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The World Meeting on Human Fraternity, entitled “Not Alone,” took place on 10 June in St. Peter’s Square and simultaneously in eight other squares around the world linked by television. Inspired by the Encyclical Fratelli tutti and organized by the Vatican Foundation that bears the same name, the Meeting sought to promote the meaning of…

Messages of hope for all humanity will soon be sent on a mission into space. The messages are stored in immensely small objects: a nanolibrary in turn sent by means of a nanosattelite. The Spei Satelles Space Mission is a joint endeavor born on the third anniversary of Pope Francis’ Statio Orbis event in St….

Tayde de Callatay has been elected the new president of the International Association of Charities (AIC), the oldest lay association in the history of volunteer work, for a 3-year term of office. The election took place at the end of the Association’s International Assembly held from 21-25 March in Frascati (Rome), during which its initiatives… Read more »

To continue to improve the relationship between Christianity and Islam, the prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, and the secretary general of the Muslim Council of Elders, Judge Mohamed Abdelsalam, signed a memorandum of understanding on 6 March. The goal is to strengthen interfaith and intercultural dialogue between… Read more »

Sowing Hope for the Planet is an initiative promoted by the International Union of Women Superiors General (UISG) and its related institutions to put Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’ into concrete action by sharing ideas, formation, and working in synergy to care for our sick planet. Established in 2018, the project’s goal is not simply…

Our Common Home: A Guide to Caring for Our Living Planet has been issued by the Stockholm Institute for the Environment and the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development. The booklet, replete with diagrams, builds on the contents of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato si’,to offer the ordinary person scientific information on climate …

Communicating religious life, particularly women’s religious life, in order to strengthen networking and collaboration among various institutes and congregations, witness to the Gospel and build bridges: this is the goal of the first international meeting organized by the International Union of Superiors General (IUSG) to be held in November 2023. A webinar was held to… Read more »

Talitha Kum is an international organization of Catholic nuns founded by the International Union of Women Superiors General in 2009 to combat the trafficking and exploitation of human beings, victims who, according to the United Nations, are more than 72 percent women and girls, and one-third of whom are minors. Considered a Catholic charity, it…