Europe

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  11 July 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Representatives of the Orthodox, Catholic, Armenian and Protestant churches participate in the Christian Youth Forum on the theme of the family by Chiara Dommarco Konevec (Agenzia Fides) - The third edition of the Christian Youth Forum, which was also attended by two Catholic women representing the Catholic Church in Russia, ended today on the island of Kone ...
• 5 July 2024
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - Confirmation of the Director of the PMS, Fr. Alessandro Barelli SDB Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 16, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed Rev. Alessandro Barelli, of the Society of Francis de Sales, Salesians of Don Bo ...
• 19 June 2024
  EUROPE/GERMANY AACHEN - Confirmation of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 14, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed the Rev. Fr. Dirk Bingener as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societi ...
• 18 June 2024
  EUROPE/GERMANY MUNICH - Confirmation of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 7, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed the Rev. Monsignor Wolfgang Huber, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Munich, as ...
• 31 May 2024
  ITALY/EUROPE - Father Giuseppe Pizzoli confirmed as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 6, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed Rev. Giuseppe Pizzoli as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societie ...
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  24 May 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - “Every priest is by nature a missionary”: Blessed Giuseppe Allamano will be canonized Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Being a missionary "requires nothing other than a great love for God and commitment to the salvation of souls", is the motto of Blessed Giuseppe Allamano, who founded the Institute of the Consolata ...
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  4 May 2024
  EUROPE/FRANCE - A “small theology of mission” by Cardinal Aveline By Marie-Lucile Kubacki* We publish the contribution of the journalist Marie-Lucile Kubacki on the occasion of the presentation of the book "Il dialogo della salvezza. Piccola teologia della missione" (Dialogue of Sal ...
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  3 May 2024
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - “Safeguarding”: Eastern European Churches and the protection of minors Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "We have been working on this course to show that the safety of children is a shared responsibility across borders and we have a common Eastern European context to understand", said Marta Titaniec, ...
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  22 April 2024
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Blessing of the chapel of the the Pontifical Mission Societies in Romania, dedicated to Blessed Pauline Jaricot by Cristina Grigore Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - Father Tadeusz Nowak, Secretary General of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith (POPF), describes as a "historic moment" the inauguration of the chapel ...
• 19 April 2024
  EUROPE/LUXEMBOURG - Appointment of the new director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Father Claude Bache Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 19, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, , appointed the Rev. Father Claude Bache as National Director of the Pontifical Missio ...
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  17 April 2024
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Participants in the Conference of Childhood Missionaries in Europe meet and thank Roma ethnic missionary children Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - From 25 European countries, forty-three delegates participated in the Conference of Missionary Childhood of Europe (CEME), which began on 7 April in Bucharest and ended on April 13th, with a f ...
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  5 April 2024
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Children's mission organizations from European countries come together in Bucharest: The focus is on cooperation Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - About fifty people will take part in the next meeting of representatives of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood in Europe, which will take place from next Sunday to Thursday, April ...
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  27 March 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Document of the Synodal Biblical-Theological Commission of the Moscow Patriarchate in response to the Declaration "Fiducia supplicans" Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - On March 25 the official website of the Moscow Patriarchate published a document entitled "On the Orthodox attitude towards the new practice of blessing 'couples in an irregular situation and sam ...
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  26 March 2024
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Inauguration of the "Point Mission" in the heart of Lourdes Lourdes (Agenzia Fides) - The "Point Mission" of the French Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), was inaugurated last week with the blessing of Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio to France. It is located on o ...
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  22 March 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Witnesses with a "burning heart". Sunday, March 24 "Day of Missionary Martyrs" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A witness that "shines", that illuminates the spiritual path, that strengthens it. This is the testimony of the martyrs who are celebrated in Italy every year on March 24th on the occasion of the D ...