Europe

• 22 May 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - National Days for Diocesan Mission Delegates and the National Assembly of National Directors of the PMS - “Growing in the missionary vocation is the challenge presented by the Year of Saint Paul.” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – On May 19-21, the National Days for Diocesan Mission Delegates and the National Assembly of National Directors of the PMS were held in Madrid. In addition to the National Director of the Pontif ...
• 19 May 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Italian Bishops' Conference working in support of Sri Lankans Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The President's Office of the Italian Bishops' Conference (CEI) issued a statement expressing the closeness of the entire Church in Italy to the victims of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. “Th ...
• 15 May 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy and Sexual and Reproductive Health” Bill passed, a law “rejected by an evident majority of citizens” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Without arriving at any kind of consensus with the opposition and denying the scientific evidence that exists on life's beginning, the Council of Ministers yesterday approved the draft-bill of ...
• 12 May 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Citizen groups protest the sale of “morning after” pill over the counter: “a human and medical aberration” that “implies the establishment of unrestricted abortion” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The statement issued on the morning of May 11 by Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez and Equality Minister Bibiana Aido, establishing the over-the-counter sales of the “morning after” pill (in ...
• 8 May 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - World Youth Day logo contest underway Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Madrid, via the WYD Organizational Committee, has organized a contest to decide on the logo for World Youth Day 2011. The Archdiocese mentions that “the World Youth Days (W ...
• 7 May 2009
  EUROPE/POLAND - A symposium on missiology, in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Missionary Formation Center in Warsaw, which has trained 804 missionaries for evangelizing the world Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) – May 5-6, a jubilee celebration for the 25 anniversary of the Missionary Formation Center was held in Warsaw (Poland), according to a report sent to Agenzia Fides from Monsignor Jan Piotrowski, ...
• 5 May 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - III National Encounter for the Holy Childhood Association. Pope asks children to “now begin assuming their responsibility in spreading the light of the Gospel everywhere” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – This past weekend, May 2-3, 5,000 children participated in the III National Encounter of the Holy Childhood Association that was celebrated in Casa de Campo (in Madrid). This is what a statemen ...
• 5 May 2009
  EUROPE/POLAND - International Sacred Music Festival for the Year of St. Paul on May 6; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's Oratorio “Paulus” to be performed Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – As part of the 19th International Sacred Music Festival “Gaude Mater,” taking place in Czestochowa May 1-6 in honor of the Year of St. Paul and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fe ...
• 5 May 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - May 5, National Day Against Pedophilia: results of a “Centro Elis” campaign Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Nearly 24% of elementary and middle school students in Rome have seen pornographic material on the computer in their home. This is one of the facts released by an awareness campaign on informatio ...
• 4 May 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - After Jerusalem, Greece, and Malta, the Peace Marathon “Running in the Footsteps of Saint Paul” is headed towards Sicily; May 27, the torch will reach Benedict XVI La Valeta (Agenzia Fides) – Just hours ago, the marathon “Running in the Footsteps of Saint Paul” set off from Malta. The marathon is 1300km on foot, beginning on April 23 in Jerusalem and crossing the Holy Land (B ...
• 27 April 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - Pilgrimage of the relics of Saint John Bosco begins in the 130 countries where Salesians are present Turin (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the celebration by the Salesian Family in Piedmont and the Val d’Aosta of the 150 anniversary of the founding of the Salesian Congregation (see Fides 8/7/2008; 2/2/2009), fr ...
• 21 April 2009
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Beginning of the Plenary Assembly: “We cannot and will not cease in our task of proclaiming the Gospel of Life” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The 93rd Plenary Assembly of the Spanish Bishops' Conference (CEE) began yesterday, April 20, in Madrid and will last until April 24. The meeting opened with an address given by the President o ...
• 17 April 2009
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Raoul Follereau Foundation rejoices at the canonization of Belgian missionary Fr. Damien De Veuster, Apostle of the Lepers Paris (Agenzia Fides) – It was April 17, 1967 (a Monday, 42 years ago), when Raoul Follereau, better known as the “Vagabond of Charity,” entered the Bronze Doors of the Vatican to meet in a private audience with Po ...
• 16 April 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Millennium News”: young journalists unveil the reality of poverty in Nairobi Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “News for young people, written by young people; a direct voice from Africa giving an account of the poverty in Nairobi.” This could be the synthesis of the project “Millennium News, giving a ...
• 16 April 2009
  EUROPE/ITALY - 800 years later, Saint Francis' spiritual children gather in Assisi: over 2,000 Franciscans from 65 countries discuss faith, morals, peace, ecology, and fraternity Assisi (Agenzia Fides) – The “International Chapter of Mats” of the Franciscan Friars from all over the world opened on April 15 in Assisi (see Fides 8/4/2009). Representatives from the male branches of the four Fr ...