Europe

• 10 August 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “The challenge of missionary pastoral work” - Conference sponsored by the new Office for Missionary Pastoral Work of the German Bishops Erfurt (Agenzia Fides) – September 6 to 8, there will be a conference on "Challenges of the pastoral mission, organized by the Office for Missionary Pastoral Work (Arbeitsstelle für Katholische Missionarische Pastoral ...
• 6 August 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - In 52nd Funding Campaign, German HCA members raise second highest sum in history Aachen (Agenzia Fides) – The children of the Holy Childhood Association in Germany can boast of an excellent result in their fundraising event: this year they raised the second highest sum in their history: 40.6 millio ...
• 27 July 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Summer serving others: young people and families on mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Gioventù e Famiglia Missionaria is an international organisation promoted by the Catholic Church Movement Regnum Christi, present in over 20 different countries. Each year in July and August it or ...
• 21 July 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Monasteries support the missions with a special day of prayer and sacrifice every month Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The Pontifical Mission Society of St Peter Apostle propose that monasteries of contemplative life might devote one day every month to cooperation with the universal mission of the Church. Given ...
• 16 July 2010
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - 18th International Conference on AIDS: Rights Here, Right Now Vienna (Agenzia Fides) – The 18th International Conference on AIDS with the theme: 'Rights Here, Right Now' will begin on 18 July in Vienna. Some 25,000 participants at AIDS 2010, legislators, programme leaders, scie ...
• 15 July 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Benedictine Missionaries of St. Ottilien and creation protection Sankt Ottilien (Agenzia Fides) – Today 15 July at the Benedictine Abbey of the Missionaries of St. Ottilien, work begins to build a bio-gas plant for the production of electrical power. The abbey compound, which includ ...
• 15 July 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - There is no such thing as the right to kill an innocent human being says the Archbishop Burgos Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop of Burgos Francisco Gil Hellin, in a recent statement reported by the Catholic News Agency, affirmed that there is no such thing as the right to kill an innocent human and conse ...
• 14 July 2010
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Religions against discrimination and defamation on religious grounds Bruxelles (Agenzia Fides) – As part of a second series of seminars on 'Islam, Christianity and Europe', today, 14 July, in Brussels, a study meeting on the theme on the theme “The role of religious actors in the fig ...
• 13 July 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - “ The vast horizons of evangelisation and the urgent necessity to bear witness to the Gospel Message before all men and women, without distinction, are the field of your apostolate”: Rogationist Fathers 11th Chapter Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Work continues at the 11th General Chapter of the Rogationist Fathers which opened on Monday 5 July at the Centro di Spiritualità Rogate di Morlupo (Rome). Following the opening ceremony and the ...
• 12 July 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Heart of St. Camillus travels from Rome to Ireland Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Order of Ministers of the Sick (Camillians) have begun celebrating the 400th anniversary of the death of San Camillo (1614 - 2014). Among other activities is also provided for the public expo ...
• 12 July 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 63rd Missiology Week begins in Burgos: Priesthood and Ecumenism for the Mission Burgos (Agenzia Fides) – Today marks the opening day at the 63rd Missiology Week in Burgos. The event is being held at the Archdiocese's Faculty of Theology. After words of greeting from the Archbishop of Burgos, Arch ...
• 10 July 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Pilgrimage tour of Founder's relic helping Comboni Missionaries' prepare for 19th General Chapter Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Comboni Missionaries (Pious Mothers of Nigrizia) are preparing for their General Chapter XIX which will open at their Mother House in Verona, on September 1, 2010 and will end October 5. Insp ...
• 6 July 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “The missionaries who work to bring together two great abandoned people: Jesus in the Tabernacle and man in the world" Malaga (Agenzia Fides) – The Eucharistic Missionaries are preparing to celebrate their 90th anniversary of foundation. Sister Antonia Moreno, Superior of the house in Marques Valdecañas in Spain, wrote to Fides, empha ...
• 6 July 2010
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Personal encounter with God is the source of every vocation, especially the vocation to the priesthood Esztergom (Agenzia Fides) - “Come and See. The Priest: Witness and Servant of Vocations” was the theme for the annual meeting of the EVS (European Vocations Service), which was held in Esztergom, Hungary, July 1-4. I ...
• 6 July 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missionary institutes in Italy reaffirm: “the culture of respect, equality and promotion of diversity, able to see migrants as bearers of values and resources” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – "In the phenomena of migration as well, we missionaries propose a vision full of faith and hope because, beyond the dramatic implications that accompany the stories of immigrants, their faces and ...