Europe

• 23 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Prestigious UNESCO award to Catholic priest at the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in Rome Rome (Fides Service) - A Catholic priest Fr. Michel Lagarde, professor of Arab language and culture, is to receive the Sharjah Award for Arab Culture 2005 assigned by UNESCO and funded by the United Arab Emirates. This i ...
• 23 September 2005
  EUROPA/ESTONIA - Ordination in Tallinn of new Bishop Apostolic Administrator of Estonia Tallinn (Fides Service) - Mgr Philippe Jourdan, appointed Apostolic Administrator of Estonia in March this year by Pope John Paul II of venerated memory, was ordained a bishop on 10 September in Tallinn by papal nuncio A ...
• 22 September 2005
  EUROPA/SPAIN - “As the new school year starts the family finds itself at the epicentre of social and ecclesial upheaval We must lose no time in updating and intensifying pastoral care for families” urges Cardinal archbishop of Madrid Madrid (Fides Service) - “We must lose no time in updating and intensifying pastoral care for families” Cardinal Antonio Mª Rouco Valera archbishop of Madrid said on September 18 during his weekly Sunday address on ...
• 21 September 2005
  EUROPE/POLAND - Faced with the variety of ways to happiness proposed by the media, the Church teaches another way through meeting the living Christ: final message from Plenary Assembly of the European Bishops' Media Commission Warsaw (Fides Service) - To analyse the current media culture and to try to understand how young people relate to it, in an attempt to discover possible future priorities in the Church's work with and for young people: t ...
• 21 September 2005
  EUROPE/RUMANIA - Bishop Friends of Focolari Movement in Bucarest for 24th Ecumenical Meeting Bucarest (Fides Service) - At the invitation of Theocist I Orthodox Patriarch of Rumania and his Holy Synod, the annual International Meeting of Bishops of different Churches, Friends of the Focolari Movement is being he ...
• 20 September 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Family movements welcome appeal against unconstitutional law to allow same sex ‘marriage’. “we have never seen such a strong and coordinated family movement with this social and political impact” says Eduardo Hertfelder president of Spain’s Family Policy Institute Madrid (Fides Service) - Numerous family institutions and movements have welcomed the announcement that the Spanish Popular Party PP intends to appeal against the law which gives same sex unions the status of marriage an ...
• 19 September 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Today Christian witness of family love and communion has unequalled potential for evangelisation”: Cardinal Sepe presides 16th Family Marian Day at Shrine of Our Lady of Torreciudad Huesca (Fides Service) - Thousands of families, more than 15,000 men, women and children gathered on Sunday 18 September at the Marian Shrine of Torreciudad, Huesca in Spain for the 16th Family Marian Day meeting preside ...
• 17 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - 1st World Conference of Benedictine Oblates: representatives of 24,000 Oblates all over the world will reflect on “Communion with God - Communion with the world” Rome (Fides Service) - From 19 to 25 September at the suggestion of Benedictine Abbot Primate Notker Wolf the 1st World Congress of Benedictine Oblates will be held in Rome. Oblates are affiliated with one of the world� ...
• 17 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - China and Europe “different but united”: Cardinal Sepe addresses 5th European Ecumenical Conference on spiritual and cultural relations between China and Europe Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “Diversity in unity ” is the theme of the 5th European Ecumenical Conference on China being hosted 16-20 September by the Pontifical Unviersity S. Anselmo, in Rome focussing on spiritual and cu ...
• 17 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St Charles Borromeo marks 20th anniversary Rome (Fides Service) - “Cardinal Ratzinger promised to preside this celebration. We are happy that the reason for his absence is his election as Bishop of Rome” said Mgr. Massimo Camisasca, Founder and Superior gene ...
• 16 September 2005
  EUROPA/SPAIN - Marian Day of the Family presided by Cardinal Sepe at the Marian strine of Torreciudad: the family institute is the future of the Church and humanity. Huesca (Fides Service) - On Saturday 17 at the Marian Strine of Torreciudad, Huesca, Spain Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, will preside the 16th Marian Day of the ...
• 15 September 2005
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - “The journey of Universities in Europe. Prospects for university pastoral”: annual meeting of national directors of university pastoral care European Bishops’ Conferences Budapest (Fides Service) - From 23 to 25 September national directors of university pastoral care and university chaplains will gather in Budapest Hungary at St Gerhard Retreat House for their annual meeting. Fifty six p ...
• 15 September 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - September 30 closing date for appeal against the anti-constitutional law approving ‘homosexual marriage’. Unprecedented pro-family world movement with busy agenda Madrid (Fides Service) - September 30 is the closing date for appealing against the anti-constitutional law approving ‘homosexual marriage’ recently passed in Spain. Unless the Popular Party, the only body with the n ...
• 14 September 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE - S. Egidio international meeting of “Prayer for Peace” closing appeal for peace: “Peace increases the chances for a better world. The path to peace is dialogue.” Lyon ( Fides Service) - “It is time to stop the use of violence! Human life is sacred. Violence humiliates human beings and diminishes the cause of those who make use of it. The world is tired of living in fear. Religi ...
• 13 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Trentola Ducenta Seminary: earthly remains of Blessed Paolo Manna founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union moved to a chapel which bears his name Rome (Fides Service) - On Wednesday 14 September at Sacred Heart Seminary, Trentola Ducenta (CE), there will be a special ceremony for the transfer of the earthly remains of Blessed Paolo Manna, founder of the Pontifica ...