Europe

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  3 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Franciscan friars: "God's grace saved the city from devastation" Konotop (Agenzia Fides) - "Currently the city of Konotop is under siege and at all entrances there are Russian checkpoints that prohibit civilians from leaving the city and do not allow the delivery of food and medicine. ...
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  2 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Franciscans close to the people "with prayer, lunch and words of encouragement" Konotop (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite the great tension in society, anxiety and widespread panic, in our Convent, together with Father Florian OFM, with volunteers and parishioners, we are at the service of people with pray ...
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  2 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Scalabrinian Missionaries: it is time to welcome, show solidarity and pray for peace Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "About 7 million refugees are expected if a truce is not reached in the 27 countries of the European Union. A considerable number, given that according to UNHCR 8 million people are fleeing through ...
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  1 March 2022
  EUROPE - During Lent the Church in Europe prays for peace in Ukraine and for the victims of the pandemic St. Gallen (Agenzia Fides) - The European Bishops join the appeal of Pope Francis "to make next March 2, Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting for peace". We want to join our voice, says His Exc. Mgr. Gintaras Grušas, Archb ...
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  1 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Oblate missionaries of Mary Immaculate in prayer: "We feel the closeness of the Pope and of the whole Church" Kiev (Agenzia Fides) - "We are fine but we live in precariousness and uncertainty. Our help comes from the Lord and our hope is his Providence and we live these terrible moments immersed in prayer. Let us put our lives i ...
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  28 February 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Orionines and Salesians, committed to welcoming refugees, remain in their place, "trusting in Providence" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Sisters of Don Orione are in Korotycz, near Kharkiv, together with more than 40 mothers and children. Unfortunately, they have not been able to move and live with them this moment of great ten ...
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  26 February 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The war in Ukraine and the pain of the Eastern Churches: "the only one who benefits from it is the devil" Kiev (Agenzia Fides) - "Wars are a defeat for all parties involved. The only one who enjoys them is the devil, who already dances on the heads of corpses, and plays with the pain of widows, orphans and grieving mothers". ...
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  26 February 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Being an ambassador is a bit like a mission" memory of Ambassador Attanasio killed in Congo Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - Together with some diocesan and voluntary organizations for Africa, the Society for African Missions (SMA) organized an event in memory of Ambassador Luca Attanasio, assassinated in Congo on Febru ...
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  25 February 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The Don Orione Monastery in Lviv becomes a reception center for refugees and the disabled Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We have all gathered in the monastery of Lviv which we have decided to make available to refugees and to those in need. Our other priority is the protection of the 8 disabled children who live in ...
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  24 February 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Missionaries of Don Orione: "We will stay here, we cannot abandon our disabled children, mothers, children, the poor" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Don Giovanni Carollo, director of the religious province "Mother of Divine Providence" of the Sons of Divine Providence (Don Orione) on which the Orionine mission in Ukraine depends, in contact wit ...
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  24 February 2022
  EUROPE - Catholic Action: prayer of the Rosary for peace with the faithful of Ukraine Rome (Agenzia Fides) - While winds of war blow in Ukraine, the International Forum of Catholic Action (IFCA) with all the associations of Catholic Action in the world, has accepted the renewed appeal of Pope Francis to p ...
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  23 February 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Mediterranean frontier of peace”. Bishops and Mayors gathered in Florence, in the name of Giorgio La Pira Florence (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Wednesday, February 23, the unique meeting of Catholic Bishops and Mayors of Mediterranean countries met in Florence to attest and re-propose the role of the Mediterranean Sea as a "fron ...
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  14 February 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Armenian Catholic Bishops committed to beginning the process of canonization of Cardinal Agagianian, Prefect of Propaganda Fide from 1960 to 1970 Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Patriarchal Church of Cilicia of the Armenians, gathered in Synod in Rome from February 4 to 12 at the Pontifical Armenian College "in Urbe" under the chairmanship of Patriarch ...
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  12 February 2022
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Pauline Jaricot at the center of the last day of the meeting of the European Directors of the PMS Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Paulina Jaricot is a source of inspiration for us today", said Father Tadeusz Jan Nowak, OMI, Secretary General of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith, during the meeting of ...
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  9 February 2022
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "Proclaiming Christ in Europe": meeting of the European Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Proclaiming Christ in Europe, from apostolic times to the third millennium" is the theme of the speech by Father Dinh Anh Nhue Nguyen, O.F.M. Conv., Secretary General of the Pontifical Missionar ...