Europe

• 31 January 2011
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - "Day for street children" to remember the 30 million abandoned children Vienna (Agenzia Fides) – Currently there are about 30 million children in the world who have been abandoned to live on the street, victims of drug traffickers, exploiters of child labour and prostitution, according to ...
• 29 January 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishops ask Spanish Government to unite with Europe's call to stop violence against Christians Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – In the final note of the CCXVIII meeting of the Standing Committee of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, held on 26 and 27 January 2011, the Bishops asked the Spanish Government to join the call ...
• 26 January 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - Migrants, instruments in God's plan to spread the Gospel Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “We must not see migrants exclusively as receivers of evangelization, but as agents of it as well. Our Founder himself, from the beginning, saw migration of Catholics as a providential instrume ...
• 22 January 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - New impetus for “Star Singers” and for missionary formation Varsavia (Agenzia Fides) – The development of the initiative known as “Star Singers”, the intensification of formation in the Pontifical Society of St Peter Apostle, the deepening of missionary commitment by the g ...
• 21 January 2011
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Delegation of religious leaders address new EU President: Urgent commitment needed to defeat Christian persecution around the world Budapest (Agenzia Fides) – “We urge a greater commitment by Europe against the persecution of Christians around the world”: leaders of Christian churches in Europe appealed to the President of the European Union, t ...
• 20 January 2011
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Proclaiming the Gospel to the university world: European Congress Munich (Agenzia Fides) – About 60 delegates from the Episcopal Conference of Europe, representing Bishops, national directors for university pastoral ministry, university chaplains and ecclesial associations and moveme ...
• 17 January 2011
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Christian charity has a great evangelising force in the measure in which it leaves the sign of God's love among men Fatima (Agenzia Fides) - “Human mobility and evangelization: challenge of a new millennium” was the theme addressed yesterday by the President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant ...
• 15 January 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - the first multimedia and interactive missionary museum dedicated to the Amazon Assisi (Agenzia Fides) – On Friday, 4 February, in Assisi, the new Missionary Museum of the Capuchin Brothers of Umbria will be inaugurated. It is called MUMA (Amazonian Missionary Museum), and it will be the first mus ...
• 15 January 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - John Paul II, Witness to the Divine Mercy: the impressions of the Archbishop of Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - “The news of the Beatification of John Paul II is a story full of joy. It is a great thing that the Beatification will take place on the Feast of the Divine Mercy,” Archbishop Stanislaw ...
• 4 January 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - “Star Singers” in Czestochowa help children in Uganda Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - The “Star Singers” initiative, which began over 50 years ago in Germany as an initiative of solidarity by the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood, has spread to several other nati ...
• 29 December 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Children with disabilities at the centre of 53rd Campaign by Star Singers (Sternsinger) who have chosen Cambodia as the symbolic country Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - For the 53rd time, around the time of 6 January, the “Star Singers” (Sternsinger) of the German Mission of Childhood, will be on the streets of Germany with their Christmas carols. “Childre ...
• 20 December 2010
  EUROPE/POLAND - Sending missionary groups of children and young people of Czestochowa, 20 years on from Redemptoris Missio Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, 18 December, the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood in the Archdiocese of Czestochowa organized a pilgrimage to the church of San Giacomo, where the material prepared ...
• 18 December 2010
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - “The world needs priests!”: “Missio Austria” raises funds for priests from three continents Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - “The world needs priests because it needs Christ. If the world no longer has Christ it will degenerate. Therefore investment in the formation of priests is the best investment in the future of ...
• 16 December 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Inauguration of a School for Missionary Promotion in Jaen “to revitalize the missionary spirituality and missionary movements” Jaen (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, 11 December, a School for Missionary Promotion in the Diocese of Jaen was officially inaugurated. The event, held at the diocesan seminary, was attended by Bishop D. Ramón del Hoyo ...
• 10 December 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - A return by “Angels for a Day”: young students and academics engaged on behalf of children in difficulty Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, 12 December, in various cities (Rome, Florence, Milan and Palermo), “Angels for a Day” returns, the volunteering initiative carried out on behalf of needy children on the outskirts ...