Solidarity with South Sudan is looking to appoint an Associate Executive Director to assist the Executive Director, in the areas of planning and implementation of the project and has responsibility for the Solidarity office in Rome, Italy. This includes fostering and maintaining relations with member congregations and various international publics. Continue reading →

Dearest sisters,

May the Lord give us his Peace!

Last year I offered you some reflections based on the words that guided our preparation as Friars Minor for the Plenary Council that we celebrated last June in Nairobi: listening, discerning, acting. Continue reading →

In order to strengthen the voice of the churches with regards to global economics, a group of 18 current and future leaders representing the churches will have the opportunity to attend the Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management (GEM)

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The first week of the General Chapter was dedicated to the election process, including discussion of the current reality of the congregation. Now, chapter delegates direct their attention to the future. How should Dehonians respond to the world today? What priorities should guide the general administration during its six-year term? Continue reading →

(On 13 July 2018, the website “Vatican Insider” (http://www.lastampa.it/vaticaninsider/ita) published in Italian this article by Luciano Zanardini about the situation the Oblates in Venezuela have been facing for several years.) Continue reading →

The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Venezuela is responding to the country’s ongoing humanitarian crisis, which is a result of unjust economic policies, social violence, and the breakdown of state institutions. All these factors have pushed thousands of Venezuelans to leave the country. Continue reading →

The beginning of July 2018 was an important time for the Ecological Movement of St. Francis of Assisi (REFA) in Poland.

Representatives of the movement, along with other Catholic ecologists from all over the world, participated in a papal audience. Two REFA representatives, Continue reading →

Despite a decline in vocations in the Indonesian Church, over the past month the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God (SFIC) IN Pontianak (West Kalimantan) received five postulants in their community, as well as 22 novices and two nuns. Continue reading →

“It’s now time to evangelize!” said Canadian Cardinal Gerald Cyprien Lacroix, Archbishop of Quebec. “It’s now time to leave our zones of comfort and go to meet our brothers and sisters seeking meaning, hope, a just life, security, and peace.” Continue reading →