Europe

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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 ...
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  30 July 2026
  World Day Against Human Trafficking: Women religious and Church networks stand alongside victims across Latin America and Europe Madrid (Fides News Agency) – According to the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), around 50 million people worldwide are living in conditions of modern slaver ...
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  29 July 2026
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Between memory and faith, Ars-sur-Moselle celebrates Bishop Berardi’s 35th anniversary of priesthood and patronal Feast
  by Antonella Prenna Ars-sur-Moselle (Fides News Agency) – On Saturday, July 25, more than 200 faithful from different countries gathered at the church of Saint Martin in Ars ...
• 28 July 2026
  EUROPE/SLOVENIA - Appointment of New Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - On May 25, 2026, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father Gregor ...
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  28 July 2026
  Wildfires in Spain: “People have allowed themselves to be embraced”: parishes and Caritas stand alongside evacuees by Laura Gómez Ruiz Madrid (Fides News Agency) – More than 150,000 hectares of land destroyed by flames and over 79,000 people evacuated or forced to remain indoors illustrate the scale of the emergency that has st ...
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  24 July 2026
  At the Shrine of Banneux, the first Marian Missionary Festival: Mary, face of dialogue and mission in Asia by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Banneux (Fides News Agency) –Showing the link that unites devotion to the Mother of God with the missionary vocation, and the joy of proclaiming the Gospel, an experience open to every baptiz ...
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  19 July 2026
  ANGELUS - Pope Leo XIV: The Kingdom of God "is not imposed by force" but grows "like a small seed that sprouts" Castel Gandolfo (Fides News Agency) – The mystery of salvation with which God works "in our lives and in history" does not "impose itself by force" or "arrives triumphantly." Instead, His Kingdom grows "like a small se ...
• 8 July 2026
  EUROPE/GREECE - Appointment of the new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - On May 25, 2026, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father Ioannis ...
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  6 July 2026
  The new catechumens and the first Christians. Archbishop of Reims: "The Pope will encounter a Church in France undergoing profound transformation" by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Reims (Fides News Agency) – On June 30, Pope Leo XIV appointed Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, Archbishop of Reims, France, as a member of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for Fundamental ...
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  5 July 2026
  Cardinal Aveline, Archbishop de Moulins-Beaufort, and missionary renewal in France by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Rome (Fides News Agency) – At the end of June, Pope Leo XIV appointed Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, Archbishop of Marseille, and Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, Archbishop of Reims, as members of th ...