Europe

• 13 March 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - The ability of reading in the growing numbers of immigration, "a new Exodus of people who seek peace, claiming rights, fleeing from hunger and thirst" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the IECM (Italian Episcopal Commission for Migration), at the end of their meeting on March 12, wanted to remember, after a year, the journey of hope that led, through the revolution ...
• 12 March 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - A million people suffer from hunger, a soup kitchen for children from poorer families has been opened Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - One million people in Spain suffer from hunger, and the phenomenon seems to be even more severe among children. To cope with this emergency, the Association Mensajeros de la Paz, founded and dire ...
• 9 March 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - Child slavery in the world continues to increase: 800 000 children exploited in illegal labor Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Eight hundred thousand children around the world work for days, undergoing all kinds of risks and unbearable hardships for their young age. According to the Camino Juvenil Solidario in Madrid, howe ...
• 7 March 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Worldwide over 40 million children do not attend school and 500 million women are illiterate Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the forthcoming International Women's Day, the Salesian missionaries wanted to highlight the importance of schooling for women, claiming that "educating a woman is equivalent ...
• 24 February 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - Oblates of St. Joseph: to have the courage of evangelical poverty to evangelize the poor Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Pastoral service in missions and parishes, youth education, spreading the devotion to St. Joseph: these are the objectives of the Oblates of St. Joseph, a congregation founded in 1878 by St. Joseph ...
• 23 February 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The plight of child soldiers: only 11 000 those released in 2010 Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest United Nations report, updated to April 2011, there are no data available on the number of children who every day are recruited into armed groups around the world. However ...
• 16 February 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - A "stronger and more united" Jesuit Refugee Service: Strategic Framework 2012-2015 Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Jesuit Father General, Fr. Adolfo Nicolas has recently approved the Strategic Framework 2012-2015 of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS). The Plan is the result of an extensive consultation among ...
• 14 February 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - The new evangelization of Europe entrusted to the intercession of Saints Cyril and Methodius Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "Europe needs our prayer, it needs our missionary spirit and our missionary work of evangelization. As Christians and disciples of Christ, we are called to bring the Gospel back to Europe an ...
• 10 February 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - Carrying out missionary animation in the heart of a metropolis: 50 years of the PIME centre in Milan Milan (Agenzia Fides) - For fifty years the "Center of culture and PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions) missionary animation" in Milan proposes itself as a place of meeting, exchange, reflection and planning ...
• 9 February 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Year of Faith, the year of the missionaries who proclaim it Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "A year dedicated to faith is a year for those who preach it. Because faith, as St. Paul taught, comes from hearing, preaching. This is why a preacher is necessary and can educate in this faith t ...
• 8 February 2012
  EUROPE - A conference on Christian minorities: the first commitment of the new "Observatory on Religious Freedom" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The first public initiative of the new "Observatory on Religious Freedom" will be a conference dedicated to the status and the protection of Christian minorities in the world which has just been in ...
• 1 February 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (MOI): 4,093 in all continents Rome (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest general statistics published by Omiworld, updated to January 31, 2012, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (MOI) are currently 4093, divided as follows: one Cardinal, ...
• 24 January 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - New alarm of the missionaries on the abuse of millions of children in America and Africa Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the recent Day of Missionary Childhood 2012, celebrated in Spain on Sunday 22 January, the Spanish missionaries working in America and Africa have raised the alarm on the mis ...
• 23 January 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN-"There is much talk of numbers and not of people," Cardinal Carlos Amigo on economic crisis Sevilla (Agenzia Fides) - In a long interview with "Diario de Sevilla", Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo, Archbishop emeritus of Seville, expressed the concern of the Church for this period of severe crisis. The Cardinal wi ...
• 17 January 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "With the children of America ... we speak of Jesus": Sunday 22 Day of Missionary Childhood Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - With the slogan "With the children of America ... we speak of Jesus", the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain are organizing the National Day of Missionary Childhood which will be held on ...