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Family Global Compact
A Global Pact to promote family, marriage, human life presented at the Holy See Press Office and in a webinar
“A shared program of actions” to establish dialogue between family ministry and family research centers in Catholic universities throughout the world “for the promotion of the family in light ...
Dicastery
Announcement of press conference for the presentation of Pope Francis' Message
On Tuesday 30 May 2023, at 11.30 a.m., at the Holy See Press Office, a Press Conference will take place to present the Family Global Compact and the Message of Pope Francis on the occasion of ...
Ad limina
Bishops from Ghana and Tanzania met with the Dicastery in May
Ghana - laity, the wealth of society As for the Ghanaian prelates, they described a country in which the Catholic Church is best known for its contribution to socioeconomic development through ...
Family
Women, caught between family and work, must be recognized as women and mothers
Women and food security: a bond to be strengthened: this was the theme of the study day held on May 22 at the Pontifical Gregorian University. A day in memory of Professor Emeritus of the ...
Ad limina
In May, the Dicastery met with the bishops of East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands
East Timor – a flourishing Church East Timor (or Timor-Leste) is the second largest Catholic country in Asia, second only to the Philippines. The Church in East Timor is flourishing, and ...
WYD Lisbon 2023
The status of World Youth Day preparations in light of the Holy Father's arrival
Pope Francis will be travelling to Lisbon from Aug. 2 to 6 of this year for the upcoming World Youth Day, and on August 5 he will be visiting the Shrine of Fatima, as announced yesterday by ...
Lay faithful
The future canonists of the Polish "Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński" University visited the Dicastery
Students from the Faculty of Canon Law at "Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński" University in Warsaw, Poland, visited the Dicastery last week as part of a study trip that also included visits ...
Ad limina
In April and March Burundi and Mexico to visit the Dicastery
In April and March, the Dicastery welcomed the bishops of Mexico and Burundi who came for their ad limina visit. Burundi: an evangelization of "proximity" Burundi's prelates ...
Family and Life
Meeting of the Bishops and National Directors for Family and Life of the European Bishops’ Conferences, Bucharest, 8 - 10 May 2023
The Council of Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE) met in Bucharest from 8 to 10 May, to discuss the theme “The family in Europe today”. Forty participants from 22 countries attended the ...
WYD
The special stamp for the WYD 2023 will be available from May 16
(Press release of the Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City State) - During the closing mass of the World Youth Day in Panama, Cardinal Kevin J.Farrell announced that the ...