Europe

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  29 September 2024
  APOSTOLIC JOURNEY - Pope Francis in Belgium: “Mission is a gift and not a title of boasting” Bruxelles (Agenzia Fides) - "We all received a mission in the Church through baptism. But this mission is a gift and not a reason to boast," said Pope Francis during the Holy Mass at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels ...
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  28 September 2024
  APOSTOLIC JOURNEY - Pope in Belgium: the synodal process must be a return to the Gospel and not about prioritizing “fashionable” reforms Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - "The synodal process must involve returning to the Gospel. It is not about prioritizing “fashionable” reforms, but asking, how can we bring the Gospel to a society that is no longer listen ...
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  28 September 2024
  BRICS expansion process shows limits of the organization by Cosimo Graziani Kazan (Agenzia Fides) - The next BRICS Summit will take place from 22 to 24 October in the Russian city of Kazan. The geopolitical and economic alliance known as BRICS takes its name from the initi ...
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  26 September 2024
  APOSTOLIC JOURNEY - Pope in Luxembourg: "What drives us to mission is the joy of encountering Christ" Luxembourg (Agenzia Fides) - Service, mission, joy. These three words are the focus of the second and final speech delivered by Pope Francis in Luxembourg, the first stop on this Apostolic Journey to the heart of Europe, ...
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  20 September 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missio Italia: Inauguration of the Missionary Education Center Verona (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, Saturday 21 September, the new headquarters of the Missionary Education Center “Centro Unitario per la Formazione Missionaria” (CUM) will be inaugurated in Verona. The Missio Italia ...
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  12 September 2024
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Salesian missionaries demand the right to education: "Key to changing people's lives" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Access to education is the key to changing people's lives and transforming and developing societies," is the motto of the Salesian missionaries, who have always been at the forefront of educatio ...
• 6 September 2024
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - Father Agustin Margjoni CM, appointed first National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Albania Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 31, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G.Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father Agustin Mar ...
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  2 September 2024
  EUROPE/ICELAND - Nordic countries hold webinar on the Pope's message for World Mission Day Reykjavik (Agenzia Fides) – Today at 6:00 pm (CET) the first webinar of the Nordic countries will be held on the Pope's message for the upcoming World Mission Sunday, entitled "Go and invite everyone to the banquet" (c ...
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  31 August 2024
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - A Missionary among fellow prisoners: Ján Havlík is blessed by Chiara Dommarco Šaštín (Fides News Agency) - "Where is God in the darkness of history? Faith helps to acknowledge that He is here, writing his love story, "said Father Emil Hoffmann CM, vice postulator of the Ca ...
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  26 August 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Moscow-linked Orthodox Church "banned" in Ukraine: reactions and developments by Chiara Dommarco Moscow (Fides News Agency) - Following the approval by Kiev's Verkhovna Rada of Bill 8371 "On the protection of the constitutional order within the purview of the activities of religious organizatio ...
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  21 August 2024
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - This is how the Orthodox Church connected with the Moscow Patriarchate has been banned from Ukraine by Chiara Dommarco Kiev (Fides News Agency) – On Tuesday, August 20, the Verkhovna Rada, the unicameral Parliament of Ukraine, approved, in its second reading, Bill 8371, entitled "On the protection of the constitut ...
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  15 August 2024
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Zuppi-Li Hui phone call: China and the Holy See working to promote dialogue Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - "On the morning of August 14, 2024, a cordial conversation was held between Mr. Li Hui, Special Representative of the Chinese Government for Eurasian Affairs, and Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, ...
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  5 August 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Towards the Holy Year: young Catholics from the Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow met in Kaliningrad by Chiara Dommarco Kaliningrad (Agenzia Fides) - "Hope is not just the expectation of something longed for and far away: it is a foretaste in which we can already find what we want," said Father Denis Malov (CMF) to ...
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  31 July 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Digital universe and evangelization: Salesians invite to “Shape Tomorrow” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Creators of new languages and paradigms for evangelization, Ecology, climate change, migrants and refugees, digital culture and Artificial Intelligence, Internal and External Communication in the C ...
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  16 July 2024
  EUROPE/BELARUS - Jesuits and Salesians celebrate the memory of Father Stanisław Michalski, murdered at Christmas 1950 Višnevo (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, July 13, in Višnevo, a Belarusian town near the border with Lithuania, the new tomb where the remains of Father Stanisław Michalski SJ, a Polish Jesuit who died as a martyr at Chri ...