Europe

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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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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  3 February 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Caritas St. Petersburg: A “small bridge” to escape drug and alcohol addiction By Chiara Dommarco St. Petersburg (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas St. Petersburg, led by Dr. Natalia Anatol'evna Pewtsova, was founded in 1993 and has been offering concrete help to those in need and training programs for pro ...
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  25 January 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Archbishop makes documentary about the “Desaparecidos” of Concepción Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The memory of the events surrounding the 1973 coup and an appeal to those who still have confidential information about the prisoners disappeared during the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) are at ...
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  24 January 2024
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Narrating the mission: Pauline Jaricot Prize is awarded for the second time Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - The life of Christian communities, the missionary and pastoral activities of local churches and the witness to the vitality and beauty of the proclamation of the Gospel are the criteria taken into ...
• 18 January 2024
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Confirmation of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, José María Calderón Castro Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 19, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed for a another five years the Reverend Father José María Calderón Castro ...
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  18 January 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - New Russian edition of Pope Benedict XVI "Jesus of Nazareth" presented in Moscow by Chiara Dommarco Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday evening, January 17, the new Russian-language edition of the book "Jesus of Nazareth" was presented in Moscow at the Biblioteca dello Spirito cultural center. The ...
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  4 January 2024
  EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC - A Samizdat for the Council: Story of Sister Eliška and her “secret printing press” by Chiara Dommarco Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "He who does not know how to speak with love to his neighbor shows that he has not learned to speak to God in prayer". With these words, Sister Eliška Pretschnerová describes ...