Europe

• 28 February 2023
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 5, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle confirmed rev. Ivan Kňaze, of the diocesan clergy of Žilina, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Slovakia for ...
• 28 February 2023
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 26 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle confirmed rev. Eugenio Blaj, of the diocesan clergy of Iasi, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Romania for a ...
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  14 February 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Missionary volunteering as a vocational path": Living Baptism as a gift from God Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The seven formation and animation meetings of the General Sector of the Missions of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) have just ended, aimed at the provincial coordinators and missiona ...
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  4 February 2023
  EUROPE/GREECE - Farewell to Ioannis Zizioulas, great theologian in Recent Times By Gianni Valente Both Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI knew this. Both recognized that as we crossed the threshold of the Third Millennium since the birth of Christ, he was the greatest Christian theologian around, ...
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  17 January 2023
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Bishops of North Africa meet in Marseille: "Mediterranean as a place of dialogue" Marseille (Agenzia Fides) - "At the heart of our meeting was the approach of looking at our reality through the lens of our belonging to the Mediterranean region, where three continents meet", declared the members of the ...
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  13 January 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - Clara's "tailor-made" dress Turin (Agenzia Fides) - Clara Pautasso is now 40 years old, lives in Turin and works as a nurse at Molinette hospital. At 18, with her high school leaving exam approaching, she felt called upon to make a choice. "I have ...
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  7 January 2023
  Péguy, on the threshold by Gianni Valente Orléans (Agenzia Fides) - "A Christian child", wrote Charles Péguy, "is nothing but a child to whom the childhood of Jesus has been presented a thousand times before his eyes". He, the great French ...
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  5 January 2023
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Star Singers' 2023 Campaign: "Supporting children, protecting children" Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - "Supporting children, protecting children - in Indonesia and in the world" is the motto with which the Star Singers, as part of their 65th awareness campaign, draw attention to girls and boys fro ...
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  4 January 2023
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Benedict XVI to Missionary Childhood: "I see in you little collaborators at the service that the Pope provides to the Church and to the world" Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - From September 7 to 9, 2007, the Holy Father Benedict XVI made an Apostolic Journey to Austria, on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the foundation of the Mariazel Shrine. The national dir ...
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  23 December 2022
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - The Star Singers, a tradition of very ancient origin Agenzia Fides (Fribourg) - "I like to make others happy; it is nice when we knock on doors and people see us and start to smile; we can support projects with the work of the Star Singers and help other children. This mak ...
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  19 December 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Prayer vigil on the tomb of St. Nicholas, to ask for an end to the "war among Christians" Bari (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace is a gift that goes beyond human capacities: for this we need God's help because, as we see, we cannot do it alone", says Father Emmanuel Albano OP, director of the Ecumenical Centre "Father ...
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  17 December 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Recognized the heroic virtues of Luisa Guidotti Mistrali, killed in former Rhodesia Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has authorized the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to publish the decree concerning the heroic virtues of the Servant of God, Luisa Guidotti Mistrali, consecrated laywoma ...
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  13 December 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Cardinal Parolin on Ukraine war: “We cannot imagine the future based on old patterns and military alliances” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of the war in Ukraine, "we cannot but ask ourselves whether we are doing everything, everything possible to put an end to this tragedy", said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of Stat ...
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  12 December 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Reduce the social and educational impact of the pandemic, especially on girls in less developed countries Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world in March 2020, it is estimated that more than 111 million students have dropped out of school in developing countries. Lockdowns and restrictions are estim ...
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  7 December 2022
  EUROPE/FRANCE - December 8, 1856: under the protection of the Virgin Mary, the work of the African Missions was born Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the feast of the Immaculate Conception, and the feast of the shrine of Our Lady of Fourvière in Lyon, the foundation of the Society of African Missions is also celebrated. We ar ...