WUCWO - The World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations

Interreligious network of women fostering encounter

We invite you to participate in the webinar we are organising together organising together with the Interreligious Network of Women Promoting Encounter under the patronage of the Dicastery[...]

Monthly message January-February 2025

May no one be deprived of God's forgiveness and consolationJubilee 2025Dear friends of WUCWO: Last December 24, Pope Francis crossed the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome; a[...]

WUCWO Youth Join Week of Prayer Against Human Trafficking

Last week, in the framework of the 8th of February, feast of St. Josephine Bakhita, the Talitha Kum network organised, supported by WUCWO, a Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking[...]

Join the Week of Prayer Against Human Trafficking

The Week of Prayer Against Human Trafficking has just started, an initiative promoted by the International Committee for the International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human[...]

Art for Mediatation - February 2025

Hans Memling (Selingenstadt c. 1430 - Bruges 1494), Portrait of an Elderly Woman, 1470-72, oil on panel, 35 x 29 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre Signs of hope: the[...]

Visit of the Hilton Foundation and audience with Pope Francis

In late January, WUCWO was honoured to welcome the Hilton Foundation Board to our offices in Rome. During this meeting, Mónica Santamarina, President General, María Lía[...]

Webinar WUCWO School for Synodality

WUCWO’s School for Synodality invites you to participate in the webinar on February 24 at 2pm CET (Rome time). The objective of the webinar is to share the most transformative[...]

Sister Simona Brambilla is the Vatican's first female prefect

Sister Simona Brambilla (Vatican News)On 6 January Pope Francis appointed Sister Simona Brambilla, former Superior General of the Consolata Missionary Sisters in Italy, as Prefect of the[...]

Migrant women: institutional strengthening

Institutional strengthening as a tool to contribute to the comprehensive care of migrant women in MexicoAs part of the activities around the project "Migrant women´s access to justice in[...]

"Device-Free Family Meals" Campaign

As Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Holy See’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organisations in Geneva declared: “The family, after all, is, in many[...]

Launch of the #WucwoPlantingHope Campaign

In response to Pope Francis' urgent call to action in the Laudato Si encyclical, the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations (WUCWO) has launched a new campaign called "WUCWO Planting[...]

Association of Catholic Women in Tanzania WAWATA visits the Parliament

WAWATA At the Ministry of Community Development Gender Elderly and Children MCDGEC Tanzania

WAWATA with the General Secretary for the Ministry of Community Development, gender, women and special groups, Dr Shekilage, and his Deputy, Felister MdemuThe Association of Catholic[...]