Europe

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  25 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Christian churches and organizations: spontaneous solidarity cannot be considered a replacement for the "much needed support and coordination, which is a State responsibility Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Various religious organizations representing all the Christian Churches present in the European continent (Anglican, Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic) and many active institutions for migrants, re ...
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  24 March 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - Society of African Missions: Polish province accepts Ukrainian refugees in Piwniczna Zdrój and Borzęcin Duży Borzęcin Duży (Agenzia Fides) - Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, there has been a great willingness to help in Poland in the face of the humanitarian crisis affecting the Ukrainian population. Many people take war ...
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  23 March 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - March 24, Missionary Martyrs Day: "Voice of the Word" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Thirty years ago, the Missionary Youth Movement of the Italian Pontifical Mission Societies decided to celebrate every year a "Day of prayer and fasting in memory of the Missionary Martyrs". The da ...
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  23 March 2022
  EUROPE - Interreligious prayer for peace and proposal for a trip of religious leaders to Kiev Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - An interreligious prayer and a moment of silence together to invoke peace in Ukraine: this is the initiative promoted for tomorrow, March 24, by the international association "Religions for Peace ...
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  23 March 2022
  EUROPE - Bishops call to the leaders of the nations to put an end to the war and on all Christians to continue praying for the gift of peace Bratislava (Agenzia Fides) - Members of the Joint Committee of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) are "calling leaders of the nations and the internationa ...
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  22 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Paulines in Lviv: "There is so much pain and so many tears" Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "Our city, Lviv, has become a transit place for hundreds of thousands of people, all fleeing the bombings in central and eastern Ukraine. There is so much pain and so many tears. Mostly women and c ...
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  21 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - "We need peace above all, apart from food", Fr Mikola from Lviv Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "Here life flows calmly without panic, the factories work, the bombing of the airport caused no casualties, they hit an old disused warehouse, and no one knows why. Now we are used to running under ...
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  21 March 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - The elder Scalabrinian nuns leave their home to refugees from Ukraine Piacenza (Agenzia Fides) - As soon as they saw the scenes of Ukrainians fleeing their country due to the war, the Sisters did not think twice and decided to make room to welcome refugee women with their children. They pa ...
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  18 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Orionini: "Determined not to leave our people, our mission, we are working day and night on the charity front" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The scenes of thousands of people fleeing, which you see on television, we see live, every day, every night, when someone suddenly arrives with desperation on their faces, the tiredness of three/f ...
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  17 March 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - Redemptorist seminarians interrupt their studies to work with Caritas on the Ukrainian border Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Seminarians from the Redemptorist Major Seminary of Tuchow, in the district of Tarnów, Poland, have volunteered to work on the Polish-Ukrainian border, in Zosin for more than a week. They temporar ...
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  16 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The Salesians: "Listen to the voices of the children who die in the bombardments! The world must know these horrors" Kiev (Agenzia Fides) - The Salesians of the "Mary Help of Christians" Vice Province of Greek-Catholic Ukraine have raised their voices to defend the lives of the youngest in the face of the horrors of war. In an appeal p ...
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  15 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - "All humanity needs protection, in war there are no winners" Kiev (Agenzia Fides) - "The country is devastated, millions of refugees are fleeing the fighting areas as the war draws ever closer to the capital Kiev. The troops of the Russian Federation are advancing slowly but surel ...
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  14 March 2022
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Aid trucks leave for Ukraine from Pamplona and Madrid Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - In collaboration with the NGO "Olvidados", the association "Acoger y Compartir" is working to bring several trucks to the Romanian-Ukrainian border with the material received from various municip ...
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  12 March 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - More than a million refugees arrive from Ukraine: gestures of welcome and consolation are increasing Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The events of the war in Ukraine have caused hundreds of thousands of people to flee and seek refuge in neighboring countries: more than a million refugees have arrived in Poland, mostly women an ...
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  12 March 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - The commitment of the Franciscans: "We support refugees from Ukraine, so that no one is left alone" Bordighera (Agenzia Fides) - "I am very worried about my land, but now we just have to join forces to give our maximum support to the Ukrainian people". This is what Friar Minor Fr. Faustino Kushnir OFM, of Ukrainian ori ...