Europe
14 July 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - 1,200 PROFESSORS, STUDENTS AND CHAPLAINS FROM 40 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN ROME FOR INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON “UNIVERSITY AND CHURCH IN EUROPE.” SATURDAY AN AUDIENCE WITH THE POPE
Rome (Fides Service) - An International Symposium on the theme University and Church in Europe is to take place in Rome from 17-20 July 2003, organised by the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) and the It ...
11 July 2003
EUROPA/SPAIN - BOOST MISSION, A PRIORITY FOR THE CHURCH IN SPAIN – NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS IN SEPTEMBER
Burgos (Fides Service ) – The Bishops’ Commission for Missions and cooperation among the Churches has organised a Mission Congress which will take place in Burgos (Spain) 18 to 21 September with the slogan “This is ...
10 July 2003
EUROPE/POLAND - ANNUAL MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN VOCATIONS SERVICE: VOCATIONS PASTORAL, ORDINARY PASTORAL AND NEW EVANGELISATION
Warsaw (Fides Service) –“The integration of the New Vocations Ministry into the broader structures of pastoral life” was the theme of the Annual Meeting of the European Vocations Service (EVS) held in Warsaw 2-6 Ju ...
9 July 2003
EUROPE/HUNGARY - FINAL STATEMENT FROM CONGRESS ON THE PASTORAL CARE OF GYPSIES: FOCUS ON EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND FAMILY HARNESSING ALSO RADIO AND THE INTERNET
Budapest (Fides Service) – “It is necessary to show more understanding and solidarity to gypsy peoples, putting aside any egoistic temptation of diffidence and indifference”: this is a passage from Pope John Paul I ...
9 July 2003
EUROPE/GERMANY - AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED IN 2002: 71.6 MILLION EURO FOR 6,200 PROJECTS IN 127 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES TO REBUILD CHURCHES, SUPPORT CATHOLIC CLERGY AND CATHOLIC MEDIA
Konigstein (Fides Service) – Offerings to Aid to the Church in Need increased in the past five years. In 2002 the Catholic aid agency, founded by the late Father Werenfried van Straaten collected 71.6 million Euro whic ...
8 July 2003
EUROPE/SPAIN - HOPE IS THE DOOR TO MISSION – COMMENT ON THE POST SYNODAL EXHORTATION ECCLESIA IN EUROPA BY BISHOP FRANCISCO PEREZ OF OSMA-SORIA NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES IN SPAIN
Osma-Soria (Fides Service) – On June 28th the eve of the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, in St Peter’s Basilica in the presence of many of the Bishops of Europe, Pope John Paul II promulgated an important Church docu ...
7 July 2003
EUROPE/FRANCE - MONUMENT IN PARIS IN MEMORY OF PARIS FOREIGN MISSIONS SOCIETY MARTYRS IN KOREA
Paris (Fides Service) –French missionaries martyred in Korea have been commemorated with a new monument placed in Rue de Bac in Paris. The memorial was officially inaugurated by the Paris Foreign Missions Society MEP i ...
7 July 2003
EUROPE/HUNGARY - APPEAL FROM BUDAPEST AT THE CONCLUSION OF CONGRESS FOR PASTORAL CARE OF GYPSIES: FULL INTEGRATION CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED WITH FULL RECOGNITION OF RIGHTS AND VALORISATION OF RESOURCES
Budapest (Fides Service) – Full recognition of the rights of Gypsies or Romany peoples and their fundamental freedoms as sanctioned by the European Convention; same identity papers as other citizens; commitment by gove ...
7 July 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - FINAL MESSAGE FROM ITALIAN PMS NATIONAL MEETING: REDISCOVERING
IDENTITY OF ANIMATORS IN LOCAL CHURCH AND FUNDAMENTAL MISSION VOCATION OF THE FAMILY
Rome (Fides Service) – “The present day calls the entire Church to listen to what the Spirit is saying through this time of epochal changes which must not be borne but rather oriented with the power of the Spirit tow ...
4 July 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED CHILDREN’S BIBLE “GOD SPEAKS TO HIS CHILDREN” REACHES 40 MILLION MARK AND 135 LANGUAGES
Rome (Fides Service) – From its Vatican office the Catholic association Aid to the Church in Need, reports that its children’s bible, “God speaks to his Children”, has reached the 140 million copy mark.. The boo ...
2 July 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - WOMEN OF COMMUNION, IN DIALOGUE WITH MUSLIMS IN AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE: NEW SUPERIOR OF MISSIONARERY SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF THE APOSTLES SPEAKS TO FIDES SERVICE
Rome (Fides Service) – “We believe in dialogue, relations and communion. We share day to day life with the poor and the excluded, working above all for the promotion of the dignity of women”. Sister Eileen Cummins, ...
2 July 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - EURO-AFRICAN PACT TO WIPE OUT MALARIA
Rome (Fides Service) – In a few weeks time a European project based on partnership with Africa will begin testing drugs and vaccines to treat and prevent the diseases of the poor: malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis. Over t ...
1 July 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - MALARIA STILL FOUGHT WITH INEFFECTIVE TREATMENT TO WHICH THE DISEASE HAS BECOME RESISTANT
Rome (Fides Service) – “Too many in Africa and Asia still die of a curable disease, malaria. And yet there is a cure: to ignore the fact that there is a cure for malaria, to forget it or pretend that it does not exis ...
1 July 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - FROM SERVICE TO SERVANTS: IDENTITY AND ROLE OF LAY LEADERS FOCAL POINT OF MEETING OF ITALIAN PMS STARTING TODAY
Rome (Fides Service) – This afternoon, July 1, at Frattocchie (Rome), the Pontifical Mission Societies in Italy will start their general assembly, which brings together regional leaders, diocesan directors and lay dioc ...
30 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - THE FIGHT AGAINST MALARIA: NEW STRATEGIES, MEETING ORGANISED BY THE ITALIAN HEALTH MINISTRY AND MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES
Rome (Fides Service) – Malaria is a growing threat. According to recent estimates every year malaria kills as many as two million people. In this situation it is increasingly urgent to form a global alliance against ma ...
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