Europe

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  7 June 2026
  LEO XIV IN SPAIN - The Pope in the Canary Islands, Bishop Mazuelos: a sign of hope for Atlantic migrants Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Fides News Agency) – Pope Leo XIV's visit to the Canary Islands, scheduled for June 11 and 12, is part of his first apostolic journey to Spain, which will take place from June 6 to 12, with ...
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  5 June 2026
  If the "problem" is no longer atheism. Spain's missionary urgency awaits Leo XIV by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Madrid (Fides News Agency) - From June 6 to 12, 2026, Pope Leo XIV will visit Spain as part of his fourth apostolic journey outside Italy. During this trip, he will visit Madrid and Barcelona, ...
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  30 May 2026
  Amidst persecution, a story of grace. Beatification of the martyred priests Bula and Drbola on June 6 by Chiara Dommarco Brno (Fides News Agency) – “Regimes, ideologies, and fears pass away, but truth, love, and fidelity have a strength that survives history itself,” said Father Karel Orlita in an interview wit ...
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  29 May 2026
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Episcopal delegate of the Diocesan Caritas of Tenerife on migration: “We must not become accustomed to suffering” Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Fides News Agency) – The upcoming visit of the Holy Father to the Canary Islands on June 11 and 12 focuses on the migratory reality in the Atlantic, one of the most dangerous and deadly routes i ...
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  21 May 2026
  EUROPE/ITALY - May 25: Celebration of the Camillian Martyrs of Charity and the devotion of the healthcare today Rome (Fides News Agency) – More than 300 witnesses sacrificed their lives in service to the sick, the wounded, and the forgotten, often amidst wars, epidemics, and disasters. “Their legacy is not just a memory we pre ...
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  19 May 2026
  Slovakia celebrates the memory of Veronika Racková, the nun and doctor killed 10 years ago in South Sudan by Bohumil Petrík Bánov (Fides News Agency) – “I cannot leave the people of Sudan because I love them”: This is what Sister Veronika Racková, doctor and missionary, said about herself before South Sudanese ...
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  19 May 2026
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Diocesan Missionary Day of Madrid: “The Lord continues to call” Madrid (Fides News Agency) – “Heartfelt thanks” is the motto chosen for the celebration of Diocesan Missionary Day in the Archdiocese of Madrid, which was just celebrated on Sunday, May 17, the Solemnity of the Asc ...
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  17 May 2026
  Archbishop of Prague in the former Nazi camp: reconciliation must be proclaimed even if it does not seem "appropriate" by Bohumil Petrík Litoměřice (Fides News Agency) - "Jesus does not want us to make exceptions when it comes to forgiveness, for example, saying, 'I forgive you up to this point, but here I no longer forgive you,'" ...
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  14 May 2026
  “I choose not to hate”: in his new book, missionary Pier Luigi Maccalli highlights “a forgotten essential for building peace”
  Genoa (Fides News Agency) – “Peace is a possible mission”: this, along with many other meaningful insights and reflections, represents the core of the new book with the equal ...
• 13 May 2026
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Confirmation of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Fides news Agency) - On May 5, 2026, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), confirmed Fr. Théogène ...
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  3 May 2026
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "I fear nothing. You are with me": the documentary about the Carmelite martyrs of Guadalajara and their witness of faith Guadalajara (Fides News Agency) – “I fear nothing. You are with me” is the motto that gives the title to the documentary “You are with me: Carmelite Martyrs of Guadalajara,” presented on Saturday, May 2nd, on ...
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  30 April 2026
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - Mission at the heart of the Jubilee Year dedicated to the first Rector of the "Russicum", Vendelín Javorka by Bohumil Petrík Žilina (Fides News Agency) - In the Diocese of Žilina, Slovakia, the jubilee year of the death of Jesuit Vendelín Javorka (1882-1966) has begun, under the motto "Be a missionary wherever you are ...
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  26 April 2026
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish Pontifical Mission Societies celebrate the Day of Native Vocations Madrid (Fides News Agency) – “Missionaries do extraordinary work, but they do not just do their job; rather, they go to build the Church in the territories where they are, and therefore one of the most important frui ...
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  16 April 2026
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - The European Conference of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood: creativity and new evangelization with children and adolescents Bratislava (Fides News Agency) - The meeting of the “European Conference of Missionary Childhood,” known as CEME, French acronym for Conférence de l’Enfance Missionnaire Européenne), held in Bratislava from Sunda ...
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  11 April 2026
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - European Conference of Missionary Childhood: "Creativity in the New Evangelization" Bratislava (Agenzia Fides) – From Sunday, April 12, to Thursday, April 16, representatives of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood from across Europe will gather in Bratislava for the "European Conference of ...