Europe

• 2 July 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - School for Missionary Animators: enthusiasm and new ideas Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Missionary Training Center in Warsaw hosted the School for Missionary Animators, organized and promoted by the team of the National Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Poland from 26 to 29 ...
• 1 July 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-Annual report of "Aid to the Church in Need": 5,587 projects funded in 153 countries Rome (Fides Service) – The 2010 Annual Report of the Work of Pontifical Right "Aid to the Church that Need" (ACN), founded by Father Werenfried van Straaten in 1947 has been published: in 2010 ACN raised a total of do ...
• 28 June 2011
  EUROPE-Fifteen million poor people in Europe at risk of hunger Rome (Fides Service) - The Regulation 562/2011 adopted by the European Commission on June 10, cuts 80% of food aid for the poor provided by EPFA (European Program of Food Aid). This means that about 15 million Europeans ...
• 27 June 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-Blessed Clemente Vismara: "enthusiastic missionary, resourceful and holy" Milan (Fides Service) - About 8,000 faithful crowded Duomo Square in Milan yesterday, June 26, to attend the Mass of beatification of Fr Serafino Morazzone, Father Clemente Vismara, PIME missionary, and Sister Enrichetta ...
• 25 June 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - The beatification of Father Clemente Vismara, PIME missionary, in the name of simplicity and solidarity Milan (Fides Service) – On Sunday, June 26, in Duomo Square in Milan, Father Clemente Vismara (1897-1988), missionary of PIFM (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions), known as the "Patriarch of Burma" for having sp ...
• 24 June 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - The first priest in the Latin American section of the seminary of the Missionaries of St. Charles Rome (Fides Service) - Patricio Hacin, 36 years of age, originally from Chiloé Island in Patagonia, who will be ordained a priest on Saturday, June 25 in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, is the first semina ...
• 22 June 2011
  EUROPE-The New Evangelization "is not a magic potion ... it is an act of faith in Christ who makes all things new" Vilnius (Agenzia Fides) - At the heart of the mission of the Church there are the human persons and their relationship with Jesus Christ, because only this relationship can transform life and fill it with a joy that witn ...
• 17 June 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN-Despite the economic crisis the number of people assisted by the Church has increased, especially in the healthcare field Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Vice President for Economic Affairs of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, Fernando Giménez Barriocanal, said that "despite the economic crisis", the number of people assisted by the Catholic ...
• 16 June 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN-The prizes of communication have been awarded between journalistic works from around the world Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The International Communication Awards "Centinelas of mañana" (Morning Sentinel) have been awarded, promoted by the Spanish Foundation "White Report" on the occasion of World Youth Day (WYD), to ...
• 15 June 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-Prayer vigil for victims of the trips to Europe: in 2011 more than 1820 Rome (Fides Service) - Since 1990 at least 17,597 people have died on the journey along the borders of Europe. The change that is affecting the geopolitical organization which is affecting Countries of North Africa and i ...
• 15 June 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND-Over 2 million children at the Childhood Congress in Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not be afraid to be saints": this expression of Blessed John Paul II was the theme of the Second Congress of Missionary Childhood of the Archdiocese in Czestochowa, which was held on Jun ...
• 13 June 2011
  EUROPE/SPAIN-16 volunteers are about to leave for Haiti and Peru from the diocese of Merida-Badajoz Merida-Badajoz (Agenzia Fides) - In the next few days a group of volunteers of the diocese of Merida Badajoz (Spain) will leave for a mission in America. There are 14 volunteers who will be destined to Haiti, led by Sist ...
• 11 June 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-Together with "Heroes of Health " for the right of health for all Padova (Agenzia Fides) - Every three seconds a child dies from easily preventable causes; every day 1,000 women die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth; each year HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria k ...
• 10 June 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-At Pentecost "mandate" to young people participating in the WYD in Madrid Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 11 and Sunday, June 12, on the occasion of the Pentecost solemnity, in many dioceses Italian Bishops will give the "mandate" to the Italian youth who will participate in the World You ...
• 9 June 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY-Consolata Missionaries(male and female): general Superiors have been elected Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Consolata (male) Missionaries (ICM) and the Sisters of the Consolata Missionaries (ISCM), held a general Chapter meeting on May 9, respectively, in Rome and Nepi (VT), and elected the new gene ...