Europe

• 24 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CARDINAL CAMILLO RUINI AND EDUCATION MINISTER LETIZIA MORATTI SIGN “SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES” FOR TEACHING THE CATHOLIC RELIGION IN INFANT AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS Rome (Fides Service) – The President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), Cardinal Camillo Ruini, and the Italian minister for education, universities and research Letizia Moratti, signed yesterday, 23 October, ...
• 23 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - HOLY SEE DELEGATION AT INTERNATIONAL DONOR CONFERENCE FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF IRAQ Madrid (Fides Service ) – The Holy See has sent a delegation to a major conference to raise money for the reconstruction of Iraq taking place in Madrid 23 and 24 October. More than 70 countries and multilateral organis ...
• 23 October 2003
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - FIRST CARMELITE CONVENT OPENED AND BLESSED: ONE YOUNG ALBANIAN CARMELITE TAKES THE HABIT Sapë (Fides Service) - In Nenshat parish on 29 September the first convent of Discalsed Carmelites in Albania dedicated to the Holy Family and St Michael was inaugurated and blessed. The six Carmelite nuns, four Croats ...
• 23 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - INTENSIVE MISSIONARY FORMATION COURSE: BOOST SPANISH CHURCH’S MISSIONARY COMMITMENT WITH BETTER PREPARATION OF PASTORAL WORKERS Madrid (Fides Service) – Provide all the missionary forces of the Church in Spain with the opportunity for missionary reflection and formation is the objective of an Intensive Course in Missionary Formation promoted by ...
• 22 October 2003
  EUROPE/FRANCE - ALARMING INCREASE OF ALCOHOL AND ILLICIT DRUG USE AMONG YOUNG EUROPEANS Rome (Fides Service) – “Young people are often at the leading edge of social change, and upward trends in alcohol and illicit drug use by young people constitute an important social development in the EU” according ...
• 22 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - TO MARK 25 YEARS OF JOHN PAUL II’S PONTIFICATE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS MORAL THEOLOGY ON 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF “VERITATIS SPLENDOR” ENCYCLICAL Murcia (Fides Service) – As part of celebrations to mark the 25th year of Pope John Paul II’s pontificate, the Sant’ Antonio Catholic University in Murcia (Spain) has organised an international Congress on Moral T ...
• 22 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - YOUNG BOYS FROM MURCIA GIVE UP THEIR JOBS TO GO ON MISSION FOR A YEAR TO BOLIVIA AS SALESIAN LAY MISSIONARIES Murcia (Fides Service/ANS) - On October 11 at San José Obrero di Yecla parish in Murcia, Spain, two boys Pablo Muñoz and Ramón David Sánchez, received the missionary cross during a Mass presided by Father Mario Pard ...
• 22 October 2003
  EUROPE/UNITED KINGDOM - 46664: GIVE ONE MINUTE OF YOUR LIFE TO AIDS: NELSON MANDELA SPONSORS MUSIC PROGRAMME TO KEEP ATTENTION ON THE PLAGUE OF AIDS Rome (Fides Service ) – Music to fight Aids. This is the aim of “Album 46664” a collection of funds for the fight against AIDS. “In the last twenty years – says Nelson Mandela – Africa has been struck by a t ...
• 22 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - THE PERSON ENGAGES IN SCIENCE, THE PERSON HAS FAITH, THERE IS NO CONTRADICTION SAYS MGR GUTIERREZ INTERVIEWED BY FIDES AFTER “MIRACLES AND CAUSES OF SAINTS: MEETING OF SCIENCE AND FAITH” SYMPOSIUM Rome (Fides Service) – “Miracles in the Causes of Saints: Meeting of Science and Faith” was the theme of a Symposium held recently at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum College in Rome. Mgr Jose Luis Gutierrez a re ...
• 18 October 2003
  EUROPE/IRELAND - MISSION SUNDAY: GO RECONCILE, PROCLAIM THE LORD OF PEACE! Dublin (Fides Service) – A special Mission Mass on national TRE television, a seminar and workshop on the “Relationship between Evangelisation and Development” with main speaker Archbishop Darmuid Martin, newly app ...
• 18 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “POPE JOHN PAUL II: THE BEAUTY OF A SOUL IN LOVE WITH GOD AND THE HUMAN PERSON” – REFLECTION BY BISHOP FRANCISCO PEREZ FOR THE 25TH YEAR OF POPE JOHN PAUL II’s PONTIFICATE Madrid (Fides Service) – “With his testimony, perhaps today the Pope is writing an encyclical equally important as those he has written on paper … young people admire him not for his appearance but for his inward ...
• 18 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY: INTENSE PREPARATION IN PARISHES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY: “MISSION AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE LIFE OF EVERY BAPTISED CHRISTIAN” Madrid (Fides Service ) – Material for Mission Sunday prepared by the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain included catechesis for children of various age groups diverse; a guide for a prayer vigil and special Mission ...
• 17 October 2003
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - MISSION SUNDAY – OUR FAITH GROWS AS WE SHARE THE EXPERIENCE OF THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH: MISSIONARY CAMPAIGN IN AUSTRIA FOCUSES ON RWANDA Vienna (Fides Service) – “The Mission Sunday collection, this year on 19 October, is the most widespread act solidarity in the world. The entire Catholic Church is involved in this 77th Mission Sunday collection to h ...
• 14 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - MISSION SUNDAY – “A HOME FOR EVERYONE” A SLOGAN NOT FOR A DAY BUT FOR THE WHOLE YEAR ANIMATED BY THE MISSIONARY BREATH OF THE CHURCH Rome (Fides Service) – “The missionary month of October always begins a new path in our Christian communities, in fact it marks the start of a new pastoral following the liturgical year. For some years now the Italia ...
• 13 October 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - MISSION SUNDAY – “TRUSTING IN THE WORD”: IN THE YEAR OF THE BIBLE THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES IN GERMANY LOOK TO CATHOLICS IN THE PHILIPPINES TO HELP GERMAN COMMUNITIES TO GROW Aachen/Munich (Fides Service) – The 2003 October mission campaign launched by the Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany has been planned to fit the framework of the Year of the Bible being celebrated in local Churche ...