Europe

• 16 January 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - Missionary Childhood: thousands of boys and girls have brought the Good News to 142thousand families in Tarnow Tarnow (Agenzia Fides) - Children and the young people of Missionary Childhood of the Diocese of Tarnow, in Poland, met in Nowy Sącz, at the Shrine of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Saturday, on January 14, to end the ...
• 12 January 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The priorities of Caritas Spain in Haiti: health, education, housing, protection of the most vulnerable and strengthening of Caritas Haiti Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Spain has traced a balance of its work on the Caribbean island - called "Caritas with Haiti" - in favor of hundreds of thousands of people after the earthquake which hit the island 2 year ...
• 9 January 2012
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Pauline Jaricot was "like David facing Goliath": the Secretary of the Missionary Congregation at the conference in Lyon Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - "Re-reading the life of Pauline Jaricot, I think of David, the little shepherd, who faces Goliath. Yes, Pauline is David, and I would say that the religious and cultural climate following the stron ...
• 7 January 2012
  EUROPE/FRANCE-"Pauline Jaricot, a woman always present": international meeting for the Jubilee Year Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - Pauline Marie Jaricot (1799-1862), declared "venerable" by Pope John XXIII on February 25, 1963, devoted her life to the mission, prayer and service to the poor: she founded the Society for the Pro ...
• 3 January 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - The "Star Singers" of Czestochowa help the children of Sudan Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - Children and young people of Holy Childhood of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa, in the days between 26 December 2011 and January 6, 2012, are giving birth to their now usual Christmas activit ...
• 29 December 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN-Thousands in Madrid to demand respect for the rights of the family Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - For the fifth consecutive year, many Spanish Bishops will be in Colon square in Madrid, on Friday, December 30, the liturgical feast of the Holy Family, to accompany thousands of families from al ...
• 28 December 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Every year 22 000 working children die and many other fall ill or suffer serious accidents Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Of the 215 million working children throughout the world, more than half, 115 million, work in dangerous conditions for their health, safety and emotional and moral development. This is what emer ...
• 21 December 2011
  EUROPE/GERMANY - "Knock on doors, insist on your rights": 54th Campaign of the Star Singers (Sternsinger) who have chosen Nicaragua as this year’s symbol country Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - For the 54th time, in the days leading up to January 6, the "Star Singers" (Sternsinger) of the Holy Chidhood Association in Germany will be on the country’s street-corners singing Christmas ca ...
• 17 December 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - Racism, discrimination and xenophobia against foreigners: Scalabrinians increase the commitment for a culture of hospitality and solidarity Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The rise of racism, discrimination and xenophobia in Europe which is going through severe economic crisis of values, motivated by ideologies without humanism and without God, by political and econ ...
• 14 December 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - Pilgrimage of Missionary Childhood of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa for the sending of missionary children and young people Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, December 17, the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa has promoted a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary, in Myszków Mr ...
• 9 December 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - Human rights belong to everyone, the aspiration to freedom and human dignity is universal Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Every day around the world, human rights are violated, and every year during the week from December 10 to 18 the Week of Global Action for Human Rights is celebrated. Every day men and women fight ...
• 9 December 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - Evangelizing missions in Czestochowa: about 6 thousand catechesis for 6 thousand faithful Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - During the evangelizing Missions carried out in the Archdiocese of Czestochowa for the desire of the Archbishop Mgr.Stanislaw Nowak in the pastoral year 2010/2011, 6 000 missionary catechesi ...
• 6 December 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - The missionary spirit of John Paul II and Pauline Jaricot Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, on 3 and 4 December a missiological session and a prayer vigil of the members of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU) was held at Jasna Góra. As Fides informs Don Tomasz At ...
• 2 December 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - The PMU on a pilgrimage to Jasna Gora: missiological session dedicated to John Paul II and Pauline Jaricot Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary activity of the Blessed John Paul II and the missionary committment of the Servant of God Pauline M. Jaricot, founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, are the ...
• 29 November 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Access to antiretroviral drugs has decreased the number of deaths due to AIDS Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of World Day to Fight AIDS, which is celebrated on December 1 next, UNAIDS, the UN agency that deals with the pandemic, today reported that people with HIV live longer and the num ...