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During the session of the General Definitory held November 3, 2018, the Minister General, with the unanimous consent of his Definitory, appointed and contracted...

On October 22-23, 2018, the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Korea held an assembly of its friars at the St. Francis Retreat...

The Province of St. Elizabeth in Hungary and Transylvania has been suppressed and incorporated into the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Poland...

The “Rioplatense” Province of St. Anthony of Padua in Argentina-Uruguay celebrated a unitary Spiritual Chapter with the Provincial Delegation in Paraguay, of the Province...

The Conventual Franciscan Province of St. Francis in Brazil, based in Santo André (São Paulo), celebrated its Extraordinary Provincial Chapter. The event was held October...

In the diocesan house "Oasis" in the city of São Luis de Maranhão in Brazil, the first part of the second ordinary Custodial Chapter...

On September 10 to September 12, 2018, in the convent of St. Anthony the Wonderworker in St. Petersburg, in the presence of the Minister...

We have just celebrated the 2018 Extraordinary General Chapter, a time during which we lived and prayed together and revised the text of the...

Communique 9: (2018-08-22) – The General Chapter has completed its work on Chapter VI, “The Governance of the Order”. The text of the Instrumentum Laboris for the entire chapter was substantially affirmed, with a number of minor editorial changes.

On July 16-19, 2018, the Provincial Custody of St. Francis in Kenya celebrated an Extraordinary Custodial Chapter, led by the Provincial Custos, Friar Kazimierz...