Europe

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  15 August 2024
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Zuppi-Li Hui phone call: China and the Holy See working to promote dialogue Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - "On the morning of August 14, 2024, a cordial conversation was held between Mr. Li Hui, Special Representative of the Chinese Government for Eurasian Affairs, and Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, ...
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  5 August 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Towards the Holy Year: young Catholics from the Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow met in Kaliningrad by Chiara Dommarco Kaliningrad (Agenzia Fides) - "Hope is not just the expectation of something longed for and far away: it is a foretaste in which we can already find what we want," said Father Denis Malov (CMF) to ...
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  31 July 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Digital universe and evangelization: Salesians invite to “Shape Tomorrow” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Creators of new languages and paradigms for evangelization, Ecology, climate change, migrants and refugees, digital culture and Artificial Intelligence, Internal and External Communication in the C ...
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  16 July 2024
  EUROPE/BELARUS - Jesuits and Salesians celebrate the memory of Father Stanisław Michalski, murdered at Christmas 1950 Višnevo (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, July 13, in Višnevo, a Belarusian town near the border with Lithuania, the new tomb where the remains of Father Stanisław Michalski SJ, a Polish Jesuit who died as a martyr at Chri ...
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  11 July 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Representatives of the Orthodox, Catholic, Armenian and Protestant churches participate in the Christian Youth Forum on the theme of the family by Chiara Dommarco Konevec (Agenzia Fides) - The third edition of the Christian Youth Forum, which was also attended by two Catholic women representing the Catholic Church in Russia, ended today on the island of Kone ...
• 5 July 2024
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - Confirmation of the Director of the PMS, Fr. Alessandro Barelli SDB Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 16, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed Rev. Alessandro Barelli, of the Society of Francis de Sales, Salesians of Don Bo ...
• 19 June 2024
  EUROPE/GERMANY AACHEN - Confirmation of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 14, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed the Rev. Fr. Dirk Bingener as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societi ...
• 18 June 2024
  EUROPE/GERMANY MUNICH - Confirmation of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 7, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed the Rev. Monsignor Wolfgang Huber, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Munich, as ...
• 31 May 2024
  ITALY/EUROPE - Father Giuseppe Pizzoli confirmed as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 6, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed Rev. Giuseppe Pizzoli as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societie ...
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  24 May 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Every priest is by nature a missionary”: Blessed Giuseppe Allamano will be canonized Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Being a missionary "requires nothing other than a great love for God and commitment to the salvation of souls", is the motto of Blessed Giuseppe Allamano, who founded the Institute of the Consolata ...
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  4 May 2024
  EUROPE/FRANCE - A “small theology of mission” by Cardinal Aveline By Marie-Lucile Kubacki* We publish the contribution of the journalist Marie-Lucile Kubacki on the occasion of the presentation of the book "Il dialogo della salvezza. Piccola teologia della missione" (Dialogue of Sal ...
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  3 May 2024
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - “Safeguarding”: Eastern European Churches and the protection of minors Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "We have been working on this course to show that the safety of children is a shared responsibility across borders and we have a common Eastern European context to understand", said Marta Titaniec, ...
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  22 April 2024
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Blessing of the chapel of the the Pontifical Mission Societies in Romania, dedicated to Blessed Pauline Jaricot by Cristina Grigore Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - Father Tadeusz Nowak, Secretary General of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith (POPF), describes as a "historic moment" the inauguration of the chapel ...
• 19 April 2024
  EUROPE/LUXEMBOURG - Appointment of the new director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Father Claude Bache Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 19, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, , appointed the Rev. Father Claude Bache as National Director of the Pontifical Missio ...
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  17 April 2024
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Participants in the Conference of Childhood Missionaries in Europe meet and thank Roma ethnic missionary children Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - From 25 European countries, forty-three delegates participated in the Conference of Missionary Childhood of Europe (CEME), which began on 7 April in Bucharest and ended on April 13th, with a f ...