Europe

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  1 December 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - "There is life beyond HIV": more than half of those eligible to treatment are still without care Rome (Agenzia Fides) - 45% of the 37 million people living with HIV are unaware of being infected with the virus. On the occasion of the World Day against HIV/AIDS, which is celebrated on December 1 each year, the NGO Do ...
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  27 November 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - The death of Don Luigi Mazzucato, for over half a century director of Cuamm Padua (Agenzia Fides) - "Sad, but with the serenity that comes from the fulfillment of a long life devoted to others, we announce the death of Don Luigi Mazzucato, director of Doctors with Africa-Cuamm 1955-2008". Th ...
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  24 November 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Poverty: main cause of the violation of children's rights Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Poverty is the main cause of human rights violations, even young children are deprived of basic needs such as education, health care, access to safe water and sufficient and adequate food. In add ...
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  19 November 2015
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Archbishop Hilarion: France and Russia allies against terrorists "servants of Satan" Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "Russia and France were allies during the last great war and defeated the Brown Plague (Nazism, ed) together. Now we must together oppose the plague of international terrorism for the sake of the ...
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  10 November 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Cardinal Filoni at the Universidad San Damaso for the 50th anniversary of the "Perfectae caritatis" and "Ad Gentes" Decrees Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "The ongoing commitment of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, together with the Episcopal Conferences and individual Bishops, is to bring the local Churches in mission territorie ...
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  16 October 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The redemption of rights: day for the eradication of poverty Seville (Agenzia Fides) - On October 17 in Andalucía, as in the rest of Spain and the world people and organizations will mobilize to collect and launch proposals for Human Rights, in order to have a sustainable world, ...
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  16 October 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Thousands of faithful at the closing celebrations of the Teresian Jubilee Avila (Agenzia Fides) - The V centenary of the birth of Saint Teresa of Jesus ended yesterday, Thursday, October 15, with the Holy Mass celebrated in the Great Market of Avila (Spain) by the President of the Spanish Epis ...
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  15 October 2015
  EUROPE/SERBIA - Rigid temperatures and difficult conditions for refugees Presevo (Agenzia Fides) - According to data collected by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), at the end of September the number of people emigrated between Turkey and Greece reached 7,000 a day. The rough ...
• 9 October 2015
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Scalabrini Fest 2015: migration characterizes the history of humanity Stuttgart (Agenzia Fides) - "Many of the issues that now occupy the top positions in the international debate on migration also existed in the past, which saw this phenomenon in constant evolution. Migration, in fact, ch ...
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  7 October 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - Every minute a child goes blind: "Let's open our Eyes" to avoid this tragedy Milan (Agenzia Fides) – Eye treatment or buying a pair of glasses in some areas of the world is now routine while it is a rarity elsewhere. The lack of these basic services and tools, according to the World Health Orga ...
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  25 September 2015
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - The events on the centenary of the Armenian Genocide followed by more than a billion viewers Yerevan (Agenzia Fides) - The broadcasting on commemorative events dedicated to the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide - concentrated especially in the days between 22 and 24 April - were followed on average ...
• 24 September 2015
  EUROPE/POLAND - Youth Day and the Jubilee of the Pontifical Missionary Union in Poland Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - Diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), in charge of the missions of the religious Congregations, lay mission animators of Poland gathered from September 15 to 17 in th ...
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  23 September 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - International Day against human trafficking Bilbao (Agenzia Fides) - Since 1999, International day against human trafficking is celebrated every year on 23 September, with the sole objective to expose and eradicate this illegal practice, provide assistance to vict ...
• 7 September 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - Claretian Missionaries: the new Superior General is Indian Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On 5 September 2015, the General Chapter elected Fr. Mathew Vattamattam CMF, as the 13th Superior General of the Congregation of the Claretian. Fr. Mathew Vattamattam was born on 30th May, 1959 i ...
• 30 July 2015
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Two religious murdered within days Kiev (Agenzia Fides) – Sr Alevtina of Florivsky Convent in Kiev was found dead in her apartment on 29 July, the Union of Christian Orthodox Brotherhoods of Ukraine told Interfax-Religion. "We know that she went to he ...