Tag: Youth
Chile – Italy: Exchange Between Sister Churches
On February 3-23, 2020, two friars belonging to the Italian Province of St. Anthony of Padua (Northern Italy), Friar Tullio PASTORELLI, serving as a...
Chile: OFS and YouFra National Meeting
On November 15-17, 2019, the national meeting of the Secular Franciscan Order (OFS) and the Franciscan Youth (YouFra) took place at the Alvernia Retreat...
Chile: Winter Mission
On July 18 -21, 2019, thirty youth ministry members, together with Friars Tullio PASTORELLI and Andrés TOSI and the postulant Benjamín CASTRO, carried out...
Brazil: Franciscan Hermitage
On June 20-23, 2019, the fourth edition of Brazil’s "Youth towards Assisi” meeting took place in Caçapava, Brazil.
The participants included seven friars, two candidates...
Chile: Summer Youth Mission
On February 14-24, 2019, fifty-one young people from the Conventual Franciscan communities of the Delegation in Chile (Copiapó, Santiago and Curicó) participated in a...
Panama: WYD Itinerant Fraternity
The 2019 World Youth Day (WYD) in Panama has energized and inspired young people in many countries.
Motivated by their missionary charism and the grace...
Copiapó: XI Gathering of Franciscan Youth
“Bread, Wine, and Water: Hope of Divine Love” was the slogan of the XI Gathering of Franciscan Youth held November 1-3, 2018, at St....
Germany: “FraJuWa” Jubilee
Young people and adults came together for the 30th "Franciscan Youth Pilgrimage".
“FraJuWa” (Franciscan Youth) was a wonderful jubilee. In fact, it marked the 30th...
Kalwaria Pacławska: Franciscan Youth Meeting
On July 22-28, 2018, the annual “Franciszkańskie Spotkanie Młodych” (Franciscan Youth Meeting), took place in Kalwaria Pacławska near Przemyśl in Poland. Traditionally called “FSM”,...
Rome: Youth toward Assisi on the Banks of the Tiber
On Friday, August 17, 2018, a group of twenty young people from the 8th International “Youth toward Assisi” Meeting gathered on the banks of...
Fraternus Nuntius: First Issue of 2024
The first issue of Fraternus Nuntius for 2024 is now available. The newsletter contains documents and news articles covering January through March, 2024.
The opening...
Conventual Franciscan Presences around the World (V)
Provincial Delegation in Belarus
Mother Province: Province of the Immaculate Mother of God in Poland (Warsaw)
Franciscans have been present in Belarus since the 14th century....
Brazil: Joint Definitory Meeting
On April 23, 2024, the Definitors of the Province of St. Francis in Brazil and the Provincial Custody of the Immaculate Conception of the...
Brazil: Diaconal Ordinations
On Saturday, April 20, 2024, at 10:30 a.m., two friars from the Province of St. Francis in Brazil were ordained to the diaconate. The...
European Conferences of Religious Orders
The Union of European Conferences of Major Superiors (UCESM) comprises thirty-eight national Conferences representing the Major Superiors of apostolic Religious Institutes from twenty-eight European...