Europe

• 27 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - MISSION AND YOUNG CHURCHES AGENTS OF NEW EVANGELISATION: INTERVIEW WITH FATHER PIERO GHEDDO ON HALF A CENTURY OF PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS IN THE MISSIONARY WORLD Milan (Fides Service) – Father Piero Gheddo, missionary of PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions) is one of the most known “missionary faces” in Italy and abroad. Ordained a priest on 28 June 1953 by Card ...
• 26 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - DRUG ADDICTION IS SUBORDINATED TO THIRST FOR LOVE, LATENT SUFFERING, INNER FRAGILITY AND LACK OF EDUCATION TO LIFE Rome (Fides Service) – Many questions were tackled during the International Symposium “Caring for Others: drug addiction, experience and ethics” held 23-25 June in Rome. From the conclusions presented by Rev. Egidi ...
• 26 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - ST JOHN OF GOD BROTHERS WORK FOR HEALTH CARE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA Rome (Fides Service) – The St John of God Hospitaller Brothers have reached an agreement for health cooperation in Cameroon. The president of the Association of the Brothers for Distant Sick, AFMAL Brother Pietro Cicin ...
• 26 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - HARAMBEE 2002 AFRICA PROJECT WHICH MARKED CANONISATION OF JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA, WILL FUND 18 PROJECTS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA Rome (Fides Service) – Out of 122 education projects in 20 countries presented to the Harambee 2002 Office (a solidarity programme started to mark the canonisation of the founder of Opus Dei, Saint Josemaria Escriva) 1 ...
• 25 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - FIRST LITURGICAL FEAST OF SAINT JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA WILL BE MARKED WITH SOLEMNITY ALL OVER THE WORLD AND A NEW WEB PAGE OFFERS INFORMATION ON THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE “SAINT OF EVERY DAY LIFE” Rome (Fides Service) – Nine months after the canonisation of the Founder of Opus Dei, presided by Pope John Paul II on October 6 last year, 2002, the feast day of the new Saint June 26, the day he died in Rome in 1975, ...
• 24 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - RELIGIOUS FORMATION AT A DISTANCE: ON LINE INFORMATION ON NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS, SECTS MODERN SPIRITUAL TENDENCIES Rome (Fides Service) – Successful the first project of formation at a distance on the “Fenomeno religioso in Italia” organised by the Centro Consulenza on line on sects religions and spirituality SRS in collaborati ...
• 23 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - TO FIGHT DRUG ABUSE IT IS INDISPENSABLE TO START FROM THE TRANSCENDENT AND UNIQUE VALUE OF EVERY PERSON: SYMPOSIUM FOR UN ANTI-DRUGS DAY Rome (Fides Service) – United Nations, the Vatican and therapy communities join forces to fight a phenomenon which is medical and psychological, but also cultural, social, ethic and political. To mark UN Anti-Drugs Day ...
• 23 June 2003
  EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - THE POPE TELLS CATHOLICS IN BANJA LUKA: “DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED, MULTIPLY EFFORTS TO MAKE BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ONCE AGAIN A LAND OF RECONCILIATION, ENCOUNTER AND PEACE Banja Luka (Fides Service) – “With deep gratitude for the invitation, I return after six years to Bosnia-Herzegovina and I thank God for allowing me to meet once again these people so dear to my heart”. With these ...
• 20 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - INTERNATIONAL BODIES UNABLE TO GUARANTEE JUSTICE AND PEACE TODAY MUST BE REINFORCED NOT ELIMINATED: ARCHBISHOP MARTINO TELLS NATIONAL MEETING OF ITALIAN DIOCESAN CARITAS OFFICES Rome (Fides Service) – The present day inadequacies of international bodies must not lead to the reduction of their importance but rather to reinforce them and render them capable of fulfilling their original duty. Thi ...
• 20 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO FRATERNITY TO WELCOME NEW PRIESTS AND DEACONS: MISSIONARIES DESTINED FOR TAIWAN, SPAIN, GERMANY AND CZECH REPUBLIC Rome (Fides Service) – Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Pope’s vicar General for the diocese of Rome, will ordain 6 priests and 5 deacons for the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St Charles Borromeo. The solemn ...
• 20 June 2003
  EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - THE POPE WILL FIND A CHURCH AND A SOCIETY WHOSE SCARS ARE SLOWLY HEALING, COMMITTED TO DIALOGUE AND RECONCILIATION: INTERVIEW WITH VICAR GENERAL OF BANJA LUKA DIOCESE, PRESIDENT OF COMMITTEE FOR PAPAL VISIT Banja Luka (Fides Service) – “On Sunday next I will go to Bosnia Herzegovina, to confirm in the faith that Catholic community committed to the important path of reconciliation and harmony”. With these words Pope Jo ...
• 18 June 2003
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - TRNAVA UNIVERSITY AWARDS HONORARY DOCTORATE IN THEOLOGY TO CHIARA LUBICH, FOR HER CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THEOLOGY OF UNITY AND COMMITMENT TO PROMOTE DIALOGUE AT EVERY LEVEL Trnava (Fides Service) – On Monday June 23 at 11 am, at Castel Gandolfo (just outside Rome) Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement will be awarded an honorary doctorate in theology. By conferring this title on ...
• 18 June 2003
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - WORLD REFUGEE DAY 2003: A MEETING ORGANISED BY THE JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE DENOUNCES: “THE NEW IMMIGRATION LAW IS IMMORAL” Lisbon (Fides Service) - As part events to mark the international Week for Refugees, 15-22 June and World Refugee Day 20 June 2003, the Jesuit Refugee Service JRS in Portugal organised a day of study for immigrants and ...
• 17 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - BUILDING PEACE AND DIALOGUE THROUGH ITINERANT EVANGELISATION, SIDE BY SIDE WITH ORDINARY PEOPLE: FRANCISCAN PROGRAMME FOR THIRD MILLENNIUM Rome (Fides Service) – To strive to fill gap between the rich and the poor, reaffirm in situations of violence and conflict, the possibility of peace, justice and forgiveness; fight fundamentalism in all its forms thro ...
• 16 June 2003
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - FREEING PEOPLE FROM POVERTY IS A MORAL OBLIGATION FOR THE CONSCIENCE OF HUMANITY: HEAD OF HOLY SEE DELEGATION ADDRESSES WORLD LABOUR CONFERENCE Geneva (Fides Service) – “Poverty is not longer a fatality! To free people from it is therefore a moral obligation for the conscience of humanity”. This quote from Pope John Paul II’s Message for World Peace Day ...