Europe

• 16 May 2014
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Intolerance and discrimination against Christians in Europe are on the rise: 241 cases in 2013 Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - In the year 2013, the Observatory on intolerance and discrimination against Christians in Europe (see Fides 1/10/2010) recorded 241 cases of intolerance against Christians in law and politics, th ...
• 14 May 2014
  EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC - The "Small Missionary Clubs" where children learn to help their needy peers Prague (Agenzia Fides) - The children of Pontifical Holy Childhood in the Czech Republic have just published a collection of pictures and drawings in which their favorite missionary quotes are shown. The book, titled How ...
• 2 May 2014
  EUROPE/SPAIN - More than half a million women die each year in developing Countries during pregnancy and childbirth tneestneestnenestndneatnjdneat Madrid (Agenzia Fides ) - "To be born a woman means more likely to live in poverty. Seven out of 10 people who suffer from hunger are women; two-thirds of illiterates are women all over the planet; over half a million wo ...
• 24 April 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY - Four young people at the service of the last will talk about their experience on the web Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The selection of 4 young volunteers who wish to live and talk about an experience at the service of the last, the forgotten in India, Kenya, Mozambique and the Philippines will begin on April 30. ...
• 24 April 2014
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND – One child out of 5 does not receive life-saving vaccinations Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - Every year, one child out of five does not receive life-saving vaccinations and the need for vaccines to be kept constantly in cold temperature is a serious barrier to the improvement of the cove ...
• 4 April 2014
  EUROPE/SPAIN - An army of women and children who collect garbage to earn a living Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - About 15 million people live and work all over the world collecting and recycling waste. Among these, the most vulnerable are women and children. However, this activity begins to be seen as a pos ...
• 27 March 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY - Campaign to improve diagnosis and treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Tuberculosis is an old disease, which unfortunately is still very present: 8 million new cases each year. What worries most is the multidrug-resistant (MDR-TB) form of the disease. The current trea ...
• 21 March 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY – 24 March, Day of Missionary Martyrs: like them, we are all "witnesses" of the Gospel Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Founded in 1993 by the Missionary Youth Movement of the Italian Pontifical Mission Societies, on the anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar A. Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador (Marc ...
• 7 March 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY - A "Missionary Year": 100 years since the arrival of the first Orionini missionaries in Brazil Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - "The missionary history of the Congregation starts from Genoa on December 17, 1913, when the first missionaries left for Brazil. The first missionary tent was set up in Brazil in Mar de Espanha, o ...
• 6 March 2014
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Seven out of ten poor people in the world are women who have no rights and education Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Out of 1 billion 300 million people living in extreme poverty around the world, 910 million are women, seven out of ten. In addition, they do not have the same rights and opportunities as men. ...
• 5 March 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Lazzaro, "discreet martyr of charity" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Discreet martyr of charity": this is how His Exc. Mgr. Nuncio Galantino, Bishop of the Diocese of Cassano all'Jonio and ad Interim Secretary General of the Italian Bishops Conference, described Fa ...
• 4 March 2014
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - Major exhibit on Armenian Genocide available online Yerevan (Agenzia Fides) - A major exhibit consisting of 20 panels with over 150 historic photographs documenting the role of the Armenian Church during the Armenian Genocide with testimony from survivors and witnesses wi ...
• 4 February 2014
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - Initiatives in support of Armenian refugees who fled from Syria Yerevan (Agenzia Fides) - There are growing initiatives of various kinds in favor of the Armenian Syrians who fled their country and have found refuge in Armenia. In recent days, the government organization Hayastan All- ...
• 3 February 2014
  EUROPE/ITALY - Violence and injustice in the testimonies of the Roman missionaries Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Violence and injustice are evils still rooted in the hearts of men. The stories of three mission experiences lived by priests and lay people in Rome are the focus of the meeting to be held on Monda ...
• 22 January 2014
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "Invisible Victims": meeting of the Network for the fight against human trafficking Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The biennial meeting of the members of Christian Organisations Against Trafficking in Human Beings (COATNET – in English) ends today, 22 January, which brought together in Madrid 60 experts fro ...