We thank the Pope for this prayer intention, for the month of September, on the protection of the seas and the oceans of the world.

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, has appointed the President of WUCWO as a member of the Women's Consultation Group.

"It is never the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost"
(Mt 18:14)

The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life invited María Lía Zervino, as president of WUCWO, to participate in the event that it organises each year for Movements and associations.

Written by Pope Francis in response to the Synod of Bishops on Young People, Faith, and Vocational Discernment, the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation "Christus Vivit" is finally online.

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Christus Vivit document

Let us add the intention suggested by the Holy Father to our daily prayer for our coming General Assembly. 

Pope Francis' invitation

The Holy Father has decided to invite all the faithful, of all the world, to pray the Holy Rosary every day, during the entire Marian month of October, and thus to join in communion and in penitence, as the people of God, in asking the Holy Mother of God and Saint Michael Archangel to protect the Church from the devil, who always seeks to separate us from God and from each other.

Pope at Mass: exploiting women is a sin against God: In his homily at Mass in the Santa Marta residence, Pope Francis reflects on the exploitation of women today who are treated like objects, recalling that without women men cannot be the image and likeness of God.

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D​ear friends, today we have received the gift of the Apostolic Exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate by Pope Francis. it is a invitation to respond promptly and joyfully to the call to holiness in today's world.

Below you can read the interview that the Secretary General of WUCWO, María Lía Zervino, gave to Vatican News.
You can find the original interview (in Spanish) here: http://www.vaticannews.va/es/mundo/news/2018-03/dia-de-la-mujer-umofc-papa-francisco.html.

On February 12th, on the occasion of the Day of Reflection and Prayer against Human Trafficking 2018, "Trafficking and Migration", WUCWO and the other member organisations of the organising committee had an audience with the Holy Father. The President General, Maria Giovanna Ruggieri, participated along with the group of young Nigerians with whom she works in her city. She was accompanied by the Vice-President for Europe, Araceli Cavero Pérez, and the Secretary General, María Lía Zervino.

His Holiness Pope Francis addressed the following words to the participants in the Forum of Catholic inspired NGOs which took place in Rome on December 11 and 12:

I am pleased to greet the participants in the 2017 Forum of Catholic-inspired Non-Governmental Organizations meeting in Rome during these days. I express my deep appreciation for your efforts to bring the light of the Gospel to the various peripheries of our world, in order to defend human dignity, to promote the integral development of peoples, and to meet the material and spiritual needs of so many members of our human family. I encourage you to work always in a spirit of communion and cooperation with other Catholic NGOs and with the representatives of the Holy See, as an expression of the Church’s commitment to the building of a more just and fraternal world. With prayerful good wishes that these days of reflection and discussion will prove fruitful for your work, I cordially impart to all of you my Apostolic Blessing.