Europe

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  19 September 2026
  EUROPE/ITALY - “All for One”: Missio Ragazzi launches new formation programme for 2026-2027 Rome (Fides News Agency) – “All for One” is the title of the 2026-2027 formation program launched by Missio Ragazzi, the Secretariat of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood in Italy. The title is intended a ...
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  18 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/VI - Leo XIV in Paris: A missionary topography by Marie-Lucile Kubacki On September 25 and 26, Pope Leo XIV will travel to Paris and Saint-Denis, the first French stops on a journey that will also take him to Lourdes and Metz. Over the course of these two days, hi ...
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  15 September 2026
  “Listen before proposing, accompany without replacing”: Caritas aid workers share their experience alongside communities Bogotá (Fides News Agency) – On 8 September, Aid Workers' Day was celebrated in Spain, an initiative promoted by Spanish Cooperation to recognize the work of professionals committed to promoting the rights and dignity ...
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  13 September 2026
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood: Jesus’ “torch” at the heart of missionary summer Camps Bucharest (Fides News Agency) – Accompanying children and young people in discovering that mission does not begin with what we do, but with the One who lives within us. This is the educational aim of two missionary sum ...
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  12 September 2026
  EUROPE/GREECE - Orthodox and Catholic bishops make joint pilgrimage to Mount Athos, a holy place for all Christians by Father Sliman Hifawi Ouranoupolis (Fides News Agency) – The Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Kuwait and Baghdad, Archbishop Ghattas Hazim (of the Patriarchate of Antioch), made a pilgrimage to Mount Athos from Sept ...
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  11 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/V - The (silent) mission of Lourdes: “God’s charity does not heal those who have no wounds” by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Lourdes (Fides News Agency) – Just a few weeks ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, scheduled for September 26 and 27, excitement is palpable in the Marian ci ...
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  9 September 2026
  EUROPE/ITALY - From vocation to mission: Anselmo Fabiano makes perpetual oath of commitment to the Society of African Missions Feriole (Fides News Agency) – “...called by the Lord to proclaim the Gospel to the nations, particularly in Africa, and knowing the aim of the Society of African Missions, I swear to remain a member of this Society f ...
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  2 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/IV - A song to welcome the Successor of Peter by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Rome (Fides News Agency) – Dawn is breaking over the domes of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. On the Janiculum Hill, Grégory Turpin sings the opening notes a cappella of Pour que le monde ait ...
• 1 September 2026
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - On June 8, 2026, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed, Father Johann ...
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  30 August 2026
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Faith that unites peoples: The memory of Pope Luciani celebrated in the church of Italian migrants Bucharest (Fides News Agency) – Grateful devotion to Blessed Pope John Paul I remains alive in Romania as well. Around the figure of the Pope born in Canale d’Agordo, old bonds are being renewed and new friendships a ...
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  29 August 2026
  Three Churches pray for peace on the border between the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland by Bohumil Petrík Trzycatek (Fides News Agency) – On the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen, on August 22, representatives of three Central European nations walked together and prayed for peace and reconciliat ...
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  28 August 2026
  Pope in France/III - Metz, at the roots of European peace in the “city of three borders” by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Metz (Fides News Agency) – In the late-summer light, the Jaumont stone on the façades of the city centre reveals, in places, deep scars carved into the rock. On these historic buildings, cav ...
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  23 August 2026
  A project to establish a university dedicated to Slovakia’s first ambassador to the Holy See takes shape by Bohumil Petrík Bratislava (Fides News Agency) – “Wisdom never goes out of fashion. The purpose of the Anton Neuwirth College is to contribute to the good of society by following the wisdom of Christian values. ...
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  22 August 2026
  Leone XIV at the Rimini Meeting: Jesus keeps his treasure in earthen vessels Rimini (Fides News Agency) – “The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by ‘attraction’.” Pope Leo XIV invoked this expression of Benedict XVI, repeatedly echoed by Pope Francis, to suggest ...
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  19 August 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/II - Behind the figures: the fragmented and “indecipherable” expectations that will greet Leo XIV by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Paris (Fides news Agency) – An exceptional mobilization is taking shape ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to France. Tickets for the events scheduled during the papal visit have been snapped u ...