Europe

• 25 November 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The site of the Jesuits has been awarded, new means of evangelization that uses new technologies Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Episcopal Conference has awarded "Bravo! 2011" for the category of new technologies, to the site rezandovoy.org. The site, created by the Society of Jesus at Valladolid in collaborati ...
• 21 November 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Every year 8 million children die from preventable diseases Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – After 22 years since the Convention on the Rights of the Child carried out by the United Nations, the panorama related to children is still daunting. Every year about 8 million children under 5 ...
• 18 November 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY- Don Bosco’s missionary heart still beats in many Salesian novices Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I am convinced that the Lord calls many of the 500 novices who each year enter the Congregation to a life of mission ad gentes, ad extra, ad vitam. Currently about 30 Salesians respond with genero ...
• 8 November 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The celebrations for the 75th anniversary of the Claretian Martyrs of Barbastro have concluded Barbastro (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, November 6 the celebrations for the 75th anniversary of the Claretian Martyrs of Barbastro (Spain) concluded. The Bishop of the diocese of Barbastro-Monzón, His Exc. Mgr. Alfonso ...
• 28 October 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - An online survey on the support for the Church's missionary activity Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - On the Occasion of Missionary Week, the most popular Catholic weekly in Poland, "Niedziela", based in Czestochowa, has published on its website (www.niedziela.pl) the results of an online su ...
• 22 October 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - Mission Sunday: The Apostolic Nuncio visits the national headquarters of the PMS; "missionary workshops" restart in Czestochowa Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of World Mission Sunday, His Exc. Mgr. Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio in Poland, visited the headquarters of the National Directorate of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PM ...
• 12 October 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "Despite the crisis, there is great generosity and sensitivity towards the Church's missionary activity", says the National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "The National Secretariat of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith works all year round on the organization of World Mission Day, and during the National Assembly of Diocesan Directors, wh ...
• 12 October 2011
  EUROPE/GERMANY - The catholicity of the Church: Gift and Mission Stuttgart (Agenzia Fides) - The Centre for Spirituality of the Scalabrini Missionaries in Stuttgart, in collaboration with the Scalabrini Secular Missionaries, proposed the theme for the annual Scalabrini-Fest of Fruits ...
• 12 October 2011
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Commemoration Day for Pauline Jaricot, foundress of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith: 9 January in Lyon Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - January 9, 2012 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth to heaven of the Venerable Pauline Marie Jaricot (1799-1862), foundress of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. For this occasion o ...
• 10 October 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - The fund raising of the "Star Singers" is destined to South Sudan: in June, the National Congress of Missionary Childhood Niepokalanów (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the beginning of Missionary Month, from September 26 to 28, the meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) and other missionary organizations in Poland took place, in ...
• 8 October 2011
  EUROPE/SCOTLAND - Two reasons for celebration for Missio Scotland on the occasion of World Mission Day Edinburgh (Agenzia Fides) - As tradition wants all over the world, even this year MISSIO Scotland has prepared material for all the parish priests, to support the activities of the parishes on the occasion of World Missi ...
• 6 October 2011
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Refugees: Public opinion and political expediency have inacted the need for protection of asylum seekers in a negative way Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - "In its Preamble, the 1951 Refugee Convention sets as its purpose 'to assure refugees the widest possible exercise of their fundamental rights and freedoms'. But today in many regions of the worl ...
• 5 October 2011
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Volunteer Missionary: more than 1,130 youth and adults involved this year in carrying out projects in 4 continents Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - "Voluntary work: to commit oneself to the world in which we are all responsible" is the theme of the Twelfth Day of the Volunteer Missionary to be held on October 15 in Lisbon, at the Park of Nat ...
• 4 October 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - How to use the rich experience of missionaries who have returned back home Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) – There were more than 70 participants at the meeting which had the theme of the missionaries who finished their service and returned to their homeland, Poland. The congress, which took place fro ...
• 3 October 2011
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - The New Evangelization is addressed not only to Christians who have strayed from faith, but to everyone Tirana (Agenzia Fides) - "The New Evangelization is one of the major concerns for European Bishops, and an important work has already been achieved in several ways: Diocesan synods and reflections at the episcopal Confer ...