Europe

• 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 ...
• 12 October 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "Despite the crisis, there is great generosity and sensitivity towards the Church's missionary activity", says the National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "The National Secretariat of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith works all year round on the organization of World Mission Day, and during the National Assembly of Diocesan Directors, wh ...
• 12 October 2011
  EUROPE/GERMANY - The catholicity of the Church: Gift and Mission Stuttgart (Agenzia Fides) - The Centre for Spirituality of the Scalabrini Missionaries in Stuttgart, in collaboration with the Scalabrini Secular Missionaries, proposed the theme for the annual Scalabrini-Fest of Fruits ...
• 12 October 2011
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Commemoration Day for Pauline Jaricot, foundress of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith: 9 January in Lyon Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - January 9, 2012 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth to heaven of the Venerable Pauline Marie Jaricot (1799-1862), foundress of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. For this occasion o ...
• 10 October 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - The fund raising of the "Star Singers" is destined to South Sudan: in June, the National Congress of Missionary Childhood Niepokalanów (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the beginning of Missionary Month, from September 26 to 28, the meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) and other missionary organizations in Poland took place, in ...