Europe

• 16 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "Children have rights": Professionals of ethics launch a campaign to prevent children being adopted by same-sex couples Madrid (Fides Service) - “Children have Rights” is the title of a campaign lunched by the Federation of Associations of Professionals of Ethics FAPE to prevent the proposed amendment to Spain’s civil code to allow ...
• 14 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish NGO starts youth cultural centres to serve 280,000 people including 110,000 children Rome (Fides Service) - INTERVIDA a Spanish NGO which works to improve the living standard of children supporting various programmes in Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Ecuador, India, Philippines and Mal ...
• 14 May 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE PMS Assembly - Over 80.000 seminarians in mission territories prepare for the priesthood thanks to funds from the Pontifical Mission Society St Peter Apostle Lyon (Fides Service) - The purpose of the Pontifical Mission Society St Peter Apostle is to support the formation of local clergy in mission territories. Last year 2004, the Society supported the formation of 80,297 semi ...
• 14 May 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE - PMS Assembly - Report on the past year’s activity of Holy Childhood Society, closes the Annual Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies Lyon (Fides Service) - The annual Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies closed on Friday 13th May, feast of Our Lady of Fatima with a solemn Mass presided by Archbishop Henryk Hoser, President of the Societies and ...
• 12 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital and Umana Mente Foundation join forces to fight autism, violence against minors and food behaviour disturbances. Since 1999 over 25,000 calls for help to “Girasole 2” project Rome (Fides Service) - An operative nucleus operative 24 hours a day faces the spreading phenomenon of physical and psychological abuse and violence against minors very often at home. They are the experts of the Girasole ...
• 12 May 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sixty years since the death of Father Pfeiffer Salvatorian Fathers open “On Mission in Rome” Exhibition to commemorate the Catholic priest who saved hundreds of lives during Nazi occupation Rome (Fides Service) - To mark the 60th anniversary of the death of German born Fr Pancratius Pfeiffer (12 May 1945), the Society of the Divine Saviour of which he was a member has opened an exhibition in Rome in Via del ...
• 12 May 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE - PMS Assembly: the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith distributes offerings collected on Mission Sunday for the needs of the Church in mission territories Lyon (Fides Service) - The offerings collected on the last World Mission Sunday 2004, the fruit of the generosity of Catholics all over the world, increased compared to the previous year and they were distributed during ...
• 11 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - It is necessary to make people realise that “we are all missionaries” children especially, who are “the missionaries of tomorrow” says national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain Madrid (Fides Service) - While the annual general assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies is being held in Lyon, France, we publish an interview with the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spa ...
• 11 May 2005
  EUROPE/GREECE - “Christians should not remain silent in front of the contemporary tendencies of some modern secularised states that try to impose on their people standards and values which are foreign to them, they should not give up witnessing to the values of the Gospel ” the highest authority of the Orthodox Church of Greece His Beatitude Christodoulos said at the 13th WCC Conference on World Mission and Evangelism Athens (Fides Service) - The highest authority of the Orthodox Church of Greece His Beatitude Christodoulos Archbishop of Athens and all Greece in his address to more than 700 participants and the Conference on World Mis ...
• 10 May 2005
  EUROPE/GREECE - With the arrival by sea of a 4 mt high cross of olive wood sent from Jerusalem the 13th Conference on World Mission and Evangelism organised by the World Council of Churches opens in Athens today Athens (Fides Service) - From 9 al 16 May the 13th Conference on World Mission and Evangelism, the 1st in the 21st century, organised by the World Council of Churches WCC will take place at the Agios Andrea Recreational ...
• 9 May 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE - PMS Assembly - The Saintly Cure d’Ars and Pauline Jaricot: two models for Mission Lyon (Fides Service) - On Sunday 8 May the participants at the general annual assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies, taking place in Lyon, made a pilgrimage to Ars, not far from Lyon, where Saint Jean Marie Vianne ...
• 7 May 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Same sex ‘marriage’: Spanish Bishops reflect on ‘conscientious objection’: “To oppose dispositions which are immoral and contrary to reason, does not mean going against anyone, but standing for the truth and the good of every human person” Madrid (Fides Service) - “It is our duty to speak out clearly at this moment when Spain is about to retrograde on the path of civilisation with an unprecedented law which would seriously harm the fundamental rights of ...
• 7 May 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE - PMS Assembly - General Annual Assembly opens: every Particular Church and every member of the Church should participate not only by right but also in effect in the Church’s missionary work. Lyon (Fides Service) - The work of the annual general assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies opened with a concelebration of Mass on May 6 presided by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the ...
• 7 May 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE - PMS Assembly - Updated Statutes of the Pontifical Mission Societies signed in Lyon Lyon (Fides Service) - On Friday 6 May near Lyon in France Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples presided a solemn concelebration of Mass to open the work of the annual ge ...
• 6 May 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE - PMS Assembly - Cardinal Sepe a Lyon: “We have come here to read again the spiritual legacy left to the missionary Church by venerable Pauline-Marie Jaricot. May this humble daughter of this elect Church of Lyon inspire us in missionary zeal. May she make us willing and generous announcers of the Gospel of love.” Lyon (Fides Service) - On Thursday 5 May Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples presided a solemn mass for the feast of the Ascension at the St John the Baptist Cathedral ...