Europe

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  14 January 2025
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Romania: Cultural Invasion, Vast Military Expenses, Democracy Cancelled by Victor Gaetan* “The innocent pay for war, the innocent…Let us think about this reality and say to each other: war is madness. And those who profit from war and the arms trade are thugs ...
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  11 January 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - Blessed Father Giovanni Merlini, the missionary who spoke to the Pope and the bandits (of the Papal State) by Fabio Beretta Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "There is someone who loves you even before you deserve it." Disobeying the orders of the papal legate, Father Giovanni Merlini did not condemn or attack anyone in his homilies. ...
• 7 January 2025
  EUROPE/GREECE - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - On December 6, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches), appointed Father Lorenzo ...
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  3 January 2025
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - The Star Singers' visit to Rome and Mass with Pope Francis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of the Star Singers from Switzerland has concluded their visit to Rome. They represented more than 10,000 children and young people, together with about 2,000 adult volunteers, ...
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  21 December 2024
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Raise your voice!” The 2025 Star Singers Campaign for children’s rights Aachen (Agenzia Fides) – The focus of the “Star Singers” campaign of the Pontifical Society of German Missionary Childhood (Aktion Dreikönigssingen) is on children's rights, and aims to emphasize that all people a ...
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  18 December 2024
  VATICAN - Beatification process for Eduard Profittlich: Pope Francis recognizes his death as martyrdom Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the beatification process for the German-born Jesuit missionary and titular archbishop of Hadrianopolis, Eduard Profittlich, who died in 1942 in the Soviet detention camp in Kiro ...
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  15 December 2024
  APOSTOLIC JOURNEY - Pope Francis in Ajaccio: Popular piety is a gift for all Ajaccio (Agenzia Fides) - More than two thousand years have passed "since the Incarnation of the Son of God". And some periods of history "the Christian faith shaped the lives of peoples and their political institutions" ...
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  14 December 2024
  Pope Francis in Ajaccio: The missionary soul of popular spirituality by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - There is a People of God gathered and beloved by Jesus, who continue to ask for his presence and his consolation in the tribulations of life, entrusting their expectations to ...
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  12 December 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Sign of the Risen Lord and home for all: 25 years since the reopening of the Catholic Cathedral in Moscow by Chiara Dommarco Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday evening, December 11, the Catholic Church in Moscow celebrated the 25th anniversary of the reopening of the current Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. "In ...
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  7 December 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - 30th anniversary of the Franciscan school in Novosibirsk Novosibirsk (Agenzia Fides) - A "personal" education, which involves attention and love for each child: this is what the Catholic Franciscan school "Christmas of the Lord" in Novosibirsk aims to be, which will celebrate ...
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  18 November 2024
  EUROPE/POLAND - Szczytno mourns Lech Lachowicz, the elderly Polish priest murdered with an axe Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - A community in mourning gathered yesterday in the church of Saint Brother Albert in Szczytno, a city in northern Poland shocked by the death of Father Lech Lachowicz. The 72-year-old priest was a ...
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  16 November 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Chow: 'Sinicization' is an open game that also concerns the Church by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the current historical phase, the Catholic Church is called to confront the instances of "sinicization" supported by Xi Jinping's China, drawing inspiration also from the mi ...
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  15 November 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Parolin at the conference on Matteo Ricci: "There is no contradiction between being Christian and authentically Chinese" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no contradiction between being Christian and authentically Chinese," said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State, this morning at the conference "Matteo Ricci – A heritage of frien ...
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  14 November 2024
  EUROPE/SPAIN - In Cehegín, the funeral of Juan Antonio Llorente, the friar killed in the attack on the monastery of Santo Espíritu Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - In Cehegín, a city in the province of Murcia (Spain), the funeral of Brother Juan Antonio Llorente, a Franciscan of the Immaculate, was celebrated. He was killed in the monastery where he live ...
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  13 November 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - November 14, 1877 - November 14, 2027: 150th anniversary of the 1st Missionary Expedition of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, November 14, 2024, the three-year preparation for the 150th anniversary of the 1st Missionary Expedition of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) begins. On this day, the many de ...