Europe

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  12 January 2017
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - The number of "selective" abortions increases Erevan (Agenzia Fides) – In Armenia, a Country strongly characterized by the link with its cultural and spiritual traditions, there is the third highest global rate of selective abortions motivated by sex of the unborn ...
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  22 December 2016
  EUROPE/GERMANY - "Star Singers" together for creation and for children affected by climate change Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - For the 59th time, in the days leading up to January 6th, the "Star Singers" (Sternsinger) of the Holy Childhood Association in Germany will be on the country’s street-corners singing Christmas ...
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  21 December 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - Appeal of the Rector Major to the Salesians for the "ad gentes" mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, has launched the Salesians worldwide an "ad gentes" missionary appeal, addressing "all those confreres who feel ca ...
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  19 December 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - Superior General of the Xaverian Missionaries has passed away Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Sunday, December 18, at about 4.30 in the morning, the Superior General of the Xaverian Missionaries (Pious Society of St. Francis Xavier for Foreign Missions), Father Luigi Menegazzo pa ...
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  7 December 2016
  EUROPE/POLAND - Meeting of missionary formation and prayer vigil at the Shrine of Jasna Gora Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 400 people gathered on 3 and 4 December, for the feast of St. Francis Xavier, at the Sanctuary of Jasna Gora for the missionary study meeting and prayer vigil promoted as usual by ...
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  2 December 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - International Day of Disability: solidarity initiatives for children and adults who are blind Milan (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the International Day of disability which is celebrated on December 3 each year, CBM Italy, an NGO engaged in the fight against preventable blindness and disability in developin ...
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  29 November 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - For 10 years a helping hand to women forced into prostitution Seville (Agenzia Fides) - "Al Alba", the reception and support center for women in Seville, is ten years old and has welcomed 2,107 women. The center works according to the objectives that led to the foundation of the Ob ...
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  28 November 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - Fr. Andrea Santoro: man, believer, a pastor and a witness of the Gospel Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "What happened a decade ago on February 5th in Trabzon church moved and wounded beyond the confines of the Diocese of Rome and the Vicariate of Anatolia in Turkey, but it is a wound from which spir ...
• 23 November 2016
  EUROPE - Testimony: the first value by which the Church can and must communicate Glasgow (Agenzia Fides) - "In times marked by an intense individualism, where persons, with their desires and emotions, become the measure of all decisions and communications, a personal and consistent witness of one’s ...
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  22 November 2016
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - The Scalabrinians discuss the reorganization and revitalization of the service to migrants Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - The Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo, known as Scalabrinians, are celebrating the IX General Assembly of their congregation in Lisbon, which brings together representatives of the vario ...
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  21 November 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Around the world one out of ten children grow up alone Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – One child out of ten worldwide grows up alone, without any assistance and protection. This is what the international organization SOS Children's Villages denounced on the occasion of Universal ...
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  28 October 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 360° panorama of the Mission, virtual tour where missionaries worldwide work Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain, on the occasion of World Mission Sunday, prepared a "virtual tour" of the Catholic Church throughout the world, elaborated with images sent by the ...
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  27 October 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Conclusion of the Meeting of Bishops of Southern Spain Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting of the Bishops of southern Spain, which includes the dioceses of Seville, Granada, Almería, Cádiz and Ceuta, Córdoba, Guadix, Huelva, Jaen, Malaga and Jerez ended in Cordoba (Spai ...
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  26 October 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - Support for the rights of African girls Lodi (Agenzia Fides) - "On Nice’s side" is the multimedia campaign in support of the rights of African girls supported by the Fighting World Hunger Movement that tells the stories of seven girls who in various parts of ...
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  26 October 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Holywins not Halloween: holiness wins Cartagena (Agenzia Fides) - Several Spanish dioceses have encouraged the faithful to celebrate the feast of "Holywins" on 31 October, with images and costumes of saints, virgins and religious, in response to the most pop ...