WUCWO - The World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations

Art for Mediatation - March 2025

Image is used from www.hermitagemuseum.org, courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, RussiaPeter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640), Roman Charity (Cimon and Pero), c[...]

Interreligious network of women fostering encounter

WUCWO organised together with the Interreligious Network of Women Promoting Encounter under the patronage of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue on the occasion of the World[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]