FORMATION - The Religious Formation Conference will hold its biennial National Congress in Milwaukee, WI, USA, from November 16-19, 2017. The Congress theme, Grace in the Now: The Gospel of Encounter, reflects Pope Francis’ encouragement to religious to find God in all whom we encounter today. The Congress is open to all religious...

EVENTS - The Lay Centre invites you for the Vincent Pallotti Institute’s Autumn Lecture Series – 2017, a special six-week series, starting 19 October, called “Peripheries in our lives”, welcoming :Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi, Director, Anglican Centre in Rome and the Representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Holy See Guy Consolmagno, S.J., Director, Vatican Observatory...

NEWS 2017 - The earthquake bearing a magnitude of 7.1° on the Richter scale that struck Mexico on Tuesday, September 19, has caused hundreds of victims: 217, according to the Civil Protection Service as of this morning, but the number may increase due to the high probability that there are people trapped under collapsed buildings...

EVENTS - Formation Sessions To reflect on the Christian Faith through Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shintoism, Sikhism and Indian tribal religions From 25th to 29th September 2017. Dr. Bryan Lobo, S.J., et alii For: Pastoral ministers, teachers, formators, university students and promoters of interreligious dialogue Methodology...

FORMATION - The international network of consecrated life against trafficking in persons Talitha Kum, in partnership with the Pontifical Antonianum University, launches the first training course for Talitha Kum’s Leaders. From January 2018 to March 2019, the training course will offer to the participants a unique occasion to acquire skills...

MESSAGES - As Catholic religious leaders in the U.S., CMSM is sick with grief and disgust at the recent decision by the administration to put children and young people in abrupt uncertainty by ending DACA. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program provides work authorization and temporary protection from deportation to about 780,000 people who were brought...

NEWS 2017 - Since Sr. Fabiola Gusmão has recently been elected as a member of the General Council of her congregation, we have a position vacant at UISG. We are looking for a sister who could undertake the following responsibilities: administer the UISG Regina Mundi in Diaspora grant programme for theological studies and make payments on-line...

SOUTH SUDAN - "It is too easy to describe the conflict in South Sudan as exclusively ethnic. The struggle for power, corruption, poor management of military, political leadership, of resources and the lack of basic freedom are real situations that complicate the conflict strongly", writes to Fides Fr. Daniele Moschetti, a Comboni missionary who served in South Sudan for six years...

CONSECRATED LIFE - The  18th General Assembly of UCESM will take place in Snagov (Romania) from March 5th to 10th, 2018. The Carmelite Monastery of Snagov  in the area called Ciofliceni will be the venue of the 18th General Assembly of UCESM, from Monday 5 March 2018 – starting by the end of the afternoon – until Saturday 10 March 2018 in the morning...