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Philippines

 Domingo Edo, a young Filipino Catholic layman, was killed on 20 August as he went to a remote village near the mining town of Tampakan, in Mindanao Island, to carry out the work of ...

Czech Republic

From 15 to 20 August, a National Youth Meeting (www.olomouc2017.signaly.cz) was held in Olomouc, Czech Republic. Fr. João Chagas, Head of our Dicastery’s Youth Office, was invited to the event. On 19 ...

WMOF 2018
Preparatory resources for the parishes will be presented and available online on August 21st

A Guide for Facilitators, a volume containing practical initiatives, and another on the six-part program for parishes based on “Amoris Laetitia” are the preparatory resources for the Dublin World ...

Spain
May Families be Outgoing Communities

From 16 to 21 July, the International Family Encounter (IFE) held at the Escorial in Madrid, Spain, brought together 80 Ignatian lay people, experts in family ministry, from 30 countries. The meeting ...

Indonesia

Young people from all over Asia have gathered in Yogyakarta on the island of Java, Indonesia for the 7th Asian Youth Day (2-6 August). They are being hosted by the Archdiocese of Semarang for this ...

Brazil

Saturday, July 29th marked the end of Aparecida “Rota 300,” a missionary project that involved many young people. The initiative is part of a three-year pastoral project promoted by the Brazilian ...

The Course

PRESENTATION The Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Studies, in collaboration with the National Offices for Family Ministry and Pastoral Care of Vocations of the Italian ...

WYD

During a press conference held in Panama, Msgr. Ulloa, Archbishop of Panama, announced, on behalf of the Local Organizing Committee, that the main celebrations of World Youth Day 2019 will take place ...

WMOF
Available in five languages and full of multimedia contents

The website for the Dublin World Meeting of Families is online. This site—available in Italian, English, French, Spanish, and Irish Gaelic—is full of useful information and thematic insights. From the ...

The new website

A hug that welcomes all the laity and all the families of the world. This is what the new logo of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life Dicastery, that we are presenting today together with the ...