Europe

• 24 April 2015
  EUROPA - One million children die of pneumococcal disease, but vaccines are too expensive Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Every year about one million children die of pneumococcal disease. Currently in the poorest Countries, the price to vaccinate a child is now 68 times more expensive than it was in 2001, with many p ...
• 24 April 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Migrants: disappointment for the CIE Regulation, approved a year ago and still unrealized Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – On Tuesday, April 22, the Jesuit Service for Migrants (SJM) presented the "CIE Report 2015" (CIE: Centros de Internamiento de Extranjeros), which are the subject of controversy due to the lack ...
• 21 April 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The Bishops in assembly: Mission, emigration and social crisis Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The XCV Plenary Assembly of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) will be held from April 20 to 24. There will be a special day: Friday 24, the Bishops will go on pilgrimage to Avila, on the o ...
• 13 April 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - 150 years after the delivery of the image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help to the Redemptorists Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On 27 June 2015, the Redemptorists around the world will begin the celebrations of the 150th anniversary (1866) of the delivery of the image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help to the Congregation of the ...
• 31 March 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - UNHCR report: Almost 6000 applications for asylum in Spain in 2014 Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The wars in Syria and Iraq, as well as armed conflicts, human rights violations and deteriorating security and humanitarian conditions in other countries, pushed the number of asylum applications ...
• 25 March 2015
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - Armenian Parliament votes a statement condemning the Assyrian and Greek Genocides Erevan (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday, March 24 the Armenian Parliament voted a resolution condemning the massacres against the Assyrians and Greeks carried out in the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923. The resolution w ...
• 25 March 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - March 26: Day of Prayer for Peace in the fifth centenary of Saint Teresa Avila (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, Thursday 26 March, all the Carmelite communities around the world will experience a special day of prayer for peace, in the way they consider most appropriate and adapted to their situat ...
• 24 March 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - Permanent Council of Cei: moment of prayer for martyrs, missionaries and lay people Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Tomorrow we Bishops of the Permanent Council will dedicate a special moment of prayer for the martyrs, missionaries and lay people, of today: we want them to feel the closeness of our love and of ...
• 23 March 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - Day of Missionary Martyrs: 1,062 missionaries killed in the world from 1980 to 2014 Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On March 24, we celebrate the "Day of Prayer and Fasting in Memory of the Missionary Martyrs", promoted by the Youth Movement of the Pontifical Mission Societies, on the anniversary of the assassin ...
• 20 March 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Every minute a child dies due to lack of drinking water Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the next World Water Day, scheduled for March 22, the NGO Plan International recalled that every year about half a million children die due to the lack of access to drinking in ...
• 16 March 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Pastor of the Shrine of Virxe do Cristal killed Ourense (Agenzia Fides) - More than five hundred people and a hundred priests attended the funeral of father Adolfo Enríquez (77 years old), celebrated at the Shrine of Virxe do Cristal, near Vilanova dos Infantes (muni ...
• 16 March 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Filoni: Africa needs encouragement and solidarity, not migration, or the purchase of weapons and looting Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "In Christ, this beloved continent of Comboni, where he wanted to end his life, needs courageous and prophetic political leaders, who can be inspired by the Gospel; Bishops and priests according to ...
• 14 March 2015
  EUROPE - COMECE Spring Plenary Assembly begins March 18 Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - The COMECE Spring Plenary Assembly opens on Wednesday 18 March. The COMECE Bishops from all over Europe will analyse the principal policy areas on which the Commission sets out to work. They wi ...
• 10 March 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Migration: "The Church is the critical conscience before the authorities" Cadiz (Agenzia Fides) - "At a time of great migrations that arouse suspicion and rejection, the Church wants to respond with the force of charity, to create the culture of encounter": this is how His Exc. Mgr. Rafael Zor ...
• 6 March 2015
  EUROPE/GERMANY - "Witnesses of Christ": new edition of the German martyrology of the twentieth century with 60 missionaries killed Bonn (Agenzia Fides) - In memory of the martyrs of the 20th century, the German Bishops' Conference (DBK) has recently published the sixth edition of the "German Martyrology" with the title "Witnesses of Christ". With th ...