Europe

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  15 May 2019
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Academic Day at San Damaso University: the announcement of the Extraordinary Missionary Month concerns everyone Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - An academic Day dedicated to the Extraordinary Missionary Month of October 2019 was held yesterday at the San Damaso University of Madrid, organized by the Chair of Missionology, the Faculty of T ...
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  14 May 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - For the first time an Italian Superior General of the Society for African Missions Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The General Assembly of the Society for African Missions SMA has elected its new Superior General, who will guide the international institute for the next 6 years. For the first time he is an Itali ...
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  14 May 2019
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Academic Act at San Damaso University: Archbishop Dal Toso’s report on "Church and mission" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Church and mission: a fruitful relationship" was the theme of the academic Act which took place this morning at San Damaso University in Madrid, organized by the Chair of Missionology of the Fac ...
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  14 May 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Brambillasca re-elected Superior General of PIME Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I communicate that the participants in the XV General Assembly of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (P.I.M.E.), re-elected St. Matthias the Apostle, Father Ferruccio Brambillasca, Supe ...
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  13 May 2019
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - With the first group of “small missionaries”, Missionary Childhood is born in Romania Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - Historic event for the Pontifical Missionary Childhood, which on May 18th will see the first group of Romanian children join the Society. The day of celebration for the inauguration of Mission ...
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  9 May 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - The memory of Father Maccalli is constant among the confreres gathered at the General Chapter Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Thought and prayer for our father Luigi Maccalli, kidnapped eight months ago in Niger, is present in a special way among us". This is what Fr. Ceferino Cainelli, Argentine priest of the Society of ...
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  6 May 2019
  EUROPE /CZECH REP. - Spiritual retreat and new impetus for the animators of Missionary Childhood Mountain Hatching (Agenzia Fides) - About forty leaders of the Little Mission Club of Bohemia and Moravia gathered in Mountain Hatching in the Krkonoše Mountains for a meeting promoted by the National Director of the Po ...
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  29 April 2019
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - The testimony of a Slovak with an African heart Bratislava (Agenzia Fides) - Among the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines flight, heading towards Nairobi which crushed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa on Sunday 10 March, in addition to a Kenyan missionary and nu ...
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  26 March 2019
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Pastoral care of migrants, a great opportunity for the Catholic Church in Switzerland Zurich (Agenzia Fides) - "If we manage to intensify coexistence between local faithful and immigrants and to make their cohabitation more gratifying, the pastoral care of migrants represents a great opportunity for the C ...
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  22 March 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Persecuted because they tell the truth and announce Jesus Christ Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It might be hard for us to believe, but there are more martyrs today than in the first centuries because they speak the truth and proclaim Jesus Christ… particularly where religious freedom is n ...
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  22 March 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - "For the sake of my people I will not keep silent": Day in memory of the martyr missionaries Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The biblical verse "For the sake of my people I will not keep silent" (see Is 62,1), chosen as the theme of the 27th Day of prayer and fasting in memory of the missionary martyrs that is celebrate ...
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  14 March 2019
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - Cardinal Tomko celebrates his 95th birthday and 70 years of priesthood in his native land Košice (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jozef Tomko, Prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, celebrates two significant goals in these days: his 95th birthday, he was born on 11 March 1924 in U ...
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  12 March 2019
  EUROPE/FRANCE - The diocesan phase of the cause of beatification of Don Hamel concludes Rouen (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen presided over the final session of the diocesan inquiry into the life and martyrdom of Fr. Jacques Hamel. Fr. Hamel was killed July 26, 2016, when two men sto ...
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  7 March 2019
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Missionology Symposium: "Pope Francis’ missionary appeal" in the face of the Extraordinary Missionary Month Burgos (Agenzia Fides) - Promoted by the Faculty of Theology of Northern Spain, today the 29th Symposium of Missionology in Burgos begins, under the theme "Pope Francis’ missionary appeal" before the Extraordinary Miss ...
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  7 March 2019
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Extraordinary Missionary Month: from the oldest baptistery to the sending on a mission Friborg (Agenzia Fides) - With a ceremony to be held on 1 October at the Riva San Vitale baptistery in Ticino, the Extraordinary Missionary Month (EMM) will begin in Switzerland. According to information sent to Agenzia ...