Europe

• 12 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - VICE PRESIDENT OF CATHOLIC ACTION IN ITALY SAYS: RENEWAL FOR BETTER PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL Rome (Fides Service) – A special meeting of Catholic Action Italy (ACI) opened on 12 September at Domus Pacis, Rome. Over 800 delegates and 171 auditors and from all over Italy have gathered to discuss changes in the ...
• 12 September 2003
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - POPE ON THIRD APOSTOLIC VISIT TO SLOVAKIA: “DO NOT BE SATISFIED WITH THE SOLE QUEST FOR ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES. GREAT AFFLUENCE IN FACT CAN ALSO GENERATE GREAT POVERTY” Bratislava (Fides Service) – “I thank the Lord for granting me the joy of treading the third time onto the beloved land of Slovakia. I come as a pilgrim of the Gospel to bring to everyone greetings of peace and hope� ...
• 11 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - COMBONI MISSIONARIES END GENERAL CHAPTER FIRST STAGE: “EITHER WE ARE MISSIONARIES OR WE ARE NOTHING” Rome (Fides Service) – On September 11 the Comboni Missionaries, meeting in Rome for the 16th general chapter, concluded the first stage of their work of “looking” consisting in listening and reflecting on interven ...
• 11 September 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS IN BURGOS: “THIS IS THE HOUR OF MISSION” – WE ARE ALL CALLED TO PROCLAIM THE SAVING LOVE OF GOD TO A RESTLESS AND UNSATISFIED WORLD Madrid (Fides Service) – From 18 al 21 September Burgos the Church in Spain will hold the National Mission Congress on the theme “This is the hour of mission”. The Congress is expected to draw participants from al ...
• 10 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - WHO PROMOTES SARS DIAGNOSIS TEST PRODUCED BY DEPARTMENT FOR INFECTIVE DISEASES AT ITALIAN HIGHER INSTITUTE OF HEALTH. Rome (Fides Service) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that a test to diagnose SARS produced by the Department for Infective Diseases at the Italian Higher Institute of Health is highly specific and sensi ...
• 10 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - MONASTICISM’S CONTRIBUTION TO DIALOGUE AND BUILDING EUROPE IN SPIRIT Rome (Fides Service) – From 17-22 September representatives of numerous monastic orders, male and female present in European countries, will meet in Assisi, which has become the capital of dialogue since it began to ho ...
• 10 September 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - S. EGIDIO MEETING CLOSES: “DIALOGUE NEEDS STRONG HEARTS” SUGGESTED A COMMON CELEBRATION AMONG CHRISTIAN CHURCHES TO COMMEMORATE MARTYRS OF 20TH CENTURY – APPEAL FOR PEACE: “DIALOGUE IS NOT FOR THE FEARFUL” Aachen (Fides Service) – At the final press conference for the Interreligious Meeting in Aachen, the founder of the S. Egidio Community, Andrea Riccardi, thanked the Germans for their participation and announced that d ...
• 9 September 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND VALUES AT “PEOPLES AND RELIGIONS MEETING”: “EUROPE MUST BE A LEADER IN ACTIVE POLICY FOR WORLD PEACE” Aachen (Fides Service) – In view of the imminent approval of a European Constitution, the ‘old continent’ is called to play a central role in international politics. This opinion was voiced by various speakers at t ...
• 9 September 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - HEAD OF DELEGATION FROM MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE AT “PEOPLE AND RELIGIONS MEETING” SAYS: “IT IS TIME TO CHANGE THE PRESENT SITUATION OF DIFFICULTY BETWEEN MOSCOW AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH” Aachen (Fides Service) – “This is a time in which dialogue, over and above the misunderstandings of the past, is possible” said Metropolita Kyrill of Smolensk and Kalilinigrad, head of the delegation from the Ortho ...
• 9 September 2003
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - VICTIMS OF COMMUNIST PERSECUTION TELL THEIR STORY: FOR YEARS VATICAN RADIO ONLY CONTACT WITH UNIVERSAL CHURCH AND FREE WORLD Bratislava(Fides Service) – To give an idea of what happened in Slovakia during 40 years of persecution under Communist atheism, we offer testimony from some eye witnesses taken from a television programme “Cristo ne ...
• 9 September 2003
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - CARDINAL KOREC TELLS FIDES: THE HOLY FATHER’S VISIT WILL GIVE US NEW THRUST FOR EVANGELISATION AND A DEEPER ROOTING OF THE FAITH, SO NECESSARY TODAY, FOR US AND FOR THE WHOLE WORLD. Nitra (Fides Service) – On the occasion of Pope John Paul II’s visit to Slovakia, the third, 11-14 September, Fides Service asked Cardinal Jan Chryzostom Korec, Bishop of Nitra to say something about the situation in ...
• 8 September 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “THE COURAGE TO FIRE OUR WORLD WITH HOPE, TO MAKE IT DREAM AND DREAM OF PEACE: S. EGIDIO 17TH ‘MEETING OF PEOPLES AND RELIGION’ Aachen (Fides Service) – With a solemn Mass for Peace presided by German Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, held at the Catholic cathedral of Aachen built ...
• 2 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - WE MUST THINK NOT ONLY OF DEMOLISHING, BUT OF COMMITTING OURSELVES TO BUILDING NEW MISSIONARY PATHS TO RESPOND TO TODAY’S WORLD: ITALIAN NATIONAL WEEK OF MISSIONARY SPIRITUALITY AND FORMATION IN ASSISI COMES TO AN END Assisi (Fides Service ) – Diocesan Missionary Centres become ‘fraternal teams’ of people able to transmit concretely to parishes the Church’s missionary dimension; parish communities strive to identify ways and w ...
• 2 September 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - RELIGIONS AND CULTURE IN DIALOGUE TO BUILD PEACE: 500 RELIGIOUS LEADERS FROM ALL OVER THE GATHER IN THE HEART OF EUROPE FOR A “PEOPLES AND RELIGIONS” MEETING Rome (Fides Service) - “Between war and peace: religions and cultures meet” is the theme of the “17th International Meeting of Peoples and Religions”, 7 - 9 September Aachen, Germany, promoted by the S. Egidio C ...
• 2 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - SPANISH BORN FATHER JOSEP ABELLA ELECTED NEW SUPERIOR GENERAL OF CLARETIAN MISSIONARIES Rome (Fides Service) – Father Josep Maria Abella Batlle, 53, born in Lleida (Catalonia-Spain) is the new Superior General of the Missionary Sons of the Heart of di Mary (Claretian Missionaries). He was elected yesterd ...