Europe

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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 ...
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  2 December 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Feed the hungry. Sprouts of Franciscan mercy in the freezing Russian winter Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "Bring a kilo". In Russian, “Prinesi kilogramm”. This is the name again this year of the food collection promoted in Moscow by the Conventual Franciscans to help people who live in need in th ...
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  30 November 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Redemptorists: still "no contact" with the two priests arrested in Berdyansk Berdyansk (Agenzia Fides) - The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists) continues to have no contact with priests Fr Ivan Levytskyy and Fr Bohdan Heleta, parish priest and vicar at the Greek-Catholic churc ...
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  23 November 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missio ad gentes: Missionary Sisters in a changing Europe Rome (Agenzia Fides) - When it comes to working for the Missio ad gentes, it does not matter where you live geographically, but it requires passion for the Kingdom of God, walking on earth with heaven in the heart, to lo ...
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  18 November 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Life in Africa narrated in a special meeting with Pope Francis Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Stories of commitment and fatigue, results of a year of work "with" Africa, future challenges and at the same time hidden and distant dramas that are unknown and that are caused by the serious worl ...
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  28 October 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - The canonization process of the Armenian Cardinal Agagianian, Prefect of Propaganda Fide from 1960 to 1970, has begun Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The little Armenian will one day have a great mission in the Church". Thus Pope Saint Pius X addressed the twelve-year-old Ghazaros Lazarus Agagianian, meeting him during his 1907 visit to the Col ...
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  26 October 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - "Ecumenism of blood". In Moscow the memory of martyrs unites Christians of different confessions Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "What has helped the faithful to remain firm in the faith in times of persecution? And can the common memory of the martyrs help to overcome confessional barriers and help one another?". These ar ...
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  25 October 2022
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The "Pauline Jaricot" Prize to Sister Narváez and Father Maccalli, witnesses of the Gospel Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "I want to thank God, who has given me the opportunity to be born again and to return to my mission". These are the words of Sr. Gloria Cecilia Narváez, a Colombian missionary nun who was awarde ...
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  22 October 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - A Scottish woman, missionary in Egypt and the Middle East, at the head of the Comboni Missionaries Verona (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Anne Marie Quigg is the new Superior General of the Institute of the Pious Mothers of Negritude (Combonian Missionaries), founded in 1872, 150 years ago, by Saint Daniele Comboni. She was ...
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  8 October 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - In Moscow people pray for peace, according to the intentions of the Pope Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "Bringing peace does not mean smoothing out all the roughness and leveling the differences. Bringing peace means accepting everyone, even those who think differently from us. Peace is above all t ...
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  8 October 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - October 11 is a special day of fasting and prayer for peace announced by the Franciscan Family Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask that you join with the Franciscan Family in observing a special day of fasting and prayer on October 11, 2022. While with evil we see the mystery of immorality in action, we respond to it ...
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  6 October 2022
  EUROPE/ICELAND - The contribution of the Catholic dioceses of the countries of Northern Europe to mission and young Churches Reykjavik (Agenzia Fides) - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, in a word Missio Nordica - the "unitary direction" of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) present in those countries - met for the first time a ...