Europe News
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
Archbishop says Christians suffer political and intellectual persecution in Europe
In a pastoral letter issued this week, Archbishop Agustin Garcia-Gasco of Valencia, Spain, said today in Europe there is a... Read more
Spanish Health Minister seeks to have abortion pill distributed nationwide free of charge
Spain’s Health Minister, Elena Salgado, is set to propose to all of Spain’s autonomous communities that the morning after pill... Read more
Madrid Cardinal says anonymous saints are builders of true progress
During his weekly address, the Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Maria Rouco Varela, said the anonymous saints of today “are the... Read more
Archbishop denounces use of embryos as panacea against diseases
During the traditional recitation of the Rosary of the Aurora, Archbishop Braulio Rodriguez of Valladolid, Spain, denounced the use of... Read more
Belgian cardinal dies, had stirred controversy with remarks on homosexuality
Gustaaf Cardinal Joos of Belgium, who gained notoriety when he called homosexuals “sexual perverts” earlier this year, died yesterday at... Read more
