting for Countries of the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe held for the first time in Greece: “May your work bear fruit for the good of little ones and the glory of the Most Holy Trinity” Corfu (Fides Service) - The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I sent a brief message of appreciation and congratulations to participants at the 5th Holy Childhood Meeting for Countries of the Mediterrane ...
• 5 December 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Winter spiritual renewal course for priests will be held in Jerusalem Rome (Fides Service) - Love cannot fail or limit itself or become bored. It must be renewed every day. This is what happens among one particular category men in love: priests “lovers of God”. They too must renew the ...
• 5 December 2005
  EUROPA/SPAIN - Society of Jesus starts Jubilee Year for 5th centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier and Blessed Pedro Fabro and to commemorate St Ignatius of Loyola 450 years after his death: a year of Christian renewal in the footsteps of the great Spanish missionary Pamplona (Agenzia Fides) - Saturday 3 December the Society of Jesus opened a Xaverian Year to mark three important dates for Jesuits: 5th centenary of the birth of St Francis Xavier and Blessed Pedro Fabro (1506) and to ...
• 2 December 2005
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - The light of Christ illuminates Europe: theme for 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly Sangallo (Agenzia Fides) - The Conference of European Churches KEK and the Council of European Episcopal Conferences CCEE and announced the winner of a competition for a Logo for the 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly AEE3 ...