Europe

• 14 February 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - The new evangelization of Europe entrusted to the intercession of Saints Cyril and Methodius Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "Europe needs our prayer, it needs our missionary spirit and our missionary work of evangelization. As Christians and disciples of Christ, we are called to bring the Gospel back to Europe an ...
• 10 February 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - Carrying out missionary animation in the heart of a metropolis: 50 years of the PIME centre in Milan Milan (Agenzia Fides) - For fifty years the "Center of culture and PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions) missionary animation" in Milan proposes itself as a place of meeting, exchange, reflection and planning ...
• 9 February 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Year of Faith, the year of the missionaries who proclaim it Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "A year dedicated to faith is a year for those who preach it. Because faith, as St. Paul taught, comes from hearing, preaching. This is why a preacher is necessary and can educate in this faith t ...
• 8 February 2012
  EUROPE - A conference on Christian minorities: the first commitment of the new "Observatory on Religious Freedom" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The first public initiative of the new "Observatory on Religious Freedom" will be a conference dedicated to the status and the protection of Christian minorities in the world which has just been in ...
• 1 February 2012
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (MOI): 4,093 in all continents Rome (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest general statistics published by Omiworld, updated to January 31, 2012, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (MOI) are currently 4093, divided as follows: one Cardinal, ...
• 24 January 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - New alarm of the missionaries on the abuse of millions of children in America and Africa Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the recent Day of Missionary Childhood 2012, celebrated in Spain on Sunday 22 January, the Spanish missionaries working in America and Africa have raised the alarm on the mis ...
• 23 January 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN-"There is much talk of numbers and not of people," Cardinal Carlos Amigo on economic crisis Sevilla (Agenzia Fides) - In a long interview with "Diario de Sevilla", Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo, Archbishop emeritus of Seville, expressed the concern of the Church for this period of severe crisis. The Cardinal wi ...
• 17 January 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "With the children of America ... we speak of Jesus": Sunday 22 Day of Missionary Childhood Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - With the slogan "With the children of America ... we speak of Jesus", the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain are organizing the National Day of Missionary Childhood which will be held on ...
• 16 January 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - Missionary Childhood: thousands of boys and girls have brought the Good News to 142thousand families in Tarnow Tarnow (Agenzia Fides) - Children and the young people of Missionary Childhood of the Diocese of Tarnow, in Poland, met in Nowy Sącz, at the Shrine of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Saturday, on January 14, to end the ...
• 12 January 2012
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The priorities of Caritas Spain in Haiti: health, education, housing, protection of the most vulnerable and strengthening of Caritas Haiti Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Spain has traced a balance of its work on the Caribbean island - called "Caritas with Haiti" - in favor of hundreds of thousands of people after the earthquake which hit the island 2 year ...
• 9 January 2012
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Pauline Jaricot was "like David facing Goliath": the Secretary of the Missionary Congregation at the conference in Lyon Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - "Re-reading the life of Pauline Jaricot, I think of David, the little shepherd, who faces Goliath. Yes, Pauline is David, and I would say that the religious and cultural climate following the stron ...
• 7 January 2012
  EUROPE/FRANCE-"Pauline Jaricot, a woman always present": international meeting for the Jubilee Year Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - Pauline Marie Jaricot (1799-1862), declared "venerable" by Pope John XXIII on February 25, 1963, devoted her life to the mission, prayer and service to the poor: she founded the Society for the Pro ...
• 3 January 2012
  EUROPE/POLAND - The "Star Singers" of Czestochowa help the children of Sudan Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - Children and young people of Holy Childhood of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa, in the days between 26 December 2011 and January 6, 2012, are giving birth to their now usual Christmas activit ...
• 29 December 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN-Thousands in Madrid to demand respect for the rights of the family Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - For the fifth consecutive year, many Spanish Bishops will be in Colon square in Madrid, on Friday, December 30, the liturgical feast of the Holy Family, to accompany thousands of families from al ...
• 28 December 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Every year 22 000 working children die and many other fall ill or suffer serious accidents Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Of the 215 million working children throughout the world, more than half, 115 million, work in dangerous conditions for their health, safety and emotional and moral development. This is what emer ...