Europe

• 30 January 2019
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Appointment of National Director of the PMS, Fr. José Maria Calderon Castro Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On December 19, 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. José Maria Calderon Castro, of the clergy of the Arch ...
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  22 January 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - ACSE has been serving immigrants and refugees for half a century: "An adventure of solidarity" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Fifty years ago, in 1969, ACSE, Comboni Association Service for Migrants and Refugees, was born in Rome thanks to Father Renato Bresciani, a Comboni missionary who had worked in South Sudan where h ...
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  21 January 2019
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Star Singers of Holy Childhood for the first time in the Senate of the Republic Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in history, the Star Singers, the children of the Pontifical Holy Childhood Society (MCA), visited the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies of the Polish Republic. On January 16, ...
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  28 December 2018
  EUROPE/GERMANY - "Star Singers" collection 2019: "Together next to disabled children" Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - More than 2,600 "Star Singers" (Sternsinger) of the Holy Childhood Association in Germany will participate today, Friday, December 28th at the official inauguration of their 61st Annual Campaign ...
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  20 December 2018
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Scalabrinians on Global Compact: "the entire planet feels the need to treat the issue of migrants in a unified manner" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Global Compact on immigration testifies that the entire planet feels the need to treat the issue of migrants in a unified manner. This is a theme to be considered without the political borders ...
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  17 December 2018
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The preparation of the Extraordinary Missionary Month begins Toledo (Agenzia Fides) - The second edition of the missionary formation seminar «The joy of the Gospel» has begun, promoted by the diocesan direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain, which prepares p ...
• 13 December 2018
  EUROPE/LUXEMBOURG - Rev. Maurice Péporté confirmed National Director of the PMS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 18 October 2018 confirmed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in ...
• 13 December 2018
  EUROPE/ITALY- Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Rev. Fr. Giuseppe Pizzoli li Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 18 October 2018 appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in It ...
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  21 November 2018
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Jesuits: "To dare the missionary spirit in the contemporary world" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - It is right to help the countries of the South of the world, but it is difficult to commit oneself. It is right to support the missions, but without changing one’s lifestyle or point of view, in ...
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  20 November 2018
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The President of the PMS: "A worldwide network at the service of the Pope to support the young Churches with prayer and charity". Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pontifical Mission Societies keep the missionary spirit alive in the Church through missionary animation and formation. The last Pontiffs insisted on the centrality of evangelization and its ...
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  15 November 2018
  EUROPE/ITALY - The President of the PMS: the extraordinary missionary Month of October 2019, an extraordinary occasion to renew the proclamation of the Gospel Rome (Agenzia Fides) "The extraordinary missionary Month of October 2019 is an extraordinary occasion for the Church to renew the missionary zeal, which is also the great purpose of the Pontifical Mission Societies. The ...
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  17 October 2018
  EUROPE/GERMANY - The President of the PMS: "Even from our desks we can be missionaries" Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of his visit to Missio-Aachen (see Fides 16/10/2018), Archbishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMs), this morning, 17 October, presided ...
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  17 October 2018
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Lay Camillian Family is the future: a challenge as well as a hope Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The International Assembly of the Lay Camillian Family (FCL) is underway in Rome. Among the participants there are 61 members, presidents and delegates from 23 countries all over the world gathered ...
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  16 October 2018
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Archbishop Dal Toso in Aachen meets the National Directorate of Missio and Missionary Childhood Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) is in Aachen, Germany, for a two-day visit at the National Directorate of Missio and of Missionary Childho ...
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  11 October 2018
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - The digital challenge for European Christian radio stations Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The 25th meeting of the European Conference of Christian Radio (ECCR), which this year chose the theme "The digital challenge for our radios", began yesterday in Lisbon. In an interview with Ecc ...