Europe

• 7 April 2005
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - “I thank God for having given us John Paul II in such an important time for the history of the Church and the world. He has been God’s blessing for us all” says Msg. Burcher, Auxiliary Bishop of Lausanne Lausanne (Fides Agency) - “My first feeling, after the death of Pope John Paul II, is of thanks to God for having given him to us” says Msg. Pierre Burcher, Auxiliary Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Freeburg and Presi ...
• 7 April 2005
  EUROPE/RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Pope John Paul II’s funeral will be shown live on large screens in Moscow’s Catholic Cathedral Moscow (Fides Service) - Pope John Paul II’s funeral will be shown live on Friday 8 April on large screens in the Catholic Cathedral of Moscow, according to Cathnews in Moscow. The Funeral Mass will be broadcast thanks ...
• 7 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - A minute of communion Friday 8 April at 10 in the morning Rome (Fides Service) - “If there was ever a moment in which the word communion assumed depth and beyond all measure it was the time which elapsed from Wednesday 30 March, the last appearance of John Paul II at his stud ...
• 6 April 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “For our association the Pope was like a father” says Secretary General of Aid to the Church in Need Königstein (Fides Service) - “For Aid to the Church in Need the Pope was like a father” said Ms Antonia Willemsen, Secretary general of this Catholic association which assists the pastoral activities of the Church ...
• 6 April 2005
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Grief for the death of the Pope but hope in the certainty that he is in heaven” says president of the Conference of Religious Father Ignacio Zabala Madrid (Fides Service) - Marianist Father Ignacio Zabala, President of the national Conference of Religious said this about John Paul II: “he was a Pope who transmitted a great sense of God the Father’s love for man ...
• 6 April 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “The youth of the world loses one it its greatest advocates” says secretary general for World Youth Day 2005 Cologne (Fides Service) - The secretary general for the organisation of the 20th World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, in August this year, Rev. Fr Heiner Koch, said on behalf of the local committee “Weltjugendtag gGmb ...
• 6 April 2005
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Austria recalls Pope John Paul II’s great “human warmth” and ability to establish a profound relationship even in the briefest of meetings Vienna (Fides Service) - The National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria, Rev. Fr. Leo Maasburg sent a statement to Fides in which he recalls especially Pope John Paul II’s “human warmth”. “O ...
• 6 April 2005
  EUROPA/ITALY - Italian Catholic University Federation: at this moment of grief we pray for the Holy Father and for the whole Church and we thank God for this extraordinary Pontificate Rome (Fides Service) - We university students grew up with this Pope as our teacher, but above all as a witness: in a thousands ways he told us we must have faith and live our faith and we must share it with everyone, so ...
• 6 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Caritas: John Paul II parish priest of the world Rome (Fides Service) - Caritas Italy is united in prayer with the whole Church to accompany Pope John Paul from earthly life to eternal life and to thank God for giving us the enlightenment and guidance of this Pontiff. ...
• 6 April 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Director of Holy Childhood pontifical mission society in Germany: “The Pope will continue to give us courage to carry on our mission in favour of the children of the world” Freetown (Fides Service) - From Sierra Leone, where he received the news of the passing of John Paul II, the director of Holy Childhood Pontifical Mission Society in Germany Kindermissionswerk/Die Sternsinger, Mgr Winfri ...
• 5 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Pax Christi: the Pope’s high esteem for us Rome (Fides Agency) - The Pope has always shown high esteem for Pax Christi. He even expressed it explicitly during a private audience granted in 1995 for the fiftieth anniversary of Pax Christi International: “Movemen ...
• 5 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - A Pope close to missionaries, and who wanted an ever more missionary Church Rome (Fides Service) - The Pope was close to missionaries and they were close to him sharing the same missionary zeal, Fr Wilhelm Steckling Superior General of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate present in many p ...
• 5 April 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Ex-patriot Iraqi Chaldean Catholics on their way to Rome to pay last tribute to Pope John Paul II Paris (Fides Service) - “We are making the journey to show our love for John Paul II and to render him tribute. We are grateful to the Holy Father for all that he did for the Chaldean Catholic Church and for all Iraqis ...
• 5 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Continual catechesis for our life”. St John of God Brothers particularly close to the figure of the Holy Father Rome (Fides Service) - Father Pascal Piles, Superior general of the Hospitaller Brothers of St John of God is about to go to Mozambique and Senegal. He sent us a comment on the figure of Pope John Paul in the world of t ...
• 5 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - Salvatore Martinez, Italian national coordinator of Renewal in the Spirit : John Paul II our ‘special friend’ Rome (Fides Service) - With his extraordinary charismatic dynamism John Paul was a “special friend” of Renewal in the Spirit, which he recognised as “special initiative of the Holy Spirit for our day”. He won a p ...