Europe

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  28 December 2017
  EUROPE/GERMANY - "Star Singers" collection 2018: "Together against child labor" Aachen (Fides) - More than 2,600 "Star Singers" (Sternsinger) of the Holy Childhood Association in Germany will participate at the official inauguration of their 60th Annual Campaign in Trier (Germany) on Friday, Decembe ...
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  15 December 2017
  EUROPE/POLAND - The evangelization of the world entrusted to Our Lady of Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – To deepen the missionary spirit and entrust the missionary work of the Church to Mary's motherly protection: with this spirit over 400 people attended the evening prayer vigil for the evan ...
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  12 December 2017
  EUROPE/ITALY - Education, health, reconstruction: the priorities of the Madian Community Turin (Agenzia Fides) - "Education, health, disability, reconstruction: this year we focused our efforts on these four fundamental points", said to Fides Fr. Antonio Menegon, president of the "Madian Orizzonti" Onlus org ...
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  28 November 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - A concrete response to the homeless: the commitment of Caritas Burgos Burgos (Agenzia Fides) - "We are people. We have rights. No homeless": this is the theme of the national Spanish Caritas campaign dedicated to the homeless. During the presentation of the campaign last week, Fernando Gar ...
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  12 October 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Missionaries, "anonymous heroes" Santiago de Compostela (Agenzia Fides) - Missionaries "are anonymous heroes, they are human beings chosen to withstand the difficulties. Brave and obedient children, endowed with patience and strength. Examples of moral ...
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  10 October 2017
  EUROPE / ITALY - Combonians: new challenges after 150 years of mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) – To change perspective on the figure of the poor, who is not simply a passive recipient of missionary action, but is the active subject and collaborator in the construction of a new humanity; to c ...
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  7 October 2017
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Mission is possible": Mission Festival is born Brescia (Agenzia Fides) - On 13 October Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples will preside the solemn opening Mass of the "Mission Festival" to be held in Brescia from 12 ...
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  5 October 2017
  EUROPE/GERMANY - How can we recognize "the migrant God" today in the history of humanity? Stuttgart (Agenzia Fides) - In our multicultural societies the migrant is often relegated to the "poor/needy" category in the material and cultural sense or seen as an "enemy". This is how concrete attitudes are born suc ...
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  18 September 2017
  EUROPE/POLAND - How to engage and involve young people in the mission Częstochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "The magnet that attracts young people towards a missionary group is the opportunity to do something good for another person, especially for a person of the same age, in missionary countrie ...
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  4 September 2017
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Formation at the center of Scalabrinian Family meeting Solothurn (Agenzia Fides) - In the current political climate, where irreconcilable conflicts, injustice and fears for security prevail which push towards self-defense and closure, there seems to be an increasing need for ...
• 30 August 2017
  EUROPE/IRELAND - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Maurice Hogan SSC Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 10 June 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societi ...
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  10 August 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Integration, equality and respect: Ethiopian social circus changes the lives of the country’s children A Coruña (Agenzia Fides) – Circus, education and social assistance are the values of the Fekat Circus, an Ethiopian group which aims at improving the lives of the children in that country . The initiative is for socia ...
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  8 August 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples: respect human rights and lands Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – August 9 is International Day of the World’s Indigenous. The world has over 370 million indigenous peoples in 70 different countries, speaking 5,000 languages (75% of which are known) and a ...
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  4 August 2017
  EUROPE/FRANCE- Cardinal Filoni: may the saintly Curè d'Ars accompany the priests and seminarians in our young Churches Ars sur Formans (Agenzia Fides) - “As head of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, I call on Saint Jean-Marie Vianney to intercede for the seminaries and the clergy in our young churches in mission te ...
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  25 July 2017
  EUROPE/FRANCE - First Anniversary of Fr. Hamel’s death Rouen (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Jacques Hamel, 84, had his throat cut while he was celebrating mass in Saint Etienne du Rouvray church, Normandy (France) on the morning of July 26, 2016. Two men entered the church during t ...