Europe

• 16 February 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - 25th anniversary for Missionaries of St Charles Borromeo, present in 16 countries around the world Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St Charles Borromeo is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its foundation. From its creation with seven priests and first mission in Brazil, in 25 y ...
• 16 February 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - Jesuits: new website for the Italian Province with areas for social work, missions, culture Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Within the restructure of the communication area, the Italian Province of the Society of Jesus reports to Fides that their new website is now live: www.gesuitinews.it, a website where it is poss ...
• 14 February 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Archbishop Fisichella opens Assembly for Social Communications for Spanish dioceses Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – “Communication and culture in the mission of the Church. The new evangelisation, the new languages”, is the title of the Delegate Assembly for the diocesan heads of social communications, ...
• 7 February 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 1,000 babies under 5 years die in the world every hour due to easily preventable causes Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – With a new initiative, the Catholic volunteer NGO “Manos Unidas”, which works against hunger, poverty, malnutrition, sickness, lack of education and underdevelopment, presented the campaign ...
• 31 January 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The phenomenon of emigration always proposes new challenges Valencia (Agenzia Fides) – The call for “laws that encourage the integration of immigrants, which may promote their professional development and thus may afford them decent accommodation where the whole family can li ...
• 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 ...