Europe

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  23 July 2022
  EUROPE/FRANCE: Preparations for World Mission Week begin Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - Preparations are beginning in view of World Mission Week scheduled from October 16 to 23, 2022. The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in France have already begun to raise awareness of this impor ...
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  23 July 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Orionines: "no one can deny us the right to build where others destroy" Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent months, especially since May 8, almost all the refugees we hosted here, in the monastery and at Casa Cafarnao, have returned to their towns and cities (also in Kharkiv) or have reached I ...
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  22 July 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - The XX edition of the Missionary Formation and Spirituality Days in Assisi Rome (Agenzia Fides) - July 30 is the deadline to register for the National Days of Formation and Missionary Spirituality planned in Assisi, organized each year by the National Office for Missionary Cooperation between t ...
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  18 July 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Via Lucis 2022”: young people on the way to bring the light of Christ Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From Rome to Turin, passing through Assisi: 14 Italian cities will be reached in the 3 thousand kilometers itinerary, conceived by the Tucum OdV association, in collaboration with the "Land and Mis ...
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  16 July 2022
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Ukrainian refugees guests at the Redemptorist monastery in Bonn: "a unique and new experience" Bonn (Agenzia Fides) - Since March 2022, some Ukrainian war refugees fleeing the war that has devastated their country and their lives, have been living in the Redemptorist monastery in Bonn. The monastery had offered to ...
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  15 July 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The war does not stop the summer activities organized by the Orionines in Lviv for 120 young people Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - 120 children and young people participate this year in the "Happy Holidays", the traditional summer event organized in Lviv by the priests of Don Orione. The religious continue their activities whi ...
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  14 July 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Dreaming under the stars": Doctors with Africa CUAMM and Pope John Paul I Padua (Agenzia Fides) - A special meeting will be held tonight, July 14, 2022, in Campo San Martino, Padua, between Doctors with Africa CUAMM and the John Paul I Vatican Foundation. Focus will be on Africa and the next b ...
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  14 July 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sisters spokespersons for the most marginalized communities to be at the center of the international debate on development Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The International Union of Superiors General (UISG) has released the second video of the campaign "New Leaders: Sisters Advocating Globally ", to highlight the commitment to tackling the world’s ...
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  5 July 2022
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Blessed Pauline Jaricot for missionary theology Burgos (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Dal Toso, president of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), at the end of his speech "Theological reflection at the service of the mission" at the Semana Española de Misionología ...
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  5 July 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - The Franciscans: "Few and small, but alongside the people and the poor" Moscow (Agenzi Fides) - "We have decided to stay close to the people, not to leave the communities and parishes where we currently carry out our pastoral service; we will continue our mission for the benefit of those we ...
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  4 July 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - The Catholic community of Moscow: in the face of conflict, pray for peace, hope in God, touch the wounds of the suffering Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "The armed hostilities in Ukraine, the suffering of the population of that Country and - even if not comparable - of Russia provoke requests and 'demands' towards God himself, the Church, doubts ...
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  2 July 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - An enlarged heart towards the mission: the charism of Saint Luigi Orione, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "On June 23, 2021, when we inaugurated the Orione Year to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of our Founder, we did not think it could have such an impact and, on the contrary, it was a g ...
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  1 July 2022
  EUROPE/SPAIN: Father José María Calderón: "The missionary spirit of Spanish Catholics is immense" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The activity report of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Spain for the year 2021 was presented yesterday during a press conference. Among the speakers: the director of the Spanish PMS, ...
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  30 June 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The "StopthewarNow" caravan: "To be here with the people who suffer to dare to propose peace" Mykolaiv (Agenzia Fides) - Irina comes from Mariupol. She fled shortly before the final attack on the steel mill: "We miraculously escaped one day before our house was destroyed." It is one of the testimonies collected b ...
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  28 June 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The commitment of Christian, Catholic and Orthodox religious: pray for peace and make peace Odessa (Agenzia Fides) - The Peace Caravan which left Italy two days ago to show its closeness and solidarity with the victims of the Ukrainian war and to bring them material aid collected by the 176 associations recogni ...