Europe

• 11 July 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY - Bicycles to reach blind children in remote areas of Africa Milan (Agenzia Fides) - "Together we can bring light into the lives of thousands of blind children in Africa". This is the message of the event Luci in Bici promoted by CBM Italy Onlus. We are talking about a night cycli ...
• 7 July 2014
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - "Protagonists of education, promoters of development": strengthening of primary schools in Shkodra Scutari (Agenzia Fides) - 600 children and 8 schools, 220 teachers and headmasters have benefited from the project to strengthen primary schools in Shkodra, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and carried out by AV ...
• 5 July 2014
  EUROPE/POLAND - A school of missionary animation Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The School of Missionary Animators, organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Poland, which began at the Missionary Formation Center in Warsaw on June 30, ends today, July 5. Accor ...
• 1 July 2014
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The emerging phenomenon of women who are victims of sexual exploitation and trafficking Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Spanish police estimated 10,862 "potential victims" of human trafficking, found in places where other victims have been identified, such as industrial areas, strip clubs or brothels. The police a ...
• 28 June 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY - A "social audio book" in defense of the Africans with albinism, the last of the last Padua (Agenzia Fides) - "They are white in Africa. They are the last of the last" reads the home page of the site dedicated to the initiative in defense of Africans suffering from albinism which bears the same name of th ...
• 16 June 2014
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Cardinal Filoni concludes the jubilee celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the Diocese of Funchal Funchal (Agenzia Fides) - "As the Trinitarian love of God, even ecclesial love must be given to others. First of all, for those who do not know the love of God, or are far away from him, or do not feel humanly worthy to ...
• 11 June 2014
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - After 500 years, the Diocese of Funchal relaunches the commitment to be "Church in Mission" Funchal (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope that the commemorations of the 500 years of the Diocese may help to revive the memory of our values, to create new projects and new forms of the Church's commitment to the people and so ...
• 23 May 2014
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 'Sueños de un niño soldado': project of a school for child soldiers in North Kivu Miguelturra (Agenzia Fides) - The region of Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there is the greatest number of conflicts in the world, was chosen as the location where to build a school for child soldiers, ...
• 23 May 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY – Beatification of Mario Vergara, PIME martyr and Isidoro Ngei Ko Lat, first Burmese Blessed Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, May 24, 2014, in the Cathedral of Aversa, Father Mario Vergara, missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) and his catechist Isidore Ngei Ko Lat will be beati ...
• 20 May 2014
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "Ad gentes Missionary vocation", the main form of missionary cooperation Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The "Days" of Diocesan Delegates for the Missions and the National Assembly of diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) are being held in Madrid. With the slogan "Ad gentes m ...
• 16 May 2014
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Intolerance and discrimination against Christians in Europe are on the rise: 241 cases in 2013 Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - In the year 2013, the Observatory on intolerance and discrimination against Christians in Europe (see Fides 1/10/2010) recorded 241 cases of intolerance against Christians in law and politics, th ...
• 14 May 2014
  EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC - The "Small Missionary Clubs" where children learn to help their needy peers Prague (Agenzia Fides) - The children of Pontifical Holy Childhood in the Czech Republic have just published a collection of pictures and drawings in which their favorite missionary quotes are shown. The book, titled How ...
• 2 May 2014
  EUROPE/SPAIN - More than half a million women die each year in developing Countries during pregnancy and childbirth tneestneestnenestndneatnjdneat Madrid (Agenzia Fides ) - "To be born a woman means more likely to live in poverty. Seven out of 10 people who suffer from hunger are women; two-thirds of illiterates are women all over the planet; over half a million wo ...
• 24 April 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY - Four young people at the service of the last will talk about their experience on the web Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The selection of 4 young volunteers who wish to live and talk about an experience at the service of the last, the forgotten in India, Kenya, Mozambique and the Philippines will begin on April 30. ...
• 24 April 2014
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND – One child out of 5 does not receive life-saving vaccinations Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - Every year, one child out of five does not receive life-saving vaccinations and the need for vaccines to be kept constantly in cold temperature is a serious barrier to the improvement of the cove ...