Europe

• 3 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - EUROPEAN YEAR FOR THE DISABLED: “COOPERATION AT THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL LEVEL MUST BE INTENSIFIED” DON ORIONE FATHERS SAY AS THEY PREPARE TO TAKE DISABLED TO MEET THE POPE Rome (Fides Service) – On the occasion of the Year of the Disabled in Europe, on Wednesday 4 June, Don Orione “Persons with Different Abilities” Communities from all over Italy will meet Pope John Paul during the G ...
• 30 May 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - COMMUNICATIONS DAY: SPANISH BISHOPS’ MESSAGE “COMMUNICATORS AT THE SERVICE OF THE GOOD OF SOCIETY AND DIGNITY OF EVERY HUMAN PERSON” Madrid (Fides Service) – In a message issued for Communications’ Day (in Spain June 1) the Commission for Social Communications of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference has called on Catholic media workers to fulfil thei ...
• 30 May 2003
  AFRICA/EUROPE - BISHOPS ASK G8 SUMMIT FOR NEW MOBILISATION FOR AFRICA Berlin (Fides Service) – “Give practical support to the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) by increasing development aid and reducing the debt of developing countries” is the request made by Catholi ...
• 30 May 2003
  EUROPE/UNITED KINGDOM - CHRISTIANS JOIN IN ECUMENICAL PRAYER FOR NORTH KOREA London (Fides Service) – A ecumenical week of prayer in aid of North Korea in underway launched by the London based human rights organisation Christian Solidarity Worldwide CWS which promotes awareness of situations of ...
• 28 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - SARS – MISSIONARIES CALL FOR VACCINATION AGAINST EPIDEMIC; FIDES ASKED THE OPINION OF ITALIAN PROFESSOR AT LA SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY IN ROME Lome (Fides Service) – Disquieting information on the number of cases of SARS and deaths continues to arrive, provoking inevitably an increase in anxiety. The most recent figures issued by the World Health Organisatio ...
• 28 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - DEHONIANS ELECT NEW SUPERIOR GENERAL, PORTUGUESE FATHER JOSE ORNELAS CARVALHO Rome (Fides Service) - Father Jose Ornelas Carvalho has been elected new Superior General of the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart (Dehonians). He is the eighth successor of the founder Venerable Jean Leon ...
• 27 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD 142 BROTHERS OF SAINT FRANCIS DISCUSS HOW TO RESPOND TO THE CHALLENGES OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM Assisi (Fides Service) – They have come to Assisi to trace the face and the mission of the Order in the third millennium. Franciscans of the Order of Friars Minor are celebrating their third General Chapter of the thir ...
• 27 May 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - CHURCHES IN GERMANY HOLD FIRST EVER “ECUMENICAL-DAY”; ENCOURAGING SIGNAL AND NEW IMPULSE FOR ECUMENISM Berlin (Fides Service) - From 28 May to June 1 the Churches in Germany will hold an “Ecumenical-Day” with the motto: “May you be a Blessing!” This is the first time that lay representatives of the Catholic and L ...
• 23 May 2003
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - IN AFRICA HALF THE CHILDREN WHO DIE EVERY YEAR OF MEASLES: STRATEGY OF TOTAL IMMUNISATION CAN PREVENT THESE DEATHS SAYS WHO Geneva (Fides Service) – According to the World Health Organisation every year about 750,000 children, half of them in Africa, die of measles. Now thanks to a strategy of total immunisation it is possible to prevent th ...
• 22 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - BIO-DIVERSITY AND RELIEF OF POVERTY – CHALLENGES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY DAY Rome (Fides Service) – UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme, as made 22 May International Biological Diversity Day ” to spread awareness and knowledge on questions related to bio-diversity. The theme this y ...
• 21 May 2003
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - “BELIEVERS MUST USE EVERY POSSIBLE LEGAL MEANS TO AVOID THE LOSS OF HUMAN LIFE AND THE HUMILIATION OF HUMAN DIGNITY” SAYS VICE -PRESIDENT OF THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY FOR LIFE ADDRESSING INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM ON BIO-ETHICS Kiev (Fides Service) – Scientists, scholars and journalists from Ukraine, Italy, Poland, Croatia and Belo-Russia took part in a Scientific Symposium promoted by a Ukrainian charitable organisation the Pro-Human Dignity ...
• 21 May 2003
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - SMOKERS ALARM IN DEVELOPING REGIONS, TOBACCO ALREADY KILLS 5 MILLION EVERY YEAR. HISTORY MAKING AGREEMENT TO CLAMP DOWN ON SMOKING Geneva (Fides Service) - The 192 members of the World Health Organization today unanimously adopted the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) aimed at curbing tobacco-related deaths and disease. This is the firs ...
• 21 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - SALESIANS RE-STYLE WEB PORTAL: MORE SPACE FOR INFORMATION ON THE WORLD OF YOUTH, DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLES, MISSION Torino (Fides Service) – On Saturday 24 May, Feast of Mary Auxiliatrix from whom the Salesians draw their inspiration, in Torino where the Congregation was founded by Saint John Bosco the Rector Major Rev. Pascual Chav ...
• 20 May 2003
  EUROPE/POLAND - CHURCHES FOR THE PROTECTION OF CREATION: FORMATION AND CONCRETE INITIATIVES NEEDED SINCE “THERE CAN BE NO PEACE BETWEEN PEOPLES UNLESS THERE IS PEACE WITH NATURE” Wroclaw (Fides Service) - Some sixty delegates from 22 countries took part in the Consultation on the Environment, entitled “Formation for responsibility towards Creation and Sustainable Development” and organised by ...
• 20 May 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - AT LAST SCHOLARS FROM LA SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY PROVIDE CLEAR INFORMATION ABOUT SARS: HOW IT SPREADS, WHAT SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT, WHAT TO DO TO AVOID IT Roma (Fides Service) – A group of Virologists at the Clinic of Infectious Diseases at the La Sapienza in Rome have prepared for Fides Service a report on the main characteristics of SARS, sources of infection, diagnosi ...