Europe

• 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 ...
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  4 July 2026
  EUROPE/POLAND - Pontifical Mission Societies in Poland inaugurated Missionary Academy during the sessions of the annual "School for Missionary Animators" Warsaw (Fides News Agency) – Once again in 2026, between June and July, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Poland organized their now well-established annual “School for Missionary Animators.” Held in Warsa ...
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  2 July 2026
  LUISS Guido Carli University hosts panel on “Religion and Global Social Justice in the 21st Century” Rome (Fides News Agency) – A roundtable discussion on "Religion and Global Social Justice in the 21st Century" is taking place today in Rome from 5:20 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at LUISS Guido Carli University (Viale Pola, 12). ...
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  26 June 2026
  A true priest, a true doctor: a documentary-film on the testimony of Romanian Venerable Martin Benedict by Pascale Rizk Rome (Fides News Agency) – On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the death of Romanian Venerable Martin Benedict, the documentary-film “The Martin Benedict case: Forbidden to Believe” premie ...
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  26 June 2026
  Here's how Sweden is quietly rediscovering itself as a "land of mission" by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Stockholm (Fides News Agency) – Sweden is quietly rediscovering itself as a land of mission, even ad gentes. And this is what Anna Bieniaszewski Sandberg sees every day. As National Director ...
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  25 June 2026
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Father Karl Wallner: "Faith grows together with the willingness to help others" Vienna (Fides News Agency) - "My experience is that fundraising and faith-raising are ultimately one and the same, because faith grows together with the willingness to help others." These are the words of Father Karl Wal ...
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  24 June 2026
  Cardinals Vesco and Marengo: "At the school of the Acts of the Apostles, in the deserts of the world" by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Rome (Fides News Agency) - At the school of the Acts of the Apostles, Cardinals Jean-Paul Vesco, Archbishop of Algiers, and Giorgio Marengo, Apostolic Prefect of Ulan Bator, agreed to revisit ...
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  23 June 2026
  Between political neo-messianisms and Augustinian realism: scholars and analysts revisit Leo XIV’s teaching on international politics and Global scenarios Rome (Fides News Agency) – One year after the election of Pope Leo XIV, a public lecture at the Pontifical Gregorian University has offered one of the first comprehensive readings of his pontificate in the field of int ...
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  23 June 2026
  The blood-stained Breviary and other "Family Memories" of Father Amédée Benoît by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Lyon (Fides News Agency) - "He died with the rosary in his hand, just as he had lived: a missionary totally given to others." With this evocative image, Father Benoît Campion summarizes for F ...
• 23 June 2026
  EUROPE/BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Appointment of the new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Sarajevo (Fides News Agency) - Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father Dubravko Turalija, a priest ...
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  21 June 2026
  Refugees and displaced persons, the figures of a “globalized suffering” that the Pope removes from the conspiracy of silence by Cosimo Graziani Geneva (Fides News Agency) – During his recent apostolic journey to Spain, especially during the final stop in the Canary Islands, Pope Leo XIV reiterated the Catholic Church's concern regarding ...
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  20 June 2026
  The Pontificate of Leo XIV and Global Politics: A lecture by Massimo Faggioli at the Gregorian University Rome (Fides News Agency) – On Monday, June 22, the inaugural session of the “Rome Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics 2026,” an international academic initiative dedicated to the relationship between re ...
• 19 June 2026
  EUROPE/CROATIA - Appointment of new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Zagreb (Fides News Agency) - On May 4, 2026, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Sister Ivana Gelo of ...