WUCWO - The World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations

Art for Mediatation - January 2025

Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun (Paris 1755 - 1842), Madame Vigée-Le Brun and her daughter, Jeanne-Lucie-Louise, known as Julie, 1789, oil on panel, 130 x 94 cm, Paris[...]

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[...]

Monthly message December 2024

Let us be drawn to hope! Dear WUCWO friends, there is no doubt that time flies and, almost without realising it, the year is almost over. A year undoubtedly with many challenges[...]

"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[...]

WUCWO commits itself against sexual violence

WUCWO's General President, Monica Santamarina, on behalf of all the women who are part of WUCWO, participated in the symposium on conflict-related sexual violence, organised by the UK Embassy to[...]

UK member organisations receive the President General

On 26 and 27 October, Mónica Santamarina, President General, and Lavinia Rocchi Carrera, Secretary General, paid an official visit to WUCWO member organisations in the United Kingdom[...]

What can we expect from the Synod?

"The problems of today's world call for new solutions and the Church must be prepared to offer them at all levels. For this, it must have the valuable and essential, full and co-responsible[...]

Migrant women in Latin America and the Caribbean

In 2023 we initiated a project to analyse the experiences and challenges faced by migrant women in Latin America and the Caribbean. After contacting almost a hundred representatives of the main[...]

The Cry of African Women

In November 2022, together with the Hilton Foundation, we started a project on the different types of violence and discrimination faced by women in Africa. After listening to more than 10,000[...]