On Friday, September  20, at 4pm, WUCWO participated to the presentation of  “Amazon: Common Home” that took place in the Marconi Room of the Vatican Radio.  “Amazon: Common Home” is a project that will unite institutions, associations, and congregations during the next Amazon Synod through more than 130 events organized in Rome from October 5 to 27.

Among others, Father Michael Czerny, SJ, Special Secretary of the Synod for the Amazon and recently appointed cardinal by Pope Francis and Cardinal Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno, SJ, archbishop of Huancayo and vice president of the Panamazonic Network (Repam ) were involved in the press conference.

WUCWO will organise on October 15, in collaboration with the Italian Catholic Action, FIAC and Pio XI Foundation, the event “Witnesses and martyrs  of the inculturation of faith in the Amazon: walking with the Synod” a dialogue between the participants of the Synod and the press.

“Amazon: Common Home” website

Event brochure “Witnesses and martyrs of the inculturation of faith in the Amazon”