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on the right: Sr. Jolanda KAFKA rmi, President (2019-2022) on the left: Sr. Franca ZONTA fmi, Vice-President...

From 6 to 10 May 2019, about 850 women general superiors met in Rome under the overall theme “Sowers of Prophetic Hope” for the triennial UISG assembly, which gathered leaders of congregations from 80 countries representing more than 450,000 women religious around the...

Theme: The Catholic school and the intercultural and interreligious challenges Participation from UCESM: sr. Marjolein On 14 and 15 March, the European Committee for Catholic Education (CEEC) organized an international symposium in Brussels. The free movement of...

Sr. Marjolein Bruinen: A respectful coexistence is needed in and for a Europe in diversity [Vienna, 28.02.2019] The Dominican and General Secretary of the Union of European Superiors of Orders (UCESM) in Brussels, Sr. Marjolein Bruinen, stressed on 27 February 2019 on...

During the General Assembly in Snagov in March 2018, the Executive Committee noticed that an important question concerning the functioning of UCESM existed: "How could UCESM promote collaboration between national Conferences and with other institutions?" The Committee...

On 20 November, the Executive Committee of UCESM travelled to Rome, together with the General Secretariat, to pay a visit to CICLSAL (Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life). The aim of this visit was to get acquainted and to...

Sr. Marjolein Bruinen op, Secretary-General of UCESM, had of course been invited to this event. Here are some of her impressions…..

Fr. Zsolt Labancz, President of UCESM, and Sr. Marjolein Bruinen, Secretary General, participated at this year's International Congress of Renovabis under the topic "Remembrance and Departure - Paths towards Reconciliation in Europe" which took place on 26 and 27...

Sr. Marjolein Bruinen, Secretary General of UCESM, was invited to the meeting of KOVOSS'CORISS on 24 September 2018 in Baar (CH). You may read her report here.

Sr. Marjolein Bruinen, Secretary General of UCESM, attended the three-day session on Europe's current challenges organized by the Group "Passion for Europe" and JESC (Jesuit European Social Centre) on 21-23 September 2018 in Namur (B). She...

It is the Hungarian Piarist Zsolt Labanz who has been elected new President of UCESM on the last day of the 18th General Assembly which took place on 5-10 March 2018 in the beautiful Monastery of the Discalced Carmelites in Snagov (Romania). Fr. Zsolt thus succeeds...

On September 7, 2017, in Lushnjë (Albania), the Archbishop of Tiranë-Durrës George Anthony Frendo op has conferred the episcopal consecration to the President of UCESM since March 2012, Father Giovanni Peragine crsp. Bishop Giovanni Peragine is Apostolic Administrator...

At the invitation of Fr. Nikolay Dubinin ofm conv, President of the Russian Religious Conference CORSUM and councillor at the Executive Committee, the EC-members as well as Sr. Marjolein Bruinen op, Secretary General, and her assistant met in Moscow for the second...

On June 15, 2017, Pope Francis appointed Father Giovanni Peragine crsp, missionary and priest at the Saint Nicolas Church of Milot in the Archdiocese of Tirana-Durres (Albania), as Apostolic Administrator of Southern Albania, elevating him at the same time to the...