World Day of Prayer for the care of Creation

United Nations members States have renewed their commitment to ending child labour by declaring 2021 as the International Year for the Elimination of child Labour. In 2021, the international community will need to address the challenges posed by COVID-19 in tackling child labour and accelerate progress towards target 8.7 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aims at eli...

A culture of care as a path to peace This is the theme chosen by Pope Francis for the 54th message on the occasion of the world day for peace: a culture of care as a way to combat the culture of indifference, waste and confrontation so prevalent in our time. Promoting a culture of care calls for a process of education that begins in the family, the natural and fundamental nucleus of society, in ...

Reflect on Martyred Missionaries Day on the legacy of Oscar Romero and honour those who sacrifice their lives for the Gospel, guided by the theme A Burning Heart

“The Gospel of the Family: Joy for the World” will be the theme of the IX World Meeting of Families that will be held in Dublin (Ireland), from 22 to 26 August 2018. Pope Francis will visit the meeting for the final Vigily and Holy Mass. O theme has been chosen personally by the Pope, framed in the context of the Apostolic Exhortation, as he explained in the Letter of the announcement of...

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the first missionary departure, India was the first mission land reached by the Missionaries Sisters of the Immaculate. It was in fact August 30, 1948, when the first six sisters left the port of Genoa on the ship Assyria, to arrive in India a month later. Sr. Teresina Galimberti, one of the departing sisters, described in her travel diary this day as GREAT...

World day for consecrated life: the Church is called to “widen the curtain”, that is, to give new strength to missionary action.