Europe
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 ...
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 ...
4 May 2024
EUROPE/FRANCE - A “small theology of mission” by Cardinal Aveline
By Marie-Lucile Kubacki*
We publish the contribution of the journalist Marie-Lucile Kubacki on the occasion of the presentation of the book "Il dialogo della salvezza. Piccola teologia della missione" (Dialogue of Sal ...
3 May 2024
EUROPE/UKRAINE - “Safeguarding”: Eastern European Churches and the protection of minors
Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "We have been working on this course to show that the safety of children is a shared responsibility across borders and we have a common Eastern European context to understand", said Marta Titaniec, ...
22 April 2024
EUROPE/ROMANIA - Blessing of the chapel of the the Pontifical Mission Societies in Romania, dedicated to Blessed Pauline Jaricot
by Cristina Grigore
Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - Father Tadeusz Nowak, Secretary General of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith (POPF), describes as a "historic moment" the inauguration of the chapel ...
19 April 2024
EUROPE/LUXEMBOURG - Appointment of the new director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Father Claude Bache
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 19, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, , appointed the Rev. Father Claude Bache as National Director of the Pontifical Missio ...
17 April 2024
EUROPE/ROMANIA - Participants in the Conference of Childhood Missionaries in Europe meet and thank Roma ethnic missionary children
Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - From 25 European countries, forty-three delegates participated in the Conference of Missionary Childhood of Europe (CEME), which began on 7 April in Bucharest and ended on April 13th, with a f ...
5 April 2024
EUROPE/ROMANIA - Children's mission organizations from European countries come together in Bucharest: The focus is on cooperation
Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - About fifty people will take part in the next meeting of representatives of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood in Europe, which will take place from next Sunday to Thursday, April ...
27 March 2024
EUROPE/RUSSIA - Document of the Synodal Biblical-Theological Commission of the Moscow Patriarchate in response to the Declaration "Fiducia supplicans"
Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - On March 25 the official website of the Moscow Patriarchate published a document entitled "On the Orthodox attitude towards the new practice of blessing 'couples in an irregular situation and sam ...
26 March 2024
EUROPE/FRANCE - Inauguration of the "Point Mission" in the heart of Lourdes
Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) - The "Point Mission" of the French Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), was inaugurated last week with the blessing of Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio to France. It is located on o ...
22 March 2024
EUROPE/ITALY - Witnesses with a "burning heart". Sunday, March 24 "Day of Missionary Martyrs"
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A witness that "shines", that illuminates the spiritual path, that strengthens it. This is the testimony of the martyrs who are celebrated in Italy every year on March 24th on the occasion of the D ...
8 March 2024
EUROPE/RUSSIA - The Russian edition of the "Spiritual Exercises" of Ignatius of Loyola presented in Moscow
by Chiara Dommarco
Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "Warning: this is not a book to read", Father Stephan Lipke, director of the Saint Thomas Institute of Moscow, began with irony when opening the evening organized at the Inst ...
9 February 2024
EUROPE/HUNGARY -Meeting of European National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies: “Synodality as the ‘modus operandi’ of the Church”
Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - The annual meeting of the European Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), held this year in Budapest (see Fides 6/2/2024), ended on Thursday evening, February 8, with a Eucharisti ...
7 February 2024
EUROPE/HUNGARY - European Meeting of National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies: “The proclamation of the Gospel constitutes the Church”
Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - Mission and concrete synodality for a new proclamation of the Gospel on the European continent, said the President of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Archbishop Emilio Nappa, on Tuesday Febru ...
6 February 2024
EUROPE/GERMANY - Archbishop Nappa during the visit to Missio Aachen: "It feels good to do good"
Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Germany and Europe should see international church solidarity even more strongly as a personal, meaningful mission. Archbishop Emilio Nappa, President of the Pontifical Mission Soci ...
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