Europe

• 5 December 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Hunger, unemployment and exploitation aggravate the already precarious situations Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Every day 100,000 people, half of them children, die of hunger. It is about 85% of the world population. In the European Union every year 89 million tons of food is thrown away. According to figu ...
• 30 November 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - "With joy we announce faith to the whole world": pilgrimage and missiological session in Jasna Gora Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "With joy we announce faith to the whole world" is the theme of the missiological session and of the pilgrimage promoted by the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU) in Poland to be held on 1 an ...
• 16 November 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 220 million malnourished children, penalized in their growth and future Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the International Day of the Child, which will be held on November 20, the Spanish organization Acción contra el Hambre has reported that over 200 million children suffer from ...
• 13 November 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - Assembly of Bishops of North Africa in Mazara del Vallo: Churches around the Mediterranean called upon to collaborate on Migration and New Evangelization Mazara del Vallo (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time, as from next Sunday, November 18, the Bishops of the Regional Episcopal Conference of North Africa will celebrate a session of its General Assembly in Sicily, guests ...
• 30 October 2012
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Catholic organizations denounce the social regression and the increase of poverty Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - "We note that a huge social decline is taking place, which affects especially the most vulnerable, leading to an increase of poverty, insecurity, violence and other social problems," is what is r ...
• 23 October 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - "Missionary workshops" dedicated to the Year of Faith Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "Faith is strengthened when it is announced" was the theme of the "missionary workshops" dedicated to the Year of Faith and Missionary Week, which took place on October 20 at the Metropolita ...
• 22 October 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Two thousand children involved in fundraising for World Mission Sunday Tui (Agenzia Fides) - More than two thousand children in the Diocese of Tui-Vigo, in the Province of Pontevedra, Spain, walked the city streets with the classic tin containers used for the collection in favour of World M ...
• 19 October 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "There is no mission without missionaries": 14,000 Spanish missionaries in the world Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - World Mission Day is celebrated on Sunday, October 21 also in the whole of Spain, known under the name of "Domund." The National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain, Fr. A ...
• 18 October 2012
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Christians before the conflicts in the Middle East Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The demands of the Arab peoples in order to obtain constitutional, economic and social reforms are just and legitimate, but what is not right is the fact of imposing such changes "from the outside ...
• 17 October 2012
  EUROPA - CCEE Presidency concerned about discrimination and acts of hatred against Christians in the Russian Federation St. Gallen (Agenzia Fides) - The Presidency of the Council of the European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE), today sent a letter to Metropolitan Hilarion, President of the Department for External Relations of the Patriarchat ...
• 17 October 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - For a just world, interest towards people must prevail over economics Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - In the world there are still 1 million 300 thousand people who continue to live in extreme poverty, and nearly 850 million suffer from hunger, inequality and discrimination between one country an ...
• 16 October 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Food is a basic right, not recognized to 850 million people Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Today, October 16th, the world celebrates World Food Day, a fundamental human right not recognized to about 850 million people. This law requires that everyone - men, women, children, people who ...
• 10 October 2012
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Experience communion among differences is possible if we remain in Christ, as the branches and the vine Stuttgart (Agenzia Fides) - « "I am the vine, you are the branches"(Jn 15:5). Difference - the result of belonging? »: Jesus’ words taken from John’s Gospel and a question, inspired in particular by the reality of ...
• 4 October 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "Poverty is the greatest enemy of peace," says Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga for the 50 years of Mensajeros de la Paz Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Poverty is the greatest enemy of peace, and solidarity is the way out of the problem of poverty," said the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa (Honduras) and President of Caritas Internationalis, Cardinal ...
• 1 October 2012
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Cardinal Filoni: a new "missionary audacity" for the new frontiers of mission Paris (Agenzia Fides) - "Evangelizing is never a simple thing. In some countries in order to evangelize, an authentic missionary boldness is necessary. This is the case of Tibet: not only today, but since the first attem ...