” “"The Catholic Church attaches the greatest weight and importance to the spreading of the announcement of the Gospel amidst the European peoples". It was written by Benedict XVI to card. Camillo Ruini, vicar general of His Holiness for the diocese of Rome, appointed his special envoy for the final celebrations of the "European city missions" due to take place in Budapest (Hungary) from September 16th to 22nd, 2007. "You will show to all the participants wrote the Pope in a letter in Latin to card. Ruini our thinking, so that Europe will recognise the clearest foundation of its culture and humanity" and will recognise "the Christian roots that our ancestors passed down to us, preserving them and making them known". "I will give you a future and a hope", is the theme of the fifth and last stage of the European City Missions, which concerned the new evangelisation of the big European cities: Vienna in 2003, Paris Toussaint in 2004, Lisbon in 2005 and Brussels Toussaint in 2006. The diocese of Rome too experienced the mission in the city, launched by John Paul II. During the mission in Budapest, events of prayer, conferences and testimonies about the mission in this day and age will be held every morning. The afternoons and nights will be spent in workshops about the experiences of evangelisation and the missionary initiatives in the cities.” “
