Europe

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  21 September 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Armenian Catholic bishops summoned to Rome to elect the Patriarch. Cardinal Sandri: may the Spirit of Christ help to overcome the logic of alignment Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Each of us is summoned in these days as the disciples of Jesus after the Resurrection, in Galilee, the place of the first call and discipleship, because through you and your choices the Patriarcha ...
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  21 September 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Young people bear witness to the mission: the campaign for World Mission Day 2021 Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “Domund” is the name given by Spain to the World Mission Day, announced by the Pope on the penultimate Sunday of October, to bring everyone closer to the mission. This year, with the slogan " ...
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  20 September 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Fr. Gigi Maccalli, three years later: emotions, joy, grace, memories Feriole (Agenzia Fides) - 17 September 2018 memory of his kidnapping - 17 September 2021 testimony and praise for his release: Fr. Gigi Maccalli, priest of the Society for African Missions three years after being hostage ...
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  18 September 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Pope Francis to the Church of Rome: Mission is the work of the Holy Spirit, beware of the risks of a "do-it-yourself" Church Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church is by nature synodal, and fulfills her mission only if she obediently follows the actual and effective action of the Holy Spirit, as we read in the Acts of the Apostles. It is only in th ...
• 18 September 2021
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Erwin Tanner-Tiziani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 30, 2021, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Mr. Erwin Tanner-Tiziani as National Director of the Pontifical Mi ...
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  18 September 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - The missionary must be the image of Jesus: 'My God, how good you are. The life and message of Charles de Foucauld' Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The missionary must be the image of Jesus, conform to Jesus, externally and internally through imitation", writes Fr. Andrea Mandonico, General Archivist of the Society for African Missions, in a ...
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  18 September 2021
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Pontifical Mission Societies prepare the 2022 Jubilees: Synod of Children, Pilgrimage of the Living Rosary, Encounter of young people Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - The preparation of the important missionary Jubilees planned for 2022 was the main theme of the autumn meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) and other missionary realities in Pol ...
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  16 September 2021
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Missionary Month inspired by the example of the Church of Vietnam Friborg (Agenzia Fides) - With the slogan "To be silent? Impossible!" Missio Switzerland, the Pontifical Mission Societies of Switzerland, present the Church of Vietnam during the Universal 2021 Missionary Month of Octob ...
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  15 September 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - The 90th edition of the PIME "Missionary Congress" dedicated to Papua New Guinea, 170 years after the arrival of the first missionaries Milan (Agenzia Fides) - The celebrations of the ninetieth edition of the missionary "Congress" of PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions) begin on Saturday 18 September, which will culminate in the Holy Mass, on ...
• 15 September 2021
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. José Antonio Mendes Rebelo, MCCJ Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 11, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. José Antonio Mendes Rebelo, MCCJ (Comboni missionaries) Nation ...
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  14 September 2021
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - Pope Francis: "The authentic Christian witness comes to life from the mysterious triumph of the Cross of Christ" Prešov (Agenzia Fides) - The mission of the Church does not pursue the worldly ways of "triumphalism" and self-affirmation. Every authentic Christian witness comes to life from the mysterious triumph of the Cross of Chr ...
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  13 September 2021
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - Pope Francis in Bratislava: "The Church is not at the center of the Church" Bratislava (Agenzia Fides) - "I would like to tell you an episode: some time ago I received a letter from a bishop. He wrote about a nuncio: We were under the Turks for 400 years and we suffered; then we had communism fo ...
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  13 September 2021
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Pope Francis in Budapest: the Eucharist frees us from false messianisms Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - The church "comes from the source that is Christ and is sent so that the Gospel, like a river of living water, may reach the aridity of the world and of the heart of man". And the apostolic wor ...
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  8 September 2021
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Russian Metropolitan Hilarion: Orthodox and Catholics share the same faith in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics and Orthodox cannot ordinarily share the sacrament of the Eucharist, because they do not live in full ecclesial communion. But certainly, both Catholics and Orthodox recognize that "i ...
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  8 September 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Economy, land of mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York, the Comboni missionary and journalist Father Giulio Albanese, MCCJ will address the issue of the civil economy in the ...