Europe

• 17 January 2011
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - Christian charity has a great evangelising force in the measure in which it leaves the sign of God's love among men Fatima (Agenzia Fides) - “Human mobility and evangelization: challenge of a new millennium” was the theme addressed yesterday by the President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant ...
• 15 January 2011
  EUROPE/ITALY - the first multimedia and interactive missionary museum dedicated to the Amazon Assisi (Agenzia Fides) – On Friday, 4 February, in Assisi, the new Missionary Museum of the Capuchin Brothers of Umbria will be inaugurated. It is called MUMA (Amazonian Missionary Museum), and it will be the first mus ...
• 15 January 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - John Paul II, Witness to the Divine Mercy: the impressions of the Archbishop of Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - “The news of the Beatification of John Paul II is a story full of joy. It is a great thing that the Beatification will take place on the Feast of the Divine Mercy,” Archbishop Stanislaw ...
• 4 January 2011
  EUROPE/POLAND - “Star Singers” in Czestochowa help children in Uganda Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - The “Star Singers” initiative, which began over 50 years ago in Germany as an initiative of solidarity by the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood, has spread to several other nati ...
• 29 December 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Children with disabilities at the centre of 53rd Campaign by Star Singers (Sternsinger) who have chosen Cambodia as the symbolic country Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - For the 53rd time, around the time of 6 January, the “Star Singers” (Sternsinger) of the German Mission of Childhood, will be on the streets of Germany with their Christmas carols. “Childre ...
• 20 December 2010
  EUROPE/POLAND - Sending missionary groups of children and young people of Czestochowa, 20 years on from Redemptoris Missio Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, 18 December, the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood in the Archdiocese of Czestochowa organized a pilgrimage to the church of San Giacomo, where the material prepared ...
• 18 December 2010
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - “The world needs priests!”: “Missio Austria” raises funds for priests from three continents Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - “The world needs priests because it needs Christ. If the world no longer has Christ it will degenerate. Therefore investment in the formation of priests is the best investment in the future of ...
• 16 December 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Inauguration of a School for Missionary Promotion in Jaen “to revitalize the missionary spirituality and missionary movements” Jaen (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, 11 December, a School for Missionary Promotion in the Diocese of Jaen was officially inaugurated. The event, held at the diocesan seminary, was attended by Bishop D. Ramón del Hoyo ...
• 10 December 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - A return by “Angels for a Day”: young students and academics engaged on behalf of children in difficulty Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, 12 December, in various cities (Rome, Florence, Milan and Palermo), “Angels for a Day” returns, the volunteering initiative carried out on behalf of needy children on the outskirts ...
• 10 December 2010
  EUROPE/POLAND - Pilgrimage and missiological session of the Pontifical Missionary Union in Jasna Góra Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - “Communion with one heart and spirit” was the theme of the missiological session and pilgrimage promoted by the Pontifical Missionary Union of Poland, which took place on 4 and 5 Decembe ...
• 3 December 2010
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - “Safe Cities”: the security of women in poor and marginalized urban zones Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - The abuse of women has been going on for centuries and it is often the case that a woman is killed before the problem is taken seriously. In this regard, the United Nations Fund for the Developme ...
• 29 November 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - 3 December, 2010, International Day for Disability: about 10% of the world population is affected by disability, 80% of the disabled live in poor countries Bologna (Agenzia Fides) - Since 1998, every year on 3 December the International Day of Persons with Disabilities is celebrated worldwide, officially promoted by the UN. About 10% of the world population of 650 million p ...
• 24 November 2010
  EUROPE - Freedom of religion violated all over the world Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Violations of religious freedom, oppression and discrimination are the damages to religious minorities that are still being recorded today in many countries in the world: states the 2010 Report on ...
• 24 November 2010
  EUROPE - Author, Guitton: “50 million Christians persecuted in the world” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “It is difficult to make precise estimates, however, according to international reports, we can say that more than 50 million Christians suffer persecution, contempt, and discrimination.” Thi ...
• 19 November 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic Church saves the State 4 billion Euros on public education Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – “In education, the Church allows the state to save more than 4 billion euros," noted Diego Zalbidea, Professor of Canon Law at the University of Navarra, during the 26th Refresher Course in C ...