Europe

• 3 June 2011
  EUROPE/ENGLAND-Millions of people at risk of hunger due to high food prices London (Agenzia Fides) - A report by British NGO Oxfam, by 2030, food will double its price. Corn could increase by 180% and in the world there will always be more riots and "wars of bread. " The warning from Oxfam, whic ...
• 27 May 2011
  EUROPE/SCOTLAND-Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on May 6, 2011 appointed the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Scotland for the yea ...
• 26 May 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND-“Do not be afraid to become saints": Childhood Congress in Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - The Congress of Missionary Childhood of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa will be dedicated to the Blessed John Paul II to be held on June 14 at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in Myszków ...
• 25 May 2011
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA-Priest attacked during Mass suffers burns to the head Jonava (Agenzia Fides) - A priest was assaulted during the Mass and suffered burns to his head and face. Father Remigijus Kuprys, 46, on Thursday, May 19 was offering Mass in the city of Jonava when a-42-year old man ...
• 25 May 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN-Regain the "evangelical poverty" and the "Missio Dei": the PMS assembly of diocesan directors Alcalá de Henares (Agenzia Fides) - The National Assembly of Diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain has begun in Alcalá de Henares. The meeting will bring together a hundred responsible o ...
• 24 May 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-African Day: a day for the right of mothers and children health in Africa Padova (Agenzia Fides) - In Italy, for every hundred thousand children born, 12 mothers die due to different causes. 2,054 die in South Sudan: 170 times more. On the occasion of World Day for Africa, which will be celebr ...
• 23 May 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN- The Fourth Day of Prayer for the Church in China was celebrated at the Shrine in Torreciudad Huesca (Agenzia Fides) - A group of Chinese families living in Zaragoza, Huesca, Builbao and Pamplona, gathered even this year at the Shrine in Torreciudad (Huesca) to celebrate the Fourth Day of Prayer for the Church in ...
• 20 May 2011
  EUROPE-Evangelization, youth, dialogue in the continent under examination of the Jesuits Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A special meeting of the Council of the Jesuit Conference of European Provincials (CEP) to put into action a strategic plan for the next three to four years was recently held. According to informat ...
• 19 May 2011
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND-World Health Assembly: true global solidarity is necessary, in which high-income countries do not only make promises but actually carry out their commitments to improving development assistance Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite progress in some countries, by and large we are still far from universal health coverage. We are in a deadlock in the status quo where the rich have higher levels of coverage, which the ...
• 19 May 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-150 years since the death of S. Eugenio de Mazenod, founder of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Rome (Fides Service) - On 21 and 22 May, at the Shrine of Divine Love in Rome, the Italian celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the death of Msgr. Eugene de Mazenod, Bishop of Marseilles and founder of the Missionar ...
• 17 May 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT-Some representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood open to religious freedom? Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Freedom and Justice party, linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, has appointed its Vice-President, the Coptic Rafiq Habib. Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh, an intellectual close to the Muslim Brotherho ...
• 17 May 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-Caritas Internationalis: 60 years of concrete activities in response to human suffering Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the 19th General Assembly of Caritas Internationalis, which will be held in Rome at the end of May, representatives from around the world will celebrate the 60th anniversary of t ...
• 14 May 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - "Worshipping Jesus for 24 hours in the Word": Ecumenical Bible Marathon in Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - The Marathon of the Bible which was held for 24 hours on days 13 -14 May in the church of the Holy Name of Mary in Czestochowa during the III Bible Week: one of initiatives of the Polish Chu ...
• 11 May 2011
  EUROPE/TURKEY-More investments, not charity, to turn around the poor countries in the world Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The least developed countries do not need the charity of the richest, they require major and more intelligent investments. This is the starting point of the Fourth United Nations Conference for ...
• 10 May 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN-100 days after the WYD, we need to strengthen the work of evangelization of the new generations Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - 100 days after the opening of the World Youth Day (WYD) in Madrid, a meeting attended by more than eight thousand people, characterized by moments of prayer and celebration took place in the Spa ...