Europe

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  23 September 2023
  EUROPE/FRANCE - The Pope in Marseille: those who risk their lives in the Mediterranean cannot be rejected as "invaders" Marseille (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the multitudes of migrants trying to reach Europe, ports are closed and "people's fears" are fueled, with talk of an "invasion" and an "emergency". But "those who risk their lives a ...
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  21 September 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Pier Luigi Maccalli on the nature of the mission Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - "In 2023 I reported on my experiences in different cities in Italy. After speaking about my experiences as a missionary kidnapped in the Sahel, there was always room for questions from the audienc ...
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  16 September 2023
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - The Catholic Bishops in Moscow: the mission does not complain about "difficult times" Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not our pastoral plans, not our personal projects that make the Church grow, but our humble but persistent witness to God. Let us remember the words of Pope Benedict XVI: The Church does n ...
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  15 September 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - The 'flying bishop': "The Earth is like a sister and is beautiful like a mother who welcomes us in her arms" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, listening to the cry of the poor and the earth, the degradation of nature, of rivers, the growing disappearance of diversity, the unbridled consumption of fossil fuels, the destruction of f ...
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  6 September 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Dario Dozio: Do you have to go far to be a missionary? Feriole (Agenzia Fides) - "I spent thirty years in the Ivory Coast as a missionary. The first fifteen years in the diocese of Bondoukou, in a rural area, with very few Christians. I did not even have a church: I celebrat ...
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  5 September 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - Archbishop Nappa to newly appointed Bishops: You are actors in continuing missionary work Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We are working together "to better show the universal face of the Church", said Archbishop Emilio Nappa in his address to the one hundred and eleven newly appointed bishops from the mission areas ...
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  25 August 2023
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Pope Francis to young Russian Catholics: good diplomats are good for humanity by Chiara Dommarco St. Petersburg (Agenzia Fides) - "God called us from the beginning, he called each of us by name, face to face. Despite our weaknesses". This is how Pope Francis expressed himself during his speech, ...
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  12 August 2023
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Chinese Pilgrims at World Youth Day: Faith is a “Joy and a grace” by Victor Gaetan Lisbon (Fides News Agency) - The five-star red flag of China flew big and bold, near ones from Argentina and Portugal, close to the front of World Youth Day’s stage as Via Crucis was about to beg ...
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  4 August 2023
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - From Slovenia to WYD through Madagascar, Turkey, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Kenya Lisbon (Fides News Agency) - Klemen, Špela and Zala, coming from Slovenia, are part of the over one million boys and girls who are meeting up in Lisbon in the coming days for World Youth Day (WYD) with the Holy Father. ...
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  2 August 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY "One heart, one mission, witnesses of God's Love in the world": XVIII General Chapter of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles Nemi (Fides News Agency) – On July 9, 2023, the XVIII General Chapter of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles (NSA) opened in Nemi, Rome. The opening Mass of the Chapter was presided over by Cardinal Luis Antonio Go ...
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  28 July 2023
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - The Pontifical Mission Societies at World Youth Day, as from today an online web page dedicated to the event Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) will be present at the XXXVII World Youth Day in the City of Joy, within the Vocational Fair, where young people will come into contact with different movem ...
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  27 July 2023
  EUROPE/FRANCE: From Lyon to the heart of Asia, discovering the little flock of Christ Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - Anne Robesson and Diane Angleys, aged 26 and 27 respectively, recently returned to Lyon, the city where they live, after a pilgrimage in Central Asia which lasted about nine months, which began in ...
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  25 July 2023
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - "Not every day a Pope comes to visit us". The Shrine of Fatima ready to welcome the young people of the World Youth Day Fatima (Agenzia Fides) - Fatima is one of the most visited Marian shrines in the world and is ready to welcome thousands of young people who will participate in World Youth Day from August 1 to 6, before the main appoint ...
• 21 July 2023
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Appointment of the director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Father Tete Remis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 2, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Father Tete Remis, SVD, as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies ...
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  6 July 2023
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - From Lisbon to St. Petersburg and beyond: the "continuous pilgrimage" of young Russian Catholics, in dialogue with Pope Francis St. Petersburg (Agenzia Fides) - A "continuous pilgrimage" which, from Lisbon, passes through St. Petersburg and arrives in each of the small Catholic communities scattered throughout the territory of the Russian Federat ...