Europe

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  11 September 2019
  EUROPE/POLAND - The PMS involved in the training of school religious teachers Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - For some years the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Poland have begun to organize retreats for lay catechists in various dioceses in the country. The specificity of Poland, informs the note ...
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  11 September 2019
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Today the funeral of the nun who assisted the sick and needy Sao Joao da Madeira (Agenzia Fides) - The funeral of a nun of the Congregation of the Servants of Mary Ministers of the Sick, Sister Antonia Pinho, 62, Portuguese, will be held today in the Portuguese town of Sao Joao da ...
• 10 September 2019
  EUROPE/GERMANY-AACHEN - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Dirk Bingener Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 21, 2019 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Dirk Bingener, of the archdiocese of Cologne as National Director of ...
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  7 September 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Scalabrinian Family launches an appeal to "talk about migration" Bolzano (Agenzia Fides) - "We are living in a time when old and new conflicts uproot thousands of people from their homes and their land and force them to seek security elsewhere", said Father Leonir Chiarello (Superior ...
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  5 September 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Migrants: training manual created by IOM and the Scalabrinians Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary to offer an adequate and qualified preparation to our missionaries sent to work in migratory contexts, whose challenges and needs are diversified": says Sister Neusa de Fatima Mari ...
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  4 September 2019
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Archbishop Dal Toso at the Compostelan Days of Theology: "this world still needs the salvation of Christ" Santiago de Compostela (Agenzia Fides) - "From the Maximum illud to the Extraordinary Missionary Month" is the theme of the report that Archbishop Giampietro Dal Toso, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies, prese ...
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  3 September 2019
  EUROPE/IRELAND - The Extraordinary Missionary Month is also part of a social media campaign: #MyMission and #OurMission Dublin (Agenzia Fides) - With a little help from "Eirinn the Lamb", which was the mascot of the World Meeting of Families held last year in Dublin, the National Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Ireland of ...
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  31 August 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - 600 boys and girls present at the meeting of young European Copts, near Rome Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly six hundred Coptic Christian boys and girls gathered in Rome to attend the XIX conference of young people belonging to the Coptic communities in Europe. The meeting is hosted at “il Carmel ...
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  19 August 2019
  EUROPE/POLAND - Cardinal Filoni at the shrine of Zakopane: "Mary is present and alive among us" Zakopane (Agenzia Fides) - "One wonders: why so many Shrines in the world, why so much affection and devotion to Mary? In truth, from the moment Mary lost Jesus, she adopted, as Mother, the Church born of the blood of he ...
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  3 August 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Filoni: I saw faith, not hatred, in the eyes of the persecuted because of Christ Concordia Sagittaria (Agenzia Fides) - Even today, the journey of the Church in the world is marked by "martyrdom and persecutions", by "real hatred even in countries of ancient Christian tradition and now also in those ...
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  3 August 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Filoni at the 'Perdonanza bibionese': "Christ has tattooed our name on his hands" Bibione (Agenzia Fides) - "While so many people love to tattoo their bodies, perhaps due to a certain more or less aesthetic exhibitionism, it is nice to think that Christ has tattooed my name on his hands, where he was ...
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  1 August 2019
  EUROPE - Season of Creation 2019: time for prayer, forgiveness and commitment for Christians St. Gallen (Agenzia Fides) - The Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) and the Conferences of European Churches are uniting once again this year to reaffirm responsibility for creation and issue an invitation ...
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  31 July 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Filoni in the diocese of Concordia-Pordenone Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, will visit the diocese of Concordia-Pordenone for two events: the opening of the "Perdonanza Bibionese" and ...
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  30 July 2019
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Extraordinary Missionary Month unites Poland and Lithuania Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Alessandro Barelli, SDB, is the first National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the history of Lithuania (see Fides, 25/7/2019). These days he met Mgr. Tomasz Atłas, N ...
• 26 July 2019
  EUROPE/IRELAND - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. John Kilcrann, CSSp Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 10 May 2019, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. John Kilcrann, of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, CSSp, as Nation ...