Europe

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  1 April 2023
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - The Catholic community in Moscow commemorates Father Konstantin Budkiewicz 100 years after his execution Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "The cross is not a source of bitterness and disappointment, but is already the beginning of glory". This is how Paolo Pezzi, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Mother of God in Moscow, spoke yesterd ...
• 29 March 2023
  EUROPE/MALTA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Victor Agius Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 16, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed Rev. Victor Victor as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Malta for a five-year period (2023-2028) ...
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  29 March 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - The fifth peace caravan towards Ukraine is underway: "We are not resigned to war" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Palm Sunday, which in the Christian, Catholic and Orthodox tradition has a strong symbolic meaning of peace, the volunteers of the fifth peace caravan "Stopthewarnow" will spend it in Ukraine, a ...
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  24 March 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - A "penitential celebration of reparation" after the massacre of Cutro Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - The "Pro Civitate Christiana" of Assisi organizes and invites to live, today, March 24, a Penitential Celebration of Reparation in the form that will be deemed most appropriate, after the massacr ...
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  6 March 2023
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - The Assembly of Catholic Bishops looks at the suffering of peoples: "There is no healing without listening to the other" Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "The bishops once again draw the attention of the faithful to the reality of our world, to the suffering caused by war, violence and natural disasters". This is what emerges from the statement is ...
• 28 February 2023
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 5, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle confirmed rev. Ivan Kňaze, of the diocesan clergy of Žilina, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Slovakia for ...
• 28 February 2023
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 26 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle confirmed rev. Eugenio Blaj, of the diocesan clergy of Iasi, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Romania for a ...
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  14 February 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Missionary volunteering as a vocational path": Living Baptism as a gift from God Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The seven formation and animation meetings of the General Sector of the Missions of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) have just ended, aimed at the provincial coordinators and missiona ...
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  4 February 2023
  EUROPE/GREECE - Farewell to Ioannis Zizioulas, great theologian in Recent Times By Gianni Valente Both Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI knew this. Both recognized that as we crossed the threshold of the Third Millennium since the birth of Christ, he was the greatest Christian theologian around, ...
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  17 January 2023
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Bishops of North Africa meet in Marseille: "Mediterranean as a place of dialogue" Marseille (Agenzia Fides) - "At the heart of our meeting was the approach of looking at our reality through the lens of our belonging to the Mediterranean region, where three continents meet", declared the members of the ...
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  13 January 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - Clara's "tailor-made" dress Turin (Agenzia Fides) - Clara Pautasso is now 40 years old, lives in Turin and works as a nurse at Molinette hospital. At 18, with her high school leaving exam approaching, she felt called upon to make a choice. "I have ...
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  7 January 2023
  Péguy, on the threshold by Gianni Valente Orléans (Agenzia Fides) - "A Christian child", wrote Charles Péguy, "is nothing but a child to whom the childhood of Jesus has been presented a thousand times before his eyes". He, the great French ...
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  5 January 2023
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Star Singers' 2023 Campaign: "Supporting children, protecting children" Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - "Supporting children, protecting children - in Indonesia and in the world" is the motto with which the Star Singers, as part of their 65th awareness campaign, draw attention to girls and boys fro ...
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  4 January 2023
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Benedict XVI to Missionary Childhood: "I see in you little collaborators at the service that the Pope provides to the Church and to the world" Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - From September 7 to 9, 2007, the Holy Father Benedict XVI made an Apostolic Journey to Austria, on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the foundation of the Mariazel Shrine. The national dir ...
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  23 December 2022
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - The Star Singers, a tradition of very ancient origin Agenzia Fides (Fribourg) - "I like to make others happy; it is nice when we knock on doors and people see us and start to smile; we can support projects with the work of the Star Singers and help other children. This mak ...