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Nationwide billboard campaign in Ireland invites thousands to rosary rally
Posted on 05/17/2026 06:00 AM (CNA Daily News - Europe)
Building on last year’s turnout of over 10,000 people, the All Ireland Rosary Rally in Knock is running a two-week billboard campaign to attract even more participation for this year's event.
India-born bishop in Germany sees his role as giving migrants ‘a face’
Posted on 05/16/2026 08:36 AM (CNA Daily News - Europe)
Auxiliary Bishop Joshy George Pottackal, OCarm, is the first bishop in a German diocese born outside Europe.
Poland to register same-sex 'marriages' from EU countries
Posted on 05/15/2026 11:19 AM (CNA Daily News - Europe)
Legal observers say the Polish government's administrative approach may exceed its authority under Article 18 of the constitution.
German Catholic congress approves bondage group's booth
Posted on 05/14/2026 11:57 AM (CNA Daily News - Europe)
Organizers of the Würzburg congress told EWTN News the group's guidelines contain 'no contradiction with the Catechism.'
Inquest finds priest and 4 Catholic civilians shot by British troops ‘unlawfully killed’
Posted on 05/14/2026 07:00 AM (CNA Daily News - Europe)
Father Noel Fitzpatrick was shot and killed along with four others including three youth in Belfast on July 9, 1972.
Thousands of pilgrims gather at Fátima to commemorate the apparitions of Our Lady
Posted on 05/13/2026 17:28 PM (CNA Daily News - Europe)
In his homily, the patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal, said the devotion must transform lives.
Mental health crisis in Europe: Church calls for strengthening families and spiritual support
Posted on 05/13/2026 16:51 PM (CNA Daily News - Europe)
A new study emphasizes the importance of a comprehensive vision of mental health care that treats the whole person and includes spiritual support as well as medical and clinical.
U.S. bishop joins Slovaks honoring blessed bishop tortured by communists
Posted on 05/13/2026 10:30 AM (CNA Daily News - Europe)
Greek Catholic faithful gathered in the birthplace of Blessed Vasiľ Hopko, a bishop imprisoned and tortured under communism in Czechoslovakia, to mark 50 years since his death.
Ahead of vote in France, bishop calls for prayer and fasting to defeat euthanasia bill
Posted on 05/11/2026 14:37 PM (CNA Daily News - Europe)
The bishop of Bayonne, Lescar, and Oloron, Marc Aillet, appealed to the faithful to pray and fast on May 13 for the defeat of the bill, which would legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Czechs turn ‘symbol of division’ into ground for Catholic-Protestant unity
Posted on 05/11/2026 11:06 AM (CNA Daily News - Europe)
The May 8 gatherings, organized by lay groups around a reconciliation cross, mark a shift in how the Czech Republic, one of Europe’s most secular countries, lives with a historic religious wound.