Europe

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  11 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/V - The (silent) mission of Lourdes: “God’s charity does not heal those who have no wounds” by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Lourdes (Fides News Agency) – Just a few weeks ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, scheduled for September 26 and 27, excitement is palpable in the Marian ci ...
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  9 September 2026
  EUROPE/ITALY - From vocation to mission: Anselmo Fabiano makes perpetual oath of commitment to the Society of African Missions Feriole (Fides News Agency) – “...called by the Lord to proclaim the Gospel to the nations, particularly in Africa, and knowing the aim of the Society of African Missions, I swear to remain a member of this Society f ...
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  2 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/IV - A song to welcome the Successor of Peter by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Rome (Fides News Agency) – Dawn is breaking over the domes of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. On the Janiculum Hill, Grégory Turpin sings the opening notes a cappella of Pour que le monde ait ...
• 1 September 2026
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - On June 8, 2026, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed, Father Johann ...
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  30 August 2026
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Faith that unites peoples: The memory of Pope Luciani celebrated in the church of Italian migrants Bucharest (Fides News Agency) – Grateful devotion to Blessed Pope John Paul I remains alive in Romania as well. Around the figure of the Pope born in Canale d’Agordo, old bonds are being renewed and new friendships a ...
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  29 August 2026
  Three Churches pray for peace on the border between the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland by Bohumil Petrík Trzycatek (Fides News Agency) – On the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen, on August 22, representatives of three Central European nations walked together and prayed for peace and reconciliat ...
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  28 August 2026
  Pope in France/III - Metz, at the roots of European peace in the “city of three borders” by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Metz (Fides News Agency) – In the late-summer light, the Jaumont stone on the façades of the city centre reveals, in places, deep scars carved into the rock. On these historic buildings, cav ...
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  23 August 2026
  A project to establish a university dedicated to Slovakia’s first ambassador to the Holy See takes shape by Bohumil Petrík Bratislava (Fides News Agency) – “Wisdom never goes out of fashion. The purpose of the Anton Neuwirth College is to contribute to the good of society by following the wisdom of Christian values. ...
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  22 August 2026
  Leone XIV at the Rimini Meeting: Jesus keeps his treasure in earthen vessels Rimini (Fides News Agency) – “The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by ‘attraction’.” Pope Leo XIV invoked this expression of Benedict XVI, repeatedly echoed by Pope Francis, to suggest ...
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  19 August 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/II - Behind the figures: the fragmented and “indecipherable” expectations that will greet Leo XIV by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Paris (Fides news Agency) – An exceptional mobilization is taking shape ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to France. Tickets for the events scheduled during the papal visit have been snapped u ...
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  16 August 2026
  EUROPE/FRANCE - The “Extended Sanctuary,” a missionary pilgrimage in the footsteps of Saint John Eudes by Pascale Rizk Caen (Fides News Agency) – To ensure that the ancient “Mission of Caen” does not remain merely a historic building but becomes a place of living memory, the Eudist Fathers and Mary, together with ...
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  13 August 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/I - Bishop Guillet: This is how the “Acts of the Apostles” is coming alive in Saint-Denis by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Saint-Denis (Fides news Agency) – As the Diocese of Saint-Denis prepares to welcome Pope Leo XIV during his visit to France (September 25–28) for a prayer vigil with youth and catechumens ...
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  8 August 2026
  Litoměřice: New commemorations for victims of anti-German massacres of 1945 during the “Jubilee of Reconciliation” by Bohumil Petrík Litoměřice – On July 31, 1945, shortly after the surrender of Nazi Germany, an ammunition depot exploded in Ústí nad Labem, in what was then Czechoslovakia, killing 27 people. The incident was ...
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  6 August 2026
  Archbishop Ulloa in Seville for the Feast of Our Lady of the Kings: "Two Sister Churches united since the beginning of evangelization" Seville (Fides News Agency) – Nearly five centuries after the first steps of evangelization in the Americas, the Church in Panama and the Spanish Archdiocese of Seville are meeting once again in a gesture rich in memor ...
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  31 July 2026
  12 theatre Companies at the XXXIV Slovak Christian Theatre Festival inspired by Saint Francis by Bohumil Petrík Bratislava (Fides News Agency) – Three bishops inaugurated the XXXIV edition of the Gorazdov Močenok 2026 National Christian Theatre Festival. The event is renewed every year with the aim of exp ...