WUCWO - The World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations

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[...]

Art for Meditation - November 2024

Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640), The Triumph of Truth, 1622-25, oil on canvas, 394 x 160 cm, Paris, Musée du LouvreThe Virtues: Truth.The painting is the last of 24 that[...]

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[...]

FAO: World Food Day 2024

On October 10 2024, the Permanent Mission of the Holy See to FAO, IFAD, and WFP together with the Forum Roma of Catholic Inspired NGOs held a seminar to celebrate World Food Day 2024[...]

Voices and faces on the threshold of the Synod

A few days before the start of the second session of the Synod on Synodality, a webinar was held on 26 September, organised by the World Union of Catholic Women's Organisations (WUCWO), in the[...]

Monthly message September 2024

God Walks with His People 110th World Day of Migrants and Refugees Dear friends of WUCWO:"God walks with his people". What words so full of meaning and hope the Holy Father has[...]

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[...]

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[...]

How to be a missionary synodal Church? Only possible with women

Under this question, the text of the "Instrumentum Laboris" which will guide the work of the second session of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly was published on Tuesday, 9 July 2024. It is[...]

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[...]