Europe

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  30 July 2021
  EUROPE/GREECE - The second Scalabrinian mission has started in Lesbos, to support thousands of arriving migrants Rome (Agenzia Fides) - For the second consecutive year, the itinerant mission of the Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters has started on the island of Lesbos to help and support the thousands of refugees arriving from the Mid ...
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  24 July 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Breaking the circle of human trafficking: "care can make a difference" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The global network Talitha Kum, — which gathers more than 3,000 Catholic sisters and collaborators, launches the #CareAgainstTrafficking campaign in view of the World Day against Trafficking in P ...
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  17 July 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - The mission of the Friars Minor in the world: "Living the Gospel in fraternal communion, building bridges of dialogue among all peoples" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary to identify concrete ways ways of 'going out' on mission, responding with joy to the Lord who calls us to conversion, bearing witness to the Gospel according to the authentic Franc ...
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  16 July 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Puerto Rican Briseida Cotto Ayala is the new president of the Missionary Community of Villaregia Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Briseida Cotto Ayala, Puerto Rican, 52, is the third president elected to lead the Missionary Community of Villaregia, a community made up of consecrated laity, priests, married couples and individ ...
• 14 July 2021
  EUROPE/MONACO - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Sr. Jeannette M. Elisabeth Toutiane Bassene, FSC Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 15, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. by Sister Jeannette Marie Elisabeth Toutiane Bassene, of the D ...
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  13 July 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - New board of directors for the NGO Misión América: aid for the integral development of people Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The NGO Misión América (ONGD) has just elected its new board for the next four years (2021-2025): the President will be Fernando Redondo Benito, of Toledo, who will take on this task, as he dec ...
• 12 July 2021
  EUROPE/CROATIA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Sr. Ivana Margarin FDC Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 15, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Sister Ivana Margarin, of the Daughters of Divine Charity (FDC) as ...
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  10 July 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - On Sunday, July 11, the feast of St. Benedict: the Italian parishes in prayer for the dead migrants Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The tragedies that continue to occur in the Mediterranean and along the various sea and land routes are shaking consciences and asking us to look clearly at the phenomenon of migration. "The Medite ...
• 9 July 2021
  EUROPE/ENGLAND - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Anthony Chantry, MHM Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 15, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Anthony Chantry, of the Mill Hill Missionaries (MHM) his positi ...
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  2 July 2021
  EUROPE/POLAND - The animators of the PMS are "the hands, heart and mind of the Pope": the School for missionary animators 2021 Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - 70 people enrolled in the 1st grade of the online School for missionary animators promoted, according to a long tradition, by the National Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of P ...
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  28 June 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Online General Assembly of the Missionary Community of Villaregia Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The V General A ssembly of the Missionary Community of Villaregia, an association founded in 1981 with headquarters in Villaregia (Rovigo), will be the first in 40 years of history to take place "r ...
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  26 June 2021
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Missio Austria launches the "Editio Missio" series: "Every book is a motivation for the reader to become a missionary" Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria (Missio Austria) are opening new horizons. In addition to the magazine called "allewelt", which has been published for more than 60 years and which has ...
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  23 June 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The generosity of the Spanish for the missions, in a year marked by the difficulties of the pandemic Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the financial year, the National Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain presented the "Activity Report 2020", which reports what the PMS have done in Spain in ...
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  21 June 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - With two new priests, the Burmese community in Italy remembers "the suffering homeland" and prays for Aung San Suu Kyi Monza (Agenzia Fides) - "We remember Aung San Suu Kyi in our prayers so that with the blessing of God she will have good health and the wishes of her heart come true", says Sister Beatrice, a Burmese nun living in Italy ...
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  19 June 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Ignatian Year: Jesuits celebrate a special time of renewal "to put Christ at the center" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The conversion of Saint Ignatius does not concern only the past, but also the present and the future. It is an opportunity for renewal and rediscovery of Ignatian roots. It is an opportunity to st ...