Europe

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  26 September 2019
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Day of migrants: it is possible to live reception Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - Christian communities have the obligation to demonstrate that it is "possible to live reception, protection, integration and promotion" with refugees and migrants. This was stated by Eugenia Quar ...
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  24 September 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Migrants: the Scalabrinians set up the itinerant Service in Ventimiglia Ventimiglia (Agenzia Fides) - Three months in Ventimiglia, on the border between France and Italy, to support migrants: this is the new challenge that today has led the Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters to be present throu ...
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  19 September 2019
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - The Extraordinary Missionary Month will start from the oldest baptistery in Switzerland Freiburg (Agenzia Fides) - Bishops and representatives of the Church of Switzerland at the Baptistery in Riva San Vitale, the oldest christian building in Switzerland, for the celebration of the opening, at national lev ...
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  16 September 2019
  EUROPE/POLAND - PMS and religious communities committed to giving a "missionary taste to the Church in Poland" for the Extraordinary Missionary Month Częstochowa (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the Extraordinary Missionary Month and the announcement of the National Missionary Congress, scheduled for 2021, were the main themes of the autumnal meeting of diocesan ...
• 13 September 2019
  EUROPE/CZECH REP. - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Diac. Leos Halbrstat Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 21, 2019 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed permanent Deacon Leos Halbrstat, of the diocese of Hradec Kralove, his po ...
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  13 September 2019
  EUROPE/SPAIN - National Missionary Congress in view of the Extraordinary Missionary Month Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - From September 19 to 22 the National Missionary Congress will be held in Madrid, organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain, in view of the Extraordinary Missionary Month of Oct ...
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  11 September 2019
  EUROPE/POLAND - The PMS involved in the training of school religious teachers Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - For some years the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Poland have begun to organize retreats for lay catechists in various dioceses in the country. The specificity of Poland, informs the note ...
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  11 September 2019
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Today the funeral of the nun who assisted the sick and needy Sao Joao da Madeira (Agenzia Fides) - The funeral of a nun of the Congregation of the Servants of Mary Ministers of the Sick, Sister Antonia Pinho, 62, Portuguese, will be held today in the Portuguese town of Sao Joao da ...
• 10 September 2019
  EUROPE/GERMANY-AACHEN - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Dirk Bingener Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 21, 2019 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Dirk Bingener, of the archdiocese of Cologne as National Director of ...
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  7 September 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Scalabrinian Family launches an appeal to "talk about migration" Bolzano (Agenzia Fides) - "We are living in a time when old and new conflicts uproot thousands of people from their homes and their land and force them to seek security elsewhere", said Father Leonir Chiarello (Superior ...
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  5 September 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Migrants: training manual created by IOM and the Scalabrinians Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary to offer an adequate and qualified preparation to our missionaries sent to work in migratory contexts, whose challenges and needs are diversified": says Sister Neusa de Fatima Mari ...
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  4 September 2019
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Archbishop Dal Toso at the Compostelan Days of Theology: "this world still needs the salvation of Christ" Santiago de Compostela (Agenzia Fides) - "From the Maximum illud to the Extraordinary Missionary Month" is the theme of the report that Archbishop Giampietro Dal Toso, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies, prese ...
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  3 September 2019
  EUROPE/IRELAND - The Extraordinary Missionary Month is also part of a social media campaign: #MyMission and #OurMission Dublin (Agenzia Fides) - With a little help from "Eirinn the Lamb", which was the mascot of the World Meeting of Families held last year in Dublin, the National Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Ireland of ...
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  31 August 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - 600 boys and girls present at the meeting of young European Copts, near Rome Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly six hundred Coptic Christian boys and girls gathered in Rome to attend the XIX conference of young people belonging to the Coptic communities in Europe. The meeting is hosted at “il Carmel ...
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  19 August 2019
  EUROPE/POLAND - Cardinal Filoni at the shrine of Zakopane: "Mary is present and alive among us" Zakopane (Agenzia Fides) - "One wonders: why so many Shrines in the world, why so much affection and devotion to Mary? In truth, from the moment Mary lost Jesus, she adopted, as Mother, the Church born of the blood of he ...