Europe

• 23 June 2010
  EUROPE/FRANCE - "With Therese, we too love peace": 5,000 children attend mission meetings in Lisieux Lisieux (Agenzia Fides) – Once again this year some 5,600 secondary school pupils (aged 11-13) belonging to chaplaincies of the eight diocese of Ile de France, accompanied by almost 700 adults and animators, answered a ...
• 23 June 2010
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - With 5 years to go: Millennium Development Goals Report 2010 assesses progress Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - A report on the Millennium Development Goals, "MDG 2010: Keeping the promise" will be released this afternoon. Made public a few months before a meeting of world leaders in September in New Yor ...
• 22 June 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - New handbook on promoting missionary spirit among children Valencia (Agenzia Fides) – The Missions Commission of the Archdiocese of Valencia has issued a new handbook to encourage the formation of more Missionary Childhood groups and offer existing groups guidelines for activi ...
• 22 June 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Standing Committee of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Spain CEE to discuss missionary cooperation Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – A statement from the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Spain CEE, a copy of which was sent to Fides, said that the 216th Meeting of the CEE Standing Committee, a meeting of three days, will disc ...
• 21 June 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Diritti alla meta”: protecting the rights of children and adolescents in countries in the south of the world Milan (Agenzia Fides) - According to UNICEF about 150 million children in the world aged 5 - 14 years are employed in illegal labour, a cause and consequence of the poverty which jeopardises their education and their fut ...
• 18 June 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Migrants: “the Church calls on all parties to shoulder their respective responsibilities and identify solutions other than simply heavier sanctions on illegal immigrants or the hermetic closure of borders” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “We are all aware that migratory movements, especially in recent years have assumed the dimensions of real humanitarian crises. In the first place because the phenomenon has all the characteri ...
• 17 June 2010
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Missionary Childhood marks 90 years since the arrival of the relics of the Chinese martyr Saint Paul Chen at the Cathedral of Notre Dame Paris (Agenzia Fides) – Recently in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood or Holy Childhood celebrated the 90th anniversary of the arrival in the Cathedral of the relics o ...
• 16 June 2010
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - UNHCR Report: Some 43.3 million people forcibly displaced worldwide flee conflict and persecution Gineva (Agenzia Fides) - Some 43.3 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide at the end of 2009, the highest number of people uprooted by conflict and persecution since the mid-1990s. At the same time, the number ...
• 15 June 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Master Degree in social communications in intercultural and missionary contexts Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Registration has begun for students interested in the 2010-2011 edition of a I level Master Degree in Social Communications in Intercultural and Missionary contexts. The course, offered by the Pont ...
• 14 June 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Clerics Regular of the Mother of God meet for Chapter; in August the Order's first Nigerian priest Rome (Agenzia Fides) – From 7 June to 4 July the town of Lariano (Rome) will host the 110th General Chapter of the Clerics Regular of the Mother of God (OMD), founded in 1574 by Saint Giovanni Leonardi, who was also c ...
• 12 June 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Capuchin Friars in the world: 10,519 in 106 different nations on all five continents Rome (Agenzia Fides) - According to the most recent figures available, on 31 December 2009 the number of Capuchin Friars in the world was 10,519, a figure which showed a slight decrease compared with the previous year (1 ...
• 12 June 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Child abuse denigrates minors and marks them for life Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Today, 12 June, is the annual Day Against Child Labour. An estimated 215 million of the world's children are forced to work in order to survive, more than 115 million in conditions of total exploit ...
• 12 June 2010
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - PMS aim to end child labour: safeguard freedoms of children and adolescents and provide new opportunities Vienna (Agenzia Fides) – “We want to provide more opportunities to children and families! This is why we support projects aimed to end child labour”. But the struggle to end child labour must go hand in hand with a ...
• 11 June 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Lolo, Sower of Joy”: first lay journalist to be declared Blessed Jaen (Agenzia Fides) – His name is Manuel Lozano Garrido, the first lay journalist, also disabled, who will be beatified on June 12 in Linares, in the Province of Jaén, Spain. Better known as "Lolo," he was a journali ...
• 1 June 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - African elected Superior General of Society of Missionaries of Africa for first time Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Father Richard Baawobr, born in Nandom-Lawra, Ghana, was elected Superior General of the Society of Missionaries of Africa at the institute's 27th General Chapter in Rome (see Fides 4/5/2010). Ac ...