Europe

• 14 May 2025
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Father Luca Bovio, IMC, at the head of the newly established national direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father Luca Bovio, IMC, as direct ...
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  10 May 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - Assembly of the International Union of Superiors General: Thank you Pope Francis, welcome to Pope Leo by Pascale Rizk Rome (Agenzia Fides) - About 900 nuns from around the world gathered in Rome from May 5 to 9 to participate in the 23rd Assembly of the International Union of Superiors General, dedicated to the theme ...
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  30 April 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - Pope Francis' “recommendations” to his cousin Ana Rosa Sivori, a missionary nun by Antonella Prenna Rome (Fides Agency) - “I insist that this donation be made available to those most in need,” said Sister Ana Rosa Sivori, cousin of Pope Francis, quoting the Pope himself, who in a conversation ...
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  16 April 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - Farewell to Father Angelo Lazzarotto, a great friend of Chinese Catholics by Gianni Valente Rancio di Lecco (Agenzia Fides) - The old group photo chosen to accompany this memory portrays him in civilian clothes, just behind Deng Xiaoping. It was May 22, 1978. At 53 years old, the priest and ...
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  28 March 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Society of the Divine Word missionaries commemorate 150 years of their founding, as a sign of the “Missio Dei” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – In the Gospel accounts, the disciples who first encounter the risen Jesus do not recognize him immediately: Mary Magdalene mistakes him for the gardener, Peter and the other Apostles who see him ...
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  22 March 2025
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - In the Footsteps of Jeanne Bigard: Supporting priestly and religious vocations in mission territories Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - The Society of St. Peter the Apostle and its commitment to priestly vocations and consecrated life were the focus of the visit of Father Guy Bognon, Secretary General of the Pontifical Society ...
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  8 March 2025
  GREENLAND - Geopolitical interests and independence: Greenland before the election by Cosimo Graziani Nuuk (Agenzia Fides) - Although globalization has been the subject of much criticism recently, perhaps never before have local elections with fewer than sixty thousand voters made such headlines as ...
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  8 March 2025
  GREENLAND - Catholics in Greenland: A small church of migrants Nuuk (Agenzia Fides) - Under your feet, mineral-rich soil covered by a thick layer of white snow; above your head, the enchanted sky distorted by the Northern Lights. Bright and long nights, days when the sunlight lasts ...
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  1 March 2025
  EUROPE/POLOND - European Meeting of National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies on the new mission emergencies Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - Reflection, prayer, sharing and dialogue on the challenges of evangelization were the focus of the Meeting of European National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies, held in Warsaw from ...
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  19 February 2025
  EUROPE/POLAND - The murderer of Father Grzegorz Dymek confesses Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - It was a traumatic awakening for the faithful of the parish of Our Lady of Fatima in Kłobuck, a small town in northern Poland on the outskirts of Czestochowa: the 58-year-old parish priest ...
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  18 February 2025
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies awarded the Cross of Officer of the Order of Merit Pro Lithuania Vilnius (Agenzia Fides) - Last Sunday, February 16, Lithuania celebrated the National Day commemorating the proclamation of the Republic of Lithuania in 1918. Following the Act of Restoration of the Lithuanian State, ado ...
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  27 January 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - The testimony of Roseline Hamel at the ‘Jubilee of the world of Communication’: “forgiveness is a force for peace and hope” by Pascale Rizk Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In a “world that is falling apart everywhere”, where many end up surrendering to evil even “for convenience”, there are also men and women of faith and good will who liv ...
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  22 January 2025
  EUROPE/POLAND - Star Singers visit the Apostolic Nuncio and the Presidential Palace Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - Not only houses, streets and schools are among the places that the Polish Star Singers have visited in this year that has just begun, but they were also welcomed in the Apostolic Nuncio and the P ...
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  14 January 2025
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Romania: Cultural Invasion, Vast Military Expenses, Democracy Cancelled by Victor Gaetan* “The innocent pay for war, the innocent…Let us think about this reality and say to each other: war is madness. And those who profit from war and the arms trade are thugs ...
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  11 January 2025
  EUROPE/ITALY - Blessed Father Giovanni Merlini, the missionary who spoke to the Pope and the bandits (of the Papal State) by Fabio Beretta Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "There is someone who loves you even before you deserve it." Disobeying the orders of the papal legate, Father Giovanni Merlini did not condemn or attack anyone in his homilies. ...