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ITALY
Biblical Festival 2023

This year, the annual Biblical Festival promoted by the Diocese of Vicenza and the Society of St. Paul focuses on chapters 1-11 of the first book of the Bible, Genesis, in order to stimulate reflection on how the Jewish and Christian Scriptures have a great deal in common with our contemporary world. Participating in the… Read more »

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New President of AIC

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 »

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KOREA
The climate is changing. What about us?

This is the title of a book published by the Daughters of St. Paul of South Korea as a pledge to help reduce carbon emissions by donating a portion of the book’s revenues to the planting of trees. And this pledge was fulfilled. Our sisters collaborated with the Ecology and Environment Committee of Suwon Diocese… Read more »

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Easter 2023

Letter of Sr. Anna Caiazza, Superior General

Dearest Sisters and young women in formation, With great joy and renewed awe I greet you with the proclamation that grounds our faith, sustains our hope, and motivates our love: Christ is risen! He is truly risen! This proclamation makes us race ahead and gives wings to our heart…because it is impossible to contain the…

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Joint Agreement Between Christians and Muslims

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 »

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ITALY
Meeting with Cardinal Robert Sarah

On 23 March 2023, the FSP International Multimedia Center, Via del Mascherino, Rome, hosted a presentation of the book, Catechism of the Spiritual Life, the latest work of Cardinal Robert Sarah, published in Italian, English, Spanish, French and Portuguese, all of which are available in the Center. The Cardinal, of Guinean ethnicity, is Prefect Emeritus…

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ITALY
The Suspended Gospel

Lent is one of the times when, as Christians, we tend to take the Gospel more seriously and try to render it visible in daily life. There are many ways to do this, but this year our FSP Book Center in Brescia teamed up with prison chaplains and several local parishes to concretize the words… Read more »

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ITALY
Arezzo: Two Days Dedicated to the Word

The FSP community of Arezzo organized two special days around the Word of God: 13 March in their book center, and 14 March in a local parish. The theme of the book center encounter was Exodus, as an event and as a book. Three names, all female, gave color and warmth to the evening. The…

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70th anniversary of the pontifical approval of the Constitutions

Letter of Sr. Anna Caiazza, Superior General

Dearest Sisters, On March 15 we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the pontifical approval of the Constitutions and, therefore, of our Institute. With Maestra Thecla, we praise and thank the Lord “because, with the certainty that comes to us from the official recognition of the Church, we can say, ‘We are in the will of God…

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NIGERIA
Tenth Anniversary of Pauline Editions

This year, 5 February, the anniversary of the death of Prima Maestra Thecla, was a very special day for the FSPs of Nigeria, because it was on that very date ten years ago that Sr. Teresa Marcazzan arrived in Abuja to launch the FSP publishing apostolate in that country. In recent years, our sisters have… Read more »

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