WUCWO's aim is to promote the presence, participation and co-responsibility of Catholic women in society and the Church, in order to enable them to fulfil their mission of evangelisation and to work for human development.
Gambino at UN: equal dignity of every woman and man, much remains to be done
On 13 March 2025, during the 69th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, Professor Gabriella Gambino, Under-Secretary of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and[...]
That Beauty That Dwells Within Us Dear Sisters, each one of us is inhabited by a beauty that, almost without realizing it, we begin to cover with "makeup" or allow to wither away[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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'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[...]
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[...]