Europe

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  23 September 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - International Day against human trafficking Bilbao (Agenzia Fides) - Since 1999, International day against human trafficking is celebrated every year on 23 September, with the sole objective to expose and eradicate this illegal practice, provide assistance to vict ...
• 7 September 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - Claretian Missionaries: the new Superior General is Indian Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On 5 September 2015, the General Chapter elected Fr. Mathew Vattamattam CMF, as the 13th Superior General of the Congregation of the Claretian. Fr. Mathew Vattamattam was born on 30th May, 1959 i ...
• 30 July 2015
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Two religious murdered within days Kiev (Agenzia Fides) – Sr Alevtina of Florivsky Convent in Kiev was found dead in her apartment on 29 July, the Union of Christian Orthodox Brotherhoods of Ukraine told Interfax-Religion. "We know that she went to he ...
• 23 July 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Trafficking of human persons, "flourishing business on the increase” EUROPE/SPAIN – Trafficking of human persons, "flourishing business on the increase” Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Trafficking of human persons moves between 7,000 and 10,000 million dollars a year; some 2 million child ...
• 17 July 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Priest stabbed to death on the doorstep Seville (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Carlos Martinez Perez, 75, died yesterday afternoon, July 16, victim of a brutal assault on the door of his home after celebrating the Eucharist in the church of San Leandro convent, where h ...
• 13 July 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - The "Blessed of the migrants": relevance of mother Marchetti, co-founder of the Scalabrinians Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Mother Assunta Marchetti, co-founder of the Scalabrinian Sisters, was a "woman of the nineteenth century, but we define her a model for the woman of today, who lives in a world in constant motion. ...
• 10 July 2015
  EUROPE/CYPRUS - The Latin Bishops in Arab regions: let us rediscover the works of mercy in the Holy Year Nicosia (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Latin Bishops of the Middle East thank Pope Francis for having proclaimed the Holy Year of Mercy that will help to "preach mercy to the whole world", and in particular prepare to re ...
• 7 July 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Cardinal Filoni in Burgos: "Can we say that the people of God today are missionary people?" Burgos (Agenzia Fides) - "The celebration of the most beautiful and dreamed of conciliar Decree, and of all the Council as a whole, is to be able to note that the Decree has aged as a written document, but is still alive ...
• 19 June 2015
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - The number of refugees worldwide increases, half are children Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - A report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was announced recently in Geneva, in which the great concern over the dangerous wave of mass forced displacement worldwide emerges, w ...
• 18 June 2015
  EUROPE/POLAND - IV National Missionary Congress: "The joy of the Gospel, the source of missionary zeal" Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - "A great celebration of the missions": this is how organizers and participants defined the IV National Missionary Congress, which was held from June 12 to 14 in Warsaw, organized by the Episcopal ...
• 12 June 2015
  EUROPE/POLAND - Cardinal Filoni: "Today the Church in Poland needs to continue on the missionary path" Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Poland today needs to continue on the missionary path, just like Holy Pope John Paul II, who with his 'Redemptoris Missio' gave renewed impetus to the whole Church. And his word an ...
• 21 May 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Hunger is not inevitable: 350 thousand children in the world against child malnutrition Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, May 22, in more than 30 countries in the world, about 350,000 children will take part in the "Race Against Hunger", an initiative promoted by the humanitarian organization Acción contr ...
• 21 May 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Support for an alternative model for the regional economy developed by Caritas Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of southern Spain, who met in Cordoba for the Ordinary General Assembly on 19 and 20 May, expressed their support for an "alternative economic model" developed by Caritas in order to ...
• 19 May 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - Do not allow habit and indifference to take place in the face of the ongoing persecution of Christians worldwide Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The first genocide of the twentieth century" according to the expression used by Pope Francis which took place a century ago, in Anatolia, was recalled this morning by Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Pr ...
• 13 May 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Minerals, cause of conflicts in the world: NGOs ask the EU for "a strong law" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - More than 40 civil society organizations, including the NGO of the Jesuit Alboan, have signed a declaration addressed to the European Union (EU) criticizing the "insufficient and minimal impact" ...