Europe

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  26 June 2026
  A true priest, a true doctor: a documentary-film on the testimony of Romanian Venerable Martin Benedict by Pascale Rizk Rome (Fides News Agency) – On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the death of Romanian Venerable Martin Benedict, the documentary-film “The Martin Benedict case: Forbidden to Believe” premie ...
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  26 June 2026
  Here's how Sweden is quietly rediscovering itself as a "land of mission" by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Stockholm (Fides News Agency) – Sweden is quietly rediscovering itself as a land of mission, even ad gentes. And this is what Anna Bieniaszewski Sandberg sees every day. As National Director ...
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  25 June 2026
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Father Karl Wallner: "Faith grows together with the willingness to help others" Vienna (Fides News Agency) - "My experience is that fundraising and faith-raising are ultimately one and the same, because faith grows together with the willingness to help others." These are the words of Father Karl Wal ...
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  24 June 2026
  Cardinals Vesco and Marengo: "At the school of the Acts of the Apostles, in the deserts of the world" by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Rome (Fides News Agency) - At the school of the Acts of the Apostles, Cardinals Jean-Paul Vesco, Archbishop of Algiers, and Giorgio Marengo, Apostolic Prefect of Ulan Bator, agreed to revisit ...
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  23 June 2026
  Between political neo-messianisms and Augustinian realism: scholars and analysts revisit Leo XIV’s teaching on international politics and Global scenarios Rome (Fides News Agency) – One year after the election of Pope Leo XIV, a public lecture at the Pontifical Gregorian University has offered one of the first comprehensive readings of his pontificate in the field of int ...
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  23 June 2026
  The blood-stained Breviary and other "Family Memories" of Father Amédée Benoît by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Lyon (Fides News Agency) - "He died with the rosary in his hand, just as he had lived: a missionary totally given to others." With this evocative image, Father Benoît Campion summarizes for F ...
• 23 June 2026
  EUROPE/BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Appointment of the new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Sarajevo (Fides News Agency) - Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father Dubravko Turalija, a priest ...
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  21 June 2026
  Refugees and displaced persons, the figures of a “globalized suffering” that the Pope removes from the conspiracy of silence by Cosimo Graziani Geneva (Fides News Agency) – During his recent apostolic journey to Spain, especially during the final stop in the Canary Islands, Pope Leo XIV reiterated the Catholic Church's concern regarding ...
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  20 June 2026
  The Pontificate of Leo XIV and Global Politics: A lecture by Massimo Faggioli at the Gregorian University Rome (Fides News Agency) – On Monday, June 22, the inaugural session of the “Rome Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics 2026,” an international academic initiative dedicated to the relationship between re ...
• 19 June 2026
  EUROPE/CROATIA - Appointment of new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Zagreb (Fides News Agency) - On May 4, 2026, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Sister Ivana Gelo of ...
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  19 June 2026
  Leo XIV in Pavia: at the sources of an Augustinian missionary style by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Rome (Fides News Agency) – Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Pavia on Saturday, June 20, takes on a symbolic meaning. It is like the return of an Augustinian Pontiff to his spiritual roots. In the B ...
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  18 June 2026
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Canary Islands, “a border that becomes a bridge”: the reflection of the Delegate of Caritas Tenerife after the visit of Leo XIV Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Fides news Agency) – Pope Leo XIV's visit to the Canary Islands has left a profound mark on the local Church and reinforced the archipelago's role as a place of welcome and encounter between con ...
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  14 June 2026
  South Korean President Lee speaks in the Papal Basilica of St. Paul: gratitude for the Holy See's "unconditional support" for the peace processes by Pascale Rizk Rome (Fides News Agency) – “Even though confusion and conflict are widespread throughout the world today, let us approach our brothers and sisters with the compassion and spirit of unity that Jesus ...
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  14 June 2026
  200 years of the "Living Rosary". Cardinal Tagle: prayer opens the doors to missionary witness by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Lyon (Fides News Agency) – In the Church of Saint-Nizier in Lyon, a couple prays before the tomb of Pauline Jaricot, located in one of the arms of the transept. The woman takes a few steps to ...
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  13 June 2026
  Jubilee of the Living Rosary: inauguration of the "missionary" Chair dedicated to Blessed Jaricot at the Catholic University of Lyon Lyon (Fides News Agency) – “The Sacred Heart reminds us precisely this: God is not primarily an idea to be understood, but a love to be embraced. This truth is particularly important today, as we celebrate the bicent ...