“Share with gentleness the hope that is in your hearts” (cf. 1 Peter 3:15-16- Pope Francis for the 59th World Communications Day). From July 31 to August 4, 2025, the Mother House in Paris hosted the annual meeting of the international team responsible for the Company...
In the heart of 19th-century Paris, a courageous woman walked through the city’s poorest alleys carrying more than food and medicine—she carried dignity. That woman was Sister Rosalie Rendu, a Daughter of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, whose devotion to the...
From June 23 to 27, 2025, Rabat (Morocco) hosted a multi-country workshop for the Africa-Europe Network for Human Mobility ( RAEMH ). The event brought together approximately 60 participants from 11 African and European countries to strengthen collaboration in...
We are pleased to share that Sister Françoise Petit, Superioress General of the Company of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, has been appointed by Pope Leo XIV as a member of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic...
With great joy, the Church announces the election of the new Pope: American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected as the 267th successor of Saint Peter, taking the name Leo XIV. Born in Chicago in 1955 and with significant pastoral experience in Peru, Leo...
We are in mourning but filled with gratitude for his life of self-giving. Pope Francis has passed away - a close, humble priest and a prophet for our time. His life served as a courageous witness to the Gospel and was a constant call for mercy, peace, fraternity, and...
On 17 April 1625, the Little Company of the Congregation of the Mission of St Vincent de Paul was born. In this jubilee year in which the Congregation of the Mission celebrates the fourth centenary of its foundation, Pope Francis addressed a beautiful message to our...
Rome, January 22-26, 2025 The Professional Seminar of the School of Church Communications at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross is an international forum held every two years, aimed at communicators from dioceses and other ecclesial entities. In its...
Since 1955, in accordance with the wishes of Raoul and Madeleine Follereau, the ‘Raoul Follereau Prize’ has been awarded every two years to ‘ a doctor or missionary who, through his or her work or example, has played an effective part in the battle against leprosy’....
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