Europe

• 29 July 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples will conclude the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of St. Justin, preacher in Ethiopia Rome (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, will conclude on Sunday, July 31, in the diocese of Mefi-Rapolla-Venosa, the cycle of celebrations fo ...
• 28 July 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - For World Youth Day 60 "Young Swiss Guards" will welcome the Holy Father Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the next World Youth Day to be held in August in Madrid, the Holy Father Benedict XVI will be greeted by a special group of bodyguards: 60 children, dressed in the trad ...
• 23 July 2011
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND-50th anniversary of the Secular Institute of the Scalabrinian Missionaries (1961-2011) Solothurn (Agenzia Fides) - On July 25, 2011 the Scalabrinian will celebrate the 50th anniversary of their Secular Institute of the Scalabrinian Secular Missionary women. The Institute was founded in Solothurn, Switzer ...
• 22 July 2011
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL-Voluntary Missionary: 1,130 Portuguese around the world, many will spend their holidays in mission lands Lisbon (Fides Service) - More than 1,130 Portuguese youth and adults will dedicate themselves this year in carrying out voluntary missionary projects in developing countries and also in Portugal, about half of them will ...
• 20 July 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN-Madrid is preparing to welcome a million young people for WYD Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Major religious and cultural events organized for WYD (World Youth Day)by the Catholic Church that gather around the Pope thousands of young people from all continents this year will be held from ...
• 16 July 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-30 years after the discovery of the virus about 25 million people have died of AIDS: the Sixth World Conference in Rome Rome (Fides Service) - After Buenos Aires, Paris, Rio De Janeiro, Sydney and Cape Town, Rome is to host from July 17 to 20, the VI World Conference on AIDS, organized by the International AIDS Society (IAS) and the Insti ...
• 14 July 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN-In Madrid, may the missionary vocation find a generous response from the young people of WYD Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Madrid has 1,278 missionaries scattered across all continents, in 94 countries, belonging to 164 different religious and secular institutes. Madrid has to be, on the occasion of World Youth Day ...
• 12 July 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND-New draft law against any type of abortion Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Pro-life activists Foundation in Poland have collected 600 000 signatures in favor of a bill that would prohibit any type of abortion in the country protecting the unborn from the moment of c ...
• 12 July 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND-The heart of a thirteen-year old girl "embraces the missions" Warsaw (Fides Service) - "Embracing the missions with a small heart" is the title of the book prepared and printed by the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood in Poland, which collects poems written by Paulina Walc ...
• 11 July 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-The "White Sisters" are opening the 24th General Chapter Rome (Fides Service) - The Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa (MSOL), known as the "White Sisters", are opening their 24th General Chapter in Rome, on July 13. For three weeks, until August 3, the 41 capitulants w ...
• 8 July 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN-Nearly a million requests of help to Caritas in 2010, the majority are families Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 950 000 people living in Spain went to the assistance Service of Caritas in 2010 to meet their basic needs, especially for food, 550,000 more over the past three years, according to th ...
• 2 July 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - School for Missionary Animators: enthusiasm and new ideas Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Missionary Training Center in Warsaw hosted the School for Missionary Animators, organized and promoted by the team of the National Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Poland from 26 to 29 ...
• 1 July 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-Annual report of "Aid to the Church in Need": 5,587 projects funded in 153 countries Rome (Fides Service) – The 2010 Annual Report of the Work of Pontifical Right "Aid to the Church that Need" (ACN), founded by Father Werenfried van Straaten in 1947 has been published: in 2010 ACN raised a total of do ...
• 28 June 2011
  EUROPE-Fifteen million poor people in Europe at risk of hunger Rome (Fides Service) - The Regulation 562/2011 adopted by the European Commission on June 10, cuts 80% of food aid for the poor provided by EPFA (European Program of Food Aid). This means that about 15 million Europeans ...
• 27 June 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-Blessed Clemente Vismara: "enthusiastic missionary, resourceful and holy" Milan (Fides Service) - About 8,000 faithful crowded Duomo Square in Milan yesterday, June 26, to attend the Mass of beatification of Fr Serafino Morazzone, Father Clemente Vismara, PIME missionary, and Sister Enrichetta ...