Earth Day

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...

According to information gathered by Agenzia Fides, in 2020 20 missionaries were killed in the world: 8 priests, 1 religious man, 3 religious women, 2 seminarians, 6 lay people. We use the term “missionary” for all the baptized, aware that “in virtue of their Baptism, all the members of the People of God have become missionary disciples. All the baptized, whatever their position ...

'Please ... bear with one another in love' is the cry of Palestinian women who this year invite other Christian women around the world to pray.

«We are members one of another (Eph 4,25). From social network communities to the human community». With this theme pope Francis gives continuity to the communications day, the one instituted by the Second Vatican Council, in order to make the faithful responsible for a social communication guided by christian values. Here some words from the Pope’s message: “The present context calls ...

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...

To celebrate the wonderful anthropological diversity of our planet on the 9th of August we celebrate World Indigenous Peoples’ Day, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1994. Scattered throughout the earth there are in fact more than 5,000 communities for a total of 370 million people living in 70 countries of the world, who perpetuate ancient traditions and lifestyl...