Europe

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  26 May 2023
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Three days of formation and missionary animation to celebrate the 180th anniversary of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - Three days to celebrate the National Day of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood, in the broader context of the 180th anniversary of the foundation of the Society by Msgr. Charles de ...
• 20 May 2023
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Blessed Martin Benedict, "true priest and true doctor" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "True priest and true doctor". This is how Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, wanted to highlight the salvific mission of Venerable Martin Benedict, duri ...
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  20 May 2023
  EUROPE/BELARUS - The new church of St. Francis of Assisi consecrated in Minsk Minsk (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the consecration of the new parish church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Minsk, capital of Belarus, ended today, Saturday May 20, at the end of the morning. The solemn liturgical ...
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  28 April 2023
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Pope Francis to Hungarian Catholics: in the age of secularism, look to the faces of your Saints Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - "Answers come from the Lord and not from the world, from the tabernacle and not from the computer". In Budapest, in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Pope Francis shows the Church of Hungary the compass ...
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  24 April 2023
  EUROPE/NETHERLANDS - The missionary commitment in the Catholic communities of the Netherlands Tilburg (Agenzia Fides) - The Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the Netherlands, in collaboration with the School of Catholic Theology in Tilburg, organized a symposium to recall the important anniv ...
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  22 April 2023
  EUROPE/CYPRUS - "Rooted in hope". The future of Christians in the Middle East as seen from Nicosia Nicosia (Agenzia Fides) - The Symposium of Churches in the Middle East, "Rooted in Hope," is nearing its conclusion. The initiative is promoted by R.O.A.C.O. (Reunion of Aid Agencies to the Oriental Churches),and welcome ...
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  18 April 2023
  EUROPE/CYPRUS - "Rooted in hope". Symposium on the present and future of the Catholic Churches in the Middle East on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of "Ecclesia in Medio Oriente" Nicosia (Agenzia Fides) - "Rooted in hope". A perspective of confidence and hope for the future is the focus of the Symposium organized by the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches which is about to begin in Nicosia. From T ...
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  18 April 2023
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Blessed Jaricot, "spark" of missionary passion all over the world Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - Blessed Jaricot, her life, her works but above all her apostolic faith, which generated a true worldwide missionary movement, were the subject of a conference promoted by the Austrian Direction o ...
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  1 April 2023
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - The Catholic community in Moscow commemorates Father Konstantin Budkiewicz 100 years after his execution Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "The cross is not a source of bitterness and disappointment, but is already the beginning of glory". This is how Paolo Pezzi, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Mother of God in Moscow, spoke yesterd ...
• 29 March 2023
  EUROPE/MALTA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Victor Agius Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 16, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed Rev. Victor Victor as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Malta for a five-year period (2023-2028) ...
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  29 March 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - The fifth peace caravan towards Ukraine is underway: "We are not resigned to war" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Palm Sunday, which in the Christian, Catholic and Orthodox tradition has a strong symbolic meaning of peace, the volunteers of the fifth peace caravan "Stopthewarnow" will spend it in Ukraine, a ...
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  24 March 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - A "penitential celebration of reparation" after the massacre of Cutro Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - The "Pro Civitate Christiana" of Assisi organizes and invites to live, today, March 24, a Penitential Celebration of Reparation in the form that will be deemed most appropriate, after the massacr ...
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  6 March 2023
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - The Assembly of Catholic Bishops looks at the suffering of peoples: "There is no healing without listening to the other" Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "The bishops once again draw the attention of the faithful to the reality of our world, to the suffering caused by war, violence and natural disasters". This is what emerges from the statement is ...
• 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 ...