International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

The courage to take a risk for God’s promise In encountering the Lord, some may feel the attraction of a call to the consecrated life or to the ordained priesthood.  It is a discovery that can excite and at the same time frighten us, since we feel called to become “fishers of men” in the barque of the Church by giving totally of ourselves in commitment to faithful service of the Gospel and ...

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...

Saint Joseph: The Dream of Vocation Saint Joseph is an extraordinary figure, yet at the same time one “so close to our own human experience”. He did not do astonishing things, he had no unique charisms, nor did he appear special in the eyes of those who met him. He was not famous or even noteworthy: the Gospels do not report even a single word of his. Still, through his ordinary life, he accom...

From 5 to 29 settember 2018 there will be  the XI General Chapter. The theme is: “Profetical Communities that announce the Gospel in the peripheries of the world.” Pray for us: Holy Spirit, Spirit of the Risen Lord, You who make of us but one family, unite our voices to that of Jesus, raised to the Father as we prepare for the XI General Chapter. Help us discern the places, situations and p...

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

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...

The 31st Day of the Missionary Martyrs is 24 March 2023 and its theme is "You will be witnesses of me". 18 missionaries were killed in 2022.

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 ...