Europe

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  12 June 2017
  EUROPE/POLAND - Cardinal Filoni ordains Fr Tadeusz Wojda Archbishop of Bialystok Bialystok (Agenzia Fides)- “On the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, the Church presents herself to the world as a communion of persons, in the image and likeness of God, because God is a communion of three perso ...
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  16 May 2017
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Chinese community will gather in Naples for the Day of Prayer for the Church in China Naples (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, May 21, at 11.30 am, the Chinese Catholic community in Italy will gather in Naples, in the parish of St. Mary of Constantinople at the Museum, to celebrate the World Day of Prayer for ...
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  13 May 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Recycling sneakers to fight poverty in Mozambique Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - #RUNCYCLE campaign has just been launched in Madrid. Promoted by the European High School in Madrid, with the collaboration of Runnics, the SEUR Foundation and Hello Media Group agency, the initi ...
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  13 May 2017
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - Appeal of religious communities: may law reign in social and individual life Tirana (Agenzia Fides) - Concerned about the climate in Albania, in particular for the absence of dialogue with regards to the resolution of national problems and, above all, on the issue of elections; for the violent an ...
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  6 May 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The solidarity of the Pontifical Mission Societies in favor of vocations in the world Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - May 7, Day for Native Vocations: the solidarity of the Pontifical Mission Societies in favor of vocations in the world. In mission territories there are 1,111 ecclesiastical circumscriptions (dio ...
• 5 May 2017
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Martin Brunner-Artho Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 15, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the appointment of permanent deacon Martin Brunner-Artho of the dioce ...
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  4 May 2017
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Scalabrini-Fest 2017: migration seen from a different perspective Solothurn (Agenzia Fides) - In many parts of the world walls are being built against migrants and refugees and many lose their lives at the borders of countries that could welcome them. Yet the international community re ...
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  4 May 2017
  EUROPE/ITALY - Two billion children, and women live in countries with serious or very serious forms of exclusion Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A child out of 3 lives in countries with serious or very serious forms of exclusion. This is what emerged from yesterday's presentation in Rome of the new WeWorld Index. It is an instrument created ...
• 3 May 2017
  EUROPE/SLOVENIA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 30 June 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Matjaz Kriznar, of the Archdiocesan clergy of Ljubljana, as the Natio ...
• 3 May 2017
  EUROPE/BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 16, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Luka Tunjic, of the Archdiocesan clergy in Sarajevo, as National Dir ...
• 27 April 2017
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - National Pontifical Mission Societies Director Fr. Antonio Batista Lopes confirmed Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 2 March 2017, confirmed as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in P ...
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  25 April 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Libropensadores: encouraging local children to read and collect funds to help other less fortunate school children in Cote d’Ivoire Saragozza (Agenzia Fides) – Once again this year Fundación Canfranc and Fundación Caja Inmaculada are launching Libropensadores campaigns inviting young people of Aragon to read more while developing a project for ...
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  25 April 2017
  EUROPE/ITALY - World Malaria Day: most at risk the weakest, children and pregnant women Padova (Agenzia Fides) – On April 25 the World Health Organisation WHO marks World Malaria Day in order to increase awareness of the problem of Malaria in the world: a disease which in 2016 registered 212 million ca ...
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  21 April 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Missionary Youth recalls the Spanish religious woman killed in Haiti, murderer arrested Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - In the past few days, the alleged murderer of the Spanish missionary Sr. Isa Solá, who was attacked and killed on a Haitian road in the capital while driving her car, on September 2, 2016, for r ...
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  30 March 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "A toy, an illusion": solidarity initiative for children in Africa, Asia and Latin America Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign "A toy, an illusion" will be committed to sending, in the coming months, 350,000 new toys to children in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as games and educational materials in ...