On 25 November the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women was celebrated worldwide. Launched by the UN in 1999, this important event is celebrated every year to remember and condemn physical and psychological violence against women and girls and to show solidarity and closeness to the victims of this violence. The date… Read more »
From 1-23 December 2017 the FSP book centers in Italy will be holding the fourth edition of their annual Book Bank. This year the Daughters of St. Paul are collaborating with AVO (Association of Volunteer Hospitals), a non-profit organization made up of many different hospital volunteer groups. The recipients of this year’s book campaign will… Read more »
The 16th International Festival of Sacred Music and Sacred Art, promoted by the Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra, recently took place in Rome, Italy. This year about 700 performers from Japan, the Vatican City State, Germany, the Russian Federation, Austria and Italy took part in the event, confirming it as one of the world’s… Read more »
The Daughters of St. Paul of India organized a seminar on the Pauline apostolate, guided by Sr. Teresa Marcazzan of the St. Paul Publishing Center in Nairobi, Kenya. Almost all the sisters of the Indian Province participated in this formation experience (held in 3 different sessions), during which Sr. Teresa developed her theme from the… Read more »
“Let us love not with words but with deeds.” This is the title and at the same time the invitation of the Message of Pope Francis for the First World Day of the Poor, to be celebrated on 19 November. Established by the Holy Father in his Apostolic Letter, Misericordia et misera, at the end… Read more »
This year, 22 FSP Book Centers participated in the third edition of the initiative, #IoLeggoPerché2017 (#IReadBecause2017), organized by the Association of Italian Publishers for the purpose of restocking school libraries. The religious and secular book shops participating in the project were paired with a total of 129 schools on every academic level, ranging from kindergarten… Read more »
If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. St Augustine
About 70 women judges and lawyers from around the world participated in the recent Vatican Summit for Judges on the plague of human trafficking and organized crime. According to the event’s brochure, the participants were invited to share their experiences on the subject, propose new models and make the most of existing ones. It… Read more »
The Daughters of St. Paul of Palermo celebrated the Feast of the Divine Master with special fervor and joy on 29 October 2017 because it was also the day on which they inaugurated their new book center–a place from which to listen to the needs of the people and sow seeds of hope. In the… Read more »
From 5-30 October 2017, nineteen Daughters of St. Paul from six different countries gathered at the St. Paul House on the grounds of the FSP Generalate, Rome, to participate in an International Encounter on the Pauline Charism. The theme of the Encounter was: Living the Mystical Dimension of the Pauline Charism in the Footsteps… Read more »
