Europe

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  9 October 2026
  EUROPE/ITALY - Interview with the Superior General of the Society of African Missions: “Mission Today: Stepping out of our comfort zone” by Antonella Prenna Rome (Fides News Agency) – Father François Marie Hervé du Penhoat has been at the head of the Society of African Missions for almost a year and a half, at a time of profound transformation. Aft ...
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  5 October 2026
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Bishop Aldo Berardi: “What Metz can teach Ukraine, the Holy Land and the Middle East about reconciliation” by Antonella Prenna Ars-sur-Moselle (Fides News Agency) – From the wounds left by the wars that devastated Lorraine to the search for a path towards reconciliation in Ukraine, the Holy Land and the Gulf. Pope Leo XI ...
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  30 September 2026
  “Wecare” missionary experiences/II - When mission becomes a journey of faith by Laura Gómez Ruiz Rome (Fides News Agency) – A missionary experience can begin with a concrete gesture: building something, offering help, sharing daily life with a community. But the questions that arise during ...
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  29 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/XI - Leo XIV in Metz: Europe seeks peace in the "Lantern of the Good Lord" by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Metz (Fides News Agency) – “An American Pope speaking from Metz, on the border with Germany, about “De Gasperi” with a French accent,” journalist Iacopo Scaramuzzi wrote on the social ...
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  28 September 2026
  EUROPE/POLAND - Funeral of Father Zbojnowicz, killed in attack on Jarosław monastery, to be held Tuesday, September 29 Warsaw (Fides News Agency) – The funeral of Father Stanisław Zbojnowicz, a Benedictine priest who was attacked on September 24, at the monastery of the Benedictine nuns in Jarosław, in south-eastern Poland, near the ...
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  28 September 2026
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Message of the annual gathering of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood: Different yet united in the love of Christ Budapest (Fides News Agency) – More than 100 children, accompanied by their animators and several parents, gathered in Budapest for the annual meeting organized by the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood (POSI) in ...
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  28 September 2026
  THE POPE IN FRANCE/X - In Lourdes, where the vulnerable bring light by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) – “O Mary, have mercy…” Eva’s crystal-clear voice, that of a 13-year-old girl, rises almost a cappella before Pope Leo XIV. She performs one of the songs from ...
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  27 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/IX - The visit of Leo XIV, clichés and the surprises of grace by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Paris (Fides News Agency) - A long ribbon of 800,000 people stretched along the Champs-Élysées on September 26 to attend the Pope’s Mass in Place de la Concorde. The turnout was exceptional ...
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  26 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/VIII - The journey of Leo XIV celebrates the intertwining of popular Christianity and the understanding of faith by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Paris (Fides News Agency) - The Pope’s visit to France was eagerly awaited, and Leo XIV’s first day in the country has already been a success. One needed only to hear the 80,000 young peopl ...
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  25 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/VII - Historian Dumont: Leo XIV’s visit comes amid expectations of a “new missionary impetus” by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Paris (Fides News Agency) – Historian Martin Dumont has just published a book on the long history of relations between the popes and France (La France dans la pensée des papes, Éditions du ...
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  25 September 2026
  EUROPE/NORTHERN IRELAND - Dromantine: 100 years of people, stories and missionary history woven into one very special place Dromantine (Fides News Agency) – A century of formation, prayer and missionary life. This is the story of Dromantine, the house of the Society of African Missions (SMA) which, in Northern Ireland, it has accompanied ge ...
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  23 September 2026
  The good seed of “Wecare” Missionary Experiences/I - Young hearts and the encounter with reality by Laura Gómez Ruiz Rome (Fides News Agency) – Leaving home and one’s “comfort zones” for several weeks, venturing to another country and sharing time and work with people whose lives are very different. For ...
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  22 September 2026
  EUROPE/POLAND - Mission seeks new paths: the message that emerged from the autumn meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies Warsaw (Fides News Agency) – Mission cannot remain tied only to forms that belong to a bygone era. It needs new energy to involve the entire Church community. This was one of the messages that emerged from the autumn m ...
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  21 September 2026
  The seed of the Gospel and mission: Archbishop Sangalli concludes the formation Course for bishops in Nemi with a meditation on St Charles de Foucauld Nemi (Fides News Agency) – The permanent formation of bishops as a time of communion, spiritual renewal and personal and pastoral conversion: this was the perspective outlined by Archbishop Samuele Sangalli in his homi ...
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  20 September 2026
  EUROPE/ITALY - Lazarist Bishop Markos Gebremedhin: “Looking at the episcopal ministry with renewed eyes” by Antonella Prenna Nemi (Fides News Agency) – “How can I exercise my episcopal ministry not simply as an administrator or decision-maker, but as a servant of communion who guides, listens, accompanies, coordinate ...