Europe

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  4 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - "We are desperate but we are not afraid, we are very determined, all of us" says Fr. Mikola from Lviv Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "The war started only a few days ago, everything works normally here, shops are open, public transport works. The situation is calm but we are preparing. There are also air warnings but at the mome ...
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  4 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Welcome, compassion, prayer: "We live with the spirit of Job" Konotop (Agenzia Fides) - "In the midst of suffering, hardship, war, we, Franciscan friars of the Province of St. Michael the Archangel, continue to serve the poorest and most suffering people in the city of Konotop with ...
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  4 March 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Camillians offer the structure of a seminary and a parish to displaced Ukrainians Burakow (Agenzia Fides) - Camillian Disaster Service International (CADIS), in collaboration with other Camillian and non-Camillian organizations is also mobilizing to support the Ukrainian emergency. Specifically, the C ...
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  3 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Families and disabled people fleeing Ukraine are welcomed in the Orionine communities of Poland and Italy Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "In our homes in Poland we have prepared several hundred places for refugees. Families with children with their orphanage guardians are brought to these centers. The confreres, in collaboration wit ...
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  3 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Franciscan friars: "God's grace saved the city from devastation" Konotop (Agenzia Fides) - "Currently the city of Konotop is under siege and at all entrances there are Russian checkpoints that prohibit civilians from leaving the city and do not allow the delivery of food and medicine. ...
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  2 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Franciscans close to the people "with prayer, lunch and words of encouragement" Konotop (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite the great tension in society, anxiety and widespread panic, in our Convent, together with Father Florian OFM, with volunteers and parishioners, we are at the service of people with pray ...
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  2 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Scalabrinian Missionaries: it is time to welcome, show solidarity and pray for peace Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "About 7 million refugees are expected if a truce is not reached in the 27 countries of the European Union. A considerable number, given that according to UNHCR 8 million people are fleeing through ...
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  1 March 2022
  EUROPE - During Lent the Church in Europe prays for peace in Ukraine and for the victims of the pandemic St. Gallen (Agenzia Fides) - The European Bishops join the appeal of Pope Francis "to make next March 2, Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting for peace". We want to join our voice, says His Exc. Mgr. Gintaras Grušas, Archb ...
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  1 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Oblate missionaries of Mary Immaculate in prayer: "We feel the closeness of the Pope and of the whole Church" Kiev (Agenzia Fides) - "We are fine but we live in precariousness and uncertainty. Our help comes from the Lord and our hope is his Providence and we live these terrible moments immersed in prayer. Let us put our lives i ...
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  28 February 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Orionines and Salesians, committed to welcoming refugees, remain in their place, "trusting in Providence" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Sisters of Don Orione are in Korotycz, near Kharkiv, together with more than 40 mothers and children. Unfortunately, they have not been able to move and live with them this moment of great ten ...
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  26 February 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The war in Ukraine and the pain of the Eastern Churches: "the only one who benefits from it is the devil" Kiev (Agenzia Fides) - "Wars are a defeat for all parties involved. The only one who enjoys them is the devil, who already dances on the heads of corpses, and plays with the pain of widows, orphans and grieving mothers". ...
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  26 February 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Being an ambassador is a bit like a mission" memory of Ambassador Attanasio killed in Congo Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - Together with some diocesan and voluntary organizations for Africa, the Society for African Missions (SMA) organized an event in memory of Ambassador Luca Attanasio, assassinated in Congo on Febru ...
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  25 February 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The Don Orione Monastery in Lviv becomes a reception center for refugees and the disabled Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We have all gathered in the monastery of Lviv which we have decided to make available to refugees and to those in need. Our other priority is the protection of the 8 disabled children who live in ...
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  24 February 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Missionaries of Don Orione: "We will stay here, we cannot abandon our disabled children, mothers, children, the poor" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Don Giovanni Carollo, director of the religious province "Mother of Divine Providence" of the Sons of Divine Providence (Don Orione) on which the Orionine mission in Ukraine depends, in contact wit ...
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  24 February 2022
  EUROPE - Catholic Action: prayer of the Rosary for peace with the faithful of Ukraine Rome (Agenzia Fides) - While winds of war blow in Ukraine, the International Forum of Catholic Action (IFCA) with all the associations of Catholic Action in the world, has accepted the renewed appeal of Pope Francis to p ...