Europe

• 21 January 2014
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - The whole Church is involved in the problem of migration Aveiro (Agenzia Fides) - The pastoral operators of migration have concluded their fourteenth Assembly affirming the need to create "groups of reception and information" in the parishes, to illustrate the theme of emigrat ...
• 18 December 2013
  EUROPE/GERMANY – From the Star Singers: "a blessing for refugee children in Malawi and around the world" Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - For the 56th time, in the days leading up to January 6, 2014, the "Star Singers" (Sternsinger) of the Holy Childhood Association in Germany will be on the country’s street-corners singing Chris ...
• 17 December 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - Immigrant minors: the number of young children has increased tenfold, mostly Syrians fleeing Rome (Agenzia Fides ) - 40,244 immigrants arrived in Italy via sea between January 1 and November 30, 2013, of whom 5,273 are women and 7,928 children, 1 out of 5. These are some data in the dossier "Immigrants minors ar ...
• 10 December 2013
  EUROPE/POLAND - Support vocations in mission countries: prayer vigil and missiological session Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - Promoted by the Pontifical Missionary Union of Poland, on 7 and 8 December, at the Shrine of Jasna Gora, a prayer vigil and missiological session under the theme - support for vocations in m ...
• 3 December 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY – Mgr. Melchior de Marion Brésillac, from India to Africa to carry out "nothing but the will of God" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On December 2, 1813, exactly two hundred years ago, Melchior de Marion Brésillac was born in Castelnaudary , in the south of France. A missionary and later a Bishop and first Apostolic Vicar of Co ...
• 26 November 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - Conclusion of the diocesan phase of the beatification process of Luisa Guidotti Mistrali, missionary doctor, killed in Rhodesia Modena (Agenzia Fides) - In the presence of the Archbishop of Modena - Nonantola, His Exc. Mgr. Antonio Lanfranchi, on November 23 in Modena, in the church of St. Dominic the diocesan phase of the beatification process o ...
• 22 November 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - "DROP by DROP": to ensure clean water to children in Rwanda Lodi (Agenzia Fides) - 110 children in Rwanda will have drinking water by Christmas, thanks to the partnership between the Fight World Hunger Movement (MLFM), an Italian NGO that operates in the poorest Countries to brin ...
• 21 November 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - In Rome, a prayer vigil for peace in Syria and the release of the hostages Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, November 27, a prayer vigil to pray for peace in Syria will take place in the church of Santa Maria dell'Orto, in Trastevere area, in Rome. The vigil, convened by the Center for mis ...
• 20 November 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - International Children’s day and the World Day of Prayer and Action for Children, and Youth in the World Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Today, 20 November, International Children’s day and the World Day of Prayer and Action for Children, and Youth in the World are celebrated around the world. According to data published by va ...
• 15 November 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - Two centuries after the Reconstitution of the Society, the Jesuits look at the universal mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In 2014 the Jesuits celebrate the second centenary of the Reconstitution of the Society of Jesus, sanctioned by the Papal Bull "sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum" of Pope Pius VII on August 7, 1814. O ...
• 11 November 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - "First mothers and children": to double in five years the number of assisted births Milan (Agenzia Fides) - "First mothers and children" is the watchword of an intervention carried out by the NGO Doctors with Africa Cuamm for the health and lives of mothers and children that involves four hospitals, 22 ...
• 9 November 2013
  EUROPE - The new website of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences on-line Barcelona (Agenzia Fides) - A new, modern means of communication and analysis: this is how the new website of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE) presents itself on-line at www.ccee.eu. The website was p ...
• 5 November 2013
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN – Children trafficking continues to increase: the last case of a girl kidnapped in Somalia for the sale of organs London (Agenzia Fides) - Human trafficking as well as that of the organs does not only occur in the poorest Countries in order to overcome the extreme poverty in which they live. The phenomenon is also widespread in the ...
• 30 October 2013
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Help for the end of the earth": a new mobile health auxiliary in the archipelago of the Solomon Islands Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The aim of the project - "Help for the end of the earth" - is to set up a new health auxiliary and provide for formation of local health personnel to fight diseases such as HIV, malaria, tubercul ...
• 23 October 2013
  EUROPE - Appeal to the UN: a Resolution for the protection of religious minorities is needed Bratislava (Agenzia Fides) – Taking into account the constant increase in forms of violence, the persecution of Christians and other religious groups in various parts of the world, the Plenary Assembly of the Council o ...