Tag: Brazil
Brazil: UCOB Leadership Makes Fraternal Visit to Common Novitiate
On August 13-16, 2024, the President and the Secretary of the Union of Conventual Franciscans of Brazil (UCOB) visited the Santo António Common Novitiate...
4th Annual Franciscan Symposium: Celebrations for the 800th Anniversary of the...
On July 8-10, 2024, the Union of Conventual Franciscans of Brazil (UCOB) conducted its 4th Annual Franciscan Symposium. This year’s event was entitled: “800...
Brazil: Meeting of UCOB Major Superiors
On May 22-24, 2024, the Ministers Provincial and Custodes of the Conventual Franciscan Jurisdictions in Brazil met at the Senhor do Bonfim Friary in...
Brazil: 2024 Novitiate Year Begins
On February 17, 2024, at 4:00 p.m., the Conventual Franciscan Novitiate of St. Anthony in Cascavel, Brazil, began a new year. All of the...
Brazil: First Franciscan Hike to Christ the Redeemer
On September 30, 2023, the first Franciscan hike to the Christ the Redeemer statue took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Members of the Franciscan...
Brazil: Formation Week at the Santo Antônio Novitiate
On October 24-29, 2022, a formation week took place at the Santo Antônio Common Novitiate of the Federación América Latina Conventuales (FALC), in Cascavel,...
Brazil: Mission in the Amazon
The friars of the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Brazil are doing important missionary work in the cities of Tefé and Juruá,...
Brazil: UCOB Franciscanism Course
On July 11-30, 2021, the Union of Conventual Franciscans of Brazil (UCOB) conducted a winter course in Franciscanism for the temporarily professed friars of...
Brazil: UCOB Formation Meeting
On May 22, 2021, the aspirants and postulants of the Union of Conventual Franciscans of Brazil (UCOB) took part in an online formation meeting...
Brazil: Meeting of Youth and Vocation Ministry Animators
On October 28-29, 2020, an online meeting on youth and vocation ministry took place in the Conventual Franciscan Jurisdictions in Brazil.
Those attending included: Friars...
Rome: Friar Dominique J. MATHIEU to Be Made New Cardinal
During the Angelus on Sunday, October 6, 2024, Pope Francis announced the creation of twenty-one new cardinals for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception...
Rome: Twelve Holy Apostles Celebrates Solemnity of St. Francis
On Friday, October 4, 2024, the Minister General, Friar Carlos TROVARELLI, presided over the Mass celebrating the Patron Saint of Italy, St. Francis of...
Poland-Cracow: A Solemn “Yes” for a Lifetime
On October 4, 2024, the Solemnity of St. Francis of Assisi, Friars Miłosz MĘŻYK and Jakub SZCZEPANEK, of the Province of St. Anthony and...
The Franciscan Family Celebrates 800 Years in England
On September 10, 2024, gathering on the pebbled beach just below the white cliffs of Dover, the Franciscan Family began their celebrations of the...
Diocese of Rome Presents Mission Exhibition
On October 2, 2024, an exhibition to mark the opening of World Mission Month – October 2024, was inaugurated by the Most Reverend Baldo...