Monthly Archives: September 2019
Memory at heart of Pope’s message for World Communications Day
Global Tent for our Common Home: Religious Sisters Connecting Worldwide for the Pan-Amazon Synod
UISG invites Congregations worldwide to build/make a symbolic tent/space in their community as a reminder to pray for the Synod and to create awareness.
The tent is “a space to meet, to listen and pray for those who want to know the reality and spirituality of the Amazon Region.” Continue reading
Faith in Action
Join us for an event in Rome to celebrate our shared mission to accompany, serve, and advocate for the forcibly displaced.
As we approach the 40th anniversary of JRS next year, we invite the religious congregations who are partners in the mission of JRS to join us for an event in Rome, Continue reading
From the synod on young people to the Pan-Amazon synod : the same trend of inculturation, synodality and proximity
Sr Nathalie Becquart, xmcj, was observer at the Synod on Youth in October 2008 and has been appointed Consultor to the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops in May 2019. In this article about the upcoming synod on the Pan-Amazon region, she describes how there is a kind of continuity between those two synods at a time where Pope Francis is calling the Church to emphazise synodality. Continue reading
Pope Francis to Carmelites: Contemplate God and seek Him, especially in the poor
Brothers of the Christian Schools Launch of the new web page
On the occasion of the tricentenary of the death of the Founder, John Baptist de La Salle (1719-2019), the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools is renewing the look of the institutional site with a more modern design, more rapid and simple to navigate. Continue reading
Nov 2nd 2019,e annual NRVP conference
The annual NRVP conference will take place on Saturday 2nd November, at Our Lady of Victories Roman Catholic Church in Kensington, London. If you are a religious brother or sister involved in vocation promotion, we would love to see you there. The cost of the day is £50, which includes a buffet lunch. Continue reading
VIII Seminar of Training of Educators
Two congregations going green for the sake of the planet
In a concerted effort to make a tangible response to the climate crisis, the Franciscan Sisters Minoress as well as the English/Scottish Province of the Religious Sisters of Charity have made a bold commitment to go green by turning away from fossil fuel investments. Continue reading
Pope: project for a global educational pact to build a new humanism
Francis invites the representatives of the main religions, the exponents of international organizations and the various humanitarian institutions, from the academic, economic, political and cultural world to sign the “Global Compact on Education”. The event scheduled for May 14, 2020 in Rome, in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican.