Europe

• 21 December 2011
  EUROPE/GERMANY - "Knock on doors, insist on your rights": 54th Campaign of the Star Singers (Sternsinger) who have chosen Nicaragua as this year’s symbol country Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - For the 54th time, in the days leading up to January 6, the "Star Singers" (Sternsinger) of the Holy Chidhood Association in Germany will be on the country’s street-corners singing Christmas ca ...
• 17 December 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - Racism, discrimination and xenophobia against foreigners: Scalabrinians increase the commitment for a culture of hospitality and solidarity Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The rise of racism, discrimination and xenophobia in Europe which is going through severe economic crisis of values, motivated by ideologies without humanism and without God, by political and econ ...
• 14 December 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - Pilgrimage of Missionary Childhood of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa for the sending of missionary children and young people Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, December 17, the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa has promoted a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary, in Myszków Mr ...
• 9 December 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - Human rights belong to everyone, the aspiration to freedom and human dignity is universal Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Every day around the world, human rights are violated, and every year during the week from December 10 to 18 the Week of Global Action for Human Rights is celebrated. Every day men and women fight ...
• 9 December 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - Evangelizing missions in Czestochowa: about 6 thousand catechesis for 6 thousand faithful Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - During the evangelizing Missions carried out in the Archdiocese of Czestochowa for the desire of the Archbishop Mgr.Stanislaw Nowak in the pastoral year 2010/2011, 6 000 missionary catechesi ...
• 6 December 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - The missionary spirit of John Paul II and Pauline Jaricot Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, on 3 and 4 December a missiological session and a prayer vigil of the members of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU) was held at Jasna Góra. As Fides informs Don Tomasz At ...
• 2 December 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - The PMU on a pilgrimage to Jasna Gora: missiological session dedicated to John Paul II and Pauline Jaricot Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary activity of the Blessed John Paul II and the missionary committment of the Servant of God Pauline M. Jaricot, founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, are the ...
• 29 November 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Access to antiretroviral drugs has decreased the number of deaths due to AIDS Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of World Day to Fight AIDS, which is celebrated on December 1 next, UNAIDS, the UN agency that deals with the pandemic, today reported that people with HIV live longer and the num ...
• 28 November 2011
  EUROPE/IRELAND- An Irish missionary awarded for her commitment towards people with AIDS Cork (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Miriam Duggan, from the county of Limerick, a Franciscan Missionary of the Sisters for Africa of, was awarded for her dedication to people with AIDS/HIV and commitment in fighting the pandem ...
• 25 November 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The site of the Jesuits has been awarded, new means of evangelization that uses new technologies Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Episcopal Conference has awarded "Bravo! 2011" for the category of new technologies, to the site rezandovoy.org. The site, created by the Society of Jesus at Valladolid in collaborati ...
• 21 November 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Every year 8 million children die from preventable diseases Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – After 22 years since the Convention on the Rights of the Child carried out by the United Nations, the panorama related to children is still daunting. Every year about 8 million children under 5 ...
• 18 November 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY- Don Bosco’s missionary heart still beats in many Salesian novices Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I am convinced that the Lord calls many of the 500 novices who each year enter the Congregation to a life of mission ad gentes, ad extra, ad vitam. Currently about 30 Salesians respond with genero ...
• 8 November 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The celebrations for the 75th anniversary of the Claretian Martyrs of Barbastro have concluded Barbastro (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, November 6 the celebrations for the 75th anniversary of the Claretian Martyrs of Barbastro (Spain) concluded. The Bishop of the diocese of Barbastro-Monzón, His Exc. Mgr. Alfonso ...
• 28 October 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - An online survey on the support for the Church's missionary activity Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - On the Occasion of Missionary Week, the most popular Catholic weekly in Poland, "Niedziela", based in Czestochowa, has published on its website (www.niedziela.pl) the results of an online su ...
• 22 October 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - Mission Sunday: The Apostolic Nuncio visits the national headquarters of the PMS; "missionary workshops" restart in Czestochowa Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of World Mission Sunday, His Exc. Mgr. Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio in Poland, visited the headquarters of the National Directorate of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PM ...