Europe

• 13 September 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Night adoration and young people: challenges for the future”: National Meeting for Young Night Adorers of the Eucharist 23 - 25 September León (Fides Service) - ‘Putting Jesus at the centre’ is the theme of a National Meeting for Young Night Adorers of the Eucharist 23 - 25 September to be held in Leon, Spain, organised by the National Council of Nigh ...
• 12 September 2005
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Pro-family demonstration in Brussels: “Different cultures, faiths and political tendencies united to defend a common value: the family. Family Movements ever more international” Brussels (Fides Service) - “To speak of the family is to speak of life, handing on of values, stability, future” said Lola Velarde vice president of the Euroepan network of the Institute for Family Policy (IPF) which ...
• 9 September 2005
  EUROPA/SPAIN - Preparations for 5th World Meeting of Families in July 2006 in Valencia: programme will include Family Feast and International Congress Valencia (Fides Service) - Preparations are underway for the 5th World Meeting of Families organised by the Catholic Church which will be held next year 2006 in July in Valencia, Spain. Recently Cardinal Alfonso López T ...
• 8 September 2005
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Defending the family and rights of children on 10 September Brussels World Family Capital Brussels (Fides Service) - After the successful demonstration to defend authentic marriage and the rights of children organised June 18 in Madrid, Spain, it is the turn of the Belgian capital Brussels, where parliament ...
• 8 September 2005
  EUROPE/POLAND - Media, young people’s languages and handing on the faith: Plenary Assembly of the European Bishops' Media Commission Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - Some 80 people - bishops, communications experts, spokespersons for Europe's 34 bishops' conferences and representatives of various Catholic communications agencies - will gather at the Barnabite ...
• 7 September 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "The Eucharist, heart of Christian life and source of the Church’s mission to evangelise": Catholic University of Murcia organises a first ever University Eucharistic Congress Murcia (Fides Service) - To honour the memory of Pope John Paul II and inspired by his Encyclical “Ecclesia de Eucharistia” and his gift of this past ‘Year of the Eucharist’, the Catholic University of Murcia in ...
• 6 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Theology faculty Pontifical Salesian University offers 10th ongoing formation course for missionaries starting 19 September Rome (Fides September) - The theology faculty of the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome is offering its 10th course of ongoing formation for men and women missionaries. The course consisting of a theological update o ...
• 6 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Italian priest fidei donum missionary in Brazil for 30 years is murdered in his parish Pinerolo (Agenzia Fides) - Rev Giuseppe Bessone, a fidei donum priest ‘given’ by the Italian diocese of Pinerolo (Italy) for mission in Brazil, was murdered during the night on 2 September in his parish house at S. A ...
• 2 September 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Mission brings fresh air to our communities, it fosters the lay ministry and develops the resource of youth”: Week of Missionary Formation and Spirituality addresses Letter to Parish Priests Assisi (Fides Service) - A “Letter to our Parish Priests” was issued at the end of the National Week of Missionary Formation and Spirituality held in Assisi 26 to 31 August organised by the Italian national office fo ...
• 29 July 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - At Porto Recanati holiday resort members of Missionary Youth Movement launch mission on the beach and in the streets Loreto (Fides Service) - About eighty young people who opted for a mission formation experience this Summer organised by the Missionary Youth Movement of the Pontifical Mission Societies gathered on 25 July in Loreto to ...
• 29 July 2005
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - In the Year of the Eucharist Portugal’s National Mission Days 16-18 September will reflect on “Eucharist and Mission” Lisbon (Fides Service) - In the framework of the Year of the Eucharist and on the threshold of the missionary month of October from 16 - 18 September the Paul VI Centre in Fatima will host National Mission Days on the th ...
• 28 July 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - A missionary adventure set to music: Legend of Toumai youth musical performed by young members of EuroMissio will go on stage as part of World Youth Day initiatives Rome (Fides Service) - Toumai was the nickname given to fossils discovered in 2002 in central Africa and said to belong to the earliest known ancestor of modern humans who lived seven million years ago! Today Toumai retu ...
• 27 July 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “How can we comunicate our faith to people of other nations and cultures unless we share it with those nearest to us?” A reflection on “Steps in Christian mission” in the latest book by Mgr. Massimo Camisasca Rome (Fides Service) - The apostles had the courage to go to India, Africa and other distant lands facing countless dangers and difficulties. Many centuries later numerous Christian missionaries still live the same movin ...
• 27 July 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Europe can hold aloft its titles and heraldry, its laws and arts but to little effect if it ignores its bi-millennial origin, its twenty centuries of history and forgets the builder: the Christian” said Bishop Jesús Sanz Montes of Huesca and Jaca commenting last Sunday’s call to Europe by Pope Benedict XVI Huesca (Fides Service) - Commenting Pope Benedict’s Angelus address last Sunday when he relaunched the call to Europe made by John Paul II in 1982: “Europe be what you are, never betray your Christian roots”, Bisho ...
• 26 July 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Day of Social Commitment” as part of the lead up to World Youth Day includes 620 projects: “Young people's social commitment to build a better world will also be a stand against terrorism ” Cologne (Fides Service) - For the Day of Social Commitment” on 12 August (see Fides 28/5/2005) as part of the activities for World Youth Day (11-21 August) young people from all over the world hosted in the dioceses of ...