Europe

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  17 May 2022
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Beatification of Pauline Jaricot in Lyon: local initiatives and events Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - Lyon is preparing for the beatification celebrations next Sunday for the foundress of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith, Pauline Jaricot (see Fides, 3/5/2022). In the course ...
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  16 May 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - A free market in the parish, for the mutual support of the faithful Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "Our 'free market' is not only a bazaar to exchange objects and clothes, but also a place where people meet in a happy atmosphere and help each other", says Nataliya Zykova of the Moscow Catholic ...
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  6 May 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Archbishop Pezzi: leave a door open to dialogue; the other is never an enemy Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "I think that these hopes for dialogue are well founded. I think that mistrust is more unfounded. This is what Msgr. Paolo Pezzi, Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of the Mother of God in Moscow, ...
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  4 May 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cadis missionaries and Tzu Chi Foundation: interreligious love, together for Ukraine Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Buddha's mercy and God's love exist to save people who suffer and our fundamental values are the same", said Br. Jose Ignacio Santaolalla Saez, MI, President of Camillian Disaster Service Internat ...
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  3 May 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Looking at realities with the eyes of Jesus: the Camillian missionaries open the LIX General Chapter Nemi (Agenzia Fides) - "May reflection, sharing and fraternity help us to mature more and more the prophetic density of our consecrated life today, especially in the light of our common charism of mercy towards the sick ...
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  2 May 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Provincial Coordinators of the Missions ad gentes of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians share their charism in the 5 continents Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Starting tomorrow, Tuesday, May 3, 2022 and Wednesday, May 4, 2022, the provincial coordinators of missions ad gentes of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians will meet online t ...
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  2 May 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Oblate missionaries of Mary Immaculate next to the people, amidst the sufferings of war Kiev (Agenzia Fides) - "Now that there is war, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), who have been in Ukraine for 32 years, have not left the country and their pastoral service. Neither from Kiev, which was surrounded by ...
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  30 April 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - Missionaries and lay people together with Ukrainian mothers who do not lose hope of being able to return home soon Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - "Witnessing what the war in Ukraine is causing was a strong feeling that really makes your heart cry. Many people who until yesterday led a normal life are now sleeping on a cot in a huge building ...
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  29 April 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Comboni Missionaries: "Doors open in our homes to welcome and care for the Ukrainian population fleeing the war" Krakow (Agenzia Fides) - "Our Comboni communities in Poland have been committed from the very beginning to welcoming refugees from Ukraine. To date, about three million refugees have crossed the border into our country. ...
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  26 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Representatives of the US Pontifical Mission Societies visit the country: "We want to share suffering and pain" Kyev (Agenzia Fides) - In Ukraine, the Pontifical Mission Societies of the United States not only want to provide material aid, but also to share the suffering of the people and their pain: with this spirit, the National ...
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  25 April 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - A march to stop the war and its escalation: take the word out of arms and give it back to politics Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I greet and thank the participants in the extraordinary Perugia-Assisi March for peace and fraternity, which is taking place today; as well as those who have joined, giving life to similar events ...
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  25 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Camillian missionaries: "Make Christ present by bringing a sign of hope to the sick" Munkacs (Agenzia Fides) - "Among the Ukrainian refugees, many sick, due to their precarious health conditions, cannot move because they are confined to a hospital bed or in a wheelchair. There are lonely and abandoned pe ...
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  22 April 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - A march for peace, relaunching the Pope's appeal: "Stop! War is madness" Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - "After almost two months of bombs, killings, suffering and devastation, alarmed by the serious social consequences of this new war, it is time to give space and voice to peace and to do so it is ...
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  13 April 2022
  EUROPE - The peace movement looks to Russia Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - "After the peace march in Lviv, where we went to bring aid and families in need back to Italy, we are thinking of Russia. A new entity is being formed, "StoptheWarNow", which intends to gather al ...
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  12 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The president of Caritas Ukraine asks for solidarity and prayers for the families of the victims Mariupol (Agenzia Fides) - "This dramatic news leaves the Caritas family horrified and shocked. We join in the pain and solidarity with the suffering of the families and our colleagues of Caritas Ukraine who are experien ...