Europe

• 30 September 2010
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - “Christians are the most persecuted religious group”: COMECE Conference shows that Europe will not turn a blind eye Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - “At least 75% of religious persecution is directed at people of the Christian faith. Each year 170,000 Christians suffer because of their beliefs.” These are some of the real facts that hav ...
• 29 September 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Louis Lougen elected Superior General of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The 35th General Chapter of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), being held in Rome (see Fides 07/09/2010), has elected Superior General Fr. Lougen Louis, age 58, currently Provincial ...
• 24 September 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Missions Office Director says: “We need to promote new forms of missionary apostolate according to the signs of the times.” Fulda (Agenzia Fides) – During their Plenary Assembly which was held September 20 to 23 in Fulda, the German bishops outlined an initial assessment of the work of the new Office for the Missions based in Erfurt (German ...
• 22 September 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Special issue of “Palabra” on the Church in Latin America Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – During an event held yesterday, September 21, organized by the magazine “Palabra” and Centro Accademico Romano Fundacion (CARF), a special issue on “The Church in Latin America, Two Hundr ...
• 22 September 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missionary Expedition for 72 Salesian priests, sisters, and lay volunteers Turin (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday 26 September, from the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Turin-Valdocco, the 141st Missionary Expedition will officially depart. The missionary mandate will be given by the Recto ...
• 21 September 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sr. Luzia Premoli, new Superior General of the Comboni Missionaries, first non-Italian Verona (Agenzia Fides) – Sister Luzia Premoli, a Brazilian, is the new Superior General of the Comboni Missionary Sisters, elected September 20 in the 19th General Chapter of the congregation, which has been underway a ...
• 16 September 2010
  EUROPE/POLAND - “Missionary Workshops” continue to educate youth in Czestochowa, after 10 years Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – In 2000, exactly 10 years ago, at the request of the Archbishop of Czestochowa, Archbishop Stanislaw Nowak, the Archdiocese began the "Missionary Workshops.” Organized each month (specif ...
• 15 September 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Freising hosts 8th China-Europe Colloquium on Chinese in Europe Freising (Agenzia Fides) – From September 16 to 19, Freising (Germany) will host the Eighth European Catholic China Colloquium, organized by China-Zentrum in Sankt Augustin, whose theme will be social and religious int ...
• 11 September 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of Saint Charles: 25 years in the world Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Tuesday, September 14, marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo. For the occasion, at 7pm, in the Parish of Santa Maria in ...
• 8 September 2010
  EUROPE/POLAND - Pilgrimage of the Cross and parish missions in Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – The new pastoral year 2010/2011 in the Archdiocese of Czestochowa, upon the initiative of Archbishop Stanislaw Nowak, will be dedicated in particular to two initiatives: the Pilgrimage of ...
• 7 September 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Conversion as the source for the “new mission”: 35th General Chapter of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, September 8, the XXXV General Chapter of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) will open in Rome, to focus on conversion. As the outgoing Superior General, Fr. William Ste ...
• 31 August 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 1,261 missionaries from Madrid active in 91 countries Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Madrid currently has 1,261 missionaries working in 91 countries on five continents. They belong to 158 congregations and religious institutions. Others are members of the dio ...
• 27 August 2010
  EUROPE/POLAND - Online survey by Catholic weekly Niedzela on support for the missions Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – The most popular Polish Catholic weekly, Niedziela, based in Czestochowa, has recently published on its website (www.niedziela.pl) the results of an online survey on support for the missio ...
• 25 August 2010
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - “Mother Teresa was a missionary of love without limits,” recalls Msgr. Leo M. Maasburg on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mother Teresa of Calcutta Vienna (Agenzia Fides) – August 26, 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, foundress of the Missionaries of Charity. Monsignor Leo M. Maasburg, who currently serves as the National Director of t ...
• 13 August 2010
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Missio Austria's organization for fighting leprosy, supporting 5 million patients, offers emergency aid to Pakistan Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - For over 20 years, the organization for the fight against leprosy (Aussätzigen-Hilfswerk) of the national leadership of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria (Missio Austria) has been orga ...