Oct 6, 2024 | Climate Action, Continental Meeting, Formation, Human Rights, Integral Ecology, LSRevolution, Migration, News, Peace, Reconciliation, Social Justice
Boquete, Panama (September 16-21, 2024). 6 Franciscan friars from various countries of the Americas (United States, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina and Brazil) met in the city of Boquete, Panama, to participate in the VI Continental Meeting on Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC).
Oct 6, 2024 | Climate Action, Climate Action, Formation, Integral Ecology, Integral Ecology, Migration, Migration, News, News, Peace, Peace, Reconciliation
We conclude Season of Creation 2024 with the Oikos Mediterranean project of the Conference of Provincial Ministers of Italy and Albania, based in the friars’ convent in Taranto, Italy. The OIKOS project was officially born in June 2023.
Sep 26, 2024 | Continental Meeting, Formation, Human Rights, Integral Ecology, LSRevolution, Migration, News, Peace, Reconciliation, Social Justice
In the framework of the Centenary of the Stigmata of St. Francis, on Tuesday the 17th September, at the retreat house of the Franciscan Seminary in the city of Boquete, David, Panama, the VI Continental Meeting of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation of the Americas began.
Aug 28, 2024 | Human Rights, Integral Ecology, News, Peace, Reconciliation, Social Justice
In the northeast of Colombia, in Santander, is the region known as Catatumbo, characterized mainly by a war that has been going on for more than fifty years, there are large coca plantations for the production of alkaloids and the presence of armed groups outside the law.
May 31, 2024 | Human Rights, Integral Ecology, Migration, News, Peace, Reconciliation, Social Justice
On behalf of Franciscans International and its International Board of
Directors (IBD) I am pleased to present the annual report of our work in defense of the rights and dignity of all and care for creation” (Br. Michael Perry, OFM)
May 29, 2024 | Course, Formation, Human Rights, Migration, News, Peace, Reconciliation, Social Justice
The General Office of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) and the Pontifical Antonianum University (PUA) of Rome held the annual course for JPIC animators of the Franciscan Family from the 20th to 26th May 2024.
May 16, 2024 | Human Rights, Migration, News, Peace, Reconciliation, Social Justice
On Sunday, the 12th May, the meeting of the Franciscan family that gathered in Marrakech, Morocco, to address the issue of migration in the Mediterranean concluded.
May 16, 2024 | Human Rights, Integral Ecology, Migration, News, Peace, Reconciliation, Social Justice
On behalf of the JPIC General Office, Br. Taucen Girsang visited the Province of St Francis Herald of Peace in West Papua-Indonesia, from 20-29 April 2024, to listen and to exchange experiences with the friars regarding JPIC activities.
May 15, 2024 | Derechos humanos, Formation, Human Rights, Integral Ecology, News, Peace, Reconciliation, Social Justice
After the gathering of the Franciscan Conferences of Asia and Oceania in Manila, Philippines, Br. Taucen Girsang and Br. Daniel Rodriguez Blanco from the General Office for JPIC Office spent 14-18 April 2024 in Seoul visiting the Province of the Holy Martyrs of Korea.
Apr 29, 2024 | Ecologia Integrale, Integral Ecology, News, Peace, Reconciliation, Social Justice
Lenten season encourages both Franciscans, Christians and people of goodwill to address society’s problems and advocate for positive change.