Europe

• 2 September 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Making Mission ad gentes a priority in local Churches” - Valencia hosts 6th inter-diocesan day of missionary reflection Valencia (Fides Service) - To make missionary animation an major element of ordinary pastoral work in the local Churches and ensure that the year of the International Eucharistic Congress and of the 150th anniversary of ...
• 1 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Duc in altum, Catholic Action. Take hold of the future with courage”. Catholic Action International Congress opens in Rome Rome (Fides Service)- “Duc in altum, Catholic Action. Take hold of the future with courage!” This call which the Pope John Paul II addressed to delegates attending the 11th Assembly of Catholic Action Italy on 26 Apr ...
• 1 September 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Go out with enthusiasm to embrace your mission!” Cardinal Sepe said during the Mass to open the Catholic Action International Congress. “You are missionaries of daily life and bearers of hopes which are strong and founded” Rome (Fides Service) - “The task of announcing Jesus Christ Church falls to the Church as such, the whole Church and therefore to each one of her sons and daughters. Therefore we all, because of baptism are sent like C ...
• 1 September 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Living a year with a difference” with Jesuit European Volunteers JEV: 32 young people start commitment as Jesuit Volunteers which will take them to various parts of the world Munich (Fides Service) - “A year with a difference” starts today, 1 September 2004, for 32 young adults who have signed up for a preparatory Course to work with the Jesuit European Volunteers JEV. According to a repo ...
• 31 August 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Making a fresh start from Loreto with new vigour for our missionary work”: presentation of Pope John Paul s meeting on Sunday in Loreto with Catholic Action members from all over the world Rome (Fides Service) - During a press conference to present a special meeting next Sunday, September 5, in Loreto, of Catholic Action members from all over the world with Pope John Paul II, Paola Bignardi president of Ca ...
• 31 August 2004
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Catholic Bishops voice the closeness of the entire Church in France to the journalists taken hostage in Iraq, to their families and to all journalists: “we share their anxiety and their hope”. A call to French Catholics to unite in prayer. Paris (Fides Service) - Solidarity with the French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot taken hostage in Iraq has been voiced by the Catholic Bishops of France in two different statements. The President of ...
• 30 August 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate start their 34th General Charter. Urgent challenges include: evangelisation of secularised world, interreligious dialogue and reconciliation and healing, speaking for the poor, first evangelisation in former Communist countries Rome (Fides Service) - “Witnesses of Hope: a call, our mission” is the theme of the 34th general chapter of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate which starts today, Monday 30th August. The Chapter, which will l ...
• 30 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Ten Commandments today: “They should be applied, lived and interpreted in their old and ever new vitality and wisdom says Paola Bignardi, national president of Catholic Action Italy in exclusive article for Fides Rome (Fides Service) - “The times we are living appear ever less capable of “adapting the walls of the earthly city to those of the heavenly Jerusalem ”, to use an expression dear to the heart of Giorgio La Pira. I ...
• 30 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Ten Commandments Today: reflection by Giovanni Cantoni, Italian national regent of Catholic Action: association of lay Catholics to encourage the study and diffusion of the Church’s Social Teaching Rome (Fides Service) - “1. «If you love me, keep my commandments» (Jn. 14, 15). The rule given by the Lord Jesus is susceptible to a descriptive historical transcription on the part of a «non protagonist»: observer ...
• 30 July 2004
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “Mission and Europe of the Future” theme of three National Mission Days organised by the Church in Portugal 17 to 19 September Lisbon (Fides Service) - “Mission and Europe of the Future” is the theme of three National Mission Days which the Church in Portugal will celebrate 17-19 September at the Paul VI Pastoral Centre in Fatima. The Missio ...
• 30 July 2004
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Summer holidays under the banner of solidarity and mission: numerous initiatives involving adolescents, university students and Holy Childhood children Madrid (Fides Service) - Every year more young people in Spain decide to spend their holidays in activities of solidarity and mission. Various initiatives are organised all over the country; here we mention a few involvi ...
• 29 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Violence in the name of God: debate in the Muslim world programme on Italian television Rome (Fides Service)- People are still being killed in the name of a God who never asked for human sacrifices. Unarmed hostages are abducted and executed by improvised courts, which pass death sentences on the basis of s ...
• 29 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Ten Commandments today: ‘thoughts’ shared by Luigi Bobba, President Italian Christian Workers Association Rome (Fides Service) - The idea of dedicating a television programme to the Ten Commandments was certainly original and provoking. Provoking because our culture is heavily affected by an eleventh commandment: “do not f ...
• 27 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - The ten commandments today: Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolari Movement exclusive comment for Fides. Rome (Fides Service) - ‘God’s Law for a New World’: this is how Chiara Lubich presents the Ten Commandments when she addresses children. Encouraging them to build a new world she poses a question. “To build a new ...
• 23 July 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - Mission as pastoral exchange between local Churches: Italian National Director of PMS reports on meetings with local Churches where there are Italian missionaries Rome (Fides Service) - Albania, Lebanon, Philippines, Thailand, Argentina, Senegal, Kenya, Guinea Bissau: these countries have been the laps of the past two years of meetings between the Church in Italy and the Church in ...