Europe News
Pro-life groups calls for creation of Memorial Park for victims of abortion
The Spanish Association United for Life has begun a campaign calling for the creation of a Memorial Park in Madrid... Read more
Buttiglione explains European Parliament's rejection of his candidacy
Rocco Buttiglione, Italian Minister of European Affairs, explained this week the reasons for withdrawing himself as a candidate for the... Read more
Archbishop Rylko calls on Spanish Catholics to maintain "decisive and sharp presence in society"
During the Congress of Lay Apostolates which took place last weekend in Madrid, the President of the Pontifical Council for... Read more
Cardinal Rouco calls on laity not to fear marginalization and persecution
Presiding at the closing of the Congress of Lay Apostolates, Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varlea, Archbishop of Madrid and President... Read more
Nobody dares to become Christian, says Indian bishop
There are practically no conversions to Christianity in the South West Indian state of Kerala, according to Bishop Peter Thuruthikonam... Read more
African and European bishops seek solutions, co-operation strategies
More than 100 bishops from the Europe and Africa met outside Rome last week to tackle the problems facing Christianity... Read more
Walesa says Europe must rediscover the concept of freedom
Participating in the opening of the new academic year at the Lateran Pontifical University in Rome, former president of Poland,... Read more
Majority approval does not guarantee justness and morality of laws
The secretary general and spokesman of the Bishops Conference of Spain, Fr. Juan Antonio Martinez Camino, criticized the government’s proposal... Read more
Fundamentalists apply “psychological terrorism” against Christians in Iraq
The Spanish newspaper “La Razon” published a statement this week by a priest of the Iraqi Diocese of Mosul who... Read more
Italian intellectuals reflect on relationship between faith and politics
The re-election of George Bush in part because of moral issues, and the rejection of Italian politician Rocco Butiglione for... Read more
Marriage at all time low in Italy
The number of weddings in Italy has sunk to an all-time low. According to the state statistics office Istat, there... Read more
Madrid Cardinal renews call for respect for human life
Celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Almudena in Spain, the Archbishop of Madrid and President of the Bishops Conference... Read more
UN criticizes Poland’s abortion laws
The United Nations criticized Poland's abortion laws in a recent report, stating that they are too strict and that they... Read more
Opposition to euthanasia "unavoidable duty", Archbishop says
Archbishop Antonio Cañizares Llovera of Toledo, Spain, said this week his pubic statements against euthanasia constitute an “unavoidable duty” to... Read more
Italians oppose same-sex marriage, adoption of children by gay couples
A poll conducted by Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper reveals that Italians are overwhelmingly opposed to the notion of “same-sex marriage”... Read more
Iraqi bishop says Islamists will not drive Christians out
An Iraqi archbishop said Islamists will not drive Christians out of Iraq because of their strong Christian faith. Read more
Quadriplegics in Spain issue unified statement against euthanasia
During a press conference organized by the Bishops Conference of Spain in which the bishops announced the launching of a... Read more
Polish Cardinal says analogy between marriage and homosexual unions not possible
During a visit to the University of Navarre in Spain, Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education,... Read more
More than 100,000 Portuguese to copy Bible by hand
More than 100,000 Portuguese, among them the country’s President, Jorge Sampaio, and Cardinal Jose Policarpo, Patriarch of Lisbon, will collaborate... Read more
British debate "designer babies," government authorizes more experiments
The debate on “designer babies” has intensified in the UK after the government authorized a local university to screen embryos... Read more
