Europe

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  8 March 2025
  GREENLAND - Geopolitical interests and independence: Greenland before the election by Cosimo Graziani Nuuk (Agenzia Fides) - Although globalization has been the subject of much criticism recently, perhaps never before have local elections with fewer than sixty thousand voters made such headlines as ...
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  8 March 2025
  GREENLAND - Catholics in Greenland: A small church of migrants Nuuk (Agenzia Fides) - Under your feet, mineral-rich soil covered by a thick layer of white snow; above your head, the enchanted sky distorted by the Northern Lights. Bright and long nights, days when the sunlight lasts ...
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  1 March 2025
  EUROPE/POLOND - European Meeting of National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies on the new mission emergencies Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - Reflection, prayer, sharing and dialogue on the challenges of evangelization were the focus of the Meeting of European National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies, held in Warsaw from ...
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  19 February 2025
  EUROPE/POLAND - The murderer of Father Grzegorz Dymek confesses Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - It was a traumatic awakening for the faithful of the parish of Our Lady of Fatima in Kłobuck, a small town in northern Poland on the outskirts of Czestochowa: the 58-year-old parish priest ...
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  18 February 2025
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies awarded the Cross of Officer of the Order of Merit Pro Lithuania Vilnius (Agenzia Fides) - Last Sunday, February 16, Lithuania celebrated the National Day commemorating the proclamation of the Republic of Lithuania in 1918. Following the Act of Restoration of the Lithuanian State, ado ...
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  27 January 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - The testimony of Roseline Hamel at the ‘Jubilee of the world of Communication’: “forgiveness is a force for peace and hope” by Pascale Rizk Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In a “world that is falling apart everywhere”, where many end up surrendering to evil even “for convenience”, there are also men and women of faith and good will who liv ...
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  22 January 2025
  EUROPE/POLAND - Star Singers visit the Apostolic Nuncio and the Presidential Palace Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - Not only houses, streets and schools are among the places that the Polish Star Singers have visited in this year that has just begun, but they were also welcomed in the Apostolic Nuncio and the P ...
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  14 January 2025
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Romania: Cultural Invasion, Vast Military Expenses, Democracy Cancelled by Victor Gaetan* “The innocent pay for war, the innocent…Let us think about this reality and say to each other: war is madness. And those who profit from war and the arms trade are thugs ...
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  11 January 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - Blessed Father Giovanni Merlini, the missionary who spoke to the Pope and the bandits (of the Papal State) by Fabio Beretta Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "There is someone who loves you even before you deserve it." Disobeying the orders of the papal legate, Father Giovanni Merlini did not condemn or attack anyone in his homilies. ...
• 7 January 2025
  EUROPE/GREECE - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - On December 6, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches), appointed Father Lorenzo ...
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  3 January 2025
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - The Star Singers' visit to Rome and Mass with Pope Francis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of the Star Singers from Switzerland has concluded their visit to Rome. They represented more than 10,000 children and young people, together with about 2,000 adult volunteers, ...
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  21 December 2024
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “Raise your voice!” The 2025 Star Singers Campaign for children’s rights Aachen (Agenzia Fides) – The focus of the “Star Singers” campaign of the Pontifical Society of German Missionary Childhood (Aktion Dreikönigssingen) is on children's rights, and aims to emphasize that all people a ...
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  18 December 2024
  VATICAN - Beatification process for Eduard Profittlich: Pope Francis recognizes his death as martyrdom Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the beatification process for the German-born Jesuit missionary and titular archbishop of Hadrianopolis, Eduard Profittlich, who died in 1942 in the Soviet detention camp in Kiro ...
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  15 December 2024
  APOSTOLIC JOURNEY - Pope Francis in Ajaccio: Popular piety is a gift for all Ajaccio (Agenzia Fides) - More than two thousand years have passed "since the Incarnation of the Son of God". And some periods of history "the Christian faith shaped the lives of peoples and their political institutions" ...
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  14 December 2024
  Pope Francis in Ajaccio: The missionary soul of popular spirituality by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - There is a People of God gathered and beloved by Jesus, who continue to ask for his presence and his consolation in the tribulations of life, entrusting their expectations to ...