Europe

• 27 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - To deny a child the right to have a mother and a father of different sexes is to violate an inalienable human right: Dr Belén Vendrell offers contribution to Fides Castellón (Fides Service) - “There are many types of injustice in this life but one of the most painful is the injustice which legitimates on behalf of society a proposal which violates the inalienable rights of the h ...
• 25 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Experts all over the world say children adopted by same sex couples are more prone to psychological and health problems: Spain’s MPs receive “Report on infantile development in same sex couples " Madrid (Fides Service) - HazteOir Spain in collaboration with the Spanish Forum for the Family and the Institute for Family Policy has just published a “Report on infantile development in same sex couples " on the cons ...
• 23 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Papal Envoy Cardinal Ruini, opens 24th National Eucharistic Congress: “the Eucharist is the heart of the Church, nourishment for every individual member” Bari (Fides Service) - “It is precisely in the Most Holy Eucharist, in the Mass we are celebrating at this moment and in every Mass all over the world that the mystery of God, three in one, is made present for us, is g ...
• 23 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Professionals Pro-ethics Memorandum: every adopted child has the right to have a female parent and a male parent, to belong to a family as similar as possible to the natural family and not to be exposed to traumatic experiments Madrid (Fides Service) - In response to the Spanish government’s proposal to amend the country’s Civil Code to allow children to be adopted by same-sex couples the Spanish Association of Professionals Pro-ethics issu ...
• 23 May 2005
  EUROPE - “Meeting emergencies, protecting human rights, building peace: new President of Caritas Internationalis illustrates priorities Paris (Fides Service) - “We intend to extend our action to meet emergency needs anywhere in the world: today our attention is on Darfur, Sudan and tsunami affected areas in east Asia”, said Denis Viénot, new Presid ...
• 23 May 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Guests are a blessing”: Days of Encounter in dioceses all over Germany will open 20th World Youth Day Cologne (Fides Service) -Young people all over the world are invited to take part in the 20th World Youth Day to be held in Cologne Germany from 11 to 21 August with the theme “We have come to adore Him” (Mt 2,2). Ab ...
• 21 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Morning Watchmen” gather in first extended assembly Rome (Fides Service) - The Morning Watchmen are a small group of young people in the diocese of Verona and other diocese in northern and central Italy since 1999. On 15 October 2004 they became a recognised association ...
• 21 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Thousands of people accompanied by 52 Bishops make pilgrimage to Saragozza to re-consecrate the country to the care of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in this Year of the Immaculate Mary in Spain Saragozza (Fides Service) - Thousands of Catholics from all over Spain accompanied by 51 Spanish Bishops and the Pope’s representative in Spain, Papal Nuncio Archbishop Manuel Monteiro di Castro, are making a pilgrimag ...
• 21 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - 24th National Eucharistic Congress opens this evening in Bari: “We cannot live without Sunday”. 29 May closing Mass presided by Benedict XVI Bari (Fides Service) - At 5pm this afternoon, Saturday 21 May in Bari, the 24 Italian National Eucharistic Congress will be officially opened by the Archbishop of Bari-Bitonto Mgr Francesco Cacucci who will welcome the ...
• 20 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “This amendment to the Civil Code masks one of the most serious aspects of the project: violation of the basic rights of the child. The government’s reaction to our Memorandum was a wall of silence not to say scorn " said Association of Professionals for Ethics chairman interviewed by Fides Madrid (Fides Service) - Fides spoke with Jaime Urcelay Alonso jurist and chairman of the Associations of Professionals for Ethics which strives to promote and defend ethic values in public life. To fight the law which ...
• 19 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “This law offends humanity and society and it will cause an unprecedented social rift. This is mistruth claiming to be truth" says Catholic Bishop of Tarazona in a Pastoral Letter to his people. Tarazona (Fides Service) - “Besides offending God and the institution of marriage as he intended it to be this law offends humanity and society on which it will inflict an unprecedented rift by using the same term to d ...
• 18 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Adoption of a child by same sex couples cannot be justified if we consider the rights of the child Madrid (Fides Service) - “To subordinate the interests of a child to the desires of adults is an ignoble experiment of social engineering which damages something which should be sacred for every legislator: the primary ...
• 18 May 2005
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Meeting of General Secretaries of European Bishops' Conferences: on the agenda the role of Christianity and the Churches in Europe, bio-ethical issues, urgent pastoral themes St Gallen (Fides Service) - From 26th - 30th May 2005, the CCEE Secretariat at St Gallen is organising a meeting of the General Secretaries of Europe's 34 Bishops' Conferences. The representatives from the Bishops' Confe ...
• 18 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Monfort Missionaries elect new Superior General Santino Brembilla the first ever Italian to lead the Missionaries of the Company of Mary. Rome (Fides Service) - On 15 May Pentecost Sunday, the General Chapter of the Monfort Missionaries of the Company of Mary, meeting in Rome 1 to 21 May elected as new superior general Italian Father Santino Brembilla, age ...
• 18 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Prelate of Opus Dei will ordain 42 new priests from 13 different countries on 21 May Rome (Fides Service) - Saturday 21 May at St Eugenio Basilica, Valle Giulia, Rome, the Prelate of Opus Dei Bishop Javier Echevarría will ordain 42 new priests: 28 Europeans (Spanish, Italian, French, German, Portuguese ...