Europe

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  8 March 2022
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Academic Day on the Church's Evangelizing Mission and 30th Missiology Symposium Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Academic Day on "The Evangelizing Mission of the Church", promoted by the Faculty of Theology of the University of Navarre, was held today at the University of Navarre. Father José M. Calderon ...
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  7 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The PMS of Australia and Europe mobilized to welcome and support Ukrainian refugees Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The worldwide network of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) is also mobilized to come to the aid of the people of Ukraine who are leaving the country to escape the violence and destruction of w ...
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  5 March 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - To the ends of the earth: Docu-film on Saint Francis Xavier, great missionary in the Far East, 400 years after his canonization Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Saint Francis Xavier - To the ends of the Earth" is a Docufilm that tells the story of the Patron saint of the missions, his university years at the Sorbonne, the troubled encounter with Ignatius ...
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  5 March 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missionaries and Witnesses: “Gospel Speakers” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Today's man listens more to witnesses than to teachers", says Pope Paul VI in Evangelii Nuntiandi, with a widely known expression, also taken up by Pope Francis: "today's world is in great need of ...
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  5 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The appeal of the Salesians: "We must pray, people need to feel the presence of God" Kiev (Agenzia Fides) - "These are difficult days, the war has deeply shaken our population. Many no longer have a home and there are endless queues to get basic necessities. Many people need to feel the support, the stre ...
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  4 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - "We are desperate but we are not afraid, we are very determined, all of us" says Fr. Mikola from Lviv Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "The war started only a few days ago, everything works normally here, shops are open, public transport works. The situation is calm but we are preparing. There are also air warnings but at the mome ...
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  4 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Welcome, compassion, prayer: "We live with the spirit of Job" Konotop (Agenzia Fides) - "In the midst of suffering, hardship, war, we, Franciscan friars of the Province of St. Michael the Archangel, continue to serve the poorest and most suffering people in the city of Konotop with ...
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  4 March 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Camillians offer the structure of a seminary and a parish to displaced Ukrainians Burakow (Agenzia Fides) - Camillian Disaster Service International (CADIS), in collaboration with other Camillian and non-Camillian organizations is also mobilizing to support the Ukrainian emergency. Specifically, the C ...
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  3 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Families and disabled people fleeing Ukraine are welcomed in the Orionine communities of Poland and Italy Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "In our homes in Poland we have prepared several hundred places for refugees. Families with children with their orphanage guardians are brought to these centers. The confreres, in collaboration wit ...
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  3 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Franciscan friars: "God's grace saved the city from devastation" Konotop (Agenzia Fides) - "Currently the city of Konotop is under siege and at all entrances there are Russian checkpoints that prohibit civilians from leaving the city and do not allow the delivery of food and medicine. ...
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  2 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Franciscans close to the people "with prayer, lunch and words of encouragement" Konotop (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite the great tension in society, anxiety and widespread panic, in our Convent, together with Father Florian OFM, with volunteers and parishioners, we are at the service of people with pray ...
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  2 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Scalabrinian Missionaries: it is time to welcome, show solidarity and pray for peace Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "About 7 million refugees are expected if a truce is not reached in the 27 countries of the European Union. A considerable number, given that according to UNHCR 8 million people are fleeing through ...
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  1 March 2022
  EUROPE - During Lent the Church in Europe prays for peace in Ukraine and for the victims of the pandemic St. Gallen (Agenzia Fides) - The European Bishops join the appeal of Pope Francis "to make next March 2, Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting for peace". We want to join our voice, says His Exc. Mgr. Gintaras Grušas, Archb ...
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  1 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Oblate missionaries of Mary Immaculate in prayer: "We feel the closeness of the Pope and of the whole Church" Kiev (Agenzia Fides) - "We are fine but we live in precariousness and uncertainty. Our help comes from the Lord and our hope is his Providence and we live these terrible moments immersed in prayer. Let us put our lives i ...
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  28 February 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Orionines and Salesians, committed to welcoming refugees, remain in their place, "trusting in Providence" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Sisters of Don Orione are in Korotycz, near Kharkiv, together with more than 40 mothers and children. Unfortunately, they have not been able to move and live with them this moment of great ten ...