Europe

• 6 September 2024
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - Father Agustin Margjoni CM, appointed first National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Albania Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 31, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G.Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father Agustin Mar ...
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  2 September 2024
  EUROPE/ICELAND - Nordic countries hold webinar on the Pope's message for World Mission Day Reykjavik (Agenzia Fides) – Today at 6:00 pm (CET) the first webinar of the Nordic countries will be held on the Pope's message for the upcoming World Mission Sunday, entitled "Go and invite everyone to the banquet" (c ...
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  31 August 2024
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - A Missionary among fellow prisoners: Ján Havlík is blessed by Chiara Dommarco Šaštín (Fides News Agency) - "Where is God in the darkness of history? Faith helps to acknowledge that He is here, writing his love story, "said Father Emil Hoffmann CM, vice postulator of the Ca ...
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  26 August 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Moscow-linked Orthodox Church "banned" in Ukraine: reactions and developments by Chiara Dommarco Moscow (Fides News Agency) - Following the approval by Kiev's Verkhovna Rada of Bill 8371 "On the protection of the constitutional order within the purview of the activities of religious organizatio ...
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  21 August 2024
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - This is how the Orthodox Church connected with the Moscow Patriarchate has been banned from Ukraine by Chiara Dommarco Kiev (Fides News Agency) – On Tuesday, August 20, the Verkhovna Rada, the unicameral Parliament of Ukraine, approved, in its second reading, Bill 8371, entitled "On the protection of the constitut ...
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  15 August 2024
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Zuppi-Li Hui phone call: China and the Holy See working to promote dialogue Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - "On the morning of August 14, 2024, a cordial conversation was held between Mr. Li Hui, Special Representative of the Chinese Government for Eurasian Affairs, and Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, ...
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  5 August 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Towards the Holy Year: young Catholics from the Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow met in Kaliningrad by Chiara Dommarco Kaliningrad (Agenzia Fides) - "Hope is not just the expectation of something longed for and far away: it is a foretaste in which we can already find what we want," said Father Denis Malov (CMF) to ...
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  31 July 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Digital universe and evangelization: Salesians invite to “Shape Tomorrow” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Creators of new languages and paradigms for evangelization, Ecology, climate change, migrants and refugees, digital culture and Artificial Intelligence, Internal and External Communication in the C ...
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  16 July 2024
  EUROPE/BELARUS - Jesuits and Salesians celebrate the memory of Father Stanisław Michalski, murdered at Christmas 1950 Višnevo (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, July 13, in Višnevo, a Belarusian town near the border with Lithuania, the new tomb where the remains of Father Stanisław Michalski SJ, a Polish Jesuit who died as a martyr at Chri ...
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  11 July 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Representatives of the Orthodox, Catholic, Armenian and Protestant churches participate in the Christian Youth Forum on the theme of the family by Chiara Dommarco Konevec (Agenzia Fides) - The third edition of the Christian Youth Forum, which was also attended by two Catholic women representing the Catholic Church in Russia, ended today on the island of Kone ...
• 5 July 2024
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - Confirmation of the Director of the PMS, Fr. Alessandro Barelli SDB Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 16, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed Rev. Alessandro Barelli, of the Society of Francis de Sales, Salesians of Don Bo ...
• 19 June 2024
  EUROPE/GERMANY AACHEN - Confirmation of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 14, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed the Rev. Fr. Dirk Bingener as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societi ...
• 18 June 2024
  EUROPE/GERMANY MUNICH - Confirmation of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 7, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed the Rev. Monsignor Wolfgang Huber, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Munich, as ...
• 31 May 2024
  ITALY/EUROPE - Father Giuseppe Pizzoli confirmed as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 6, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed Rev. Giuseppe Pizzoli as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societie ...
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  24 May 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Every priest is by nature a missionary”: Blessed Giuseppe Allamano will be canonized Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Being a missionary "requires nothing other than a great love for God and commitment to the salvation of souls", is the motto of Blessed Giuseppe Allamano, who founded the Institute of the Consolata ...