Europe

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  12 April 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Before God there are no second-class children": Father Maccalli remembers the victims of jihadist terrorism Padua (Agenzia Fides) - "It is essential not to forget the 'anonimus' who are victims of violence and kidnappings by jihadist terrorism that rages in the Sahel. The names of some give a face and a history to local popula ...
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  11 April 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Called to bear witness with our lives that the Lord is alive and risen": April 11, 1799, anniversary of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joan Antida Thouret Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Artisans of fraternity, we inhabit the world with the desire to bring hope and promote many brothers and sisters. In fact, our commitment in the missions is to collaborate with the inhabitants of ...
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  9 April 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - The mission ad gentes today Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelization in Poland, the new challenges of the mission ad gentes, young people, the conflict in Ukraine and the Jubilee Year on the occasion of the anniversaries of the Pontifical Mission So ...
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  8 April 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sisters of Charity: 10 years of the Thouret Foundation, on the paths of charity in the peripheries of the world Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Thouret Foundation, an organization inspired by the charism and missionary tradition of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joan Antida Thouret, founded in Besançon, France, on April 11, 1799, cel ...
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  8 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The Order of Malta operations to help refugees have been extended kyiv (Agenzia Fides) - With more than 12 million people in difficulty in Ukraine, of whom 6.5 million are internally displaced, the network of the Order of Malta is intensifying its aid operations both in Ukraine and in ...
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  7 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Welcoming and supporting others, against the horror of war Zhytomyr (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite the ongoing war and all the difficulties, they continue to accompany and work for and with the population". This is what Father Michal Wocial, Salesian missionary of the Poland-Krakow ...
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  6 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Online lessons for Salesian schools and activities for young people, while assistance to the population continues Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - Despite the war and all the difficulties, the Salesians in Ukraine continue to offer education and work for young people, putting the needs of others first and sharing every resource and every good ...
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  5 April 2022
  EUROPE/NETHERLANDS - The loneliness of Dutch Catholics and the resumption of evangelization from small groups Utrecht (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the Netherlands, together with Father Dinh Anh Nhue Nguyen OFM, Secretary General of the Pontifical Missionary Union, addressed the ...
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  4 April 2022
  EUROPE/MALTA - Pope Francis: The mission of the Church always begins again as a "new start" and a "return to the sources" Gozo (Agenzia Fides) - "The joy of the Church is to evangelize". And faith in Christ and the same apostolic mission entrusted to the Church can only be renewed and persevere over time if the experience of the first encou ...
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  4 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Peace is born from fraternity Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "An eloquent and evocative sign emerges from the march for peace held in Lviv: first of all, it was proposed by Catholic and lay associations that, although coming from different paths, have come t ...
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  2 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The peace march of Italian civil society arrives in Lviv Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "The ongoing conflict evokes the ghost of a past which was considered definitively archived. Instead the bombs, the destruction, the Ukrainian and Russian deaths, the devastation of recent weeks ha ...
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  2 April 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY: "BACK TO THE COMIGI: Mission restarts from the future", the Missio Giovani conference kicks off on April 22 Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting with the Holy Father will open the awaited appointment of the VI edition of CO.MI.GI., the Youth Missionary Conference which returns in presence this year after the "forced pause" dicta ...
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  1 April 2022
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Conference of Missionary Childhood of Europe on the theme of “holiness” Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - After four years of "break" due to the pandemic, CEME - an organization that brings together all the Secretariats of Missionary Childhood of the countries of Europe - met at the ecumenical center ...
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  1 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - "Don Bosco for Ukraine": the Salesians of Brazil launch a solidarity campaign Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - The commitment of the Salesians to the population victims of the war, in Ukraine and beyond, continues at all levels. The Salesians remain committed in the field, in direct relief to the refugees, ...
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  31 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Seeking spiritual comfort in books: the Paulines in Lviv also receive requests for books from refugees in other countries Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "Ukraine has been at war for more than a month. Every day bombs destroy houses in different parts of the country. The city of Mariupol has become a huge cemetery. A lot of people are crossing Ukrai ...