Europe
28 April 2021
EUROPE/ITALY - Scalabrinians: humanitarian shame in the Mediterranean demands a response from the States
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The humanitarian shame of the new migrants who died in the Mediterranean places national States before their own responsibility to respond to their cry for help. We cannot turn around thinking tha ...
27 April 2021
EUROPE/ITALY - The General Council of Comboni Missionaries: let us pray for many people who in South Sudan suffer from insecurity and violence
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The General Council of Comboni Missionaries were informed that unidentified gunmen broke into the home of the bishop-designate of Rumbek, South Sudan, Msgr. Christian Carlassare, and shot him in bo ...
24 April 2021
EUROPE/SPAIN - Day for Native Vocations: the Gospel brought by the missionaries has taken root and is bearing fruit
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis' suggestion to young people to ask themselves "For who am I?" (cf. Christus vivit) is the motto of the World Day of Prayer for Vocations and the Day of Native Vocations that the Chur ...
20 April 2021
EUROPE/GREECE - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, rev. Alexandros Perros
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 16, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Alexandros Perros, of the Archdiocese of Naxos, Andros, Ti ...
16 April 2021
EUROPE/POLAND - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, rev. Maciej Bedzinski
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 15 January 2021, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples appointed rev. Maciej Bedzinski, from the diocese of Radom as National Dire ...
15 April 2021
EUROPE/HOLLAND - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Rev. Vincent Goulmy
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 1, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Vincent Goulmy, of the diocese of Roermond National Director ...
7 April 2021
EUROPE/RUSSIA - Metropolitan Hilarion: the Russian Church will not change its way of establishing the date of Easter
Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - The possible introduction of a change of the liturgical calendar to allow all Christians in the world to celebrate Easter on the same day "is not on the agenda of the Orthodox Church, or at least ...
26 March 2021
EUROPE/SPAIN - The gratitude of the President of the Pontifical Mission Societies to the Church in Spain for its support for the missions despite the pandemic
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), thanked Cardinal Juan José Omella, Archbishop of Barcelona and President of the Episcopal Conference of ...
25 March 2021
EUROPE/ITALY - "Covid does not take away the guarantee that Christ has risen": the presence and testimony of the Camillians does not stop
Turin (Agenzia Fides) - "The world today has, more than ever, an extreme need for testimonies, for people capable of going against the tide, of opposing the prevailing evil which divides human beings, which rejects or do ...
24 March 2021
EUROPE/ITALY - Saint Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, model for the whole Church in missionary outreach
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "As recognition of this important anniversary, the 150th of the proclamation of Saint Alphonsus as Doctor of the Church, Pope Francis has sent us a message in which he proposes Saint Alphonsus, as ...
23 March 2021
EUROPE/SPAIN - Testimonies of missionaries on the value of life until its natural end after the legalization of euthanasia in Spain
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Spain, Father José María Calderón, published, following the approval of the law legalizing euthanasia in Spain, a statement, also s ...
22 March 2021
EUROPE/SPAIN - Study Day at Saint Damasus University dedicated to "Jesus Christ, Savior of men and peoples"
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The University of Saint Damasus (UESD), in collaboration with the Pontifical Mission Societies of Spain, are organizing on March 24 the Missiological Day "Jesus Christ, Savior of men and peoples" ...
17 March 2021
EUROPE/ALBANIA - The figure of Father Ettore Cunial in view of the Day of the Missionary Martyrs
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the 29th "Day of Prayer and Fasting in memory of the Missionary Martyrs" of March 24 (see Fides, 16/3/2021), Agenzia Fides offers some testimonies of missionaries killed because of Gospe ...
16 March 2021
EUROPE/ITALY - Missionary Martyrs Day 2021 March 24
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Since 1993, the day of the assassination of Saint Oscar Arnulfo Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, on March 24, 1980 while he was celebrating Mass, has been dedicated to the celebration of the Day ...
10 March 2021
EUROPE/ITALY - Human trafficking: "The pandemic must not lead us to turn a blind eye to other problems"
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Covid pandemic must not lead us to turn a blind eye to an unprecedented economic and social crisis and to human trafficking, which continues to affect the poorest countries in the world in par ...
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