Europe

• 7 September 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Conversion as the source for the “new mission”: 35th General Chapter of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, September 8, the XXXV General Chapter of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) will open in Rome, to focus on conversion. As the outgoing Superior General, Fr. William Ste ...
• 31 August 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 1,261 missionaries from Madrid active in 91 countries Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Madrid currently has 1,261 missionaries working in 91 countries on five continents. They belong to 158 congregations and religious institutions. Others are members of the dio ...
• 27 August 2010
  EUROPE/POLAND - Online survey by Catholic weekly Niedzela on support for the missions Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – The most popular Polish Catholic weekly, Niedziela, based in Czestochowa, has recently published on its website (www.niedziela.pl) the results of an online survey on support for the missio ...
• 25 August 2010
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - “Mother Teresa was a missionary of love without limits,” recalls Msgr. Leo M. Maasburg on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mother Teresa of Calcutta Vienna (Agenzia Fides) – August 26, 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, foundress of the Missionaries of Charity. Monsignor Leo M. Maasburg, who currently serves as the National Director of t ...
• 13 August 2010
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Missio Austria's organization for fighting leprosy, supporting 5 million patients, offers emergency aid to Pakistan Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - For over 20 years, the organization for the fight against leprosy (Aussätzigen-Hilfswerk) of the national leadership of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria (Missio Austria) has been orga ...
• 10 August 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “The challenge of missionary pastoral work” - Conference sponsored by the new Office for Missionary Pastoral Work of the German Bishops Erfurt (Agenzia Fides) – September 6 to 8, there will be a conference on "Challenges of the pastoral mission, organized by the Office for Missionary Pastoral Work (Arbeitsstelle für Katholische Missionarische Pastoral ...
• 6 August 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - In 52nd Funding Campaign, German HCA members raise second highest sum in history Aachen (Agenzia Fides) – The children of the Holy Childhood Association in Germany can boast of an excellent result in their fundraising event: this year they raised the second highest sum in their history: 40.6 millio ...
• 27 July 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Summer serving others: young people and families on mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Gioventù e Famiglia Missionaria is an international organisation promoted by the Catholic Church Movement Regnum Christi, present in over 20 different countries. Each year in July and August it or ...
• 21 July 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Monasteries support the missions with a special day of prayer and sacrifice every month Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The Pontifical Mission Society of St Peter Apostle propose that monasteries of contemplative life might devote one day every month to cooperation with the universal mission of the Church. Given ...
• 16 July 2010
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - 18th International Conference on AIDS: Rights Here, Right Now Vienna (Agenzia Fides) – The 18th International Conference on AIDS with the theme: 'Rights Here, Right Now' will begin on 18 July in Vienna. Some 25,000 participants at AIDS 2010, legislators, programme leaders, scie ...
• 15 July 2010
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Benedictine Missionaries of St. Ottilien and creation protection Sankt Ottilien (Agenzia Fides) – Today 15 July at the Benedictine Abbey of the Missionaries of St. Ottilien, work begins to build a bio-gas plant for the production of electrical power. The abbey compound, which includ ...
• 15 July 2010
  EUROPE/SPAIN - There is no such thing as the right to kill an innocent human being says the Archbishop Burgos Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The Archbishop of Burgos Francisco Gil Hellin, in a recent statement reported by the Catholic News Agency, affirmed that there is no such thing as the right to kill an innocent human and conse ...
• 14 July 2010
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Religions against discrimination and defamation on religious grounds Bruxelles (Agenzia Fides) – As part of a second series of seminars on 'Islam, Christianity and Europe', today, 14 July, in Brussels, a study meeting on the theme on the theme “The role of religious actors in the fig ...
• 13 July 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - “ The vast horizons of evangelisation and the urgent necessity to bear witness to the Gospel Message before all men and women, without distinction, are the field of your apostolate”: Rogationist Fathers 11th Chapter Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Work continues at the 11th General Chapter of the Rogationist Fathers which opened on Monday 5 July at the Centro di Spiritualità Rogate di Morlupo (Rome). Following the opening ceremony and the ...
• 12 July 2010
  EUROPE/ITALY - Heart of St. Camillus travels from Rome to Ireland Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Order of Ministers of the Sick (Camillians) have begun celebrating the 400th anniversary of the death of San Camillo (1614 - 2014). Among other activities is also provided for the public expo ...