Europe

• 30 October 2012
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Catholic organizations denounce the social regression and the increase of poverty Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - "We note that a huge social decline is taking place, which affects especially the most vulnerable, leading to an increase of poverty, insecurity, violence and other social problems," is what is r ...
• 23 October 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - "Missionary workshops" dedicated to the Year of Faith Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "Faith is strengthened when it is announced" was the theme of the "missionary workshops" dedicated to the Year of Faith and Missionary Week, which took place on October 20 at the Metropolita ...
• 22 October 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Two thousand children involved in fundraising for World Mission Sunday Tui (Agenzia Fides) - More than two thousand children in the Diocese of Tui-Vigo, in the Province of Pontevedra, Spain, walked the city streets with the classic tin containers used for the collection in favour of World M ...
• 19 October 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "There is no mission without missionaries": 14,000 Spanish missionaries in the world Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - World Mission Day is celebrated on Sunday, October 21 also in the whole of Spain, known under the name of "Domund." The National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain, Fr. A ...
• 18 October 2012
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Christians before the conflicts in the Middle East Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The demands of the Arab peoples in order to obtain constitutional, economic and social reforms are just and legitimate, but what is not right is the fact of imposing such changes "from the outside ...
• 17 October 2012
  EUROPA - CCEE Presidency concerned about discrimination and acts of hatred against Christians in the Russian Federation St. Gallen (Agenzia Fides) - The Presidency of the Council of the European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE), today sent a letter to Metropolitan Hilarion, President of the Department for External Relations of the Patriarchat ...
• 17 October 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - For a just world, interest towards people must prevail over economics Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - In the world there are still 1 million 300 thousand people who continue to live in extreme poverty, and nearly 850 million suffer from hunger, inequality and discrimination between one country an ...
• 16 October 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Food is a basic right, not recognized to 850 million people Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Today, October 16th, the world celebrates World Food Day, a fundamental human right not recognized to about 850 million people. This law requires that everyone - men, women, children, people who ...
• 10 October 2012
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Experience communion among differences is possible if we remain in Christ, as the branches and the vine Stuttgart (Agenzia Fides) - « "I am the vine, you are the branches"(Jn 15:5). Difference - the result of belonging? »: Jesus’ words taken from John’s Gospel and a question, inspired in particular by the reality of ...
• 4 October 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "Poverty is the greatest enemy of peace," says Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga for the 50 years of Mensajeros de la Paz Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Poverty is the greatest enemy of peace, and solidarity is the way out of the problem of poverty," said the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa (Honduras) and President of Caritas Internationalis, Cardinal ...
• 1 October 2012
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Cardinal Filoni: a new "missionary audacity" for the new frontiers of mission Paris (Agenzia Fides) - "Evangelizing is never a simple thing. In some countries in order to evangelize, an authentic missionary boldness is necessary. This is the case of Tibet: not only today, but since the first attem ...
• 28 September 2012
  EUROPE/FRANCE - An exhibition which narrates the "impossible mission " for the world missionaries MEP Paris (Agenzia Fides) – To call one’s attention to the memory of the confreres who gave their lives for a mission considered "impossible" for man; to follow the example of their courage and their self-sacrifice to no ...
• 27 September 2012
  EUROPE/GREECE - The Catholic Church against intolerance and xenophobia that aggravate the situation in the country Kerkira (Agenzia Fides) - Protests against the greek government's economic policy continue and the difficult moment that the country has been going through for a long time increases. "The problems in Greece are many and ...
• 25 September 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Rosary, a help for the missions, especially in the Year of Faith: Congress of the Rosary of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "The Rosary is the school of faith" will be the theme of the Congress of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa Rosary to be held on Saturday, October 6 at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary ...
• 20 September 2012
  EUROPA - European "Justice and Peace" Commissions: beware of stereotypes regarding the Arab Spring Rabat (Agenzia Fides) - The Arab Spring is a "complex phenomenon" that must be analyzed and understood outside trivializing stereotypes. And Europeans should "respect the right of other nations to define democracy in acc ...